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 Hollywo
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