1. Incredible, fantastic, unbelievable Lots of people couldn’t believe that this
freedom, liberation was really happening
2. A lot of people,!! Grand masses, overwhelming
crowds, hordes, felt like a festival.
3. Sudden freedom of movement between East and West
Berlin – bird set free from a cage
4. People were climbing on the wall and dancing
5. The wall, towers and the barbed wire were no longer
objects of terror
6. But the violent parts of their jobs no longer
exists - relief, thankful
7. The border guards let thousands of people through
without checking them
8. Border guards were worried about the workload – comparative pair – small work load
increase to overwhelming
9. People didn’t worry about the Stasi
10. Divided families were able to be reunited
11. The fall of the wall came about due to the work of
the presidents of the USSR and the US
12. Hopeful about the future
I don’t have the words yet Klaus to tell you that I
probably won’t have to arrest or shoot anybody for crossing this border
anymore.
· Emotive language
· Hedging
· Direct address – personal pronoun and proper name
· Semantic field – violence
· Declarative
· Ellipsis – don’t
