B. Text organization
§ Newsworthy events
(tells the event in a summary form)
§ Background events
(elaborates what happened, explains what caused the incident)
§ Source
(comments by participant, witnesses, authorities, and experts involved in the event)
C. Language Features
q Information on the use of headlines
q The use of action verbs
(e.g.: bit, attack, curb)
q The use of saying verbs
(e.g.: said, added, claimed)
q The use of passive sentences
(e.g.: Acep was bit by a Tsunami in 2004)
q The use of adverbs in passive sentences
(e.g.: the victims were badly injured)
| HEADLINE | Russian Nuclear Catastrophe |
| NEWSWORTHY | Moscow– A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another soviet nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 sailor and contaminated an entire town. |
| BACKGROUND EVENTS | Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of Shkotovo- 22 near Vladivostock. The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster, 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 refilt had been a ‘thermal’ and not a nuclear explosion. And those involved in the clean up operation to remove more than 600 tons of contaminated materials were sworn to secrecy. |
| SOURCE | A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy. |
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