March 22nd is World Water Day. The school Dramatics Club is planning to stage a one-act play to mark the occasion and create awareness. Write a notice to be put up on the school notice board, giving details of the event.
Topic: Notice writing
Answer
MODEL ANSWER
============================================ ST. XAVIER’S HIGH SCHOOL, KOLKATA ============================================
NOTICE
10 March 2022
ONE-ACT PLAY ON WORLD WATER DAY
The Dramatics Club will stage a one-act play to mark World Water Day on Tuesday, 22 March 2022, in the school Auditorium from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Students of Classes VI to XII may note the following:
- The play highlights the waste of water in homes and schools and the habits that prevent it.
- An interactive session with the cast will follow the performance.
- Attendance is open to all; students should be seated by 10:50 a.m.
- Those wishing to help with properties may give their names to the undersigned by 18 March 2022.
Ananya Sen Secretary, Dramatics Club ============================================
WHAT THIS QUESTION SPECIFICALLY REQUIRES
The five Ws must all be answerable: WHAT (a one-act play for World Water Day), WHEN (22 March, with a time), WHERE, WHO may attend, and HOW to respond.
The DATE IS GIVEN in the question — 22 March — so use it. Inventing a different date for World Water Day would be a factual error the examiner will notice.
The question says the play is to "create awareness", so one line about the theme belongs in the body. A notice that announces a play without saying what it is about has missed the purpose stated in the question.
Note the DESIGNATION here: the event belongs to the Dramatics Club, so signing as its Secretary is more appropriate than as Head Girl. Match the office to the event. FORMAT AND MARKS DIVISION: see the Notice and E-mail references in the Writing Formats & Marking (Reference) chapter.
USE THIS AS A MODEL, NOT AS AN ANSWER TO MEMORISE. The question asks for an ORIGINAL composition, and every year examiners identify scripts reproduced from guide books; a memorised answer can be penalised for plagiarism and will in any case read as borrowed. Study this piece for its STRUCTURE — how it opens, how the paragraphs are ordered, where the required tasks are answered, how it ends — and then write your own, about your own school, your own family, your own town. Your own specific detail is worth more marks than anyone else’s polished sentence.