EXERCISES NEWS ITEM


1. What is the purpose of news item text?

a. to describe a particular person/thing.

b. to persuade the reader or listener that something should or should not be the case.

c. to inform readers, listeners, or viewers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important

d. to explain how something can be done

2. What are the text organizations of news item?

a. Goal or aim, materials, steps

b. Identification (mention the name, occupation, profession, and carrier), description (mention the physical feature, the way he/she dresses and his/her personality, and special feature.

c. Newsworthy events, background events, source

d. Thesis, arguments, recommendation

3. What are the language features of news item?

  1. Information on the use of headlines, the use of action verbs, the use of saying verbs, the use of passive sentences, the use of adverbs in passive sentences
  2. The use of simple present, the use of “noun phrase” to describe something in detail, describing, numbering and classifying, the use of action verb, the use of figurative language.
  3. Imperative sentence, action verb, connectives, adverbs
  4. Focused on specific and individualized participants, he use of the material process (action verbs), the use of the past tense, the use of temporal conjunctions.

4. Which is word below that shows action verbs?

  1. bad
  2. read
  3. sick
  4. weak

5. Which word below that shows saying verbs?

a. buy

b. calm

c. claimed

d. blue

6. Which sentence below that shows passive sentence?

  1. Rina reads the book.
  2. Mother is cooking in the kitchen
  3. He has finished his exam.
  4. The book was borrowed by Nana yesterday.

7. Which sentence below that shows the use of adverbs in passive sentences?

a. I read the book.

b. The victims were badly injured

c. The child was playing yesterday.

d. He will return to Yogyakarta

8. When did the accident happen?

  1. The accident occurred 12 months before the Chernobyl disaster
  2. The accident occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster
  3. The accident occurred 15 months before the Chernobyl disaster
  4. The accident occurred 17 months before the Chernobyl disaster

9. What are the effects from the nuclear catastrophe?

  1. Soviet nuclear catastrophe killed 11 sailors and contaminated an entire town.
  2. Soviet nuclear catastrophe killed 12 sailors and contaminated an entire town.
  3. Soviet nuclear catastrophe killed 15 sailors and contaminated an entire town.
  4. Soviet nuclear catastrophe killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town.

10. How did the catastrophe happen?

  1. The accident spread radioactive fall-out over the base and nearby town, but was covered up by officials of the reactor of the Victor-class submarine during a refits had been a ‘thermal’ and not a nuclear explosion.
  2. Soviet nuclear catastrophe killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town.
  3. The accident occurred 12 months before the Chernobyl disaster
  4. The victims were badly injured

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