Test your understanding of register by linking the extracts below with the correct text. In each case, say if the language is formal or informal.
Extract 1
This is Martin Brophy, standing before the shattered remains of government buildings in Mapalinda, which was struck at dawn by an air-to-ground missile attack.
a) Epitaph for the small force of three hundred Spartan (Greek)
soldiers who, in 480 B.C., died, heroically defending the pass of Thermopylae against a huge invading Persian army.
Extract 2
Go, stranger, and to the Spartans tell That here, obedient to their word, we fell.
b) Eyewitness speaking to an interviewer just after an explosion.
Extract 3
The ground broke open … it was just brutal, mad … black smoke all over the shop … everyone legging it, crashing into the street … windows smashed to bits …
c) TV journalist in a foreign city speaking to camera.
Read each extract aloud in the tone of voice you think appropriate.
