NEWS ITEM TEXT

Definition News item is an article or

short texts that provide the
latest information about
EVENTS /
OCCURRENCES of
everyday NEWSWORTHY
or IMPORTANT where
feasible and important
information to be reported.
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The purpose of news item text is to

inform the readers about newsworthy
or important events of the day.
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Elaborate what witnesses to and authorities
Recounts the event happened, to whom, in expert on the event
in summary form what circumstances
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• Find a recent English news article (from bbc or cnn
only)
• Make a video of how you read the news like a
broadcaster.
• The duration is 1-2 minutes in total
• Give your introductory/opening and closing sentence(s)
• Scoring rubric: pronunciation, fluency, grammar and
duration, performance
• Deadline to submit : ….
• It’s Thursday November 12, 2020. This is the CNN morning
news.
New York has introduced new restrictions aimed at curbing coronavirus, with Mayor Bill de Blasio warning
it was the city's "last chance" to stop a second wave.
Bars, restaurants and gyms must close by 22:00 and people can only meet in groups of 10 or less.
The US is seeing a surge in coronavirus - a record 61,964 Americans were in hospital on Tuesday.
An average of over 900 people a day are now dying with the disease.
More than a million new cases in November pushed the total confirmed cases to over 10 million nationally with
239,732 deaths so far.
The US has been seeing more than 100,000 new cases per day over the last 10 days in what experts say may be a
worse outbreak than those seen in the spring and summer.

• That is the CNN morning news for this Thursday, thanks for
watching, I’m Ayuningtyas, have a great day!
• It’s Thursday November twelfth, twenty twenty. This is the CNN
morning news.
New York has introduced new restrictions aimed at curbing coronavirus // with Mayor Bill de Blasio warning
// it was the city's "last chance" to stop a second wave.//
Bars, restaurants and gyms must close by twenty two o’clock // and people can only meet in groups of ten or less.//
The US is seeing a surge in coronavirus // - a record sixty one thousand and nine hundred sixty four Americans
were in hospital on Tuesday. //
An average of over nine hundreds people a day // are now dying with the disease.//
More than a million new cases in November // pushed the total confirmed cases to over ten million nationally// with
two hundred thirty nine thousand and seven hundred thirty two deaths so far.//
The US has been seeing more than one hundred thousand new cases per day // over the last ten days in what
experts say may be a worse outbreak // than those seen in the spring and summer.//

• That is the CNN morning news for this Thursday, thanks for
watching, I’m Ayuningtyas, have a great day!