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Understanding Conversational Text: Invitation and
Responses
Objectives
Learning Competency: In this lesson
you are going to learn about how to invite someone and how to response
someone’s invitation so that you are able to invite and give responses in
correct ways.
Learn about it!
The teenager's life is full of
interesting things, including the ups and downs of social life. Have you ever
had a party or your friends invited you to come to their party? How did you
invite your friend to your party? When you receive an invitation from others,
you have two options: to come or not. If you are available to come, how do you
accept the invitation? However, if you cannot come because of one and other
reasons, how do you decline/refuse them? At the end of this lesson, you are
expected to be able to invite someone or accept the invitation or decline the
invitation in correct ways.
An invitation has a specific social
function, to invite someone to come to an event. There are many ways or expressions that can be used to
invite someone. Based on the situation, the expressions of invitation are
divided into two. Those are formal situations and informal situations.
Formal invitations can
be used to invite someone who older than us or invite someone in formal event
like meeting.
Informal invitations
can be used to invite our friends or invite someone in informal situation like
birthday party.
There are some examples of
invitation:
- Would you like to come to my graduation party next week?
- I’d very much like to you to attend the meeting next Saturday?
- Would you care to join our journey to Lombok next holiday?
- Come and join my 15th birthday party!
- You must come to the grand opening of my shoe shop.
- Would you like to come to my graduation party next week?
- I’d very much like to you to attend the meeting next Saturday?
- Would you care to join our journey to Lombok next holiday?
- Come and join my 15th birthday party!
- You must come to the grand opening of my shoe shop.
If we are attending the invitation, we can accept the invitation by saying:
- That’s very kind of you.
- We’d very much like to come to your graduation party
next week.
- What a delightful idea.
- OK!
- Alright.
If we are not attending the
invitation, we can decline the invitation by
saying:
- Thank you for asking me, but I should go to Bali next
week.
- I’d like to. But I have another meeting next Saturday.
- Unfortunately, I can’t. I already have a plan for next
holiday.
- Sorry, I can’t.
- I think, I can’t.
There are some expressions that we
can use to invite someone in formal situation or in informal situation.
Formal
Situation
Inviting Someone
- Would you like to ....
- I'd very much like you to ....
- We should be pleased/delighted if you could ....
- Would you care to ....
Accepting Someone Invitation
- That's very kind of you.
- We'd very much like to ....
- What a delightful idea.
- With the greatest pleasure.
- Thank you very much for inviting me.
Declining Someone’s Invitation
- I'm very sorry, I don't think I can.
- I'd like to, but ....
- I'm afraid I've already promised ....
- Thank you for asking me, but ....
- Unfortunately, I can't ....
Informal
Situation/Casual ways
Inviting Someone
- Why don't you come to ....
- Like to come to ....
- Come and ....
- Shall we come to ....
- You must come to ....
Accepting Someone Invitation
- I would/will ....
- That would be very nice.
- OK!
- I'd like to love to come.
- All right (then).
Declining Someone’s Invitation
- Sorry, I can't.
- I'd love to, but ....
- I don't think I can.
- I wish I could, but ....
Keypoints
- Invitation is used to invite someone to come to an
event.
- There are two kinds of invitation, those are: formal
invitation and informal invitation.
- Formal invitation is used to invite someone who older
than us or invite someone in formal event.
- Informal situation is used to invite our friends in
informal event.
- There are two kinds of response the invitation:
- Accepting invitation, it we mean that we can attend the
invitation.
- Declining invitation, it means that can’t attend the invitation.
Writing Personal Letters: Inviting Others
Objectives
Through this section, you will learn
how to write an invitation letter.
Learn about it!
Have you ever been to your friend’s
birthday party? Before going to the party, your friend gave you a letter or card
to invite you. Well, this kind of letter is an example of an invitation letter.
In this section, we will not only learn about invitation letters, but we will
also learn how to write it on your own! Let’s get started!
Today, Hannah gets an invitation letter
from her friend, Diana. She is not sure whether she can go or not because the
party is on the same day with her drama rehearsal. The invitation letter is in
the picture below.
In your opinion, what party is going
to be held by Diana? When and where? If Hannah decided not to come, when does
she need to tell Diana?
From the picture, we can get plenty
information, we know that:
- Diana invites Hannah to her birthday party
- The party will be in Mountana Residence on Sunday, 18
July 2015
- If Hannah cannot go, she should tell Diana before 10th
July. Why? It is because in the invitation, we can find this information
RSVP before 10th July. RSVP means that you have to confirm whether you
will come or not.
So, from Diana’s invitation letter,
we know that it should have the following elements:
So, in an invitation letter, there
should be the name of the host, information of the event, time of the event,
place to conduct the event, and confirmation date.
There are two types of confirmation
date, RSVP and Regret Only. In RSVP, we have to confirm whether we will come or
not. In Regret Only, we need to confirm only when we cannot come. Moreover, an
invitation letter is written in the present tense.
Look at the invitation letter below.
The following invitation letter is not written well. What is wrong with the
letter?
Do you find the mistake? Well, there
are some mistakes in the card. You will find illogical and missing information
in Marsha’s Invitation.
Look at the picture below:
So, how is it? Have you understand what to write in an invitation letter? Are you ready to write your own invitation letter? Let’s check in the next section!
Do you understand?
Hannah is going to perform a drama. Now, she is
going to write an invitation letter to invite people watch her Drama Show but
she is confused what to write. Would you help her? She just wrote some
information in her notebook. Here they are:1. Name of the Drama Show: Sangkuriang
2. Conducted by Teater Bumi
3. Place: Adam Malik Hall, Aceh Street No. 21
4. Time: Monday, 20 August 2015, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Now, try to write an invitation letter to help Hannah. Write it in the template below.
Have you completed the letter above? Now let's compare to the right answer. Here is the complete invitation letter for Hannah.
Keypoints
In this section, you have learnt how
to write invitation letters. In writing an invitation letter, you have to
include some information. They are:
- Name of the Event
- Name of the Host
- Time of the Event
- Place
- Date of confirmation
There are two kinds of confirmation.
They are RSVP and Regret Only. Besides that, remember, the invitation letter
should be in the present tense.
Jawablah pertanyaan-pertanyaan berikut dengan jujur dan bertanggungjawab!
| No. | Pertanyaan | Jawaban | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01. | Saya mengetahui arti kata-kata pada pada teks di atas |
Ya | Tidak |
| 02. | Saya bisa mengucapkan kata-kata sesuai dengan audio/video yang disajikan |
Ya | Tidak |
| 03. | Saya bisa memperagakan percakapan dengan membaca teks yang tersedia |
Ya | Tidak |
| 04. | Saya bisa memperagakan percakapan dengan sedikit membaca teks |
Ya | Tidak |
| 05. | Saya bisa memperagakan tanpa membaca teks |
Ya | Tidak |
| 06. | Saya bisa memperagakan tanpa membaca teks disertai dengan variasi baru atau pengembangan teks |
Ya | Tidak |
| 07. | Saya bisa membuat karya video terkait dengan percakapan yang diperagakan |
Ya | Tidak |
| 08. | Saya bisa membuat video dan telah disosialisasikan pada sosial media yang saya miliki |
Ya | Tidak |
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