NEWS ITEM
·
Purpose
To inform the readers, listeners or
viewers about event of the day which are considered new worty or important.
·
Generic structure :
1. Newsworthy
event
Tells what happened, who/ what involved,
where, and when it happened.
2. Background
event
Tells the events in chronological order.
3. Source
Comments by participants by the
witnesses or authority experts on the events.
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Language Features
a. Action
verbs
ex: record, raise, infect, etc.
b. Adjectives
ex: fatal, strained, etc.
c. Connectors
Ex: after, before, etc.
d. Pronouns
Ex: it, they, she, he, etc.
e. Adverbs
Ex: slowly, immensely, etc.
f. Present
tense
Ex: Indonesia has recorded another human
case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu.
g. Past
tense
Ex: The Indonesian Health Ministry had
reported.
h. The
use of the journalist’s 5W (what, where, when, who, why)
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Example :
JAKARTA: Seven people were killed in a collision
between a bus, a car and a truck on Dipenogoro street at 10:35 p.m.
last night. The dead were all the passengers of the car.
The police believed the car had been trying to
overtake the bus when it was struck by a truck coming from the opposite
direction. The driver of the car might not be using his lights, as the truck
driver said he did not see the car approaching.
The police said the car should not have tried to pass
the bus, since overtaking is not allowed on Dipenogoro street. In
addition, the police report that the car, a small Japanese car, should not have
been carrying more than five people. If the passengers had brought their identity
cards, the police would have identified the names of the victim easily.
1. The text
mainly reports that there was/were…
a.
A car accident
b. Careless
driver
c. A small
Japanese car
d. Victim of an
accident
e. The function
of an identity card
2.
What was the cause of the collision?
a. The truck
came from the opposite direction
b. The car
carried more than five people
c. The truck
driver didn’t use his lights
d. The truck
driver didn’t see the car
e.
The car tried to overtake the bus
3.
“If the passengers had brought their identity cards, the
police would have been easy to identify the names of the victims.” (The last
sentence)
The sentence above means…
a.
The victims’ names were not known
b. The victims
were easy to be identify
c. The
passengers brought their identity cars
d. The police
had no difficulty in identifying the victim the victims
e. It was easy
for the police to identify the victims of the accidents
4.
Who said that the accident was caused by the car?
a.
The police
b. The victims
c. The reporter
d. The truck
driver
e. The
passengers
5.
Seven people were killed in a collision between
a bus…(paragraph 1 line 2)
What is the synonym of the underlined word?
a. Sufferer
b.
Crash
c. Recognize
d. Scene
e. Feeble
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