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GRADE XII
SMAN 4 KEPAHIANG
2019
 KOMPETENSI DASAR
3.4 Membedakan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan
beberapa teks news item lisan dan tulis dengan memberi dan meminta
informasi terkait berita sederhana dari koran/radio/TV, sesuai dengan
konteks penggunaannya

4.4 Menangkap makna secara kontekstual terkait fungsi sosial, struktur teks,
dan unsur kebahasaan teks news items lisan dan tulis, dalam bentuk
berita sederhana koran/radio/TV
 VOCABULARIES
Uncovered =
Evidence =
Contaminated =
Witnessed =
Spread =
Involved =
Secrecy =
The worst =
 Social Function:
To inform readers, listeners or viewers about events of the day are considered newsworthy or important

Town ‘Contaminated’
Newsworthy
Moscow - A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of
Event another Soviet nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10
sailors and contaminated an entire town.
Background
Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to
Event people who witnessed the explosion a nuclear submarine
at the naval base of Shkotovo-22 near Vladivostoc.
The accident, which occurred 13 month before the
Chernobyl disaster, spread radio active fall-out over the
base and nearby town, but was covered up by officials of
the then Soviet union. Residents were told the explosion
in the reactor of the Victor-class submarine during a
refit had been a ‘thermal’ and not a nuclear explosion.
And those involved in the clean-up operation to remove
more than 600 tons of contaminated material were sworn
Sources to secrecy.
A board of investigators was latter to describe it as the
worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.
Significant Grammatical Features:
 Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline.
 Use of Material Processes to retell the event
 Use of projecting Verbal Processes in sources stage.
 Focus on Circumstances