Contoh Soal Understanding Conversational Texts , Formal Announcement - Imagine these situations:

In the middle of learning activity in classroom, your teacher come to your class to announce something.
When you are chatting with your friends in your school, you hear someone tells important news from the sound system.

What you hear in those situations is an announcement. Announcement is basically a type of information which is said or written to let people know about what is happening or what will happen.

In this topic, you are going to learn about written announcement. There are two types of announcement: formal announcement and informal announcement. The difference between those two types are usually in the language use. The formal announcement uses formal language to announce formal events. Formal language is considered more effective for readers in age and background.

An announcement tells about what the event is, to whom the announcement is for, when the event will be and where it will take place. An announcement contains the description of the event, time (including day and date), and place. If the announcement is to invite people to certain event, it has to give the information on what they should do to participate.

Do you understand?

Study the following announcement.

The announcement above tell about the National’s Book Day on May 17. The school will donate some books and invite students to participate. The announcement also says how to participate, which is to come to the school library if students want to donate their books.

The announcement above tells the raising price of a bakery shop. This kind of announcement tells us about what is happening and what has changed. From the text, we know that the production cost increased which causes the product price. The customers should pay more starting from March 1, 2015. Other example similar to this announcement is flight delay, event cancellation, or schedule change announcement which has causes and effects.

Contoh Soal Understanding Conversational Text , Formal Announcement

The announcement above is written by ....

According to the announcement, the following people will come to the meeting except....

If the announcement is published three days before the meeting, the release date is on ....

According to the announcement, the traditional dance course is for ....

Fina: Are you going to take the traditional course?
Janu: Yes, I am. How about you?
Fina: I want to, but I don't know how to register.

What should Fina do to register? Choose one of the following: ....

Kilang: Do you know that ACT drama club is opening an audition?”
Lutfi : Yes. I have filled in the registration form.
Kilang: When will you submit it?
Lutfi : I will submit it on …. (6)
Kilang : Where will you submit it?
Lutfi : I willl go to .... (7) to submit it.
Kilang : All right then. Good luck!

The best phrase to complete the dialogue based on the announcement is ....