Understanding Conversational Text: Invitation and Responses

Understanding Conversational Text: Invitation and Responses

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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 teenagers life is full with interesting things, including the ups and down 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 situation and informal situation.

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.
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
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.
Lets Practice!

Choose the correct answer! 

1.   You will probably get a formal invitation from ….

           a.   an old friend
b.   a distant relative
c.   parents of a friend
d.   a neighbor
e.   school principal

Pembahasan

e. undangan resmi biasanya didapatkan oleh kepala sekolah. pilihan a. an old friend artinya demand lama, b. a distant relative artinya kerabat jauh c. parent of a friend artinya orang tua sahabat sedangkan d. a neighbor artinya tetangga

2.   The following does not belong to the body of a formal invitation: ….

           a.   greeting
b.   date
c.   place
d.   time
e.   agenda

Pembahasan

a. greeting adalah salam pembuka biasanya terletak pada opening jadi bukan pada body of a formal invitation

3.                 "Dear Mr. Manager,"

The part of the invitation is called ….

           a.   closing
b.   body
c.   greeting
d.   heading
e.   signature

Pembahasan

c. Dear ... yang artinya kepada ... adalah bagian dari salam sebuah undangan

4.                  The followings are the purposes of an invitation, except ….

           a.   to let people know about the event
b.   to ask someone to attend
c.   to forbid someone for coming
d.   to give detailed information about the event
e.   to ensure the participant to come

Pembahasan

c. to forbid someone for coming itu artinya melarang seseorang untuk datang

 The text below is for questions no 5, 6 and 7

Quino English Course

12 A Quipper Street, Indonesia
Phone: (+62)222456, e-mail: quino@quipper.com

   
To all parents of Intermediate Class and Advanced Class student

Dear Sir,
It is our honor to host annual Quino Family Gathering in socializing the new concept of Quino system.
Quino cordially invites all the parents of Quino’s students to participate in the family gathering.

      Date : Saturday, the twelfth of June 2015
      Time : at nine o’clock to half past twelve o’clock
      Place : Hall of Quino English Course, 12 A Quipper Street
      Agenda : Socialization*
      Dress code: Black tie
The committee extends a warm welcome and is grateful for your involvement.

   

Yours sincerely,

Muara Indah
Quino President

5.   The recipient of the invitation are/is ….

           a.   students of Quino English Course
b.   parents of Quino’s students
c.   president of Quino
d.   the teachers in the neighborhood
e.   Quino committee

Pembahasan

b. recipient of invitation/penerima undangan adalah orang tua dari siswa Quino

6.   The invitation is about ….

           a.   Quino English program
b.   Quino’s new system
c.   Quino’s students’ performance
d.   Family gathering
e.   
Parents-teachers meeting

Pembahasan

d. undangan ini terkait dengan jamuan keluarga itu dapat dilihat dari kalimat ... participate in the family gathering

7.    How long will the family gathering take place? Choose one of the following ….

           a.   2 hours
b.   3 hours
c.   a whole day
d.   half a day
e.   5 hours

Pembahasan

b. mulainya jam 9 dan berakhir jam 12.30 jadi berlangsung selama 3.5 jam jadi yang paling mendekati adalah pilihan b 3 hours

Arrange the following into the correct order

8.   The correct arrangement for the part signature of a formal invitation is ….

            a.   1-2-3
b.   2-3-1
c.   3-2-1
d.  3-1-2

e.  1-3-2

Pembahasan

d. diawali dengan tanda tangan, nama dan diakhiri dengan jabatan

9.   The most appropriate phrase to put in a formal invitation is ….

           a.   I wonder if you would like to come to my party.
b.   Come and join us at the party.
c.   Let’s celebrate the New Year eve at Puncak Bogor.
d.   Join us for the party.
e.   We'd be delighted to have you as our guest at the party.

Pembahasan

e. We'd be delighted to ... artinya kami akan berbahagia jika kamu menjadi tamu dalam pesta kami... kalimat itu biasanya digunakan untuk  undangan resmi

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.

10.   Fill the blanks with the most appropriate word.

           a.   held – will be held – address
b.   hosted – will be held – will address
c.   host – will held – will address
d.   hold – will held – will address
e.   host – will be held – will address

Pembahasan

e. pilihan e paling sesuai untuk melengkapi kalimat di atas. host artinya memandu sedangkan hold maknanya menyelenggarakan. 


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