NEWS ITEM &

TAG QUESTION

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DEFINITION ABOUT NEWS ITEM

A news item is a piece of writing about an important

event or situation that takes place/ happens on the day.

Purpose of News Item

To inform readers, listeners, viewers, about the news or

event of the day and which are confident news worthy for

important

Generic Structure• 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

Characteristic Language of News Item

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.

Language Features of News Item

• 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.

Example News item

Cat Saved Boy From Dog’s Attack

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.

TRANSLATESeorang 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.

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

• Past Continuous

Example : He was riding his bike on the pavement outside

I/He/She/It + Was + Verb + Ing

• Simple past

Example :a) A Four-year-old boy cuddled up to his catb) It happened in Bakersfield, California c) his cat leapt into action and hurled itself straight at the dogd)the boy nodded his head

S+ V2 + O

• Past perfect

Example : the dog had nine days left in quarantine

S + had + V3+ O

Analysis of generic structure 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.

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”.

• Source: Police said that the dog had nine days

left in quarantine before it would be put down after the attack.

Tag-Questionsor

Question TagsStatement Sentences with short

questions at the end with a question mark

Tag-Questions• 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.

ExamplePossitive 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?

• 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: Close the window,will you?4. We use an affirmative tag aftre a sentence

containing a begative word such as never,hardly,nobody. Example :You hardly study 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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