ANNOUNCEMENT TEXT

ACTIVITY 1

TEXT 1

Elements of the Announcement	Found/Not Found	Details
Opening	Found	HELLO GEORGETOWN
Contents	Found	Information of the event, location and opening date.
Closing	Found	Contact information.

TEXT 2

Elements of the Announcement	Found/Not Found	Details
Opening	Found	CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Contents	Found	Information of H5N1 virus, review process, and how to get the detailed information.
Closing	Not Found	The closing cannot be found.

TEXT 3

 

Elements of the Announcement	Found/Not Found	Details
Opening	NOT FOUND	Don’t countain any opening
Contents	FOUND	Informaiton of the new address, phone number and their shop adress.
Closing	FOUND	Contact information : telephone number and email adress

Elements of the Announcement	Found/Not Found	Details
Opening	NOT FOUND	Do not countain any opening
Contents	FOUND	Information of the new branches’
Closing	NOT FOUND	Do not countain any closing

 TEXT 4

 

ACTIVITY 2

Read the examples below. Decide which of the following examples are considered announcement. State TRUE for announcement and FALSE for texts that is not an announcement.

 

NO	TEXT	TRUE/FALSE
1	TEXT A	TRUE
2	TEXT B	FALSE
3	TEXT C	FALSE
4	TEXT D	TRUE
5	TEXT E	TRUE

	TEXT E

 

                                                                        ANSWERS!

 

ACTIVITY 3

Re-read the texts in Activity 1. Identify the main idea or topic of the announcement and write down the details of each text in the table below!

In writing the details, pay close attention to:

-          Who wrote the announcement?

-          When was the announcement released?

-          Who is the announcement for?

-          Details of place, date and time

Text	Main Idea	Details
Text 1	Informing the people of Georgetown about the opening of a Suit Shop in a new venue.	-          The announcement came from J.Crew Store -          The opening will be in April, 2013 -          The shop will offer more of men’s and women’s, weddings and parties collection.
Text 3	Informing Neosys shop’s costumer about Neosys Shop Center new address.	-          The announcement are from the owner of NeoSys Service Center -          The shop’s customer -          Jl. Melati Utara No. 14 Lumajang – 67316 is Neosys computer store new address -          Neosys service center with the ame address
Text 2	Informing about a Research on clinical disease, virology and epidemiology of H5N1 in Indonesia	-          The research will be funded by European Comission -          This announcement is for those who sish to do a research on H5N1 virus -          Detailed information can be found at WHO website.
Text 4	Informing about the opening of new branches on several cities and hope	-          The store open branches in Medan, Denpasar, Lombok and Makassar. -          They hope it will be able to meet the customer in a more effective manner.