NEWS ITEM PART 3

NAME : ZASQHIA RAHMI DEWI 

CLASS : XII IPS 3

ABSENT : 36

Summary Of News Item 

News item text is a text to inform readers of whar is happening in the world around them.

The purpose of news items text is to inform readers about daily events that are worthy of consideration or importance.

Structures Of News Item :

• Headline 
• Background of the event 
• Summary of the event 
• Source 

Language Features Of News Item :

News item text usually use :

• Present perfect tense 
• Past tense 
• Future tense
• Direct and Indirect speech 

We can find the news in 

• Newspaper 
• Television station 
• Radio 
• Social media 

Activity 4 

Choose 1 news from any media and Write the explanation about your it in your blog! 

COVID-19 in the UK : How many Coronavirus 

cases are there in my area?

There have been more than eight million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and almost 138,000 people have died, government figures show.

However, these figures include only people who have died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus.

So far, about 86% of people aged 12 and over in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine and about 79% have had their second.

The daily cases remain the average number of daily confirmed cases climbed and fell a number of times during August and early September. The last couple of days have seen numbers creep up again. A further 40,224 confirmed cases were announced on Monday. Chart showing that the number of daily cases remains high. The recent spikes have been driven by the Delta variant, which spreads faster than the previously most common Kent variant (now named Alpha).