NEWS ITEM 03

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Definition

News item text is a text which informs readers about events are considered newsworthy or important


Purpose of news item

News item test is used to inform readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important


Generic structure

  1.         Main events / newsworthy event(s): it recounts the event in summary form
  2.          Elaboration / background event (s)
  3.          Resource of information (source)

Language feature

  • Focusingon circumstances
  • Usin saying verbs “…”, she said, informed, told, reported
  • Sometimes at the beginning of news, the scene is mentioned : Jakarta-… …/London-/Bogor-
  • Using past tenses in explaining news events
  • Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline
  • Using adverbs: time, place and manner
  • Uses of material processes to retell the event

Remember how to understand news

  1. What’s happening? It is about a person, a thing, or an event
  2. Who is involved? People who get involved as a doer/doers, as a witness/ess
  3. Where is this happening? That place
  4. When is it happening? The day and date
  5. Why is it happening? It is about a process, a reason, cause, and effect

Exercise :


The Surabaya Police have arrested a man, identified only as MN, for allegedly buying an infant via Instagram. 

MN was arrested at his house on Jl. Karah in Jambangan district in Surabaya, East Java, on Sunday. He was found to have paid some Rp 3.8 million (US$250) for a baby boy when he was only three days olD.

Surabaya police chief Sr. Comr. Rudi Setiawan said recently that the transaction was conducted in Semarang, Central Java, on Sept. 23. The baby’s parents live in Tangerang in Banten.

“The baby is now safe with the Surabaya administration,” Rudi said on Monday (The Jakarta Post, Tue, October 16, 2018)


1. What is the purpose of the text?

A. To inform readers about arrested man for buying an infant

B. To describe the important person for readers

C. To argue that arresting the man is important

D. To explain how police arrested the man

E. To convince reader that buying infant is illegal


2. What is the generic structure of the text above?

A. Orientation – Complication – Reorientation

B. Orientation – Series of event – Reorientation

C. Stating thesis – Arguments – Reiteration

D. Goal – Equipments – Steps

E. Newsworthy event – Background events – Sources


3. “MN was arrested at his house…” The underlined word refers to a house belongs to…….

A. The police officer

B. The arrested man

C. The infant parent

D. A Surabaya administration officer

E. A Semarang administration officer


(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.


4.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


5.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


Test Result 





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