A news item is a piece of writing about an important event or situation that takes place/ happens on the day.

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2. A news item is a piece of writing about an
important event or situation that takes place/
happens on the day.

3. To inform readers, listeners, viewers, about the
news or event of the day and which are confident
news worthy for important

4. • Part of text which tells readers about the main
idea or the main topic of the text.
• It is about the country/ city/ place where the
events took place. Then, the information on the
who, when and the actual location of the events is
presented.
Newsworthy
Event
• Part of text which tells readers about the
background of the event. It consists of the event’s
place, time, people, etc.
• This part is the body of the news item which tells
in chronological order the events that took place.
Background
Event
• Part of text which tells readers about the experts’
or witnesses’ comments of the event.
• Where the journalist or reporter the news get
from
Source

5.  Entangling verbs verbal or vb. which in the form of forwarding of
information like: said, informed, told, reported, and others.
 Because using verbs verbal, hence almost entire/all article of news
item there are direct sentence marked [by] quotation mark or
appostrof (“ bla, bla, bla..“)
 Time And Place : In writing of news usually there are clarification
of[is date of or venue and day happened.
 Using Past tense in explaining occurence of news. But if that in the
form of fact which hitherto still happened or still in the form of
fact, hence can use tense present simple.

6. • Information on the use of headlines.
• The use of action verb.
(e.g.: hit, attack, and went)
• The use of saying verb.
(e.g.: said, added, and claimed)
• The use of passive sentence.
(e.g.: Japan was bit by Tsunami in 2011)
• The use of adverb in passive sentence.

7. ExampleNews item
Cat Saved Boy From Dog’s
Attack

8. Cat Saved Boy From Dog’s Attack
A Four-year-old boy cuddled up to his cat, thanked to it and said the cat
was his hero. It happened in Bakersfield, California after hew as save by his cat from
attacks of a dog.
The boy is Jeremy Triantafilo. He was riding his bike on the pavement
outside and suddenly was attacked by a neigbour’s dog. He was caught in the jaws of
the dog. Fortunately his cat leapt into action and hurled itself straight at the dog. The
dog was startled and run away.
After the incident, the boy has been spending his time with the cat. He has
been proud of the cat. When he was asked whether the dog is the best one, the boy
nodded his head and said; “She’s my hero”.
Police said that the dog had nine days left in quarantine before it would be
put down after the attack.

9. TRANSLATE
Seorang anak empat tahun meringkuk untuk kucingnya,
mengucapkan terima kasih untuk itu dan mengatakan kucing
itu pahlawannya. Itu terjadi di Bakersfield, California setelah
menebang sebagai menyimpan dengan kucingnya dari
serangan anjing.
Anak itu adalah Jeremy Triantafilo. Dia mengendarai
sepedanya di trotoar di luar dan tiba-tiba diserang oleh anjing
neigbour itu. Dia ditangkap di rahang anjing. Untungnya
kucingnya melompat ke dalam tindakan dan melemparkan
dirinya langsung di anjing. Anjing itu terkejut dan lari.
Setelah kejadian itu, anak itu telah menghabiskan
waktu dengan kucing. Dia telah bangga kucing. Ketika ia
ditanya apakah anjing adalah yang terbaik, anak itu
menganggukkan kepalanya dan berkata; "Dia pahlawan saya".
Polisi mengatakan bahwa anjing memiliki sembilan
hari yang tersisa di karantina sebelum itu akan diletakkan
setelah serangan.

10. ANALYSIS TENSES OF CAT SAVED BOY
FROM DOG’S ATTACK
• Present Perfect Continuous
Example : After the incident, the boy has
been spending his time with the cat
He/She/It + Has + Been + Verb + Ing

11. • Past Continuous
Example : He was riding his bike on the
pavement outside
I/He/She/It + Was + Verb + Ing

12. • Simple past
Example :
a) A Four-year-old boy cuddled up to his
cat
b) It happened in Bakersfield, California
c) his cat leapt into action and hurled itself
straight at the dog
d)the boy nodded his head
S+ V2 + O

13. • Past perfect
Example : the dog had nine days left in
quarantine
S + had + V3+ O

14. Newsworthy Event:
A Four-year-old boy cuddled up to his cat,
thanked to it and said the the cat was his hero. It
happened in Bakersfield, California after hew as
save by his cat from attacks of a dog.

15. Background Event
• Background Event 1: He was caught in the jaws of the dog.
Fortunately his cat leapt into action and hurled itself straight at the
dog. The dog was startled and run away.
• Background Event 2 :When he was asked whether the dog is the
best one, the boy nodded his head and said; “She’s my hero”.

16. • Source:
Police said that the dog had nine days
left in quarantine before it would be put
down after the attack.

18. Tag-Questions
or
Question Tags
Statement Sentences with short questions at the end with a
question mark

19. • A ‘tag-question’ or ‘question tag’ is not a true question.
• A tag question is used at the end of a Statement Sentence to get
the confirmation from the listener, or just to express one’s doubt.
• A question sentence, on the contrary, is used to get the answer.

22. Possitive Statement,Negative Tag Negative Statement,Positive Tag
Simple Present You go to school,don’t you? You don’t go to school,do you?
Present Continous Danang is playing football,isn’t
he?
Danang isn’t playing football,is
he?
Simple Past He came yesterday,didn’t he? He didn’t come yesterday,did he?
Present Perfect Dina has read novel,hasn’t she? Dina hasn’t read novel,has she?
Simple Future You will come,won’t you? You won’t come,will you?
Modal You can cast ball,can’t you? You can’t cast ball,can you?

23. • Note :
There are additional rules when using tag question.
1. When the subject is “I” and the statement is possitive and uses the present tense,teh
corect tag is “aren’t I”
Example : I am sweep the floor,aren’t I?
2. When the tag questions are started with lets,the tag is shall we.
Example : Lets start singing,shall we?
3. In the imperative,the tag is wiil you.
Example: Closethe window,willyou?
4. We use an affirmative tag aftre a sentence containing
a begative word such as never,hardly,nobody.
Example :You hardlystudy english,do you?
5. When the subject is somebody,everybody,no one,someone/
everyone,we use they in the tag.
Example: everybody read book in the library,didn’t they?

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