NEWS ITEM PART 1-3

Nuno Bintang Raihan 

X II IPS 2

Absen : 25

What Is The News Item?

News Item Text is a type of writing that provides up-to-date information about events that are important to report. 

Social Function

News Item Text aims to provide information to readers or listeners.  Usually, News Item Text provides information that is the most recent event.

Text Structure :

• Headline : Is a title of the news

• Newsworthy event : Tells the event in a 

summary form

• Background : Ellaborate what happened,

tell what caused the incident

• Sources : Comments by participants, witnesses, authorities, and experts involved in the event.

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Read aloud and practice it

KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. I'm Kate Bolduan. Thanks so much for joining us this hour.

It seems crystal clear now that when it comes to the coronavirus, you cannot have your cake and eat it, too. You can't, on one hand, not do the hard work, not dramatically change behavior, not wait until the science-driven guideposts have been met and then still expect to have nice things.

And by nice things, I really only mean getting back to something that looks like normal. 

It's clear you can't just beat this virus by hoping for the best.

Take a look at the process of reopening schools and universities. In multiple places 

around the country, COVID outbreaks are forcing school officials to reverse course and suspend in-person learning.

The latest and most glaring example, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, which announced that it is no longer holding in-person classes for undergrads after about 130 students tested positive for COVID in the first week

*NEWS ITEM PART 2*

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

LANGUAGE FEATURES OF NEWS ITEM

Focusing on circumstances 

Using material process

Using action verbs 

Using saying vers 

Using adverb of time, adverb of place, adverb of manner

Using Present perfect tense, Past Tense, and Future Tense.

*NEWS ITEM PART 3*

News Item Text is a type of writing that provides up-to-date information about events that are important to report. 

News Item Text aims to provide information to readers or listeners.  Usually, News Item Text provides information that is the most recent event. in the news text, there is a general structure, text structure, and language features