Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Interviewing a Survivor Struck by Lightning

View this YouTube video that shows an interview between a survivor of a lightning strike and the newscaster.



View the video and respond to the following tasks in the following ways:

Task (a) Based on what you have viewed, post a comment to this post on what text type Kent Lilyerd was using. How did you know he was using that text type?

Task (b) Pick out the questions that the newscaster asked Kent Lilyerd during the interview. Note down these questions onto a Google Spreadsheet. Create one and share it with me (richard_koh@sst.edu.sg).

43 comments:

  1. He is using informal style of speech. As I can infer from the interview, Kent is being jovial that he had forgotten to use formal language. Same as the interviewer, I think she is oblivious that she is in a news broadcast.

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  2. The text type he was doing a personal recount .He described how he felt when the lightning struck him and also whenever the newscaster asked him questions, he also added in his own personal opinion.

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  3. He was doing a personal recount. I knew that because he was talking about what happened to him at the time of the event.

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  4. He was using an informal personal recount. He uses informal language while answering the interviewer's questions. He is also telling the interviewer how he felt and what happened to him in an informal language. He also summarizes what happened to him and not give every single detail.

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  5. He is using an informal kind of speech. I infer that he is used to talking with informal speech, he was using words that you normally use when talking to friends.

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  6. he was using descriptive text types. i can infer that he is using this text type from the impressionistic words and phrases that he used to describe what had happened to him and from his language.

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  7. He was using an informal text type to recount what had happened. He used phrases like 'oh yeah' and sometimes also gave short answers.

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  8. I think he was using a first person perspective because he was not sure about what had happen to him at that time, according to his description and he was describing his physical condition at that time and now.

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  9. He is using informal language during a personal recount. Kent was answering the interviewer's questions with language which was informal. Kent recounted on the incident which happened to him when he was struck by lightning.

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  10. He was using a personal recount with informal speech because he was talking about the event during that time and also spoke as if he was speaking to a friend.

    Darius Low

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  11. I feel that Kent Lilyerd was using a descriptive text type during the interview as he was describing the whole incident which took place by using his five senses and how he felt. For example, he said, "The thunder I heard was very loud" and "After I was strike, I tried to pick myself up, dragging myself to the door." The words he used allows me to picture the whole scene.

    Task (b)

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  12. He was using a personal recount text type. I could tell that he was using that as he was talking about what happened and how he felt when the lightning struck him. It was also informal as he sounded like he was talking to his friend when answering the reporter.

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  13. Kent Liyerd was using an informative text type. I know that as I can hear Kent telling the information about the incident where he was struck by lightning but lived

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  14. He was using a descriptive text type as he was describing wat happened to him.

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  15. The text type he used is a personal recount. He was describing what happened to him when the lightning stroke him and what it felt like when it stoke him.

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  16. The text type was in formal personal recount. He was telling the interviewer what had happened to him previously. He was using informal language which I think is inappropriate as it was a news broadcast.

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  17. I think that he was using informal language for his personal recount. He was descriptive in the describing of the incident, like how it felt like, what happened, what did he do after the incident, etc...

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  18. The text type he was using was a personal and informal speech. I can infer that by the way he speaks and the words that are used by Kent Lilyred. His use of descriptive adjectives are not used appropriately and added his opinions in it.

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  19. He was using a descriptive personal recount text type, as he was describing what had happened to him when the lightning struck him. It was a conversation of him recounting how he felt and what had happened during that course of events.

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  20. He was using the descriptive text type.He was describing how he felt when the lightning struck him and what he did before,during and after the lightning strike.He did not use the narrative text type as all the events were not in chronological order.He did not use the expository text type as he was not explaining and analyzing what happened during the lightning strike.

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  21. The text type was a descriptive one as he was describing what happened when the lightning struck him and how it felt like.

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  22. He was using an informal type of descriptive personal recount. He was using phrases like "oh yeah" which is informal. He explained what happened before, during and after the event happened. He also summarized the information instead of describing every single detail. It is also an informal conversation on what he could recount. He was also talking from his own perspective and not another persons' perspective.

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  23. ~VERSION 2~

    He was using a descriptive personal recount which was informal. I could tell that he was using that as he was talking about what happened and how he felt when the lightning struck him. It was mostly in past tense. It was also informal as he sounded like he was talking to his friend when answering the reporter. He described in detail and added his personal opinions.

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  24. I find that Sean Phua's comment was the best but I do not understand one part. He mentioned 'not give every single detail' in the last sentence. Sean could you tell me more?

    I do not think that I have to make any changes to my comment but please tell me if I do.

    Darius Low

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  25. I agree with Dionne about the descriptive personal recount text type as it is descriptive and personal at the same time.

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  26. He was using a descriptive personal recount with informal speech. He was mainly describing what had happened to him before, during and after he got hit by the lightning. He was also using SMS language and saying things in short form with a slang to it.

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  28. I agree with Kai Xuan as it is really a indirect speech, i also agree with Dionne, Chin Fan, Jing Yi, Elgin Low, Elgin Patt, Wen Yue, Liau Zheng En, Hao Yang, Jing Jie, Michelle, Jun Jie, Jie Min, Darius, Wei Hong, Emily, Zong Wei, Shawn and Sean as they all mean personal recount, descriptive speech and informal text type.

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  29. I agree with Dionne as this video was about a personal recount.

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  30. I think that everyone has a good point and so i think that he is using a form of informal descriptive personal recount. He described about what he did and did not and also how he felt.

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  31. I think that Shawn Lim can improve his second post by stating the type of text, what he did, and the type of language used.

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  32. Not my fault I use wat instead of what, force of habit.........

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  33. I agree with, Hao Yang, Zheng En's and Sean's post as they said that Kent was using informal language to recount on the incident.

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  34. I agree with Elgin Patt. He was using a descriptive text type in an informal way.It was like a personal recount,as he was describing what happened in the past when he was struck by the lightning.He was using informal language as he was using phrases and short answers that would be normally used with friends and people close to you when he was answering the questions.He was also describing what happened from his perspective.

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  35. The text type he was using was a personal recount. He was using informal language during the interview. He was also descriptive and included his own opinions of the incident like how he felt when struck or how loud it seemed when struck. He described what he did before and after the incident. It seems to me that he might had exaggerated a little to bring out his feeling to let the audience and the interviewer to visualise the feeling of being struck by lightning and live to tell the tale.

    PS: Kragus = Lim Hao Yang
    PPS: Do Not Assume that I copied the above people! I did not!

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  36. I agree with marcus on what he agrees on

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  37. Kent was using an informal descriptive personal recount. He described what happened before, during and after the lightning struck him. He also mentioned his feelings and pain. Throughout the whole thing, he used a language which one would use to talk to with a friend.

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  38. The text type was informal personal recount. He was telling the interviewer what had happened to him previously. He was using informal language which I think is inappropriate as it was a news broadcast.He was also talking in the his own perspective.

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  39. I agree with Hao Yang, Wai Hang, Sean Phua's post of the speech of Kent lilyerd. He used descriptive adjectives and the way he spoke is informal and his way of answering is like a conversation within a friend. It mainly is about him using descriptive adjectives, and describing details of what happened when to him when the lighting strike, using informal language.

    Everyone is right in a way.

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  40. I agree with Elgin Patt as he was recounting what happened at that time.

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  41. I concur with Kragus' post as it makes sense to me.
    (Not saying that other people's post is nonsense.)

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  42. I feel that everyone made an effort to write on the text type in their own perspectives and they are all good examples which I can agree on, but I believe that most of the comments can be elaborated further or be given more examples.

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