1b) If I could suggest an English-language medium the ROC could use to promote their campaign for cheaper Olympics worldwide, I would suggest to use the newscast. Many, especially adults and elders, watch the newscast. The newspaper is not that popular anymore, because more people choose to watch the news on TV. Photos, videos, audio and text make it easier for us to understand and remember. Radio and newspaper however, have only one or a few of these aids. Commercials and advertisement are examples that have an impact on us because they provides the necessary funds. Viewers get a vivid image with sound that catches our attention.Things you say on the internet tend not to be taken as seriously, if you do not have a high number of followers, compared to TV where people feel a bigger impact when they see it on the television.
1a) This text is definitely formal, it is meant to be a letter to the world and especially to the International Olympic Committee about changing the direction the Olympics are heading towards. The text does not use informal words and seems to be directed to adults.
In the sentence “These games in Russia are part of a terrible trend sliding inexorably towards greed, overindulgence, capitalistic commercial interests and nationalistic narcissism”, they could have simply written “These games in Russia are a part of a terrible trend”, but they added adjectives to further amplify their point, making use of amplification. There is use of analogies to, comparing a “overindulgence path is the path to ruin” with the olympic games heading for inevitable derailment. There is seemingly quite a bit of rhetoric behind the text seen as it is trying to persuade the reader to their point. There are many language features such as verbs and adjectives to make their point, another feature they use is a formal voice that seemingly has an opinion but does not say “I think” or other opinionated words.
