Invitation

 INVITATION

g'day fellas ! my name is Dearni, here i will explain to all readers about Invitation letters. So yap, lets get start it !

    Invitation is one of functional texts which should be understood by students of high school. Functional text is one of three areas of learning English in high school curriculum. We often see or read invitation for birthday party, farewell party, engagement party, wedding party, anniversary, promotion, etc. 

What is actually an invitation ?

    Invitation is one of the functional texts which students of high schools should learn in the subject of English besides notice, brochure, advertisement, announcement, leaflet, pamphlet, memo, short message and others. Invitation is is a request, a solicitation, or an attempt to get another person to join you at a specific event. Invitation a text which containing a request, a solicitation, or an attempt a spoken or written request to somebody to do something or to go somewhere.

What is the purpose of Invation ?

    Based on the definition above, it can be concluded that the main purpose of an invitation is to invite someone or more to go to a place or to do something or ask someone to participate a particular even & activity.

Generic Structure of Invitation is :

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In general, the generic of structure of inviation text is divided into 3 :

1. Invitee ,  is a person who is invited to land by the possessor of the land as a member of the public or one who enters the land of another for the purpose of business dealings with the possessor of the land
2. Body of invitation , In the body of your letter, include the description of the occasion, the date and time of the function and the reason for the occasion, such as company grand opening, introduction to new staff member, etc.
3. inviter ,  is someone that invites.

Kinds of Invitation

    Actually there are many kinds of invitation text, however, here we just focus on kinds of invitation card, and as we know there are also many kinds of invitation cards, some of them are:

1. Anniversary invitation card
2. Reunion invitation card
3. Birthday invitation card
4. Business invitation card
5. Lebaran day invitation card
6. Christmas invitation card
7. Valentine invitation card
8. Wedding invitation card
9. Reception invitation card
10. Ceremony invitation card
11. Halloween party invitation card
12. Response invitation card
13. Mother’s day invitation card
14. Father’s day invitation card
15. Graduation invitation card
16. Thanksgiving invitation card

Difference of invitation letter

    Invitation letter is divided into 2 :

1. A formal invitation letter is an official letter that is written to send out invitations to people either for business meetings, parties, or any event.

            Words that are often used in formal dialogues such as :

• good morning, afternoon, night
• could you help me ? 
• see you tomorrow
• is this your ? 
• could you repeat it ? 

            Example formal invitation letters :

            2. A Informal invitations is personal invitation given to a friend , family , 

            bestfriends , etc .

            Words that are often used in informal dialogue, for example:

• Hi!
• hello
• can you help me?
• will you help me?

Example Informal Invitation letters

Expression of making accepting and declining invitation

Expression to make, accept or decline in vitiation in formal situation.

- Making in vitiation

·         Would you like to…?

·         I would very happy if…?

·         We would be delighted if you…?

·         Would you care to..?

·         We would be pleased if you could…?

·         Would you care to…?

- Accepting invitation

·         That’s very kind of you

·         We’d like very much to….

·         What a delightful idea

·         With the greatest pleasure

·         Thank you very much for inviting me

·         It’s delightful to….

- Declining 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….

Expression to make, accept or decline in vitiation informal situation

Making invitation

·         Why don’t you come to…

·         Like to come to …

·         Come and …

·         Shall we come to …

·         You must come to …

Accepting invitation

·         I would/will …

·         That would be very nice

·         OK,I will be there !

·         I’d like love to come.

·         All right.

·         Sure, I am coming

Declining invitation

·         Sort, I can’t.

·         I’d love to, but …

·         I don’t think I can.

·         In wish I could, but …

·         Sorry, I am very busy

·         Sorry, may be next time

·         Thank you, but I can’t

·         Sorry, I don’t think I

·         Can’t make it

·         I’m so sorry I can make it

Formal Invitation Dialogue

Aulia    : Hallo ! can i speak with mrs. Dearni ?

Dear    : Yes , this is Dearni . May I help you ?

Aulia  : Dearni please come there is gonna be a meeting about Olympic Competition at 08.00

Dear    : Okay , Aul ! I'll see you latter then.

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Informal Invitation Dialogue

Dearni     : What do you do tonight? Will you join us to go to mall?

Aulia      : Ah sorry, I have an appointment. I received a dinner invitation by Mr. Danu. He aksed me to come.

Dearni    : Oh okay no problem. Maybe in the next time ,

Aulia      : thank you, I hope so.

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ok readers. that's all my explanation about invitation. I hope y'all understand with my explanation. thankyouuuu !