KOMPETENSI PROFESIONAL: LEARNING TASK M1 LA2 PART 1

Learning Task M1 LA2 Part 1: Getting to Know Announcements

Task 1

In this activity, we will learn some announcements which you might be already familiar with. Read the four printed announcements and listen to the spoken announcements that follow.

Example 1:

Example 2

Example 3&4

Spoken Announcement: 5 Videos from YouTube

1. https://youtu.be/uFpADwabPd4 Morning Announcements Friday, May 5th, 2017, Video by: SuttonMemorialHighSchool
2. https://youtu.be/Cq_hz_2-tDQNorth Wales Elementary 1-25-13 Morning Announcements Video By: NPTV
3. https://youtu.be/zvELussbwIQ 3. 9/14/17 Morning Announcements Video By: Cornwall Elementary School
4. https://youtu.be/No2SkAxS0ZQ Principal Tina Holt does first-day announcements and pledge Video By: Knoxville News Sentinel
5. https://youtu.be/Qylh_E6xdGk9/23/16 Morning Announcements Video By: Cornwall Elementary School

Task 2

Now, you will compare the SOCIAL FUNCTIONS of the nine announcements, regarding the contexts, the target readers, the points of interests or importance, by answering the following questions.

1. Where do you think such kinds of announcements be found?

2. Who might be interested in reading those texts?

Answer for Task 2

ANNOUNCEMENT	SOCIAL FUNCTION	PLACE	TARGET READERS
Written Announcement 1	To inform the parents to complete the online returning student’s form	School	Students’ Parents
Written Announcement 2	To announce about summer course on remote sensing, meteorology, oceanography, and hydrology	Public places, University	Post graduates, research workers, and teachers in related field
Written Announcement 3	To inform job vacancy in The Media Kids	Public places	Job seekers
Written Announcement 4	To inform about the seminar how to build big ideas and the website to get the tickets	Public places	High school students, college students, researchers
Spoken Announcement 1	To announce that students have to check their email if they have sign up for the art night celebration and to announce the students who have been accepted in colleges	School	High school students
Spoken Announcement 2	To give information about several students’ birthday and inform about the demonstration that are going to do in science class	School	Students
Spoken Announcement 3	To give information about lunch, birthdays, whether predictions, fun facts, quote of the day and to give some information for the school community	School	Students
Spoken Announcement 4	To give some words of wisdom in order to have a great beginning of the school year and make a great choices throughout the days in learning	School	Students
Spoken Announcement 5	To inform the menu in the school cafeteria, birthdays, weather, today’s history,  inspirational quotes and to give information for those who need to share announcements for the Cornwall Family	School	Students and teachers

Task 3Here is the analysis of the information in the written announcements from task 1.

No	Where to find	Purposes	Target readers	Heading	Detail Information
1	School	To inform the parents to complete the online returning student’s form using Power School Parent Program	Students’ Parents	Complete The Online Returning Student Form Now	The online form should be completed by students’ parents in order to give accurate information about their child’s ability in school-related activities, their child’s ability in communicating and their child’s medical condition
2	Public Place, University	To announce about summer course on remote sensing, meteorology, oceanography, and hydrology at University of Dundee, Scotland	Post graduates, research workers, and teachers in related field	Summer school on remote sensing in meteorology, oceanography and hydrology	The course will be concerned with processing and interpreting the remote sensing data with particular reference to application in meteorology, oceanography, and hydrology. Some bursaries may be available to assist students to attend the course. For those who are interested in attending the course and need further details can ask Professor A.P.Cracknell
3	Public Place	To inform job vacancy in The Media Kids	Job seekers	We’re looking for…	Job Vacancy for Videographer, Photographer, Graphic Designer, Creative Interns Visit the website www.themediakids.com for more information
4	Public Place	To inform about the seminar how to build big ideas and the website to get the tickets	Students’ Parents	TEDX NYU 2013	The topic of talks is ‘Building Big Ideas’. The seminar will be held on Saturday, May 4th at 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.  For those who are interested to join the even can get the tickets at tedxnyu.com/tickets

Task 4Please give evidence from the video (spoken announcements) to your answer.
Questions 1-5 provide evidence from the video. Please give evidence from the video to your answer. 

1. What is the purpose of each announcement?

Video 1	To inform about some vacancies and entertain the audience
Video 2	To announce several birthdays and inform some planned class activities
Video 3	To inform lunch menu, birthdays, weather prediction, fun facts, quote of the days, and Cornwall community’s agenda
Video 4	To welcome the students at the first day of school year and greet the teachers
Video 5	To announce about the menu in the school cafeteria, students’ birthday, weather, today’s history, inspirational quotes and information contacts

2. What is the essential information is aired?

Video 1	Announce some planning for volunteering activity, a fact of Spanish and amuse the audience with funny man who does karaoke
Video 2	Announce several students’ birthday and tell that birthday stickers are available at office, a show for a special demonstration in science class, and remind the students to bring a few dollars for purchasing school needs
Video 3	Announce the Cornwall community program on October 6th about donating at least 8 inches of hair and wearing pink outfit on the day to show support for those who fighting cancer and announce that students can purchase pink characters in order form. The order must be received by September 18th by Mrs. Peter Smith
Video 4	Announce some words of wisdom in the first day school in order to have good behaviors at school
Video 5	Announce morning news to students and tell the teachers to contact the broadcasters if they want to share information for the school

3. What is the opening part of each announcement?

Video 1	beginning with a pledge of allegiance  and by saying: good morning Sutton High
Video 2	By saying: good morning, then telling the date and their name
Video 3	By saying: good morning and welcome to the Cornwall Morning News then telling themselves and the date
Video 4	By saying: good morning Fountain City Elementary students.. this is Mrs Holt with a few words of wishdom
Video 5	By saying: good morning and welcome back to Cornwall Morning News, telling name, and telling date

4. What is the closing part?

Video 1	Showing a funny karaoke scene
Video 2	Asking students to stand for a pledge of allegiance
Video 3	By saying: Have a great day
Video 4	By saying: Let’s have a rocking day and have a great start
Video 5	By saying :Have a great weekend

5. Do you think this type of announcement could be adapted and adopted for the purpose of your school? Why? And or Why not?

Video 1	It is not adaptable and adoptable in my school due to the low level of proficiency in English
Video 2	It is adaptable and adoptable because it can inform important agenda and remind students for their task
Video 3	It is adaptable and adoptable because it can give the chance for students to speak in English confidently
Video 4	It is adaptable and adoptable because the purpose is to give good wisdom for students
Video 5	It is adaptable because it can train the students to be confident in spengking English

Task 5 Now report the similarities and differences of the four announcements in Task 1 and also compare them to the spoken announcement.


1. Similarities
- Both the written and spoken announcements give information to people or public.
- Both the written and spoken announcement use common expression in announcement to persuade people join or take part in the activities and to remind people about planned activities/ agenda


2. Differences
- Spoken announcements give more detail information/descriptions than written announcements
- The heading in written announcement has one clear purpose or social function while the heading of 

   spoken announcements have several purposes in each announcement
- Some grammatical constructions are used in written announcement as are some kinds of 

   vocabularies using specific terms or legal terms while in spoken announcements, vocabularies are 

   used mainly in speech including the using of slang and tags like ‘I am out’, ‘let’s have a rocking 

   day’, etc.
- Written announcements use punctuation, headings, layout, colors, and other graphical effect in the 

   text. Spoken announcements use timing, tone, volume, timbre to add emotional context.