1. Advanced Spoken English Lexicogrammatical session 3: Analysing a TV programme

2. Discuss the questions below with your partner  How much TV do you normally watch in English? How many hours a week?  How does this compare with what you watched in your L1?  Do you think listening to TV is easier than other kinds of listening in English?  What’s your favourite programme on NZ TV?

3. TV shows - genres  Go to http://tvnz.co.nz/ondemand http://tvnz.co.nz/ondemand  Click on Genre  With your partner, identify one show for each genre that you know or have seen. –Drama, comedy, reality –Factual, news, sport –Food, children, youth

4. TV shows – reality TV  Britain’s got Talent 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4A nWyk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4A nWyk

5. Questions  See your worksheet for examples of the kinds of questions that will help you analyse a TV excerpt.

6. Now it’s your turn to do some analysis –Choose a TV show with your partner. –Decide on the episode or extract you will analyse. –Use questions on Moodle Forum 3 to help you. –Allocate questions to each other. –Upload your analysis to Moodle Forum 3.

7. Commenting on the forum –Upload your analysis to the Moodle Forum. –Comment on two other people’s analyses. Your comments might relate to  content from the show that you have watched  what you know about the TV show and have noticed yourself from watching it  whether their analysis/explanation is clear  what aspects of spoken English they have identified that is new for you  whether you would like to watch this programme