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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 ive sentences (e.g.: Aceh was hit by a Tsunami in 2004)  The use of adverbs in ive 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 Sunday’s 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 neighbor’s 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 relative’s 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 twin’s 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

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