News Item Text is a type of text that provides up-to-date information about events that are important to you. News Item Text aims to provide information to readers or listeners. Usually, News Item Text provides information that is the latest event.
• The Characteristics of News Item Text
News Item Text features The characteristics of this text are as follows:
• The language used is short but concise and focuses on an event
• This text also includes the main information in the title of the text (headline).
•Usually use verbs to indicate activities (action verbs) such as push, hit, jump, crash, and so on.
• The tenses commonly used in this text are Past Tenses because the events being told have already happened. However, it is possible to be able to
• use the Present Tense.
•This text also uses saying verbs such as said, stated, reported, and so on.
• General Structure of News Item
• Main Event/Newsworthy Event: is the main story, the part that tells a summary of an important event or event that occurred.
• Background Event/Elaboration: tells in detail the background of events or events that occurred, who was involved, where and how the events occurred.
• Source: the last part of the news item text structure, is a news source that can be in the form of statements from sources, witness comments, expert opinions, or statements from related parties from an event.
EXAMPLE of News Item Text
Nepal rescuers find 3 bodiesnear crashed US Marine
Nepalese rescuers on Friday found three bodies near the wreckage of a U.S. Marine helicopter that disappeared earlier this week while on a relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation, officials said. Nepal’s Defense Secretary Iswori Poudyal gave no details about the nationalities of the victims. The helicopter was carrying six Marines and two Nepalese army soldiers. The wreckage was found near Gothali village in the district of Dolakha. The U.S. Embassy in Nepal had no immediate comment Friday. The discovery of the wreckage, first spotted by a Nepalese army helicopter Friday, followed days of intense search involving U.S. and Nepalese aircraft and even U.S. satellites. The U.S. relief mission was deployed soon after a magnitude-7.8 quake hit April 25, killing more than 8,200 people. It was followed by another magnitude-7.3 quake on Tuesday that killed 117 people and injured 2,800. The second quake was centered between Kathmandu and Mount Everest, and hit hardest in deeply rural parts of the Himalayan foothills, hammering many villages reached only by hiking trails and causing road-blocking landslides.
CONCLUSION
Concluding procedural text is the activity of assembling the main ideas of the conversation from a long description of the text into a coherent and easy-to-understand summary. To be able to conclude the procedure text, it is necessary to read the text and record the information contained in the text.
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