837. Describing a Car Accident in 15+ Styles of English 🚗 📚

How would the same car accident be described in over 15 completely different styles of English? 🚗 📄 What are the differences in vocabulary, grammar and organisational structure? How should I change my voice to read each description? Let’s see how English changes in different situations. Styles presented include: formal and informal English, news reports, an action movie screenplay, an Eminem rap, a romantic novel, a Shakespeare play, a politician making a speech, a stand-up comedian, Liam Neeson in the film Taken, and Luke in an episode of Luke’s English Podcast. PDF transcript available. Episode page (with PDF transcript) 0:00:00 Introduction 0:09:24 An informal letter to a friend 0:13:12 Literary style 0:17:05 A stand-up comedy routine 0:21:40 A police report 0:25:54 An academic essay 0:32:29 A tabloid newspaper report 0:37:23 A broadsheet newspaper report 0:40:49 A conversational anecdote between friends 0:44:47 A Hollywood action movie screenplay 0:49:05 A news report on location 0:51:43 A child writing a letter to their parents 0:53:26 An 18th century romantic novel 0:57:41 Shakespeare 1:02:23 Eminem 1:06:50 JRR Tolkein 1:10:44 Luke’s English Podcast 1:15:33 Super-intelligent alien computers who have been dispassionately observing the human race for centuries 1:20:51 A politician making a speech 1:27:06 Liam Neeson in the film “Taken“ (2006)