News Item Text

Grade 12
SMA Budi Utama
 What is news item?

- News Item is a text which informs readers about the

events of the day.

- Its main function or communicative purpose is to inform

readers or listener or viewers about events of that day that
are considered newsworthy or important.
 News Items’ elements are as follows:

Title/Headline Background of event

01 The main point to report in 03 The explanation about what
reduced clause had happened

Summary Source
02 The summary/main event to be 04 Someone about the event
reported
Structure of News Item 01

02

Title 03

04
Newsworthy Event
05
Elaboration/Background of Event
06
Source of information

Check the answers

 Language Features

Using action verbs Using passive sentence

01 Ex: hit, crash 03 The explanation about what
had happened

Using saying verbs Using adverbs

02 Ex: said, stated 04 Of time, place, manners

05 Focusing on circumstances
Brief, clear
 Tips of Reporting

 What  what happened exactly?

 Who  Who are people involved?
 When  When did the event take place?
 Where  Where did the event take place?
 Why  Why did it happen? (the reasons)
 Protecting Sumatra's Forests &
Ecosystems
The Indonesia government and world wild fund (WWF) have announced a
bold commitment to protect the remaining forest and critical ecosystem of Sumatra. 

WWF said the historic agreement represented the first-ever island- wide
commitment to protect Sumatra’s stunning biodiversity.

The commitment was announced Thursday at the International Union for

Conservation of Nature (IUCN), world Conversation Congress in Barcelona and
was endorsed by the governors of Sumatra’s 10 provinces- the world’s sixth-largest
island- and also by four ministers. 
 Protecting Sumatra's Forests &
Ecosystems
Sumatra is the only place in the world where tigers, elephants, orangutans and
rhinos co-exist. 

The agreement commits all the governors in Sumatra, along with the
Indonesia ministries of forestry, environment, home affairs and public works, to
restore critical ecosystems in Sumatra and protect areas whit high conservation
values. 
 Protecting Sumatra's Forests &
Ecosystems
WWF, Conservation International, Fauna and Flora International, Wildlife
Conservation Society and other conservation groups working in Sumatra have
agreed to help implement the political commitment to protect what remains of the
island is species-rich forests and critical areas. The island has lost 48 percent of its
natural forest cover since 1985. 

More than 13 percent of Sumatra’s remaining forests are peat forests, which sit
a top the deepest peat soil in the world; clearing peat forests is a major source of
carbon emissions that cause climate change.