News Item I Ringkasan Materi

A news item

 is a piece of writing about an important event or situation that happens on a particular day.

Communicative purpose

Toinform readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.

Examples of News Item Texts

Informative articles

Text Organization

1. Newsworthy event

 provides the place where the events took place. It also gives information on who, when, and the actual location of the events.

2. Background events

 tell the events that took place in a chronological order. They usually contain general comments on the events and quotes from people involved in the events

3. Sources Signal the end of the events. They usually include comments from the public, like the witness, the police, or the experts

UN : Indonesia records  human case of bird flu

            Geneva (AP): Indonesia has recorded another human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, raising its world-leading total 117 cases, according to the World Health Organization .
            The agency said Friday night that the Indonesian Health Ministry had reported that 16-year-old girl from West Java Province has been hospitalized since January. 4 with symptom s of the disease. It said the strain had been confirmed as H5N1.
            Of the total number of human cases in Indonesia, 94 have been fatal. WHO says that globally 349 people have been infected with H5N1 since the 2003 outbreak of the disease. Of those, 216 have died.
            After Indonesia the country with the next highest number of case is Vietnam 101, followed by Egypt with 43, according to the U.N. health agency.
 

1.      Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?

a.       Egypt ranked second as the highest number of bird flu cases

b.      Indonesia’s 117^th human case of bird flu was found in West Java.

c.       The article is taken from the UN report issued on January 15^th, 2008.

d.      Since 2003, it has been reported that all 117 Indonesians died of bird flu.

e.       According to WHO, there have been 349 in Indonesia infected by H5N1.

Jawaban: B

Pembahasan: Pada paragraf 2 disebutkan bahwa kasus flu buung ke-117 di Indonesia ditemukan di Jawa tengah, sehingga pilihan jawaban yang benar adalah (b)

 

2.      In the WHO release, the country ranked second in the number of bird flu cases found is . . . .

a.       Egypt

b.      Vietnam

c.       Indonesia

d.      America

e.       Singapore

Jawaban: B

Pembahasan: Paragraf terakhir pada teks di atas menyebutkan bahwa Vietnam berada di urutan kedua dari Negara yang warganya paling banyak terinfeksi virus H5N1. jadi, pilihan jawaban yang benar adalah (b) 

3.      The word ‘fatal’ in the second paragraph has the closest meaning to ….

a.       Harmless

b.      Poisonous

c.       tedious

d.      deadly

e.       extreme

Jawaban : D

Pembahasan : Kata fatal mempunyai makna yang mendekati kata “deadly”. Jadi, pilihan jawaban yang benar adalah (d)

 

LATIHAN SOAL :

JAKARTA (JP): Two women, both foreign nationals, were robbed Saturday night in a taxi they hailed in Kemang.

At around 9 p.m., the two women entered a taxi on Jl. Kemang Raya in South Jakarta. After driving for several minutes on the same road, the driver slowed the taxi and two men jumped into the backseat of the vehicle, entering from both sides.

Without saying  a word, the well-built and neatly dressed men struck the young women as the driver sped away. The women shouted for help, but none  of the other drivers or pedestrians on the busy street came to their aid.

One of the women said several people on the street saw what was happening but chose not to help.

“I thought it was safe to use the taxi, especially since I took it from the crowed Jl. Kemang on Saturday night,” She told The Jakarta Post.

One of the women was able to jump into the front seat of taxi and then escape through the passenger door of the moving vehicle, suffering cuts and bruises.

The other women was driven around and robbed of all her belongings, including her passport, a cellular phone , cash and jewelry, before being left on jl. Sudirman in Central Jakarta.

Another taxi stopped and the driver took the woman to the nearest police station where officers took her statement before taking her back to Jl.Kemang and then checking on her friend, who had been taken to Global Doctor medical center.

Media reports revealed there were 13 cases of robberies targeting taxi passengers in 2007, while there have already been six reported cases this year. Most of the victims are women.

 

1.      What is the main idea of the text above?

a.       Two women as victims of a robbery targeting taxi passengers.

b.      Reasons whether it is safe or not to take a taxi

c.       Samples of things robbed from taxi passengers

d.      People reaction seeing robberies targeting taxi passengers

e.       Ways of escaping from a robbery in a taxi.

 2.      What is the communicative purpose of the text?

a.       To explain why robberies targeting taxi passengers frequently happen

b.      To inform a robbery occurred to women as taxi passengers

c.       To discuss samples of things robbed from taxi passengers.

d.      To tell a story about a robbery

e.       To describe taxi passengers who became victims of robberies

 

3.      When the first woman managed to escape from the robbers, she was taken to . . . .

a.       A police station

b.      Her house

c.       A hospital

d.      Jl. Kemang

e.       Jl. Sudirman