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1. Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan
Direktorat Jenderal Guru dan Tenaga Kependidikan
News Items Text
Social Function
Generic structure
Language Features
2. Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan
Direktorat Jenderal Guru dan Tenaga Kependidikan
Definition of News Item Text
News items is a text which informs readers
about events of the day. The events are
considered newsworthy or important.
3. Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan
Direktorat Jenderal Guru dan Tenaga Kependidikan
Bahan Bacaan 1
GP DARING BAHASA INGGRIS/PPPPTK BAHASA
Purpose/ Social Function
of News Item Text
To inform readers, listeners or viewers
about events of the day which are
considered newsworthy or important .
4. Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan
Direktorat Jenderal Guru dan Tenaga Kependidikan
Generic structure
• Newsworthy event (recounts the events
in summary form)
• Background event
• Sources (comments by participant in,
witnesses to and authorities expert on
the event)
5. Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan
Direktorat Jenderal Guru dan Tenaga Kependidikan
Language Features of News Items
• Simple past tense. However, the simple
present tense might also be used.
• Reporting verbs.
• Action verbs.
• Adverbs
6. Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan
Direktorat Jenderal Guru dan Tenaga Kependidikan
Untuk lebih jelasnya silakan anda pahami contoh dari identifikasi News Item Text berikut !
Generic
Structure
Teks News Itemss
Newsworthy
events
Moscow – A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear
catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town.
Background
Events
Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the
explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of shkotovo – 22 near
Vladivostock.
Sumber
Informasi
The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster, spread
radioactive fall-out over the base and nearby town, but was covered up by officials
of the Soviet Union. Residents were told the explosion in the reactor of the Victor-
class submarine during a refit had been a „thermal‟ and not a nuclear explosion.
And those involved in the clean up operation to remove more than 600 tones of
contaminated material were sworn to secrecy.
Sources A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history
of the Soviet Navy.