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Spoken and written speech
Textbook: Part 4, topic 23, pp. 29–37
GoalTell spoken and written speech apart.
New words
spoken speech · og‘zaki nutqwritten speech · yozma nutqletter · xatconversation · suhbat
Explanation
There are two kinds of speech. In spoken speech a person gets their thought across by talking: a conversation, a phone call, giving an answer. In written speech a person does it by writing: a letter, written work, a notice. We hear spoken speech and read written speech.
Worked examples
Spoken: answering during the lesson. Written: writing in a notebook during the lesson.
Buvimga telefon qildim (spoken). (I phoned my grandmother.) Buvimga xat yozdim (written). (I wrote a letter to my grandmother.)
Class activity
“Spoken or written?”: the teacher names a situation (writing a notice, chatting with a friend, sending a message). Children point to their lips for spoken and to their hand for written.
Practice
1
Writing a letter is which speech: spoken or written?
written
2
Talking on the phone is which speech?
spoken
3
Tell the difference between spoken and written speech.
In spoken we talk, in written we write.