Fairuz Su’da (09) XII IPA 2 Social Function of News Item
To inform readers or listeners about
events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important. Generic Structure of News Item 1. Newsworthy event ( tells the main event in a summary form) 2. Background events/Elaboration (elaborate what happened, tell what caused the incident. It can be a background, participant, time, and place relating to the news) 3. Sources (comments by participants, witnesses, authorities and experts involved in the event) Language Features of News Item: 1. Information on the use of head lines. 2. Use of action verbs (hit, attack) 3. Use of saying verbs (said, added, claimed) 4. Use of passive sentences ( Aceh was hit by Tsunami in 2004) 5. Use of adverbs in passive sentences (The victims were badly injured) Read the following News ! Title ← Supreme Court rejects Dicky’s appeal
Newsworthy JAKARTA: The Supreme Court has upheld
Event ← the 2006 graft conviction of Dicky Iskandar Di Nata,
the former president director of PT Brocolin International Dicky was found guilty by the South Jakarta Distric Court Background of misusing Rp 1.9 trillion in funds from Bank BNI, which Event ← he claimed was a “grant from an Israeli investor”. The court sentenced him to 20 years in prison
“We have rejected Dicky’s appeal. Therefore, he
must serve his 20- years prison and pay a fine 0f Source ← Rp 500 million ( US $ 55,000),” presiding justice Artidjo Alkostar was quoted by Detic.com news portal as saying Thursday- JP Main Tenses
From the above example of news
item text, we see most sentences are composed in pattern of PAST TENSE. The usage of past tense is as logical consequency as it tells the thing which happens in the past. Answer the questions based on the text !
1. What is the main idea of paragraph 1 ?
2. What is the main idea of the last paragraph ? 3. Why was Dicky sentenced 20 years in prison ? 4. How much money must Dicky pay a fine ? 5. What does the word ‘we’ par 4 refers to ? s fo r h a nk T your !! n ti o n atte