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NEWS REPORT

NEWS REPORT. Main Features. STRUCTURE. HEADLINE: short and eye catching . INTRODUCTION : summary of the event Time Place People MAINBODY: describe event . CONCLUSION: Peoples’s comments Future actions. News Report – An example. Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?.

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NEWS REPORT

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  1. NEWS REPORT Main Features

  2. STRUCTURE • HEADLINE: short and eyecatching. • INTRODUCTION: summary of theevent • Time • Place • People • MAINBODY: describe event. • CONCLUSION: • Peoples’scomments • Futureactions

  3. News Report – An example • Who? • What? • Where? • When? • Why? • How?

  4. MAIN FEATURES • LANGUAGE: • Past tenses • Passive voive • Reporting verbs • OBJECTIVE: NO personal comments or feelings

  5. HEADLINES Tenses: • Recent events: present simple • Norway Killer Claims He 'Had English Mentor‘ • Future events: TO-infinitive • Pakistan To Deport Bin Laden Family • Past event: simple past • Sleepy Pilot Forced Plane Into Sudden Dive

  6. HEADLINES • Use: • passive voice • Newborn Boy Snatched After Mum Shot And Killed • Abbreviations (UK, USA, UNESCO…) • DON’T use: • Stops, commas, articles pronouns , auxiliary verbs, words understood from context • Verb “to Be” in passive to describe pas event • Emergency Landing At Gatwick: 15 Injured

  7. Katherine Jenkins • Event: Katherine Jenkins (classical music singer) has announced she is going to marry her boyfriend (film producer). • People: Katherine Jenkins (classical music singer- mezzo-soprano, 33) boyfriend: Andrew Levitas (film producer, 36, also teaches at New York University) • Date of announcement: Wednesday, 13th April 2013. • Other: • The romance went public when she received an award from the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace in March. • She accepted proposal from boyfriend a few days ago • Miss Jenkins was previously engaged to presenter Gethin Jones • Celebrity friends of the singer posted their congratulations on social networking sites. • No date for the wedding yet. • Katherine Jenkins’ tweet: “Thank you for all your lovely wishes of congratulations. They mean so much to us. Happy Easter!" Katherine Jenkins to Wed Film Producer

  8. Egypt latest news • Event: one dead and 60 injured in a serious incident after a funeral. • Date: Sunday, 7th April 2013  • Time: after memorial service at cathedral. • Place: in the central Cairo neighbourhood of Abbassiya, Egypt. • Other: • the funeral was held for 4 Christians who were killed in sectarian clashes on Friday. • Mourners and residents fought. • Mourners: chanted against the Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. • Residents threw stones and bottles at them. • Mourners fought back. • Riot police intervened: they fired tear gas at the cathedral. • Result: people panicked and run in different directions. 1 dead and 60 injured. • Mr Morsi’s comments: “I consider all attacks on the church as an attack on me personally.” and "the protection of all citizens, Muslims and Christians, is the responsibility of the state".

  9. World Book Day 2013 • Event: Culture professionals contribute to breaking illiteracy. • Date: Tuesday, 23rd April 2013. • Time: throughout the year. • Place: In The UK (At Beanstalk). • Other: • Reading enables people to experience other worlds. • The ability to write and read helps us to understand our own identities. • Beanstalk Volunteers give support to children who have fallen behind with their reading. • World Book Day is an occasion to celebrate the power of storytelling, to inspire a love of reading. • Result: These commitments made by school visitors and reading helpers have to continue developing as they are causing positive effects on children’s abilities. • Charlie Higson’s (children’s author): “This is a “golden age” of children’s writing”.

  10. Bangladesh building collapse • Event: 175 people killed in a building collapse. • Date: Wednesday, 24th April 2013. • Time: morning • Place: Bangladesh. • Other: • Rescue workers digging through the wreckage of the eight-storey Rana Plaza building. • More than 1000 people injured. • Dhaka city development authority filed a case against the building’s owner for faulty construction. • Result: This disaster could hurt Bangladesh’s reputation as a source of low-cost goods and call attention to European and Noth American companies that buy products there. • Factory worker Zohra Begum:“I was at work on the 3rd floor, and then I heard a deafening sound. I ran and was hit by something on my head”.

  11. Spain VS Argentina. The YPF issue •  Argentina’s President: Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Last Monday Argetina nationalized part of oil firm YPF (YPF is currently under the control of Spain's Repsol oil company). • Argentina has some of the world's largest reserves of oil and gas. • In November last year, YPF, which was privatised in 1993, announced a major find of one billion barrels of oil. • The authorities in Argentina accused YPF of not investing enough to increase the output from its oil fields. The firm denies it. • Ratings agency Moody's cut the oil firm's debt rating to B3 from Ba3, saying further downgrades were possible. • Jose Manuel Soria has said:” we are considering taking some action” • Antonio Brufau said “this action will not remain unpunished and we want a compensation”

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