Generic Structure and Example of Announcement in English

What is announcement? The definition of announcement relating to learning English functional text
is  an official notification about something. So publicly people know  what, when, and where it is
about.

The purpose, function, and goal of announcement is giving certain people some information of what
has happened or what will happen. The generic structure of announcement in English text can be seen
below
1. Stating Purpose : The text that contains what event will be held
2. Stating Day and Date and time   : Day and Date realization. The text that contains when the event
will be held
3. Stating Place : The text that contains where the event will be held
4. Informing Sender : The text that contains name of the person who will be contacted

Now after we give you the common generic structure of any types of announcement, the sample text
below will give you better understanding on what and how an announcement is written. Here they are!

Example of Announcement 1
This make passengers  is announced that they can not bring some objects when they go on flight

Example of Announcement 2
This announcement is written for  student in the third grade. They should return the books on certain
time stated.
Example of Announcement 3
This is an office announcement for all staff to attend in the party.

Example of Announcement 4
This announcement sample is found in a school, written to make students of 12nd  grade know about
polytechnic admission.

Example of Announcement 5
Below is an announcement about a debate competition. All student can participate.
Example of Announcement 6
The announcement below is about the change of brand name and make a notice to its customers some
important things.

Example of Announcement 7
This is an official announcement for a company shareholder to attend the annual general meeting.

Announcement is one of functional texts in high schools as major topic to learn when students deal
with English subject. It relates to learning English based on texts approach.

Generic Structure of Advertisement Text and Samples

English Admin – Learning English text in high schools today is about advertisement. What is
advertisement text and how is the generic structure organized? This is the articles about the definition
and the generic structure of advertisement as functional text. what is the best is that the articles
completed with 11 samples.

Learning English in high school now concerns to types of text. There are genres, functional text and
transactional or interpersonal dialog text. One of functional text is advertisements. Together with
announcement, brochure, leaflet, and banner, advertisement text is often found in many English test.
So below is what we understand about advertisement text.

Advertisement is a public announcement in a newspaper, television, or internet advertising something

such as a product for sale, services offered or an event.
According to many experts, advertisement text is a public announcement commonly found in a
newspaper, television, or internet advertising. Sometimes it is about a product, services, or an event
for sale. How an advertisement text is arranged by the writer, below is the generic structure:
1. Purpose: What is the purpose of the writer to compose the advertisement text?
2. Name of product: This is about name and brand. What product, service or events to sell?
3. User: Who need the product? What ares the product and service for?

Now let see the following samples of advertisement for several products or services. Remember, as
advertisement is written to  persuade the readers, it is close related to hortatory exposition and
analytical exposition text.
1. Advertisement text for travel agent

The advertisement sample above is about a product to sell. Do you know what is the product? Yes it is
about a travel agent service to New Zealand. I think one of you have ever been there. It is very
wonderful, isn’t it?

2. Advertisement text about working at hotel

The second text of advertisement is about training service. Do you need a course to make you a
hotelier? If yes, this is your first stage to reach your dream, managing and owning a hotel
3. Advertisement text about apartment

The third sample of advertisement above is selling a space. It is an office suite. If one of you need a
new company office, this advertisement is what you are looking for.

4. Advertisement text about refrigerator

The forth sample is an old advertisement for selling a refrigerator McCray. Anyone of you have it in
your house? That product was sold in 1950s
5. Advertisement text about music concert

Whoever like a music concert should see that advertisement. The ticket is very cheap. It is only one
dollar. The concert was held at Plat’s music hall

6. Advertisement text about Phantom bike

I think that is the best bike you can have. The feature said in the advertisement are beautiful colors,
cantilever frame, leather saddle, and many more. You can read from the bike advertisement
7. Advertisement text about general motor product

Do you know that General Motor has a division which produce fire power machine? That
advertisement said about it. General motor does not only produce car but it also has flying engines
8. Advertisement text about shoes

The advertisement above is old, simple sales letter several kinds of shoes. The shoes  are for man and
ladies. It is cheap.

9. Advertisement text about health product

The health product which is advertised above is Spirone inhalant. It can be applied for coughs, colds,
asthma, bronchitis. You can read more on the text of the advertisements

10. Advertisement text about motel service

 Do you need a
place to stay when you are in Las Vegas? Yes you can stay in Tam’s O’shanter. There are TV, ice,
coffee. All credit card are accepted

11. Advertisement text about a zoo

The advertisement text above is about the coming of new animals in a zoo. Yes when you need to
spend you holiday with your younger brother and sister, you can go to Eric Worrell’s reptile park, a
famous zoo in Wyoming.

That’s all about advertisement text in English. The definition is complete enough as it is submitted
with 11 samples of true advertisements text for several kinds of product. Advertisement text is
one kind of functional texts which should be studied in classroom when students of high school are
learning English. This kind of approach in learning is famous as text base approach.

Besides learning some functional texts, studying English through text based approach also focuses on
developing reading skill on some stories texts. One of them is understanding a narrative text. This is
an entertaining story which teaches moral lessons. Another variety of stories covered by the method
of text based approach is understanding a twisting spoof text. It is an unpredictable funny story. To
excel student;s reading skill, giving reading materials on review text for simple product description is
very recommended.

Shortly, learning English in high school is covering a wide range of topics. Student learn some
example of functional text, exercise with reading material of text genres, and practice transactional-
interpersonal speaking. So happy learning English!