News Items

What is News?

• Recent incident reports or important information

• Unimportant and boring events

• Uninteresting information

• News that refers to a small event

Generic Structure of News Items are main events , elaboration, and...

• Opening

• Closing

• Source

• Origin

What tenses are used in a news story to describe a news event?

• Perfect Tense

• Future Tense

• Simple Present

• Past Tense

what is the formula for positive past continuous tense sentences?

• S + be (is,am,are) + V1

• S + be (was/were) + Present participle (V-ing)

• S + be (has/have) + V3

• S + be (shall/will) + V1

"We use speech marks (or quotes) to indicate the exact words of the person being said" the statement includes understanding?

• Speech

• Reported Speech

• Indirect Speech

• Direct Speech

"We usually move the direct speech verbs one step back in the past" this sentence belongs to the meaning?

• Speech

• Reported Speech

• Indirect Speech

• Direct Speech