Chapter 6 – Announcements
Things to do
1. Choose a suitable heading for each announcement from those given below.
Change in School Hours
Cleanliness
Story-telling Competition
Lost and Found
Warning
Football Match
Ans:
(1) It has been observed by the Head Boy….
→ Cleanliness
(2) Tomorrow, that is, on 10th of July…
→ Change in School Hours
(3) On Sunday, there is a football match…
→ Football Match
(4) The school has organised a Story Telling Competition…
→ Story Telling Competition
(5) Construction work to extend…
→ Warning
(6) A cycle key with a blue key chain….
→ Lost and Found
2. Present any one of these announcements yourself, orally.
Ans: Students must do this on their own.
3. Group Work
(1) An announcement can be made in every class, orally. Or, it can be put up on the school notice-board. Discuss and decide what method should be used for each of the announcements given here.
(i) Oral announcement
(ii) Written notice
(iii) Both
Ans:
(i) Oral announcement:
Cleanliness
(ii) Written notice:
Story-telling competition
(iii) Both:
Change in school hours
Football match
Warning
Lost and found
(2) Make groups. One person in the group chooses an announcement. Everyone in the group reads that announcement silently but carefully, and closes their books. Then that person presents the announcement, changing one of the details in the announcement. Others spot the change. For example, you might say ‘red’ key chain instead of ‘blue’ in the last announcement.
Ans: Students must form a group and do this by themselves.
(3) Name the occasion or reason for which each of the announcements is being made. Then think of an occasion and prepare an announcement for it as a group activity.
Ans: Students must do this on their own.
4. Activity
Prepare an announcement for an occasion like the ones mentioned here.
Ans: Students must do this on their own.