News Items

Text Structure:
a. Headline;
b. Background: elaborate the incident, the people involved, place, time, witnesses, and so forth
c. Source: comments from eye-witness, experts opinion, the authorities and other parties that have competence in the related field of the news

Language Features
- Focus on human, animal, things, certain items etc
- Uses action verbs like eat, run, kill;
- Adverb of place and time
- Uses Past Tense
- Written according to the order of the incident


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Assignment:
1. Make a group of three (You will act as news reader who read a news on TV, using a teleprompter (a text displayed near the camera so that the news reader does not have to look at the papers too often. Here, you can make your own teleprompter in a piece of paper, with big colorful fonts so that the news reader can read it from a distance of approximately 3 meters.)
2. Choose one newsworthy incident from your surrounding area
3. Elaborate with the necessary details
4. Make a teleprompter
5. Deliver the news in front of the class. Act like you're on TV and read the news. You can act as the news reader, the reporter, the witness or anything that suits the news you chose.
6. Your time to broadcast the news is 4 minutes for each group.
7. You can use pictures, videos, or other medias to display on the screen to make the news reading more lively and convincing.

Good luck!