What’s the News Today?

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News Items - Since 1802

Kinds of news

Being a Newsreader

Text Organization of News Items

Language Features of News Items

Newspaper Language

Newspaper Headlines
 Kinds of news
about a formal event performed on
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a special occasion
Ceremonial news Examples: official opening of a
building, seminar, congress,
commemoration, anniversary

about any violation of law, an

Crime news omission of a duty or the
commission of an act forbidden
by laws
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Greet listeners/viewers, mention name- Since
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Opening program and the duration of the program.

Mention where the news comes from and the topic.

Introduction

•Headline/lead: answers the elements of what, where,

News when, and who.
•News feature: tells why and how
•Reminder: gives additional important information

• Ask listeners/viewers to stay tuned on the

Closing station.
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to inform readers,
Function of news listeners, or viewers
item text about events of the day
considered important
and interesting

The opening See page

To make good paragraph informs 140.
news the important
information (5WH-
question)
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recount the event in - Since 1802

Newsworthy a summary
events

elaborate what
Background happened, to whom,
events and in what See page
circumstances 140.

comments by participants
Sources in, witnesses to, and
authorities expert on the
event
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items
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The Past Adverbs Pronouns

Tenses
Verbs

Adjectives
Conjunctions Time
Connectives
Passive
Sentences Attribution
Direct and
Indirect
Speech
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Use the simple past, past continuous, and past perfect to

tell what happened in the news.
Examples:
• They were watching TV when the thief entered their
house.
• She had come earlier before we arrived there.
• The ship sank due to bad weather.

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 Adverbs
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Adverbs of time an
d
er place
Adverbs of mann tell when and where
i n ho w so met h in g the
expla events happened.
happened. Examples:
Examples: •one day
•happily •after the lesson
•joyfully •in the classroom
•slowly •through the green
•fast grass
•quickly See page
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Action verbs
Examples:
•go
Saying verbs
•walk
Examples:
•run •tell
•eat •say
•drive •reply
•kick •answer
See page
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 Adjectives
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To form noun ph
rases
Examples:
Adjectives •a beautiful, su
nny day
•a large, green
field
•a soft, white, s
andy beach

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 conjunctions
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Examples:
Conjunctions to • and
link sentences • but
• so
• because

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 Time connectives
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Examples:
• after that
• meanwhile
• the next morn
Time connectives ing
• then
• finally
 pronouns
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Examples:
• he
• she
• they
• them
• his
• her
 THE Passive
sentences
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To emphasize the
action

Examples:
The three victims were
found by SAR team.
The whole village was swept
away by the Tsunami.
 Direct and indirect speech

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To add comment
from victims,
participants, witn
esses, or
authorities expert
on the event
Examples:
“The victims were taken to
hospital for intensive care”, said
the police. (direct speech)
The meteorologist said that there
were no victims during the
tremor. (indirect speech)
 Attribution
Informs the sourc
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paraphrased statement is

Examples:
“We have to support this program to help Yogyakarta be an
environmentally friendly city,” Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan
Hamengkubuwono X said.

Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X supports the

environmentally friendly bike-to-work and bike-to-school program.
“We have to support this program to help Yogyakarta be an
environmentally friendly city,” Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X said.
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fe rs s h o rt an d d is ti nc ti v e
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words.

Take a look at these examples:

Newspaper words Meaning

back support
boost encourage
graft corruption
hit attack badly
 Newspaper Headlines
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 Printed in large letters to catch the readers’ eye.

 Use as few words as possible (phrase headlines)

 Articles (a, an, the) and auxiliary verbs (is, are,

was, were, may, must, can, etc) are omitted.
• National Disaster mitigation Agency (BNPB)
spokesman Sutopo said on Sunday that it
had been raining when the iruption had taken
place, so not many tourists had been visiting
the area. He said that there had been no
casualties of the eruption.
• Sutopo said that people could attend to their
activities normally, there was no call for panic
or evacuation. He said that the Dieng Plateau
also remained open to the public.
1. Sutopo said that it had been raining
when the eruption took place,so not
many tourist were visiting the are.there
were no casualties of the eruption
2. Sutopo said that people could attend to
their activities normally, there is no call
for panic or evacuation. The dieng
plateau also remains open to the public