ANY NEWS

(News Item Text)

Class X / Semester 2

Standar Kompetensi
8.Memahami makna dalam teks
fungsional pendek dan monolog yang
berbentuk narrative, descriptive, dan
news item sederhana dalam konteks
kehidupan sehari-hari

Kompetensi Dasar
8.2 Merespon makna dalam teks
monolog sederhana yang
menggunakan ragam bahasa lisan
populer secara akurat, lancar, dan
berterima dalam teks berbentuk
narrative, descriptive, dan news item.

Indikator
Mengidentifikasi
yang didengar
Mengidentifikasi
didengar
Mengidentifikasi
didengar
Mengidentifikasi
Mengidentifikasi
didengar
Mengidentifikasi
dari teks
Mengidentifikasi
didengar

makna kata dalam teks

main idea dari teks yang
kejadian dalam teks yang
inti berita yang didengar
sumber berita yang
langkah-langkah retorika
tujuan komunikasi teks

NEWS ITEM
Purpose:
To inform readers, listeners or viewers about events of the

day which are considered newsworthy or important

Text organization:
Newsworthy events: tells the event in a summary form
Background events : elaborate what happened, explains

what
Sources

caused the incident

: comments by participants, witnesses,

authorities, and experts involved in the event

Language Features
Information on the use of headlines
The use of action verbs
(e.g.: hit, attack, curb)
The use of saying verbs
(e.g.: said, added, claimed)
The use of passive sentences
(e.g.: Aceh was hit by a Tsunami in 2004)
The use of adverbs in passive sentence
(e.g.: The victims were badly injured)

Title

News item text

Large Python Saves Riza and Twins

Newswort
hy Event

A few survivors of the Sundays calamity

have a snake to thank for being alive

Backgrou
nd Event

Riza, a 26-year-old clothes vendor, said

that at about 8.00 a.m. she was enjoying
the holiday in the bed when suddenly she
saw walls of water, mud, rocks, and
branches rushing into the neighborhood.
People were screaming and running. Riza,
who was living in a rented house near the
coast in Banda Aceh with three friends,
dashed up to the second floor of a
neighbors home and stood on the top of a
cupboard

But as she told Antara from a makeshift

shelter on Wednesday, the current swept
her and her friends off the perch. As Riza
was drifting, she saw her neighbors, two
girls-twins-and their mother.
Riza, who can swim, managed to help the
girls. She saw their mother was badly

News item text

Back
ground
Event

The mother shouted, Please help

save my children. Let me be, but
please save my children, Riza
recounted, in tears.

As she struggled for her own life and

that of the twins, she said a large
snake as long as a telephone pole
approached her. She and the nineyear-old rested on the reptile, which
was drifting along with the current.

Thank God, we landed on the higher

ground where the water level was
only about a meter deep. The twins,
who were badly injured, were safe.
Riza then slapped her face to make
sure she was not dreaming.

Riza, who is currently taking refuge

in the Bandar Blang Bintang area,
plans to go to her relatives house in
Medan, North Sumatera.

Questions
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Who were involved in the story?

Who is Riza?
What happened to the twins?
What happened to the twins mother?
What saved Riza and the twins?
How were they saved?
Where and when did the tragedy take
place?
8. What is the purpose of the text?
9. In your opinion, who writes the text?
10.Is the text easy to follow? Why/why not?

Uji Kompetensi
What do you think about this
picture? Listen to the news then
answer the questions

Answer these
questions
1. When did the accident
happen?
2. Where did the accident
happen?
3. How was the weather at
that time?
4. Why did motorcyclist crush
the car?
5. What did happen to the
motorcyclist and ?

Referensi
Joko Priyana, 2008.
Interlanguage. Jakarta:
Pusat Perbukuan
Departemen Pendidikan
Detik-Detik Ujian Nasional
Bahasa Inggris. Tim
Penyusun. Klaten: PT. Intan
Pariwara.

By:
Agustin Darmayanti
SMA Negeri 1 Indralaya Utara
Sumatera Selatan

Thank you