News

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Social Function

• To inform readers, listeners or viewers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.

General Structure

• Newsworthy eventsTell the event in summary form. Commonly newsworthy event is a place in the first paragraph.• Background eventsElaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumstances.• Sources Comment by participants in, witnesses to and authorities expert on the events.

Language Features

• Information about story captured in headline.• Using action verbAn action verb is a verb that expresses physical or mental action.Example:1. Marie walked to school.2. Louis thought about the math problem.• Using saying verbSaying verbs are verbs such as say or ask which we typically use to report what someone said.Example:"Why can’t I sleep?" he asked.• Using Passive SentenceExample : Aceh was hit by Tsunami in 2004• Using adverbs : place, time, manner

News

Alyssa Diva Mustika, a student from Pamekasan Junior High

School, East Java, won the gold medal at the International

Mathematics Contest held in Romania between March 22 to 29,

Antara news agency reported.

NEWSWORTHY

Speaking to journalists, Diva said she was glad that she had

been able to win the competition, which she said had been very

tight. “Thank God I won. I will study harder,” she said.

Indonesia sent 10 students to the competition in Romania. Diva

is not the first Pamekasan student to win an international science

competition. Oktavian Latief, a student from Pamekasan Senior

High School, won the gold medal at the International Physics

Olympiad in 2006. Another student, Shohibul Maromi, won the

same award in 2010.

BACKGROUND

“Thanks Diva, for giving a good name to Indonesia and

Pamekasan on the international stage,” Pamekasan Regent

Kholilurrahman said as quoted by Antara.

SOURCES

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Landslide in Bukit Tinggi

Two people died while four other were wounded in a landslide at a

yard behind a house near Teleng market in bukit tinggi, West Sumatera

on Tuesday. NEWSWORTHY

Killed were 3-year-old Yusuf, who was the son of a kiosk owner at the

market, Bujang, and 22-year-old Meli, who was a visitor to the market.

The injured were rushed to the Achmad Muchtar and Yarsi hospital.

BACKGROUND

Bukit tinggi Deputy Mayor Ismet Amziz said Tuesday it was suspected

that recent heavy rainfall had caused the landslide.

SOURCES.

• Text 2Mini-tornado, Hail Strikes South Bandung

A “mini-tornado” coupled with a hail storm hit some areas in South Bandung on Wednesday afternoon for approximately 30 minutes. NEWSWORTHY

The weather panicked residents as hail stones penetrated corrugated iron rooftops. The wind swirled things around while hail stones made thudding sounds on our roof. BACKGROUND.

“There was no sign of rain. All of a sudden, we saw dark clouds above followed by strong winds. Afterwards, it rained hard with hail stones,” said a resident. SOURCES.

Facts and Opinions

Peña Nieto Cancels TalksMexican president won’t meet with Trump as wall-funding brouhaha

escalates

By José de Córdoba and Peter Nicholas

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto canceled a planned meeting with President Donald Trump next week after the U.S. leader increased pressure on Mexico to pay for a wall he wants built on the border.

“If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting,” Mr. Trump wrote on his personal Twitter feed on Thursday morning.

Mr. Trump in Wednesday ordered government officials to begin planning a “physical wall” on the border with Mexico, following through on a central campaign promise to crack down on illegal immigration.

Mr. Peña Nieto afterward reiterated that his country wouldn’t pay for the wall, as Mr. Trump has long demanded.

In a show of brinkmanship, Mr. Trump suggested that Mexico had more to lose if relations with the U.S. sour. He tweeted that the U.S. has been hurt in trade dealing with Mexico stemming from the North American Free Trade Agreement signed in the early 1990s. He wrote that Nafta is a “one-sided” deal that has wiped out jobs in the U.S.

U.S. trade officials say the goods-and-service trade deficit with Mexico was more than $49 billion in 2015.

Mr. Peña Nieto said on Twitter on Thursday that his administration notified the White House that he won’t meet with Mr. Trump on Tuesday, as originally planned.

Mr. Peña Nieto had said he would consult Mexican officials about his next steps. The meeting with Mr. Trump had been scheduled to take place on Tuesday.

A leading Mexican historian, Enrique Krauxe, wrote on Twitter before the cancellation that following Mr. Trump’s latest tweet Mr. Pena Nieto had no choice.

“Now there is no doubt: Facing this threat, the president should not go to Washington,” he wrote in spanish.

Former Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda said it was impossible to make an agreement with Mr. Trump given the U.S. president’s habit of impetuous tweeting.

“You can’t [make an agreement] with Trump,” said Mr. Castañeda. “They [Mexico] should have decided yesterday morning to cancel the trip to Washington. They didn’t, so Trump got ahead of them.”

“It’s another blow below the belt,” said Mr. Castañeda of. Mr. Trump tweet. “There is no other choice but for Peña to say he is not going.”

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Mr. Castañeda said that Mexico should get used to negotiating with the U.S. in a situation where the peso will continue to deteriorate. He said the best strategy for Mexico may be to be patient, since Mr. Trump is getting involved in so many controversies in the U.S. that he may be weaker and easier to deal with in a few months.

Points and News Item based on News Programme

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• 6 people were killed and 8 people were injured during mosque attack on Quebec Islamic Curtural Centre in Quebec City.

• Police had arrested one person• The witnesses says that they see 2 gunmen who wear

black clothing• Prime Minister Justine Trudeau and New York City’s

Mayor Bill de Blasio said condolences to the muslim community

News Item

Quebec City Mosque Shooting: 6 killed, 8 wounded

A terrorist attack on Quebec Islamic Curtural Centre in Quebec City causes six people were killed and eight people were killed. The Policemen said they had arrest one person and the situation was already under control. According to the witnesses, they saw two gunmen with black clothing around the mosque. The policemen are still investigating right now to gather more data about the perpetrator.

“We condemn this terrorist attack on Muslims in a centre of worship and refuge. Muslim-Canadian are an important part of our national fabric, and these senseless act have no place in communities” said Justine Trudeau, Canadian Prime Minister.

News Item

Mayor Bill de Blasio also sent his condolences to the victim’s family and said that they’ll stand together with them. The same thing also happens to Muslims in United States because of President Trumps’s new regulation that prohibit Muslims to come to US.