Invitations

INVITATIONS   50 words-5 marks short writing skill

                    The Principal, Staff and Students ………………………….host’s name

                            of XYZ Public School

                            

                          cordially invite you to their……………………invitation & to whom

                 

             ANNUAL CULTURAL FUNCTION……………….event(highlight)

                    

                         on Saturday, November 27, 2008……………………..day & date

                         at 6 pm                                         ……………………..time

                         at Siri Fort Auditorium, Delhi     ……………………..venue

                           Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma……………..Chief guest

                     the renowned Santoor Maestro…………………his eminence/designation

                  will grace the occasion as the Chief Guest…………consent

R.S.V.P                                                                      Card valid for two

School reception                                                                                Please be seated by

4, White Avenue                                                                                  5.45 pm

Delhi-1100xx                                                                                                                      

Ph: 28888888                  Programme overleaf

Instructions have been given in red ink

Points to remember

Each piece of information to be given in separate line

Do not use a full stop anywhere

Design a card ensuring that the margin on either side of written content is equal

Instructions - to be given on the right hand side bottom of the page

Formal invitation card is drafted in the Third person i.e.They, he, she etc.                           

PTO

                                              Shankar Art Club

                                cordially invites all budding artists of Delhi

                            on the occasion of its Silver Jubilee Celebrations

                                                 to participate in an

                        

                                On the Spot Painting Competition

                                    on Sunday, January 23, 2009

                                            from 10am-1pm

                                            at Modern Art Gallery, India Gate

                                     

                                                Shri M.F. Hussain

                                             the world renowned artist

                               has graciously consented to give away the prizes

                     

                          R.S.V.P                                                                                   Kindly register by 9.30am

                            Shankar House                                                                    Category A (8-12 years)

                           Ph: 28888888-89                                                            Category B (13-17 years)

                           Fax: 28888877                                                              Art material will be provided

               

                                        Mrs and  Mr J.P. Sinha

                                       cordially invite you with family                                   

                                            on the auspicious occasion

                                      of the wedding of their daughter

                                                  

                                                   REKHA

with

                                                   RAKESH

                    (Son of Mrs and Mr N.T.Singhvi)

                               on Wednesday, 24 July 2009

                               at8 pm

                  at their residence -2, orchid Road, Bangalore

                           

         Programme: Wedding Ceremony 8.15pm

                                                           followed by Dinner

                  

                       RSVP                                                                  With Best Compliments

                   Sumit Sinha

                  Shrinath Sinha                                                          Family & Relatives

                  2, orchid road, Bangalore

                  Ph: 4132987                                   

PLS put the invitation in a box

REPLIES (FORMAL-Acceptance and Regret)

ACCEPTANCE

15 July 2009

Mr. and Mrs. G. Gupta thank Mr. and Mrs. J.P.Sinha for their kind invitation to the wedding of their daughter Rekha, on Wednesday, 24 July 2009, at 8 pm at their residence and would be glad to attend the same and bless the newly weds.  

REGRET

15 July 2009

Mr. and Mrs. G.Gupta thank Mr. and Mrs. J.P.Sinha for their kind invitation to the wedding of their daughter Rekha, on Wednesday, 24 July 2009, but regret their inability to accept the same as they have a prior pressing engagement on that day. They extend their best wishes to the newly weds.

The formal replies are in the third person

Give complete details of the event

In the regret reply the time and venue are to be left out

FORMAL LETTER OF INVITATION

XYZ School

2, Penny lane

New Delhi-110067

20 December 2008

Mr. Nikhil Banerjee

33, Cross Road

New Delhi-110017

Sub: Invitation to be a Judge at our Inter-School Music competition

Dear Sir,

We have the pleasure of informing you that our school is organizing an Inter-school semi-classical music competition on January 10, 2009, from 9 am to 2 pm, in the school auditorium. Around fifteen prestigious schools will participate in the same.

We shall be deeply honoured to have a renowned singer of your stature as one of the judges for this prestigious event.  

Kindly confirm your availability. We hope for a favourable response.

                                                                                                                        PTO

Yours faithfully

G. Shankaran

Cultural Secretary

INFORMAL INVITATIONS

Are written like informal letters: Use First person i.e I , we etc Give event , day and date, time , venue. Seek confirmation

Your address

Date

Dear Suresh

I have organized a small get together for close friends on the occasion of my 16^th birthday, at Pizza Hut in G.K.1, on January 26^th at 5 pm. I really look forward to see you there. Do confirm.

Your friend

Ameya

Your address

Date

Dear Sneha

I shall be grateful if you join me for dinner on Saturday, the 27^th of December2008 at 8 pm. I am throwing a house warming party and am very keen that you visit my new house.

I hope you won’t disappoint me. Do confirm.

Yours sincerely

Shrishti

Note inviting seniors for a farewell

1 February 2009

Dear Seniors

We, the students of class XI cordially invite you all for a farewell party in the school auditorium from 1 pm to 6 pm on Friday, 15^th February 2000. We hope to make it a memorable event for you all with a specially prepared cultural show, lunch, and a dance and photo session thereafter.

Class XI students

INFORMAL REPLIES

ACCEPTANCE

Dear Class XI students

Thanks for your invitation to the farewell party you are hosting in our honour on Friday, 15 February 2009, from 1 pm to 6pm, in the school auditorium. We look forward to attending the party and having an enjoyable time with you all.

Class XII students

REGRET

Your address

Date

Dear Shrishti

Thank you for your kind invitation to the house warming dinner party on 27th December’08. It would have been a real pleasure for me to meet you in your new home but I regret I won’t be able to attend it as I am travelling to Mumbai that morning. I wish you all the happiness in your new home.

Yours sincerely

Sneha

ACCEPTANCE

Your address

Date

Dear Ameya

Thank you for inviting me to the get together you have organized on the occasion of your 16^th birthday, at Pizza Hut, on January 26^th at 5 pm. I’ll be delighted to attend the same.

Your friend

Suresh

Going Places By A.K.Barton

Going places

A.K.Barton

Sophie and Jansie were classmates and friends. What were the differences between them that show up in the story?

-classmates and friends-lived in the same lower-income neighbourhood but the differences in their personalities were stark

-Jansie-down to earth, accepted the limitations of their social status-knew they were earmarked to work in a biscuit factory-tried to make Sophie see reality. Sophie’s dreams worried her.

-Sophie- an incorrigible romantic - tried to escape reality through her fantasies -dreamt of owning a designer boutique, becoming a manager or actress or someone as rosy

-In her imaginative flights she often overstepped reality - though Geoff was only an apprentice mechanic, she imagined her brother met exotic people at his workplace and how she would ride with him into the glamorous world like a celebrity.

-A typical teenager who hero-worships stars, she imagined that she had met Danny Casey the football star, who had even asked her for a date- but did not wish to share this with Jansie whom she considered mundane and dull.

How would you describe the character and temperament of Sophie’s father?

-Typical working class, practical man, toughened by poverty and hardships-Tells Sophie sarcastically that she’d rather work to build a decent roof over their heads than dream of opening boutiques.

-Portly, coarse, heavy breathing man – his life was as humble as the minced pie he was pushing down his mouth. His face grubby and sweaty after a day’s hard work, his sitting around in a vest, all sum up the story of his life

-Resented Sophie’s flights of fantasy, showed open disdain for her stories like meeting Danny Casey and warns her that her wild stories would get her into deep trouble

-A typically protective father, he forbade Sophie from going out with Geoff as she was too young

-led a common life - watched television, on weekends went to football matches and then cycled to the pub.  There is no place for dreams in his mundane life.

Why did Sophie like her brother Geoff?

-Geoff  was gullible and believed her – he was always the first one she confided in. To impress him and share an exclusive friendship with him, she tells him that she had met Danny Casey.

- Found his good looks appealing in a family where others were so coarse and romanticized his silence- wished he would share his secrets with her.  He worked at the other end of the town – it made her fantasize about it as it was unknown to her

- imagined it to be an exotic world and longed to be part of it

-Only a few years older-she felt he understood her. This was important as her father’s scathing criticism and Jansie’s mundane advice was distasteful

-He became an integral part of her fantasies- saw herself riding behind him, wearing a yellow dress with a cape and him in his shining black leather – the world rising to greet them with applause.

How does the story bring out the social status of the family?

-Lower middle class background- drudgery of earning a living kept all dreams at bay

- Jansie tells Sophie that they were fated to work in a biscuit factory and that her dreams of exotic jobs were out of their reach

-Did not have a decent roof over their heads – the small room was untidy and steamy, shoes and things were strewn around and washing lay in a corner

-Sophie’s mother, worn and tired, bent over piles of dishes in the kitchen sink- presents a picture of a woman burdened with chores in a household running on meager income

-her father sweaty and grimy after the day’s work, sitting in his vest and eating a poor man’s mince pie was coarse and disgruntled

-Geoff in his shapeless jacket was only an apprentice mechanic at a garage

-Sophie’s father rode a cycle and the family went to football matches in a bus – clearly depicting their lower middle-class status.

Sophie’s dreams and disappointments are all in the mind.

-Sophie-a romantic adolescent was given to fantasizing. Her dream of owning a boutique, her meeting with Danny Casey and Geoff’s exotic world were her wishful thinking to escape the grim reality of her lower middle class existence she hated.

-hero worshipped her brother because he was good looking and out of school and longed to be part of his world.  He was only an apprentice mechanic who worked at the other end of the town which she did not know about. She imagined it to be glamorous and dreamt of riding behind him wearing a yellow frock with a cape flying behind and him in shiny leather, people rising to welcome them as celebrities.

-imagined a meeting with the football star Danny Casey outside Royce’s. She had only seen him at the matches but convinced Geoff with details about Danny’s appearance and impressed Geoff by telling him that he had asked her for a date

-such was her passionate belief in her fantasies that she actually went to meet Danny at the romantic canal, hoping he would really come. She even imagined that he was coming and then told herself how disappointed she was. She realized no one would believe her, but an incorrigible romantic, she continued to dream.