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1. Definition of News Item
News item text is a factual text which inform reader or daily newspaper about events of the day which are regarder as newsworth or important.
2. The generic structure of News item
• Headline.
• Correspondence.
• Newsworthy events : Recounts the event in summary form.
• Background events : Elaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumstances.
• Sources : Comments by participants in, witness to and authorities expert on the event.
3. Language Feature of News Item
o Using action verbs.
o Using saying verbs.
o Using passive sentences.
o Temporal circumstances.
o Spatial circumstances.
o Specific participants.
4. Examples and structures of the text:
Moscow – A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors 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 Soviet Union. Residents were told the explosion in the reactor of the Victor-class submarine during a refit had been a ‘thermal’ and not a nuclear explosion. And those involved in the clean up operation to remove more than 600 tones of contaminated material were sworn to secrecy.
Source :
Sources A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.
