News Item

                News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are considered newsworthy or important.

Generic structure:

•          Newsworthy event(s): recount(s) the event(s) 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.

Language features:

•          Short telegraphic information about story captured in headline.

•          Generally using simple past tense.

•          Use of material processes to retell the event.

•          Using action verbs, e.g.: were, run, go, kill, etc.

•          Using saying verbs, e.g.: say, tell.

•          Focus on circumstances.

•          Use of projecting verbal processes in sources stages

Direct & Indirect Speech

                Direct speech is refers to reproducing another person exact word. We use quotation marks (“ “).

Examples:

•          She says to her friend, “I have been writing.”

•          She has told you, “I am reading.”

•          She will say, “The boy wasn’t lazy.”

•          She will say, “You have done wrongly.”

Indirect speech (also called Reported Speech) is used to communicate what someone else said, but without using the exact words.

Examples:

•          Direct speech: “I’m going to the cinema”, she said.

               Indirect speech: He said that he was going to the cinema.

•          Direct speech: She will say, “You have done wrongly.”

               Indirect speech: She will tell you that you have done wrongly.

•          Direct speech: She will say, “The boy wasn’t lazy.”

               Indirect speech: She will tell them that the boy wasn’t lazy.

There are 3 kinds of indirect speech: 

1.       Imperative (command/request) 

2.       Interrogative (question) 

3.       Declarative (statement)

Asking For Information

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Definition:

Asking for information is one way of communicating the purpose of obtaining or asking for information person unknown.

The use of WH-Question

•       When

•       Where

•       What

•       Why

•       Who

•       How

 Information about company
- What does your company do?
- What is your specialty?
- What do you specialize in?
- What is your main line of business?

Descriptive Text

Descriptive text is a text which says what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing.

Generic structure:

·         Identification 

      Identifying the phenomenon to be described.

·        Description

Describing the phenomenon in parts, qualities, or/and characteristics.

Language features:

• ·         Using simple present tense.

• ·         Using action verbs.

• ·         Using passive voice.

• ·         Using noun phrase.

• ·         Using adverbial phrase.

• ·         Using technical terms.

• ·         Using general and abstract noun.

• ·         Using conjunction of time and clause-effect.

Modals In The Past Form

Guys, dalam bahasa Indonesia, modals in the past form berarti kata bantu atau pengandaian dalam bentuk lampau.

When do we use modals?

·         To talk about someone’s ability (or inability) to do something.

Example: “We can find your house without the street plan.”

“She can’t have a daughter that old!”

·         To talk about an action that is necessary (or impossible or not necessary).

Example: “You must always have your driver’s license when you are driving your car.”

“You needn’t carry your passport around with you.”

·       To talk about a situation that is possible (or impossible).

Example: “Be careful with that glass, the baby might knock it over.”

Narrative Text

                  Narrative text is a kind of text to retell the story that past tense. The purpose of the text is to entertain or to amuse the readers or listeners about the story.

Generic structure:

·         Orientation         : sets the scene and introduces the participants.

·         Evaluation          : a stepping back to evaluate the plight.

·         Complication      : a crisis arises.

·         Resolution          : the crisis is resolved, for better or for worse.

·         Re-orientation    : optional.

Language feature:

·         Use adjective verbs.

·         Use past tense.

·         Use conjunction.

·         The first person (I or we) or third person (he, she, or they).

·         Use specific noun.

·         Use adjective and adverbs.

Surprises & Disbelief

Surprises is a feeling that we feel when heard an amazing news which surprised and amazed us an expression that we show or say, when we know or we hear or see something that rather difficult to believe. Used to express something that we can’t or impossible.
 

Disbelief is a state of the mind in which one is fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief.

Some expressing of surprise and disbelief in formal and informal:

Formal

I find that very surprising.

I must say it surprises me.

I find it extraordinary.

Indeed?

How very surprising.

I must say it surprises me.