Contoh Soal Features of Formal Invitation
Contoh Soal Features of Formal Invitation - At the end of the course you are expected to identify the features of formal invitation. You are expected to be able to recognize the features of oral and written formal invitation.
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Formality: Why is it important?
If you were a school principal and you want to invite the parents for a school meeting, what would you do?
Would you just ask directly by saying “Would you come to the school meeting?” That's not really not really appropriate.
Would you just ask directly by saying “Would you come to the school meeting?” That's not really not really appropriate.
The invitation represents the event. People can see how formal an event is from its invitation. When you invite someone to your formal event, you must invite them in a proper way.
If you were the school principal, you cannot casually ask the parents of your students though you are the principal. The best way is sending a formal invitation letter; so then the parents would consider the meeting is formal important.
Invitation is a request of someone’s presence on an occasion. The purposes of an invitation are:
- to let people know that you are holding an event
- to ask for someone’s presence in an event,
- to tell the detailed information about the event, and also
- to ensure whether the recipient is coming or not.
Formal Features
The formal invitation can be from institutions or companies or personal. The invitation can be for a meeting, dinner, wedding, or any formal event. Here are some features of a formal invitation:
- It has strict standard form.
- The information about the date and host are detailed.
- It uses persuasive phrases to persuade people to attend.
- It uses future tense.
Parts of Invitation
Generally, formal invitation would consist of the following parts. It is possible if one or two parts are not provided.
Here is the generic structure of a common formal invitation:
- Heading, where we put the letterhead, letter number, and the date of the letter written.
- Recipient,** where we state the receiver’s full name and address.
- Greeting. where we put some introductory phrase such as “Dear Madam,” or “Dear Sir,”
- Main subject, where we tell the event or the main purpose of the invitation.
- Body, There is the detailed information about the event, including the date and the place of the event, and any necessary information.
- Closing, where we end the invitation with farewell greetings, such as “Yours sincerely” or “Yours faithfully”.
- Signature, here best we insert name of writer, signature, and the position.
- Optional, we may put ‘Encl.’ if you attach some enclosed documents or ‘copy to’ if you send the invitation to several people, or else.
[understand?]
To understand the features of a formal invitation, let’s take a look at this following formal invitation.
To understand the features of a formal invitation, let’s take a look at this following formal invitation.
Keypoints
Here are things to remember:
- Formal invitation is usually generated from institution or personal for formal purposes and situation. So that formal invitation has strict structure.
- The structure of formal invitation is relative to the author, and it is flexible. Not all formal invitations have exactly the same generic structure; some of the parts may be omitted.
- Some persuasive phrases are important in a formal invitation to persuade the recipient in order to attend
S1
You will probably get a formal invitation from ….
S2
The following does not belong to the body of a formal invitation: …
S3
"Dear Mr. Manager,"
The part of the invitation is called ….
S4
The followings are the purposes of an invitation, except ….
S5
The following invitation is to answer question 5, 6, and 7
The recipient of the invitation are/is ….
S6
The following invitation is to answer question 5, 6, and 7
The invitation is about ….
S7
The following invitation is to answer question 5, 6, and 7
How long will the family gathering take place?
Choose one of the following ….
Choose one of the following ….
S8
Arrange the following into the correct order
The correct arrangement for the part signature of a formal invitation is ….
S9
The most appropriate phrase to put in a formal invitation is ….
S10
Complete the following part of an invitation to answer question 10.
It is indeed a pleasure to ... Indonesia 2015 Youth Conference.
We would like to request your honor to participate. This conference ... from 5-7 May 2015. World-known speakers ... key issues for Indonesia Education.
We would like to request your honor to participate. This conference ... from 5-7 May 2015. World-known speakers ... key issues for Indonesia Education.
Fill the blanks with the most appropriate word.