This document provides information about the genre of news reports. It explains that news reports inform readers about newsworthy or important events of the day. They have a generic structure that includes describing the newsworthy event in summary form, providing background details on what happened, and including comments from participants, witnesses, and authorities. The language features of news reports include using headlines, action verbs, saying verbs, passive sentences, past tense, and focusing on circumstantial meanings.

1. GENRE BASED WRITING
Created by.
Risnu Laila A.

2. Inform readers,
listeners, or viewers
about events of the day Social function
which are considered
newsworthy or
important

3. Generic structure
Newsworthy event; tells the event in a
summary form.
Background event; elaborate what
happened, tell what caused the incident.
Sources; comments by participants,
witnesses, authorities, and experts involved in
the event.

4. information on the use of
LANGUAGE
headlines
FEATURE
the use of action verbs
the use of saying verbs
the use of passive
sentences
focus on circumstantial
meanings
the use of past tense

5. title
CAIRO – Archaeologists have unearthed 57 ancient
Egyptian tombs, most of which hold an ornately painted wooden
sarcophagus with a mummy inside, Egypt’s Supreme Council of
Antiquities said Sunday.
The oldest tombs date back to around 2750 B.C., during
the period of Egypt’s first and second dynasties, the council said in
a statement. Twelve of the tombs belong the 18th Dynasty, which
ruled Egypt during the second millennium B.C. The 18th Dynasty
includes such well-known pharaohs as Tutankhamen, Akhenaton and
Queen Hatshepsut.
The discovery throws new light on Egypt’s ancient
religions, the council said.

6. GENRE BASED WRITING