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Communicative Styles
Quarter 1- Module 5
AL L. CANTERY

(SUPPORT MATERIAL FOR INDEPENDENT LEARNING ENGAGEMENT)

A Joint Project of
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF DIPOLOG CITY
and the
DIPOLOG CITY GOVERNMENT
English – Grade 9
Support Material for Independent Learning Engagement
Quarter 1 – Module 5: Communicative Styles
First Edition, 2020

Development Team of the Module

Author: Al L. Cantery

Editors: Luz D. Cortez and Elma S. Quimpo

Reviewer: Josephine M. Cuenca

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 What I Need to Know
This module expects you to fulfill the last Most Essential Learning
Competencies (MELCs) for the first quarter: Employ the appropriate communicative
styles for various situations.
Specifically, this module focuses on the first four communicative styles:
formal, consultative, casual, and intimate.
After going through this module, you are expected to:
1. Define formal, consultative, casual, and intimate communicative
styles
2. Identify formal, consultative, casual, and intimate communicative
styles in a given text or situation
3. Give examples of formal, consultative, casual, and intimate
communicative styles
4. Compose scripts that portray formal, consultative, casual, and
intimate communicative styles

What I Know
Directions: Write the letter that best answers each item.
1. According to Martin George Joos, what are five speech styles?
A. Assertive, directive, comissive, expressive, and declaration
B. Frozen, formal, consultative, casual, and intimate
C. Interpersonal, intrapersonal, mass communication, dyad communication,
and public communication
D. Locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary, performative, and interaction
2. Which of the following is NOT the reason why you study speech styles?
A. To be aware that various situations demand appropriate speech styles
B. To be cognizant not only with message the speakers want to convey but also
with the way they convey the message
C. To draft scripts depicting various speech styles and role-play them
D. To relay the message effectively to the target person or audience
3. Which of the following does NOT employ formal speech style?
A. STEM and senior high school students presenting their research defense
B. The president’s state of the nation address
C. Video chatting with friends about their experiences of staying at home this
COVID-19 pandemic
D. Privilege speech of leaders in a summit
4. Which of the following employs intimate speech style?
A. Customers enumerating their meal orders in a fast-food chain
B. Greta Thunberg’s speech during the United Nations Climate Action Summit
C. Romantic conversation between Nam Joo-hyuk and Bae Suzy in a Korean
drama Start-Up
D. Students inquiring summative tests and performance tasks from their
teachers
5. Which of the following does NOT employ consultative speech style?
A. Catholic devotees praying Oratio Imperata
B. Doctors prescribing medicines to their patients
C. Teachers clarifying the queries of their students with regard to the required
performance tasks
D. The president’s conference with the cabinet secretaries
 Lesson 5 Communicative Styles
What’s In
To be effective communicators, we should be cognizant not only on what
message we want to convey but also the way we should say it. This is the
reason we need to be aware of the various communicative styles and of when
to use such communicative styles appropriately.
Martin George Joos (1976) classifies five types of communicative styles,
namely: formal, consultative, casual, intimate, and frozen.
1. Formal – This style is observed in formal engagements such as keynote
speech, privilege speech, the president’s state of the nation address,
research defense, judge’s pronouncement, and scientific reports. It is
marked by an impersonal, objective, and precise use of language
(Nordquist, 2019). Communication is one-way; hence, the audience or
listeners do not participate in the process.

2. Consultative – Following a two-way communication, consultative style

honors the validity of the ideas both of the speaker and the listener
(Fletcher, 2019). This is observed in a formal or informal conversation
between teachers and students, trainers and trainee, judge and lawyers,
senate president and the senators, speaker of the House of Representatives
and the representatives, doctors and patients, interviewers and
interviewee, the executive leaders and their constituents.
3. Casual – This communicative style is used among circle of friends. The
level of language used is always informal or colloquial.
4. Intimate – This is communicative style takes place in a private
conversation between individuals who are very close and know each other
quite well because they have maximum shared background information
(Largado, 2016).

5. Frozen – This is the most formal of all the communicative styles. Also
called fixed speech, frozen communicative style is common as part of the
ceremonial rites such as prayers, creed, anthems, patriotic oaths, pledge
of allegiance, wedding officiate speech, and affirmation.
 What’s New
Directions: Write the letter that best describes the communicative style in
each item.
A. Casual B. Consultative C. Formal D. Intimate
___ 1.
“No leader, however strong, can
succeed at anything of national
PHOTO CREDIT: UNTV.COM

importance or significance unless he

has the support and cooperation of the
people he is tasked to lead and sworn
to serve.
It is the people from whom
democratic governments draw strength
and this administration is no exception.
That is why we have to listen to the
murmurings of the people, feel their
pulse, supply their needs and fortify
their faith and trust in us whom they elected to public office.
- Inaugural Address of His Excellency Rodrigo Roa Duterte President of the Philippines
https://www.untvweb.com/news/full-text-president-rodrigo-dutertes-inaugural-speech/
___ 2.
Dr. Dan: Okey guys, why don’t we start off with a little bit of word association.
Maggie: Okey, this is exciting. I’ve heard this can really open a couple up huh.
Dr. Dan: Maggie, I’m going to offer you a word and respond. However you’re moved to
from here. Black.
Maggie: White.
Dr. Dan: Water.
Maggie: Ocean
Dr. Dan: Sunshine
Maggie: Happy.
Dr. Dan: I’m very impressed. PHOTO CREDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssxqmxjrx2c
You’re very in tune. Calvin,
you’re next. - Marriage Counselling Scene from the movie Central Intelligence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssxqmxjrx2c
___ 3.
Will: You know, people are always
saying if you love something, you
have to learn to let it go. I thought
that was such bullshit, till I watched
you almost die. In that moment,
Stella, nothing mattered to me,
except you. I’m sorry. I don’t want to
PHOTO CREDIT: go. All I want is to be with you. I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eHLwgjZUH4&t=7s can’t. I need you to be safe, from
me. I don’t know what comes next, but I don’t regret any of this. [Stella shakes her head as
she cries.] Could you close your eyes? I just don’t know if I can walk away if you’re still
looking at me. Please. [Stella closes her eyes as she sobs.] I love you so much.
[He turns and walks away.] -“Wil Says Goodbye to Stella Clip” from the movie Five Feet Apart
https://www.moviequotesandmore.com/five-feet-apart-best-quotes/
___ 4.
Po: Order up! Hope you like it.
Mantis: This is really good!
Po: No, common. You should try
my dad’s secret ingredient soup.
He actually knows the secret.
Viper: What are you talking
about. This is amazing!
Crane: Wow! You’re really good
cook. PHOTO CREDIT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_1NU60qHWs
Monkey: I wish my mouth was
bigger. -Impersonation at Dinner Scene Clip from the movie Kung Fu Panda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_1NU60qHWs

___ 5.
Jake Sully: The Sky
People have sent us a
message…that they can
take whatever they want
and no one can stop
them. Well, we will send
them a message. You ride
out fast as the wind can
carry you. You tell the
PHOTO CREDIT: other clans to come. Tell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUoG7ilSSlA
tem Toruk Makto calls to
them. You Fly now with me, Brothers, Sisters, and we will show the Sky People that they
cannot take whatever they want. And that this…this is our land!
- Jake Sully Speech as an Avatar Gathering All the Navi’ Clans for Battle Scene from the movie Avatar
https://james-camerons-avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Spoken_Na%27vi_in_Avatar#Jake.27s_speech

What’s More
Directions: Write the letter of the communicative style appropriate to
the given situation in each item.
A. Casual B. Consultative C. Formal D. Intimate
___ 1. Group of young boys virtually planning for weekend escapade
___ 2. Fanatics sharing their mutual experience on the Korean soap opera
___ 3. Contestants giving their respective oratorical speeches
___ 4. The journalists interviewing the presidential spokesperson
___ 5. Class adviser orienting students of the classroom rules and routines
___ 6. Single mother seeking legal advice from a lawyer
___ 7. Lovers exchanging endearments while strolling at the Dipolog City
Boulevard
___ 8. STEM students collaborating for their research presentation
___ 9. President-elect Joe Biden acceptance speech
__ 10. Pope Francis’ homily
__ 11. The President inquires reports from his cabinet secretaries
__ 12. Senator delivering a privilege speech during the senate hearing
__ 13. Legislators cross-examining the witnesses in the Blue Ribbon
Committee hearing
__ 14. Long lost friends catching up in a café shop
__ 15. Mayor Darrel Dexter T. Uy’s State of the Children’s Address

What I Have Learned

I found difficulty/ I coped with the
I learned that…
difficulties in… difficulty/difficulties by

What I Can Do
Directions: Apply your knowledge on communicative styles by performing
AT LEAST TWO of the four options below.

OPTION 1 – Formal Speech Style

Compose an oratorical speech composed of at least two paragraphs speech on
ONLY ONE of the topics below:
1. My Means of Mitigating the Effects of Climate Change
2. My Next President
3. My Ways to Show Honesty
4. The Origin of Humans – By Creation or Evolution?

OPTION 2 – Consultative Speech Style

Compose a one-page script on ONLY ONE of the following situations:
1. The tour guide accompanying the foreign tourists to the famous natural
beauty spots in Zamboaga del Norte.
2. The doctor confirming his patient has a serious disease
3. The journalist interviewing a prominent person for a news scoop
4. A group of students debating whether to legalize civil union of same sex
couples

OPTION 3- Casual Speech Style

Compose a one-page dialogue on ONLY ONE of the following situations:
1. Students preparing for the virtual group performance task
2. Students rehearsing for their stage play
3. Student leaders discussing about children’s rights and responsibilities
4. Student leaders planning for free tutorials among their fellow schoolmates
who find difficulty understanding a certain subject (e.g. math, science,
English, or research)

OPTION 4- Intimate Speech Style

Compose a one-page dialogue on ONLY ONE of the following situations:
1. Family outing after COVID 19 pandemic
2. Marriage proposal
3. Grandfather and grandson bonding
4. A gentleman dating his girlfriend
 DN EARNED
STANDARDS ME
P S VS E
POINTS
Successfully composed at least two of the four
0 7 8 9 10
options.
Effectively employed appropriate communicative
0 7 8 9 10
style for the situations chosen.
Effectively developed substantial thoughts or
0 7 8 9 10
ideas.
Exhibited superb choice of words and smooth
0 7 8 9 10
transitions.
Successfully submitted on or before the deadline. 0 7 8 9 10
TOTAL /50
Legend: DNME – Does Not Meet Expectations; P- Passing; S- Satisfactory;
VS- Very Satisfactory; E- Excellent

Summary
Effective communicators successfully employ communicative styles for
various occasions. Martin George Joos (1976) classifies these five types of
communicative styles as formal, consultative, casual, intimate, and frozen.

Assessment
Directions: Write what communicative style is depicted in each picture.

1. ______________________________ 2. ______________________________

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3. ______________________________ 4. ______________________________

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PHOTO CREDIT: video/electrical-engineers-talking-
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PHOTO CREDIT:
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760452896815/701996410173215/
5. ______________________________

PHOTO CREDIT:
https://www.lifewire.co
m/benefits-of-video-
conferencing-4108480

Additional Activity
Directions: Complete the table with situations appropriate to the indicated
communicative style.

Formal Consultative

1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

Intimate Casual

1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.
What I Know
1. B
2. C
3. C
4. C
5. A
What’s New
1. C
2. B
3. D
4. A
5. C
What’s More
1. A
2. A
3. C
4. B
5. C
6. B
7. D
8. B
9. C
10. C
11. B
12. C
13. B
14. D
15. C
What I Can Do
Answers vary.
Assessment
1. Intimate
2. Casual
3. Formal
4. Consultative
5. Consultative
Additional Activity
Answers vary.
Answer Key
References
Book
Sipacio, P. J. & Balgos, A.R.G. (2016). Oral communication in context for senior
high school. C & E Publishing, Inc.
Internet Documents
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Rafael, C. (2014). How to ace the 25 most common project defense questions.
ResearchClue.com.
https://nairaproject.com/blog/25-common-project-defense-
questions.html

Putra, E.T. & Rosa, R.N. (2019). The analysis of speech styles used by Ellen
Degeneres in Ellen talk show, pages 319-328.
file:///C:/Users/admin/Desktop/ENGLISH%20SMILE%20MODULES/ORAL%20C
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Wikipedia. (2020). Martin Joos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Joos