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Activity Work in groups and rewrite the following news report
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in your own words. Then present it to the class.

Fire in City Hotel

There was a fire at the Plaza Hotel guest was badly injured in the fire, but

on Jalan Ciomas at 1:30 a.m. last night. all the other guests escaped safely. By

Most of the 74 guests had already the time the fire department arrived, gone

to bed when the fire started on the fire had spread to the 4th and 5th the third

floor. The hotel manager, Mr floors of the hotel. Mr Sugiarto said the Iwan Sugiarto,

said the fire had started fire had caused over US$70,000 worth in a guest

bedroom. A guest had fallen of damage to the hotel. Source: www.tempointeraktif.com

asleep while smoking a cigarette. The

Activity Look at the following pictures. Then find a related
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news report in a newspaper or magazine based on the
pictures. Rewrite them in your workbook.

Source: Kompas, January 23, 2008 Source: Tempo, May, 2007

Activity Write a news report for your bulletin board at your
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school. Pay attention to the text structure of news item
text. You can choose one of the following topics.

1. sport events
2. outdoors activities
3. extracurricular activities
4. gathering (class, groups, etc)
5. contest (speech, debate, etc)
6. technology
7. education, etc

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