Announcement Exercise

This is my exercise about Announcement thst we just learned at school.


ANNOUNCEMENT TEXT

ACTIVITY 1

Read the following announcement carefully and identify its elements.

Example

Elements of the Announcement	Found/Not Found	Details
Opening	Found	“Tea with Mrs. Potts”
Contents	Found	Information of the event including time/date/place specification.
Closing	Found	Contact information

TEXT 1

Elements of the Announcement	Found/Not Found	Details
Opening	Found	The title “ HELLO GEORGETOWN”
Contents	Found	About their new store in Georgetown and the date of the opening
Closing	Found	Their current store and their contact

 

Text 2

Elements of the Announcement	Found/Not Found	Details
Opening	Found	The title “CALL FOR PROPOSAL”
Contents	Found	About the research, to whom the announcement for
Closing	Found	About where to find the more detailed information

TEXT 3

 

Elements of the Announcement	Found/Not Found	Details
Opening	Found	The bolded words about them proudly announce the new place
Contents	Found	Their new store address, and about the old store changes
Closing	Found	The contacts of theirs

TEXT 4

Elements of the Announcement	Found/Not Found	Details
Opening	Not found	There is no any title or anything to open the announcement
Contents	Found	About the opening of their new branches
Closing	Not found	There is no any closing of the announcement or any contacts

 

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

 

                                                                      

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	Informing about the needing of any research from local scientist due to the growth increase of H5N1 Avian Influenza	- The maker of the announcement - The things that they need
Text 3	Informing about the opening of their new store and about the change of the old store	- The contact - Their address
Text 4	Informing about their new branches that just opened	- The location of new branches

ACTIVITY 4

Individually, think of an issue happening in your school. Create an imaginary event or activity in response to the issue and make an announcement for it using scraps of an old magazine!

In your announcement, remember to put:

-          Opening (Title)

-          Content: Information of the event, time, date and place.

-          Closing: contact person or sign from the authority.

Your creativity will also be put into consideration for your overall score, so try to be as creative as possible!