News Item

News items adalah teks yang bertujuan untuk memberikan informasi berita terbaru/ harian kepada masyarakat umum.

Pembahasan

Goal/ Social function: To give daily information or news.

Generic Structure dari News Item adalah:

1. Main Event: Bagian ini juga biasa disebut sebagai newsworthy event, berisi tentang ringkasan berita dan kejadian inti dalam berita.

2. Background event: Berisi tentang latar belakang kejadian, siapa saja yang terlibat, dan juga lokasi dimana kejadian tersebut terjadi.

3. Source: Berisi tentang komentar, saksi kejadian, pendapat ahli dan sebagainya mengenai kejadian yang terjadi.

Language Features dari News Item:

1. Memiliki headlines

2. Fokus terhadap satu kejadian

3. Menggunakan saying verb secara dominan

4. Menggunakan action verb

5. Menggunakan material process.

Contoh News Item:

Torrential rains accompanied by strong winds destroyed dozens of homes. People who are living in a village in Jember, East Java did not believe that their homes were destroyed because of a tornado.  

As shown in IndoTV Afternoon News, Thursday (20/03/2014), when the incident took place, the people overloaded by fleeing. “The wind was so strong we all ran out of the house because the roof and tiles scattered,” said a villager. The residents whose houses broken have to evacuate to a neighbor’s house whose house survived from tornado. The incident resulted loss up to tens of millions dollars.  

Meanwhile, a tornado knocked down power lines and a number of trees in Denpasar Street, Gilimanuk, Bali. As a result, electricity and telephone were disconnected. Strong winds also destroyed a temple there. “The strong winds knocked down the fences outside and flew roof’s temple,” said one of residents.  

According to BMKG Region III Denpasar, Bali, The strong winds that occurred in Bali called gusty wind which has speed 34 knots per hour.

Pelajari Lebih Lanjut

1. yomemimo.com/tugas/5905085

Detil Jawaban

Kelas: SMA

Mapel: B Inggris

Kategori: Genre Text

Kata kunci: News Item