REFLECTION/SUMMARY

In this activity, I have learned to read a number of formal invitations meaningfully, to

compare the social functions of a number of formal invitations regarding the context of
situation, the target readers, the points of interests or importance, to compare the structure of
each of the formal invitations, including the purpose of the invitation, the honouree name,
and details of the event (day, date, time, place), to compare the lexicogrammatical features of
formal invitations by determining the choice of words and expressions, the use of direct and
indirect sentences, the tenses, the fonts, the punctuation marks, etc, to construct formal
invitations according to their context of situation, social function, text structure, and lexico-
grammatical features.

The key features of this type of text include Formal Invitations (to ask or request someone to
go to a place, to do something, or to participate in a certain event) Generic Structure are
Name of the host, Formal phrase of invitation, Details of the event (day, date, time, place),
Reason of inviting, Special note (e.g. dress code, reservation/RSPV), Significant Lexico-
grammatical Features, Phrasing in third person point of view, Use of present simple, Special
phrase for invitation (cordially invite, request the pleasure of your presence, solicit your
gracious presence, etc), Day and date are spelt out

What I like most about this activity is to learn how to write formal invitations

What I need to improve/learn more is to analyze the lexico-grammatical of formal invitation