Identifications of News Item tex
Social function of news item
o To inform readers or listenersabout eventsof the day which are considered newsworthy or importand
Generic structure of news item
o Newsworthy event(tells the main event in a summary form)
o Background event/ elaboration(elaborate what heppened, tell what caused the incident,if can be a background, participant, time, and place relating to the news)
o Sources ( comments by participants, witnesses, authorities and experts involved the event)
Language feature of news item
o Information on the use of head lines
o Use of action verbs (hit, attack)
o Use of saying verbs (aid, added, claimed)
o Use of passive sentences
o Use of adverbs in passive sentences
Title → Landslide kills 10 in Indonesia
Newsworthy event → Heavy rains sent rocks and other materials down a foot cliff in Malang district in east Java island. Police Capt. Prayitno said nine men died instantly while they were gathering firewood near a river Sunday.
Backgroound events → The disasters come in part because of logging and slash-and-burn farming have destroyed many native forests that used to prevent erosion. Tropical Indonesia is particularly prone to landslides and flooding
Sources → Police say a landslide on indonesia’s island main island killed 10 poeple over the weekend.he monday that the 10th victim died in a hospital later.
Vocab text:
Victim → korban
Flooding → banjir
Landslide → tanah longsor
Particularly → khususnya
Destroyed → memusnahkan
Pevent → mencegah
Gathering → mengumpulkan
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