📰 News Item 📰
📌📌Part 3
Hello everyone, back again on my blog. at this meeting I will explain about news item text part 3. In part 3, we conclude the discussion about news item text. let's have a look 😊😊
🌼🌼Definition of News Item Text
In English, "news" means news. Of course this is not foreign to us. Some English experts define news item text as follows:
“News items is a text that informs the readers about newsworthy or important events of the day.”
News item text is a text that informs readers about newsworthy or important daily events. Newsworthy which means worthy to be reported, so not all events / events can be reported. Only important events or events are newsworthy. If the event / incident is not important then it is not worthy to be reported and known to many people.
🌼🌼The purpose of news items text
The purpose of news items text is to inform readers or news listeners about daily events that are newsworthy or important. And the events that are reported are usually the latest events or events.
🌼🌼News Item Text Characteristics
- Brief, information about the story captured in the title
- Using action verbs
- Using the past tense in explaining news events
- Using saying verbs
- Using adverbs: time, place and manner.
🌼🌼Generic Strukture News Item Text
Background Event/Elaboration tells in detail the background of events or events that occurred, who was involved, where and how the events occurred.
- Source
Source, the last part of the news item text structure, sources that provide information related to an event, can be in the form of statements from sources, witness comments, expert opinions, or statements from related parties from an event.
🌼🌼Languange Features Of News Item
- short, telegraphic information about story capturedin headline
- use of material processes/action verbs to retell the story or event
- use of projecting verba; processes in "Source" stage
- using adverb like: badly injured, the most beautiful bride in the world
🌼🌼Tips for writing news items
How to arrange News Item text? Check out the steps in detail below:
- Determine the news to be delivered. Preferably the news that is currently hot or current in the community. The warmer the better.
- Write the main story at the beginning of the manuscript you are going to write. This is useful for keeping the reader focused and wanting to read more.
- Write the contents of the news with 5 W + 1 H. That is, the news is about what, when, where, and why this happened. Write down the process in detail.
- Write down news sources. It could also be through eyewitnesses of the incident. For example, there is a fire disaster in a village, write an interview with one of the residents who saw the beginning of the incident.
- After the news draft is ready, start assembling. Since News Item Text is an English script, you can choose one of these two options. Use Indonesian first and then translate into English, or use English directly.
The final part is editing. Manuscripts that have been made should not be published immediately. Need to re-check. The re-check can focus on spelling, functional sentences, and the content of the news is worthy or not suitable for people to read.
🌼🌼Example of News Item Text
Town Contaminated
Moscow – A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town.
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.
A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.
Generic Structure Analysis Example News Item Text
1. Newsworthy events
A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe
2. Background Events
Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the explosion of a nuclear submarine
The accident spread radioactive fall-out over the base and nearby town
3. Source
A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.
Here's proof of my daily rework on news item text
📌📌Part 4
In part 4, we try to discuss practice questions about news items, let's discuss them together😊😊
News item 1
Patient’s Medication Errors
(Reuters Health) - Half of all heart patients made at least one medication-related mistake after leaving the hospital, and guidance from a pharmacist didn't seem to reduce those errors, in a new study.
Consequences of mistakes - such as forgetting to take certain drugs or taking the wrong dose - can range from side effects like constipation to more serious drops in blood pressure. Two percent of errors were life-threatening.
Hospitals involved in the study were already taking steps to prevent medication mistakes in addition to the extra pharmacist intervention, said Dr. Sunil Kripalani, the study's lead author from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
"We were surprised to see that in spite of these efforts that 50 percent (of patients) were still having these medication errors," he told Reuters Health.
Although the pharmacist visits didn't help the average patient, he added, certain ones seemed to benefit - such as patients who were on multiple drugs or had trouble understanding health information.
As for traditionally lower-risk patients, he said other strategies to prevent errors may be needed.
1. What does the text tell us about?
a. The patient’s medication errors
b. The hospital’s medical treatments
c. The doctor’s medical treatment
d. The uncontrolled medical treatment
e. The pharmacist’s medication mistakes
2. What is the effect of medication errors?
a. Bleeding on heart
b. Health information
c. Problem in healing
d. Life—long time
e. Life –threatening
3. “… and guidance from a pharmacist didn't seem to reduce those errors ….” (part 1)
The underlined word is closest in meaning to ….
a. Improve
b. Upgrade
c. Decrease
d. Degrade
e. Increase
News Item 2
Yogyakarta (JP)- National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia has temporarily diverted its flights intended for Adisucipto Airport in Yogyakarta to Adisumarmo Airport in Surakarta, Central Java, after one of its planes overshot an Adisucipto runway lane on Wednesday night.
“All of Garuda Indonesia flights heading toward Yogyakarta, for a total of 34 flights, now will [be diverted] to Surakarta,” Garuda Indonesia VP of corporate communications Benny S. Butarbutar said in an official statement on Thursday.
The flights include 10 coming from and going to Jakarta, three to and from Denpasar, Bali, two to and from Makassar, South Sulawesi, and one flight from Surabaya, East Java.
The airline would provide a bus at Adisumarmo Airport to transport passengers to YogyakartA.
Garuda Indonesia is still evacuating the Boeing 737-800 NG, which slipped on the runway and overshot a lane on Wednesday night. It carried 123 passengers, none of whom were harmed.
Garuda aims to finish evacuating the aircraft on Thursday afternoon. (bbn) Taken from : thejakartapost.com
4. What is the text about?
A. Redirect flights of Garuda Indonesia from Yogyakarta to Surakarta because of runway accident
B. Slipped plane accident in adisucipto runway lane
C. Evacuation of Garuda Indonesia after its accident
D. Confirmation of Garuda Indonesia VP of corporate communication about overshot accident
E. The delay of Garuda Indonesia after one of its planes overshot an Adisucipto runway lane
5. It can be concluded from the text that ….
A. Adisucipto Airport will be closed after the incident
B. Because of the incident, Garuda Indonesia redirected Yogyakarta flights to Surakarta permanently
C. Garuda Indonesia supplied bus to support passengers from Surakarta to yogyakarta
D. Garuda Indonesia had been finished evacuating its plane when this news was reported
E. There are a lot of passengers were harmed due to that accident
From the conclusion of part 3 and practice questions part 4, friends all of you can see the video material below for more details
In addition to the video above,as for the video that I have made myself, let's have a look
That's the explanation of my blog, hopefully it can be understood and useful for all of us. Thank you to all of you 💚💚🌳🌳
