news item

To inform the readers/listeners about a newsworthy event.

• Source (s)

• Social Function

• Language Features

• Simple Past Tense

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Newsworthy event (s); Background event (s); Sources

• Social function

• Generic structure

• Language Feature

• All answers are correct

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Passive voice, simple past tense, adverbs, saying verbs, action verbs.

• Language Feature

• Social Function

• Generic Structure

• None of the above

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What is the definition of news item?

• a text which informs readers about events of the day

• a story to entertain the readers

• a text that shows a process in order

• a text which says what a person or a thing is like

• a text which informs the story of a person life

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Seven people were killed in a collision between a bus, a car, and a truck on Jalan Sultan at 10:35 p.m. last night. The dead were all passengers of the car. The police believed the car had been trying to overtake the bus when it was struck by a truck coming from the opposite direction. The driver of the car might not be using his lights, as the truck driver said he did not see the car approaching.

The police said the car should not have tried to pass the bus, since overtaking is not allowed on Jalan Sultan. In addition, the police reported that the car, a small Japanese car , should not have been carrying more than five people. If the passengers had brought their identity cards, the police would have identified the names of the victims easily.

Who said that the accident was caused by the car?

• The police

• The truck driver

• The victims

• The bus passengers

• The reporter

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Seven people were killed in a collision between a bus, a car, and a truck on Jalan Sultan at 10:35 p.m. last night. The dead were all passengers of the car. The police believed the car had been trying to overtake the bus when it was struck by a truck coming from the opposite direction. The driver of the car might not be using his lights, as the truck driver said he did not see the car approaching.

The police said the car should not have tried to pass the bus, since overtaking is not allowed on Jalan Sultan. In addition, the police reported that the car, a small Japanese car , should not have been carrying more than five people. If the passengers had brought their identity cards, the police would have identified the names of the victims easily.

The text mainly reports that there was/were ....

• a car accident

• careless drivers

• a small Japanese car

• victims of an accident

• the function of an identity card

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Seven people were killed in a collision between a bus, a car, and a truck on Jalan Sultan at 10:35 p.m. last night. The dead were all passengers of the car. The police believed the car had been trying to overtake the bus when it was struck by a track coming from the opposite direction. The driver of the car might not be using his lights, as the truck driver said he did not see the car approaching.

The police said the car should not have tried to pass the bus, since overtaking is not allowed on Jalan Sultan. In addition, the police reported that the car, a small Japanese car , should not have been carrying more than five people. If the passengers had brought their identity cards, the police would have identified the names of the victims easily.

What was the cause of the collision?

• The truck came from the opposite direction.

• The car carried more than five people.

• The truck driver didn’t use his lights.

• The truck driver didn’t see the car.

• The car tried to overtake the bus.

“If the passengers had brought their identity

cards, the police would have been easy to identify the names of the victims.”

The sentence above means…….

• The victims’ names were not known

• The victims were easy to be identified

• The passengers brought their identity cards

• The police had no difficulty in identifying the

  victims

• It was easy for the police to identify the victims of the accident

The police said the car should not have tried to pass the bus, since overtaking is not allowed on Jalan Sultan. In addition, the police reported that the car, a small Japanese car , should not have been carrying more than five people. If the passengers had brought their identity cards, the police would have identified the names of the victims easily.

What part of News Item is this?

• Newsworthy event

• Background event

• Sources

• Direct Speech

• Authorities

The police believed the car had been trying to overtake the bus when it was struck by a truck coming from the opposite direction.

The passive voice form is ....

• The police believed....

• ...the car had been trying to overtake the bus....

• ...when it was struck by a truck....

• ...coming from the opposite direction.

• The police believed the car had been trying to overtake the bus....