Name : Iyut Pitriany
School Unit : SMPN 1 Dusun Utara
Regency : South Barito
Subjek : Assignment Task 4 Module 4 Topic 3 :
Lexicogrammatical Features of News
Reports
Task 4
Now, you will analyse the Lexicogrammatical Features of the three news report. The analysis of News Report 1
has been done for you as an example
The Lexicogrammatical Features of the Headline
TEXT II
Fire Erupts at Illegal Oil Well in Indonesia
The Headline
1) Bigger and bold fonts stating the newsworthy facts of the event
2) Telegraphic sentence: leaving out function words.
- Fire (telegraphic) = a fire (normal)
3) The Simple Present Tense for ‘active’ voice
- Fire Erupts at Illegal Oil Well in Indonesia
- (for the normal form “... erupted / has erupted ...)
The Lexicogrammatical Features of the Newsworthy Event
The Newsworthy Events
4) A sentence or sentences in the first paragraph containing all important facts about the event: (1) the
casualty, (2) the accident, (3) the reason, (4) the time, and (5) the location; the verb in the past simple and
Passive Voice.
Jakarta: A fire erupted at an illegal oil well site in Indonesia’s northernmost province on Wednesday,
killing at least 18 people and injuring about 40 others, some of whom were badly burnt, authorities said.
5) It starts with the name of the place where the news was reported, in small cap characters:
JAKARTA: ...
The Lexicogrammatical Features of the Events in Details
The Events in Details
1) Tenses associated with past events: past tenses (simple past, past progressive, past perfect) and
present perfect are used to state the details of the event
2nd paragraph: broke out
3rd paragraph: were still trying, had caused, have started
4th paragraph: showed
5th paragraph: had gathered
6th paragraph: brought
7th paragraph: were gutted, were still trying
8th paragraph: sent
9th paragraph: was being operated
10th paragraph were trying
11st paragraph were abandoned
2) The passive voice
- At least five homes were gutted by the fire,. ...
3) Direct quotations to report the events
- “"Oil doesn't come up to the surface easily in these old wells, so they try to pump it up manually, then
try to separate the oil by distillation in barrels, and that's where they probably had the fire," said Mangantar
Marpaung, former chief of the Indonesian Mining Fire and Rescue Agency..
4) Indirect quotations to report the events
· At least five homes were gutted by the fire, the agency said. Firefighters and other emergency
personnel, along with villagers, were still trying to contain the blaze on Wednesday evening.
· Agung said the well was being operated by local residents, adding that he was not sure if there were
other illegal wells in the area.
5) Participle [present] to state the circumstances surrounding the event
In hopes of collecting crude oil after being told about a massive spill there,
6) Adjective clauses to add more information about a person/thing
Flames rising at least 10 metres into the air in the farming village of Pasir Putih in East Aceh district,
which is about 1600 kilometres north-west of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
7) Prepositional phrases to state the circumstances surrounding the events
- at an illegal oil well site
- in Indonesia's northernmost province
- in Aceh province
- about 1600 kilometres north-west of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
- on Wednesday evening
The Lexicogrammatical Features of the Headline
TEXT III
Elephant poachers arrested in Malaysia
The Headline
6) Bigger and bold fonts stating the newsworthy facts of the event
7) Telegraphic sentence: leaving out function words.
- Elephant poachers (telegraphic) = The elephant poachers (normal)
8) The Simple Past Tense for ‘active’ voice
- Elephant poachers arrested in Malaysia
The Lexicogrammatical Features of the Newsworthy Event
The Newsworthy Events
9) A sentence or sentences in the first paragraph containing all important facts about the event: (1) the
suspects, (2) the accident, (3) the reason, (4) the time, and the verb in the past simple and Passive Voice.
Four heavily armed poachers who targeted wild elephants in Malaysia have been caught, officials said
Tuesday, the second such arrest in less than two years..
10) It starts with the name of the place where the news was reported, in small cap characters:
MALAYSIA: ...
The Lexicogrammatical Features of the Events in Details
The Events in Details
8) Tenses associated with past events: past tenses (simple past, past progressive, past perfect) and
present perfect are used to state the details of the event
2nd paragraph: was found
3rd paragraph: led
4th paragraph: showed
6th paragraph were found
7th paragraph were not found, were already sold
8th paragraph were believed
9) The passive voice
- Wildlife officials said the gang caught near the town of Gerik in the nothern Malaysian state of Perak
was found with deer antlers and suspected tiger bones.
- The elephant’s tusks were not found,
10) Direct quotations to report the events
- “This crew is notorious. They hunt elephants,” wildlife department chief Abdul Kadir Abdul Hashim told
AFP.
- “There are maybe two more [poaching] groups [in the area]. We are working together with the police
on this.”
11) Indirect quotations to report the events
· Wildlife officials said the gang caught near the town of Gerik in the nothern Malaysian state of Perak
was found with deer antlers and suspected tiger bones
12) Participle [present] to state the circumstances surrounding the event
weapons including rifles and homemade shotguns
13) Participle (past) to modify nouns
an elephant shot dead by the poachers
14) Prepositional phrases to state the circumstances surrounding the events
- near the town of Gerik
- in a nearby forest
- in the nearby state of Kelantan.
- in Kelantan
