Question

Write at least 150 words about changing your speech for different social situations. Think about any differences in your word choice, word order, and/or accent that you speak with when you are around different people. You can relate a story about a time that you had to do this, or had to do it and were unable to. Or maybe you've had an experience where you or someone else did not fit in to a particular situation because of the way you, he, or she talked. If you cannot think of any stories, you can just describe the differences in the way that you talk around your parents, friends, and teachers.

You will be graded on the following criteria:

Make sure each paragraph contains one main idea and supporting details. Use complete sentences including compound and complex sentences.
Include an introductory paragraph, proper transitions, and an appropriate conclusion.
Make sure your essay contains no errors in conventions such as spelling or grammatical errors and is at least 150 words long.

Answer 1

When your talking with your friends, with your family, or with your colleagues, your speech and tone will change. When your with your friends and the most relaxed out of all of them being able to use some different more racy speech with them. Talking to your family you may be more relaxed but you still have to watch what you say. And talking to your colleagues you have to make sure you seem appropriate for your situation. Say you’re at work. Your co-worker May say something like “how was your day” instead of going into depth about it, naturally you just say “It was nice, how was yours” and then you both carry on with what your doing. In this general example it is just common curtesy. Now, say you’re at a charity event with your family. Your want to seem more proper, but also sociable and not stuck up. So people are more willing to talk to you about what is going on and share there opinion. There are many different way of speaking calmly, and appropriately in the social gathering you have attended.