Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Social function
To inform personal matters like the writer’s
feeling, experience and pland, etc.
Generic structure
Heading /date
Salutation/greeting
Body of the letter
Complimentary close, and
Signature.
Language features
Focus on exchanging personal current news,
feelings, and conditions
Use of pronouns, simple present tense, and past
tense
Use of date and address
Informal greetings or salutations
LEARNING ACTIVITY 2:
INVITATION
A written or verbal request inviting someone to go
somewhere or to do something.
Social function
Asking or requesting someone to go to a place, do
something, or participate in an event.
Types of infitation
Formal invitation is usually originate from
institute, companies. Normally, it is written
invitation
Informal infitation is invitation to friend, family.
It can be written or verbal invitation.
Language features
Simple present tense
Simple future tense
LEARNING ACTIVITY 3:
ANNOUNCEMENT
An announcement is a statement made to the public
or to the media which gives information about
something that has happened or that will happen.
Social function
Giving people some information of what has
happened or what will happen.
Generic structure
Stating purpose
Stating day and date
Stating place
Informing sender
Language features
simple present tense and simple future tense
exact noun
date, time, place event
LEARNING ACTIVITY 4:
ADVERTISEMENT
A public announcement in a newspaper, television,
or internet advertising something such as a product for
sale, services offered, or an event.
Social function
to promote a product or service
To persuade or influence
Giving information
Generic structure
Purpose
Name of product
User
Language features
simple sentences
imperative sentences