NEWS ITEM TEXT

Definition, Social Function, Generic Structure,

News Item Text VS Report Text, Quiz
News Item Text

UPT SMAN 2 MURATARA

English Subject
Grade XII

Created by
Wike Soprianti
 TUJUAN PEMBELAJARAN

KOGNITIF Peserta didik mampu mengidentifikasi

fungsi social teks, struktur teks, dan unsur
kebahasaan dari text news item berbentuk
berita sederhana dari koran, radio, dan TV
sesuai dengan konteks penggunaannya.

PSIKOMOTOR Peserta didik mampu menangkap makna

dan menemukan informasi tertentu dari
teks news item berbentuk berita sederhana
dari koran/radio/TV, lisan dan tulisan.
LIST OF CONTENT
1 What is News Item Text?
Definition

2 What is News Item Text used for?

Social Function

3 How is the structure of News Item Text?

Generic Structure

4 News Item Text VS Report Text

Difference

5 Quiz
Question and Task
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1. What is News Item Text?

Definition
According to Create Webquest,
“News item is a text which informs readers about
events of the day. The events are considered
newsworthy or important. It means if there is an
important event that should be known by many
people.”

News item text adalah sebuah teks yang

menceritakan suatu kejadian atau peristiwa
penting dengan bentuk menyerupai berita,
atau layak untuk dijadikan berita (news).
By the way, what news do you usually read
the most?

Politic (program pemerintah, hubungan internasional, dsb)

Economy (keuangan, investasi, dsb)
Environment (masalah lingkungan, program lingkungan, dsb)
Entertainment (artis, musik, game, dsb)
Sport (perlombaan, atlet, dsb)
Or Others
2. What is News Item Text used for?

Tujuan seseorang menuliskan news item adalah untuk

menyampaikan informasi kepada pembaca, pemirsa, atau
pendengar, berita yang menarik dan layak menjadi berita dan
dengan cara pemberitaan yang mengundang perhatian publik.
 3. How is the structure of News Item Text?
East Nusa Tenggara calls off search for 17
missing after boat fire
Main event (Peristiwa utama)
Authorities in East Nusa Tenggara have halted the Bagian yang menceritakan tentang ringkasan dari suatu
search for 17 missing passengers from a boat that
kejadian atau peristiwa utama dalam teks tersebut.
caught fire while at sea last week, believing the
probability of their survival to be low, a local rescue
official said on Wednesday. Background event/elaboration (Latar belakang peristiwa)
Twenty people had been found dead during the
search operation, which began after a passenger boat Bagian yang menceritakan tentang latar belakang kejadian
caught fire on waters near Timor Island on Oct. 24, the atau peristiwa yang terjadi. Bagian ini meliputi siapa saja
head of the local rescue team, I Putu Sudayana, told
Reuters. yang terlibat, serta di mana, dan bagaimana peristiwa
The manifest for the trip showed there had been tersebut terjadi.
177 people aboard, but the rescue team said the
actual number of passengers was 359, of whom 322
had been saved. Source (Sumber)
"After searching for ten days, we did an evaluation Bagian yang menceritakan tentang komentar, saksi kejadian,
involving the police, military, and family, (and) we
agreed to terminate the search," Putu told Reuters. pendapat para ahli, dan sebagainya mengenai peristiwa atau
The National Transportation Safety Committee kejadian yang diberitakan.
(KNKT) is investigating the cause of fire.
5. QUIZ Read the text and identify the structure!

Title

Main Event

Background Event

Source
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 Read the sentences below and identify the interesting facts about technology.
Check (V) true or false to the statements below.

Statement True or false?

1. Technology is a body of knowledge devoted to creating tools,

processing actions and extracting of materials.

2. Microwave is a kitchen appliance that heats and cooks food.

3. In the refrigerator, a similar device that mantains a

temperature below the freezing point of water is called freezer.

4. A vacuum cleaner is a device that uses an air pump, to create a

partial vacuum to clean the dust and dirt.

5. Light bulb is a kind of technology inside the refrigerator.

Read the text below ad answer the qustions!

1. What is kind of the text?

2. What is the usage of calculator?

3. When does the mechanical calculator developed?

4. What is the second paragraph called?

5. What is the main idea of paragraph three?

 WRITE A REPORT TEXT
Based on the following topics below:

Communication Transportation Household appliance Office appliance

devices
Plane
Car Microwave
Smartphone
Motorcycle Computer
Rocket Vacuum cleaner
Radio
Bus Laptop
Refrigerator
Telephone Train Printer
TV
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- B.B. King
THANK YOU!
A factual report text
is a text that provides information about something. The
text can be about a living or non-living subject, such as
animals, plants, things, social and natural phenomena.

Characteristics:
• Umumnya menggunakan bahasa ilmiah
• Report text didominasi oleh simple present tense
• Judulnya akan terlihat umum seperti Earthquake, The Blue Whale, Radio
• Pada umumnya terdapat gambar / data statistik / diagram / peta
sebagai hasil penelitiannya dilakukan secara ilmiah.
4. REPORT TEXT VS DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Report Text Descriptive Text

Bicycle My Bicycle
Title
Cat My Lovely Cat

Teks faktual ilmiah yang Berisi opini subjektif penulis

Content menggambarkan sesuatu secara yang menggambarkan sesuatu

umum secara spesifik/khusus

Definisi, bagian-bagian, fungsi, Nama, warna, style, sifat,

Description
kekuatan, perilaku tampilan fisik