e-Primbon _ Rieska Ramadannia

A. Invitation

 Basic Competency:
Expressing meaning nuance within transactional dialogue text that contains invitation: how to invite people, how to accept and to refuse it.

 Indicators:
• Mentioning several ways of inviting expressions
• Using expressions of invitation according the situation.
• Acting as response of invitation from somebody else: accepting and refusing

 Brief materials :
Invitation is a way to invite someone or more to go to a place or to do something.

There are two types of invitation.
FORMAL INVITATION :
Formal invitation is usually originate from Institutes, Companies and a kind of it. Normally formal invitation is written invitation.

INFORMAL INVITATION :
Informal invitation is personal invitation given to a friend, family, etc. Informal invitation can be written invitation and verbal invitation.

This time we only discuss about Verbal Invitation
Extending (mengundang)
for example:
• I would like to invite you to come to my house
• Would you like to come to my restaurant?
• How would you like to go camping with us next month?
• If you are not busy, please try to come to my office
• Are you free this evening?
• Let’s go to the Jazz Festival!
• Can you come?
• Please try to come
• We hope you’ll join us
• If you don’t have any other plans, would you come to the café?

 Repeat after me guys!
• I would like to invite you to come to my house
• Would you like to come to my restaurant?
• How would you like to go camping with us next month?
• If you are not busy, please try to come to my office
• Are you free this evening?
• Let’s go to the Jazz Festival!
• Can you come?
• Please try to come
• We hope you’ll join us
• If you don’t have any other plans, would you come to the café?

 Accepting (menerima)
• I’d love to
• I like that
• That sounds great
• Thank you for the invitation
• That would be wonderful
• I’d be glad to
• That sounds like fun
• It’s very nice of you to invite me
• It sounds interesting


 Declining (menolak) / refusing
• I’d love to, but I can’t
• I’m really sorry because I can’t come
• Sorry, I’m really busy
• I’d love to, but I won’t be able to
• I’d love to but I don’t think I can