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

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?
note: frase yang bergaris bawah bisa diganti
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?

What do you think?
It’s easy, isn’t it?
Good!
Now we learn how to accept
the invitation