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Announcement
Announcement
Definition of
Announcement
The social function of
Announcement:
❑ Content
❑ Closing
Generic Structure
• To whom the announcement is for
The content of
announcement:
• Simple Present
Tense
• Simple Future
• No conjunction
• Date, time, place
• Event
Language Features
❑ Straight forward and ease the readers to get
information quickly
❑ Keep it short, inviting, and to the point.
❑ Clear and complete
❑ For a bad news, make a direct and no- nonsense
statement.
content
closing
P.S: Using the Simple Present ,simple future Tense and No Conjunction!
• Business Announcement
• Funeral Announcement
• Graduation Announcement
• Birth Announcement
• Wedding and engagement
Announcement
• Event
• etc
Kind of announcement
Examples
Business Announcement
Funeral Announcement
Graduation
Announcement
Birth Announcement
Wedding and
engagement
Announcement
Event
We can find announcement by
•: Audio : on radio
• Visua : on Newspaper,
l Magazine, Card and
Billboard,
• Audio visual : on television
Media
A. Written
Example:
ENGLISH SPEECH CONTEST
For all students of SMPN 1 SIDOHARJO, we announce English Speech Contest.
Time : Sunday, 12 April
Place 2012
Each class: English Laboratory
should register at least one student with one of these following topics
:
1. The Advantage of Learning English
2. The Difficulties of Learning English
3. The Effective Ways of Learning English
For further information, visit the committee of this English Speech Contest
in ENGLISH STUDENT ROOM.
The Pattern of
announcement
Example:
Attention, please!
Continental executive bus will be leaving for Bukit Tinggi
through Pekan Baru at 14.40. would passengers now board the
bus?
B. Spoken
The characteristic of good announcement
include the inform that tells what, when, where and
how. at the end of announcement, there should be a
strong call to action.
The characteristic of
announcement
ANNOUNCEMENT VS ADVERTISEMENT
Making announcement text is easier than making
advertisement because announcement text just tell what we
need to know. It’s different with make an advertisement, we
will be pressed to make the audience to interest.
The differences of
announcement