News Item Text

NEWS
ITEM

KOMPETENSI DASAR

3.4. Membedakan teks News Item lisan dan tulis terkait berita

sederhana dari koran/radio/TV sesuai konteks

4.4. Menangkap makna teks News Item lisan dan tulis dalam

bentuk berita sederhana dari koran/radio/TV

“

News item text is a text which informs readers
about events of the day. The events are considered
newsworthy or important.

DEFINITION

Teks berita adalah teks yang menginformasikan pembaca tentang peristiwa

hari itu. Peristiwa tersebut dianggap bernilai berita atau penting.

GENERIC STRUCTURE

OF NEWS ITEM

Di dalam paragraf pertama ini memperkenalkan latar belakang
terjadinya sesuatu serta di mana sesuatu tersebut dimulai.
1. Newsworthy Events

2.

Elaboration
(background)

3. Source

Sumber berita yang valid diperlukan adanya sumber
yang tercantum baik berupa ucapan para saksi mata
atau riset para ahli.

Elaboration

sendiri

berupa

penyebab-penyebab

dari

main events, termasuk waktu, pelaku, kejadiannya, dll.

LANGUAGE FEATURES

•Focusing on circumstances

(using a simple language in writing the text)

•Using saying verbs: “….”

She said, informed, told, reported.

•Sometimes at the beginning of news, the scene is mentioned :

Jakarta – … .. / Kuala Lumpur – …

•Using Past tense in explaining news events.
But if it is a fact that until now still happen or still in the form of fact, then can use
simple present tense.

•Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline.

•Using adverbs of time, place and manner.

•Using direct or indirect speech to retell the event

Example of News Item

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Where you

can find

news item

text

Newspapers

Internet:
❑ https://www.thejakartapost.

com/indonesia

❑ https://edition.cnn.com/
❑ https://en.antaranews.com/

Television

Example of News Item Text

The Biggest Insect was Found

An explorer has found the biggest insect ever on
record – so large it can scoff a carrot. The insect is
called a Weta Bug and has a huge wing span of seven
inches and weighs as much as three mice.

An entomologist Mark Moffett, 55, discovered the
cricket-like creature up a tree on New Zealand’s Little
Barrier Island. He spent two days searching for the
creepy crawly which were thought to be extinct after
Europeans brought rats to the island many years ago.

“This became all the more amazing when we realized
that this was the largest insect recorded.” Mark said.

Newsworthy

Events

Elaboration

Source

Analyze of News Item Text

The Biggest Insect was Found

An explorer has found the biggest insect ever on
record – so large it can scoff a carrot. The insect is
called a Weta Bug and has a huge wing span of seven
inches and weighs as much as three mice.

An entomologist Mark Moffett, 55, discovered the
cricket-like creature up a tree on New Zealand’s Little
Barrier Island. He spent two days searching for the
creepy crawly which were thought to be extinct after
Europeans brought rats to the island many years ago.

“This became all the more amazing when we realized
that this was the largest insect recorded.” Mark said.

Now, can

you analyze

the

language
features of
this text ?

TEXT 1

(JP, Jakarta) The Indonesia Government and World Wild Fund (WWF) have announced a bold
commitment to protect the remaining forest and critical ecosystem of Sumatra. WWF said the historic
agreement represented the first-ever island- wide commitment to protect Sumatra’s stunning
biodiversity.

The commitment was announced Thursday at the International Union for Conservation of Nature
(IUCN), world Conversation Congress in Barcelona and was endorsed by the governors of
Sumatra’s 10 provinces- the world’s sixth-largest island- and also by four ministers. Sumatra is the
only place in the world where tigers, elephants, orangutans and rhinos co-exist. The agreement
commits all the governors in Sumatra, along with the Indonesia ministries of forestry, environment,
home affairs and public works, to restore critical ecosystems in Sumatra and protect areas whit high
conservation values.

WWF, Conservation International, Fauna and Flora International, Wildlife Conservation Society and
other conservation groups working in Sumatra have agreed to help implement the political
commitment to protect what remains of the island is species-rich forests and critical areas. The
island has lost 48 percent of its natural forest cover since 1985. More than 13 percent of Sumatra’s
remaining forests are peat forests, which sit a top the deepest peat soil in the world; clearing peat
forests is a major source of carbon emissions that cause climate change

This text is for number 1 to 5

Exercise 1

Read TEXT 1 to answer this questions.

1. What is the purpose of the text?

A. To inform readers about Indonesia Government and WWF committed to protect

forest and Sumatra’s ecosystem.

B. To describe the important of forest in Sumatra
C. To argue that Sumatra has lost 48 percent of forest
D. To explain how WWF will keep the forest
E. To convince reader that WWF buy an island in Indonesia

2. When the commitment between WWF and Indonesia Government announced?

A. Sunday
B. Monday
C. Wednesday
D. Thursday
E. Friday

Read TEXT 1 to answer this questions.

3. How many percent of forest that left in Sumatra?

A. 30%
B. 50%
C. 15%
D. 20%
E. 13%

4. The following parties are involved in the commitment to protect Sumatra’s biodiversity,

EXCEPT….

A. The Indonesia Conservation Group
B. The minister of forestry
C. The minister of public works
D. The 10 governors of Sumatra
E. The World Wildlife Fund

Read TEXT 1 to answer this questions.

5. The agreement between Indonesia Government and WWF is:

A. to implement the decisions of the World Conservation Congress
B. to support the governors of Sumatra to chase animals hunters
C. to stop the emissions of carbon that cause climate change
D. to protect the forests and ecosystems in Sumatra
E. to work together for the development of Sumatra

THANKS!

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