Announcement Time!

Activity 1
Text 1

Elements of the Announcement	Found/Not Found	Details
Opening	Found	“Hello Georgetown”
Contents	Found	Information about Ludlow suit Shop in a bigger and better location, what is in that Ludlow Suit shop, and its opening is on April 2013.
Closing	Found	Contact information for hiring opportunities.

Text 2

Elements of the Announcement	Found/Not Found	Details
Opening	Found	"Call For Proposals"
Contents	Not Found	Information about H5N1, and about researches.
Closing	Found	There is WHO Indonesia Country Office website for more Information.

Text 3

Elements of the Announcement	Found/Not Found	Details
Opening	Found	We are proud to announce We outgrew our old place  They announced that they have a new store.
Contents	Found	Information about the new store address and their old store become their new service center.
Closing	Found	There are a contact and a website for more information.

Text 4

Elements of the Announcement	Found/Not Found	Details
Opening	Not found	Straight to the point
Contents	Found	Information about when, what, and where the content.
Closing	Found	Their hopes and dreams for this new branches of their bussiness.

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	True
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 2	Who requests proposals about this Research on clinical disease, virology and epidemiology of H5N1.	-The european comission -When H5N1 outbreaks -Researches
Text 3	Informing that they have moved to a new shop and the old shop became a service center.	-Neosys Computer Store -When they have moved to a new place Jl. Melati no. 14 -Neosys Computer customer
Text 4	Informing that they have new branches of their store.	-The creator, not stated. -New branches in several big cities on 1st of January 2018.