Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Product Name Questionnaire - Please Help!!

Right guys, I need your help for my English Language coursework. If you could fill in this questionnaire I would be really grateful. Just leave your responses as a comment below if possible or you can tweet me your answers at @missfranklin on Twitter. Thank you!!!

Look at the follow brand/product/business names, and tell me what you would imagine the brand/product/business sells or produces and what impression you would gather from the company from the name. Try to imagine that you have not heard of the name before, basically what I need to know is what impression an English speaker gets of a product from the product's name. If you haven't heard of the name before that's even better, just think about what you think it could be selling. Try not to look them up!!

For example:

Directline. This name implies that you get straight through directly over the phone line, or it could also come across as a travel company, implying that you get straight to your destination via the quickest possible direct route or line.

Here are the brand/product/business names I need you to help with.

  • Nescafe
  • Addictionary
  • Powerade
  • Red Bull
  • Calgon
  • Talk Talk
  • Easyjet
  • National Express
  • Mothercare
  • Fanta
  • Utterly Butterly
  • Netgear
  • Playdough
  • E-harmony
  • HMV

Thank you so much!!

Friday, 7 January 2011

Blindness

Today she text saying that the weirdest thing just happened. And I got really scared that she'd found this blog; seen what I'd written about her. I'm far too paranoid these days. Sometimes I look at her and I think I can see it in her eyes that she's read everything. But then I flick the reality switch back on, and know that she probably hasn't. It turned out someone we know, but not overly well had rung today, just being really strange on the phone, and with no real reason to ring up. Very odd. But it got us talking. I spent twenty minutes on the phone with you. Which was nice. That's what friends do. I went to the opticians today; my eyesight's got worse again. Whenever people try my glasses on they're always saying how blind I am; so today I asked what my prescription was, and apparently I'm a -4. I don't know why but I was under the impression that once you get to -10, you were declared officially blind, but apparently not! My optician is -10, and the secretary is -16(!!!) in one eye. CRAZY. I still have so much uni work to do, but I'm gradually getting through it. Piece by piece. I only have one book review to go now, and I've been working on the take-home test for English in Action today. I'm almost through it, just got two questions to go. Tomorrow I'm going to have to work solidly all day. I can't wait til it's all handed in though. I plan on catching up with Grey's Anatomy, I've been doing season 6 this week. I need to catch up with Kristina! Right. Back to studying, fun fun fun!