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c) Structure of the text
1) Newsworthy event(s): it recounts the event in summary form.
2) Background event(s): they elaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumstance
3) Source(s) : it contains comments by participants in, witnesses to and authorities expert on the event

d) Language Features
• The use past tense
e.g. : Alyssa Diva Mustika won the gold medal at the International Matematics Contest held in
Romania.
• The use of action verbs
e.g. : go, walk, run, drive, ride, kill.
• The use of saying verbs… (tell, reply, say, answer)
• The use of passive sentences
- The three victims were found by SAR team in Banda Aceh.
- The whole village was swept away by tsunami last year.
• The use of direct and indirect speech
e.g. The agency also said that victims were mainly residents … .
• The use of adverbs of manner
e.g. happily, fast, hard, slowly.
• The use of adverbs of time and place
e.g. one day, yesterday, after the lesson, in the classrom, at school.
• Adjectives to form noun phrases
e.g. beautiful, sunny day, a large green field, asoft, white sandy beach.
• Conjunctions to link sentences
e.g. and, but, so, because, for, or.
• The use of time connectives
e.g. after that, meanwhile, then, finally, next, the next morning.
• Pronouns
e.g. he, she, they, them. his, it.

e) Example of the text
Part of the text Information from the text
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Jakarta (JP): The number of people injured in the weekend earthquake
Newsworthy Event in the Central Sulawesi capital of Palu reached 26. The earthquake, measuring
5.8 in the opened Richter Scale, also damaged or destroyed hundreds of
buildings. So far no deaths have been reported.
“Only 3 of the 26 injured are still being treated at a government clinic. In the
Sausu Trans village, the rest have returned home,” Mohammad Haerollah, an
official of the Central Sulawesi Office of the Ministry of Social Services, told the
Jakarta Post yesterday.
Background Events
Officials at the meteorology and geophysics agency in Palu said earlier that
the epicenter was in the Gulf of Tomini, 32 kilometers east of Palu, at a depth of
32 kilometers. The office recorded 396 tremors between 5:30 p.m. on Saturday
and 12 a.m. on Sunday. However, locals felt 47 of the tremors.
Antara News Agency reported on Saturday that most of the causalities were
Sources adults, injured by collapsing structures. The agency also said, that victims were
mainly residents of the Sausu, Suli, Torono and Malakosa villages.

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