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NEWS REPORT. Main Features. STRUCTURE. HEADLINE: short and eye catching. INTRUDUCTION: summary of the event Time Place People MAINBODY: describe event. CONCLUSION: People’s comments Future actions. MAIN FEATURES. LANGUAGE: Past tenses Passive voive Reporting verbs
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NEWS REPORT Main Features
STRUCTURE • HEADLINE: short and eye catching. • INTRUDUCTION: summary of the event • Time • Place • People • MAINBODY: describe event. • CONCLUSION: • People’s comments • Future actions
MAIN FEATURES • LANGUAGE: • Past tenses • Passive voive • Reporting verbs • OBJECTIVE: NO personal comments or feelings
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
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 past event • Emergency Landing At Gatwick: 15 Injured
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”
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 effects on children’s abilities. • Charlie Higson’s (children’s author) comments: This is “a golden age of children’s writing”.