News item part 3

News item Part 3

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Hello everyone my name is Lutfi and today i will explain you about news item part 3, let's start it❣

💗Summary

📝 Definition of News Item

News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important. It means if there is an important event that should be known by many people, then this event deserves news. Well, the news text is called the news item text. However, if there are events that people do not deserve, then they are not definitely worth to be news.

📝 Generic Structure of News Item

There are three important things in news item text:

➡️ 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 of News Item

News Item Text is used to inform readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.

👉To inform the readers about newsworthy or important events of the day

👉 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.

📝 Direct and Indirect speech

👉In general, the meaning of direct and indirect speech is direct and indirect speech. Sentence direct speech is a direct sentence or quote directly a statement from someone. Meanwhile, indirect sentences are sentences that are not direct or paraphrase of someone's direct sentence.

👉Another thing that must be considered is the rules of direct and indirect speech. One of them is the change of tenses used. Here are some tenses in direct and indirect English sentences:

👉Direct Speech → Indirect Speech

➡️Present Simple → Past Simple

➡️Present Continuous → Past Continuous

➡️Present Perfect → Past Perfect

➡️Present Perfect Continuous →Past ➡️Perfect Continuous

➡️Past Simple → Past Perfect

➡️Past Continuous → Perfect Continuous

👉 Exercise

👉Generic stucture
1. Newsworthy event: Information on what happened, who experienced, where and when it happened
The crew of the Sinar Kudus cargo ship were finally freed by Somali pirates on Sunday
2. Background events: Several events proceeded and followed the main event stated in the first paragraph
a. Pirates received the cash of $4.5 million early this morning to free the sailor
b. In March, a large group of 30 to 50 Somali pirates seized the Indonesian flagged and owned ship
3. Sources: Statement from witness, participant, or authorized persons.
David Batubara said that the ship waon its way to the nearest secure port and was being heavily guarded by Indonesian warships.

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