Rick Steves' Walking Tour of the Louvre Museum

Question 1

How is Paris presented in ‘Walking Tour’

Answer 1

Busy/Crowded, popular

Sense of community and supportiveness

Focuses on the iconic side of Paris/Niche viewpoint

Magical/aesthetically pleasing

Question 2

GAPM for ‘Walking Tour’

Answer 2

Genre- Transcript of Podcast for a museum tour (Tourist)

Audience- Visitors of the Louvre Gallery

Purpose- To inform and describe the art within the Louvre, guide them through the museum

Mode- Spoken mode, planned, direct

Question 3

Key language devices in ‘Walking Tour’

Answer 3

Direct Address

Metaphors

Hyperbole

Asyndetic listing

Repetition (Beauty/aesthetics)

Synthetic Address

Comparative connectives

Superlatives

Temporal Deixis

Imperative verbs

French dialect

Sibilance

Factual information/Statistics

Alliteration

Semantic field (History)