ANNOUNCEMENT

Standard Competency :

¨  To comprehend and express the meanings of spoken and written short functional text about announcement in the context of daily life to access knowledge.

Basic Competency :

¨  To respond and express the meanings within the formal / informal spoken and written short functional text in the form of  announcement, advertisement, invitation  accurately and fluently in the daily life context to access knowledge.

Indicators :

¨  After finishing  the lesson, the students are expected to be able to:

¨  identify the topic or the purpose of a spoken announcement

¨  give spoken announcement

¨  read aloud the written passage of an announcement in the meaningful way and with good pronunciation and intonation

¨  identify the topic of a written announcement

¨  use the appropriate grammar, vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and other writing rules accurately

The definition of announcement

¨  Announcement is something said, written, or printed to make known what has happened or (more often) what will happen.

 

In writing an announcement, keep the following points

¨  the title/type of event,

¨  Date/time, place and

¨  contact person

example:

attention, please.

                Our class is going to have a picnic to Bali. It will be held at the end of this semester. Students who are interested in joining it can enroll themselves to the class teacher. Thank you.

So, the text is a school announcement in spoken form.