NEWS ITEM

Purpose To inform readers, listeners, or viewers about event of the day which are considered newsworthy or important

Text Organization

~ Newsworthy events
Tell the event in a summary form)

~ Background events
(Elaborates what happened, explains what caused the incident)

~ Sources
(Comment by participants, witnesses, authorities, and experts Involved in the event)

Language Features

~Information on the use of headlines

~The use of action verbs
(Abash, abdicate, abduct, abolish,
Abuse, accelerate, accommodate, accompany,
Accomplish, adjust, adopt, advertise,
Allot, alter, amplify, analyze,
Appear, apply, arrange, avoid, bandage, banish, beg,
Blast, boycott, block, calculate,
Capture, carry, celebrate, change, charter, cheat, check,
Chew, circuit, circulate, climb, classify, close, complete,
Compile, conceal, conduct, connect, cook, copy, count,
Cry, damage, dance, decay, decorate,
Defend, defer, delete, deliver, deposit, describe, design, destroy,
Denote, detonate, develop, dictate, digest, direct, disturb,
Divide, dry, duplicate, earn, empty, enjoy, erase, escape,
Estimate, evaluate, examine, exhibit, expand, explain, export,
Face, filter, fix, fold, formulate, free, frolic, fry, glow,
Guide, handle, haze, help, hijack, ignore,
Import, improve, instruct, invent, invest, invite,
Jog, jumble, jump, kick, kidnap, kill, kiss, knock, label, land,
Launch, legalize, lessen, lift, limit, localize, lock, mail,
Maintain, mange, mix, nap, neglect,
Number, obey, observe, occur, offer, open, operate,orbit,
Pacify, paint, panic, pass, peep, perform, phone, photocopy,
Picnic, play, postpone, prepare, present, print, process, propel,
Provide, pull, push, quake, qualify, quarrel,
Quiz, quote, raid, rebel, refresh, repair, report, receive,
Review, rob, rub, sabotage, sail, satisfy, ship, smoke, spray,
Stabilizer, stop, supply, tackle, telephone, thicken, thin, tie, train,
Travel, type, underline, update, urge, urinate, use, vend, ventilate,
Veto, vie, wait, walk, wash, waste, watch, whip, whisper, whistle,
Worry, yell, yield, zigzag, zip, zipper, zoom.

~The use of saying verbs
Asked, abridged, admire, adored, advised, answered, apologized,
Criticize, estimated, insisted, replied
Televised, bespoke, bade, forbade, retold, said, spelt, swore
Told, added, claimed, gainsaid, spoke, spat

~The use of passive sentences
(An elephant was killed by the hunter,
I am hit by him,
I was called by her,
We will be given money by them,
Our invitation would be presented by our teacher
The house can be painted by me,
My secret has been kept by them,
Many sheets of paper had been folded by me,
Her mother is being praying by her,
The house was being painting by them,
My motorcar was stolen,
A new pen is given to me by him,
I am taught English by Mr. Abraham,
English is spoken by people all over the word,
I am not come by my friends,
He is being asked by his teacher,
They are not being ordered,
The homework has been finished by the student,
They have been sent in America for two years,
He has been caught by the police,
The report has not been reported yet,
The pencil was bought yesterday,
They were punished by the teacher for coming late,
This dress was washed yesterday morning,
We were not permitted to go home,
The books were not being read when he passed away,
The house will has been built for two years by him,
The car will has been sold by the day after tomorrow,
I will be divorced by my husband,
He will not be accepted in that firm)

~The use of adverbs in passive sentences
(Indonesia is claimed badly by another country,
The tasks from his teacher is worked hardly by him,
The system management of provider is run neatly –
by administrator every time,
He is pulled by me abruptly into the room and closed the door –
beside the wall,
Prostitution that make image dirtily should be banned,
Mr. Tono’s sigh has been clearly by spectacles,
The UNGU‘s launched successfully by good performance,
She is not accepted well by her darling )