TOEFL Listening Practice Skill 1-3 (Longman TOEFL PBT)

Part 1: Getting to Know Announcements

Taken from: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/announcement

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.

Task 2

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

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

2.      Who might be interested in reading those texts?

	E1	E2	E3	E4	V1	V2	V3	V4	V5
Social Function	To inform the parents about completing online student returning form	To announce about the course for the postgraduate student and research worker to join that course	To seek people who have the mentioned requirements.	To announce the event about building big idea	To inform audience about checking email and planning of each events	To inform about school event and birthday for the students	To inform about the menu for the lunch, birthday, weather, and the important date (history) to the audience	To inform about the preparation of beginning of the school, for teacher to thank, for student to give an advice.	To inform about lunch menu in cafeteria, Birthday, Weather, The important date (history)
1. Where	School	Public Place	Public Place	Public Place	School	School	School	School	School
2. Who	Parents	Academic people	Job seekers	People who want to improve their knowledge	Students	Students	Students,	Teacher, Students	Students

Task 3

            Next, you are going to analyze the information which makes up the announcement. Analyze the announcements using entries listed in the table below

Text Number	Where to find	Purposes	Target Readers	Heading	Detail Information
1	School	To inform the parents about completing online student returning form	Parents	Complete The Online Returning Student Form	The form will include the student’s information for trips, study and emergency condition
2	Public Place, University	To announce about the course for the postgraduate student and research worker to join that course	Academic People	Summer school on remote sensing in meteorology, oceanography and hydrology	-        The school is intended for academic people. -        The course will be concerned  data collection systems, digital methods and processing.
3	Public Place	To seek people who have the mentioned requirements.	Job seeker	We’re looking for…	Job Vacancy for Videographer, Photographer, Graphic Designer, Creative Interns
4	Public Place	To announce the event about building big idea	People who want to improve their knowledge	TEDx NYU 2013	A seminar held by TEDx

Task4

            Printed announcement format is different from spoken format, below are the links to the examples of spoken announcements. Please bear in mind that this type of format contains cultural differences. These examples are only for the purpose of learning. Now, watch the video below and answer the questions that follow:

Please give evidence from the video 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?

V1	To inform some information of vacancies and entertain the audience.
V2	To inform some agenda and students’ birthday for the students
V3	To announce some school events, Students birthday, historical date and inspirational quote.
V4	To welcome students at the first beginning of class and greet the teachers
V5	To announce about weather, students birthday, message, historical date  and inspirational quotes

2.      What is the essential information is aired?

V1	Announce some planning for volunteer activity, a fact of Spanish and entertain audience by a funny man singing.
V2	Announce people’ birthday and a show for an exciting demonstration, remind students to bring some dollars for charity and bring students’ task.
V3	Announce menu for lunch, the weather: Rainy in the afternoon, the highest temperature 75 degrees and lowest  59 degrees, and historical date
V4	School event on Oct 6:
V5	Pink out dress to support cancer fighter

3.      What is the opening part of each announcement?

V1	They greet by doing a pledge of allegiance then audience.
V2	They greet audience and tell the date
V3	Greeting and welcoming : Good morning and welcome to the Cornwall Morning News
V4	Starting the news by announcing lunch menu
V5	Greeting students then asking audience attention because they will say some important words

4.      What is the closing part?

V1	Showing a funny scene.
V2	Asking students to stand for a pledge of allegiance
V3	Closing by saying: Have a great day
V4	Asking students to do a pledge of allegiance.
V5	Closing 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?

V1	it is not adaptable and adoptable in my school because the students are from the lower level and also EFL learner.
V2	It’s adaptable and adoptable because it can inform important agenda and remind students for their task.
V3	It can be adopted and adapted because it can give the chance for the student to improve their English skill and confidence.
V4	It’s adaptable and adoptable because the purpose is to give a good start for the school people (teachers/students)
V5	It can be adopted because it can train the students English skill and confidence by considering our culture.

Part 2: Constructing Announcements

Task 5

Complete the following announcement by using the expressions from the box.

D, B, E, A, C, F

 Task6

Create an announcement

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Assignment M1 LA2

Instructions

Please do the assignment below to rehearse anything you have learnt in this activity and send it to the link provided.

1. Create a school announcement about annual school event.

ANNOUNCEMENT

MEGA CONCERT IS COMING,,,, JOIN US SOON!!!

SHOW YOUR BEST SKILL AND ATTRACTION!!!

BE A WINNING STUDENT!!!

           

The annual mega concert activities will be held to enliven the End Year Haflah, which will be held on

Day / Date         : May 21, 2018

Time                   : 20.00 - 23.00 WIB

Place                  :  

We open an opportunity to all friends to be able to perform your best attractions based on the extracurricular club of each.

For registration and technical appearance information, please don’t hesitate to contact Nugraha (Class XI) at the OSIS Office after school.

Thanks.

2. Create a spoken announcement for your school, tape your performance and upload it to youtube.

 Link video https://youtu.be/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Note: ini hanya contoh saja, selanjutnya teman-teman bisa mengembangkannya sendiri sesuai dengan kebutuha masing-masing.. terima kasih