News Item

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Material 2 

News Item

Materi dan Soal Latihan News Item Text dalam Bahasa Inggris ...

    Definition of News Item

  • News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important.

    Generic Structure of News Item

  • Main Events / Newsworthy event(s): it recounts the event in summary form.
  • Elaboration / Background event(s): they elaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumstance
  • Resource of Information (Source) : it contains comments by participants in, witnesses to and authorities expert on the event

Purpose 

  • News Item Text is used to inform readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important or
  • To present information the readers about newsworthy or important events of the day

Language Feature of News Item

  • Focusing on circumstances (using a simple language in writing the text)
  • Using saying verbs: “….”, She said, informed, told, reported.
  • Sometimes at the beginning of news, the scene is mentioned : Jakarta – … Kuala Lumpur – …
  • Using Past tense in explaining news events. But if it is a fact that until now still happen or still in the form of fact, then can use simple present tense.
  • Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline
  • Using adverbs: time, place and manner.
  • Uses of material processes to retell the event

source : http://britishcourse.com/news-items-text-definition-generic-structures-purposes-language-features.php

Task 2
a. Click this link https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/deadly-hurricane-dorian-hits-bahamas-and-stays/5068233.html and listen it!
b. Please record your performance in reading simple news item and let me know your performance by sending it into my gmail karimahkurniadi@gmail.com

scoring rubric: https://idoc.pub/documents/scoring-rubric-for-speaking-test-6nq8ovx06qnw



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