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Writing

In this section, you will learn how to:
• develop paragraph of a news item text;
• write news item text.

Activity
1
Answer the following questions orally.

1. What short of news do you like to read?
Source: Microsoft Encarta, 2008

2. Do you usually read news headlines?
3 What other parts of a newspaper do you know?
Activity Complete the following sentences using the appropriate
2
words given in the box.

headline
caption quotes
the events
introductory ending statement

1. The … of the newspaper is usually short, simple and
catchy. This is soon encourage readers to read the
newspaper report.
2. The … usually answers the questions ‘who', what,
when and where. If the newspaper talks about more
than one event, the most recent event is reported in this
paragraph.