Suffix

The purpose of
Announcement

ANNOUNCEMENT

Forming
Noun
 What is announcement?
• An announcement is a statement made to
public or to the media which gives
information about something that has
happened or that will happen.
• Something that someone says officially,
giving information about something; the
act of announcing something.
Elements of Announcement

Elements of Announcement
Purpose

Content

Add table to give

additional information

Add a call to action

 Announcement VS advertisement
ASPECT ANNOUNCEMENT ADVERTISEMENT

Purpose An act of announcing, or giving Marketing, a commercial form to

notice about something. sell some commodity, service, or
similar

Language Past or present Present, persuasive

Form Formal Formal / informal

Forming Nouns from Verbs
• Gerund (Verb+ing)
A gerund is a verbal form that ends in –ing and it becomes a noun:
being, going, giving, building. It is followed by objects: giving directions,
building a house.
You will generally see gerunds as subjects or objects or as object of
prepositions)
example; Playing cards is enjoyable. (gerund as subject of a verb)
He enjoys playing cards. (gerund as object of a verb)
He passes the time by playing cards (gerund as object of a preposition)
• Suffix (akhiran)
Common noun endings:
- tion information - ship scholarship
- sion provision - tude multitude
- ence existence - ism capitalism
- ance acceptance - cracy democracy
- ity creativity - logy biology
- hood childhood - ness happiness
- dom wisdom - ment movement
- th strength
- ery recovery
 Simple Past VS Present Perfect
• Both refer to an action that was finished in the past, but…
Simple Past Tense Present Perfect Tense
Purpose Talks about a finished action that happened Explains an event at an unknown time in the past.
at a specific time in the past.
It helps to clarify that the event happened at It is used to stress the importance of a past event in
a specific time. the present (the present effect of the past event)
The using of the word “when”. The using of the word “how long”, “for”, “since”
that tell about the duration of an activity.
The using of negative adverb “never”, the word
“ever”.
Form S + Verb 2 + Object S + have/has + Verb 3 + Object

Ex: I saw a movie in the theater at Sunday.
She ate Thai food last night.
We studied English in 1993.
when did it start raining?
Ex: I have seen a movie in the theater.
She has eaten Thai food.
How long has it been raining?
We have studied English for a long time.
Andy has studied English since he was young.
When…? and How long…? For and Since
A. When did it start raining?
B. It started raining an hour ago/ at 1 o’clock.

1. How long has it been raining?

2. It’s been raining for an hour/ since 1 o’clock.

A. When did Joe and Carol first meet?

B. They first met a long time ago/ when they were at college.

1. How long have Joe and Carol known each other?

2. They’ve known each other for a long time/ since they were at
college.
• We use both for and since to say how long something has been
happening.
We use for to say a period of
time (two hours, six weeks
etc.)
• I have been waiting for two
hours.
• Sally has been working here
for six months.
• I haven’t seen Tom for three
days.
We use since when we say the
start of a period (8 o’clock,
Monday, 1992 etc.)
• I have been waiting since 8
o’clock.
• Sally has been working here
since April (from April until
now).
• I haven’t seen Tom since
Monday (from Monday until
now).