In
order to analyze news reports in the three aspects, you will first need to have
a very good understanding of the contents. This is what you will do in Task 1.
1. First, you will read to understand the three
news reports below. Make sure that you know the meaning of every word and every
part of each news report.
2. Then, read the news aloud as if you were a
news anchor. Make sure you read them meaningfully and fluently, with accurate pronunciation,
word stress, and intonation. Record your voice, and then email the recording to
<email address>.
News Report 1 Police Commissioner Adjutant
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mataram: An Australian tourist
named Andrew Richard Wiseman has died after drowning while surfing at Tanjung
Aan Beach in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara.
Based on reports received
by police, the 52-year-old man went surfing alone around 11 a.m. on Sunday,
Central Park police Chief Adjutant. Sr. Commissioner. Kholilur Rochman said.
Andrew was found dead at around 1 p.m.
During his time in Lombok,
Wiseman was living in a homestay in Kuta village, Pujut district, in Central
Lombok.
The police questioned two
other foreign tourists, Eva, from Germany and John Robert Haton, from
Australia, who had seen the incident firsthand.
“They were the ones who
saw the victim drown. Based on their information, the victim drowned directly
below his surfboard,” Kholilur said on Monday.
The two tourists, as well
as local residents, immediately brought Wiseman back to shore using a boat.
Wiseman was given
emergency first aid for 25 minutes, but he could not be resuscitated,
Kholilur said.
Personnel from the Kuta
Police came to the location after receiving reports and brought Wiseman’s
body to the local health clinic.
The victim’s brother,
Steven Wiseman, took the body and refused an autopsy. — JP
(Taken from Jakarta Post,
Tuesday, March 20, 2018, p. 4)
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News Report 2
|
26 April 2018 — 10:26am
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.
The fire broke out around 1.30am at a backyard well in a village in
Aceh province, on the northern tip of Sumatra Island, according to the
National Disaster Management Agency.
Authorities
were still trying to determine what had caused the fire. Local news reports
said it may have started with a spark from a blowtorch or a worker smoking a
cigarette.
Television
news footage and photos showed 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.
Villagers
had gathered at the well shortly after midnight, carrying buckets, jars and
barrels, in hopes of collecting crude oil after being told about a massive
spill there, according to the disaster agency.
"A group of people came to gather up oil and they weren't
supposed to be there," the disaster agency said in a statement.
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.
Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the
state-owned oil company Pertamina sent teams to Aceh, which has industrial
oil and gas operations, to investigate the incident, said Agung Pribadi, a
ministry spokesman.
"This is a case of illegal drilling and the ones responsible for
it must be dealt with by the law," he said.
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.
Lieutenant Colonel Wahyu Kuncoro, chief of the East Aceh district
police, told reporters at the scene that firefighters were trying to
"break the chain of oxygen" in the well to stop the fire. He
confirmed the well operation was illegal, but he said many villagers depended
on it for their livelihood.
Illegal well operations are common in Indonesian regions where oil is
present, including on the islands of Sumatra and Java. In some cases, the
wells were abandoned by the Dutch colonial administration that once ruled
Indonesia, and are now run by groups of villagers working around the clock.
"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.
"Then they sell it as kerosene to the local market, or for
motorcycles and fishing boats," he said. "Those are their
customers. The local governments know, but because they can't provide any
other jobs, they look the other way."
New York Times
Visited
on 26 April 2018, 22:07
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News Report 3
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malaysia: Four heavily armed
poachers who targetted wild elephants in Malaysia have been caught, officials
said Tuesday, the second such arrest in less than two years.
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.
A joint police and
wildlife department investigation also led the agents to find an elephant
shot dead by the poachers in a nearby forest with its tusks ripped out.
“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.”
A police statement said
weapons including rifles and homemade shotguns as well as animal snares were
found after they arrested the gang.
The elephant’s tusks were
not found, with a wildlife official believing that they were already sold.
He added that the gang –
all locals – were believed to have been operating since 2009, and were also
active in the nearby state of Kelantan.
The
arrests come a year after a seven-man gang was arrested in Kelantan, with
explosives, guns and parts of tusks seized.. – AFP
(Taken from The Jakarta Post, Thu, March 15, 2018,
p. 10)
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Thank you Mam, I have read the text and sent
the recording to your e-mail.
Topic 1: Social Functions of News Reports
Task
2
Now,
you will analyze the social functions of the three news
reports, by analysing the issues, the target readers, and the points of
interests or importance, by answering the following questions.
2.
What is each reporter’s position
towards the issue? Provide the related words, expressions, and sentences as
evidence to support your argument.
3.
How would each news report enlighten
its readers? Provide the related words, expressions, and sentences as evidence
to support your argument.
The
analysis of News Report 1 has been done for you as an example. Study the
example carefully.
1.
Who might be interested in reading
each news report?
To answer the first question, you need to make a list
of people or tourists who likely
have good interest in surfing, particularly in Lombok.
Target readers:
|
·
Australian tourists in Indonesia
·
Tourists to Lombok
·
Surfers
·
Young people in general
·
People who care for travel safety
·
...
|
2.
What is each reporter’s position
towards the issue? Provide the related words, expressions, and sentences as
evidence to support your argument.
The word
‘position’ is synonymous to attitude. The news reporters’ attitudes towards a
news may include words that are associated to feelings and judgements, such as neutral, biased, provoked, enthusiastic, judgemental, etc.
The
reporter’s position towards the issue:
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The reporter has a neutral or objective position
towards the event.
1)
Reporting the event by just
retelling the information given by the main source, the police.
Evidence:
-
... the 52-year-old man went surfing
alone around 11 a.m. on Sunday, Central Park police Chief Adj. Sr. Comr.
Kholilur Rochman said. Andrew was
found dead at around 1 p.m.
-
“They were the ones who saw the
victim drown. Based on their
information, the victim drowned directly below his surfboard,” Kholilur said on Monday.
-
Wiseman was given emergency first
aid for 25 minutes, but he could not be resuscitated, Kholilur said.
2)
The police reporting the event as
stated by the witnesses.
Evidence:
-
Based on
reports received by police, ...
-
The police questioned two other
foreign tourists, Eva, from Germany and John Robert Haton, from Australia,
who had seen the incident firsthand.
3) There
is no evidence of offensive or emotional expressions used in the
news report.
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3.
How would each news report enlighten
its readers? Provide the related words, expressions, and sentences as evidence
to support your argument.
A reader reads
a news report to be enlightened. The manner in which the reader is enlightened
by the news include knowledge enrichment, emotional arousal, awareness raising,
etc.
As shown by
the example, by reading the news, the target readers obtain necessary
information associated with
Wiseman’s accident.
Information
obtained:
|
Reading the news report, the
readers will have good understanding about:
1)
The event or accident
Evidence:
-
An Australian tourist named Andrew
Richard Wiseman has died after drowning while surfing at Tanjung Aan Beach in
Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara.
2)
The sources of the information:
Evidence:
-
Central Park police Chief Adj. Sr.
Comr. Kholilur Rochman
-
Two other foreign tourists, Eva,
from Germany and John Robert Haton, from Australia, who had seen the incident
firsthand
3)
The reason of Wiseman’s death:
Evidence:
-
... drowning while surfing ...
-
Based on their information, the
victim drowned directly below his surfboard ...
4)
The time of the accident:
Evidence:
-
between 11am and 1pm on Sunday
5)
The location of the accident:
Evidence:
-
at Tanjung Aan Beach in Lombok, West
Nusa Tenggara
6)
Wiseman’s accommodation in Lombok:
Evidence:
-
During his time in Lombok, Wiseman
was living in a homestay in Kuta village, Pujut district, in Central Lombok.
7)
The witnesses’ attempt to save
Wiseman’s life:
Evidence:
-
The two tourists, as well as local
residents, immediately brought Wiseman back to shore using a boat.
-
Wiseman was given emergency first
aid for 25 minutes, but he could not be resuscitated, ...
-
Personnel from the Kuta Police came
to the location after receiving reports and brought Wiseman’s body to the
local health clinic.
8)
Family’s responsibility:
Evidence:
-
The victim’s brother, Steven
Wiseman, took the body and refused an autopsy.
|
Now, it’s your
turn to analyse the other two news reports by using the same
table as the template. First, write your analysis as shown in the example.
When you are done,
check out the answer keys.
ANSWER
TASK 2
Fire erupts at illegal oil
well in Indonesia
26
April 2018 — 10:26am
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.
The fire broke out around 1.30am at a backyard well in a
village in Aceh province, on the northern tip of Sumatra Island, according to
the National Disaster Management Agency.
Authorities were still trying to determine what had caused the fire. Local
news reports said it may have started with a spark from a blowtorch or a worker
smoking a cigarette.
Television news footage and photos showed 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.
Villagers had gathered at the well shortly after midnight, carrying
buckets, jars and barrels, in hopes of collecting crude oil after being told
about a massive spill there, according to the disaster agency.
"A group of people came to gather up oil and they
weren't supposed to be there," the disaster agency said in a statement.
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.
Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and
the state-owned oil company Pertamina sent teams to Aceh, which has industrial
oil and gas operations, to investigate the incident, said Agung Pribadi, a
ministry spokesman.
"This is a case of illegal drilling and the ones
responsible for it must be dealt with by the law," he said.
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.
Lieutenant Colonel Wahyu Kuncoro, chief of the East Aceh
district police, told reporters at the scene that firefighters were trying to
"break the chain of oxygen" in the well to stop the fire. He
confirmed the well operation was illegal, but he said many villagers depended
on it for their livelihood.
Illegal well operations are common in Indonesian regions
where oil is present, including on the islands of Sumatra and Java. In some
cases, the wells were abandoned by the Dutch colonial administration that once
ruled Indonesia, and are now run by groups of villagers working around the
clock.
"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.
"Then they sell it as kerosene to the local market,
or for motorcycles and fishing boats," he said. "Those are their
customers. The local governments know, but because they can't provide any other
jobs, they look the other way."
New York Times
Visited on 26
April 2018, 22:07
Question
1:
1.
Who might be interested in reading
each news report?
Target Readers
|
Ø All
villagers
Ø All People
Ø Goverment
Ø SAR
team
Ø Police
Ø Environmentalists
Ø Firefighters
Ø Oil
miners
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2.
What is each reporter’s position
towards the issue? Provide the related words, expressions, and sentences as
evidence to support your argument.
The reporter’s
position towards the issue
|
The
reporter has a neutral or objective
position towards the event. Reporting the event by just retelling the
information given by the sources; Disaster agency, the police, authorities, a
ministry spokesman, and National Disaster Management Agency.
Evidence
Ø A group
of people came to gather up oil and they weren't supposed to be there,"
the disaster agency said in a statement.
Ø A
ministry spokesman."This is a case of illegal drilling and the ones
responsible for it must be dealt with by the law,". 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.
Ø Lieutenant
Colonel Wahyu Kuncoro, chief of the East Aceh district police,told reporters
at the scene that firefighters were trying to "break the chain of
oxygen" in the well to stop the fire. He confirmed the well operation
was illegal, but he said many villagers depended on it for their livelihood.
Ø "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.
|
3.
How would each news report enlighten
its readers? Provide the related words, expressions, and sentences as evidence
to support your argument
Reading the news report, the readers will have good
understanding about:
1)
The accident
Evidence:
Ø 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.
2)
The sources:
Evidence:
Ø The
National Disaster Management Agency.
Ø Lieutenant
Colonel Wahyu Kuncoro
Ø Mangantar
Marpaung, former chief of the Indonesian Mining Fire and Rescue Agency
Ø Agung
Pribadi, a ministry spokesman.
3)
The reason of fire erupted at the
oil well:
Evidence:
Ø
Local news reports said it may have started with a
spark from a blowtorch or a worker smoking a cigarette.
4)
The time and location of the
accident:
Evidence:
Ø On
Wednesday,
Ø
At 1.30 am
Ø
At Pasir Putih village in East Aceh district, Aceh
Province
5)
The authorities’ attention to the
accident::
Evidence:
Ø Indonesia's
Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the state-owned oil company
Pertamina sent teams to Aceh
Ø Lieutenant
Colonel Wahyu Kuncoro, chief of the East Aceh district police, told reporters
at the scene that firefighters were trying to "break the chain of
oxygen" in the well to stop the fire.
Ø "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
6)
The victims::
Evidence:
At least 18 people and injuring about 40 others
|
malaysia: Four
heavily armed poachers who targetted wild elephants in Malaysia have been
caught, officials said Tuesday, the second such arrest in less than two years.
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.
A
joint police and wildlife department investigation also led the agents to find
an elephant shot dead by the poachers in a nearby forest with its tusks ripped
out.
“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.”
A
police statement said weapons including rifles and homemade shotguns as well as
animal snares were found after they arrested the gang.
The
elephant’s tusks were not found, with a wildlife official believing that they
were already sold.
He
added that the gang – all locals – were believed to have been operating since
2009, and were also active in the nearby state of Kelantan.
The arrests come a year after a
seven-man gang was arrested in Kelantan, with explosives, guns and parts of
tusks seized.. – AFP
(Taken from The
Jakarta Post, Thu, March 15, 2018,
p. 10)
1. Who might
be interested in reading each news report?
Target Readers
|
Ø
All
People
Ø
Zoo
keeper
Ø
Zoo
official
Ø
Government
Ø Animal lovers
Ø The
members of Wildlife Department
Ø Other Elephant Poachers
|
2. What is
each reporter’s position towards the issue? Provide the related words,
expressions, and sentences as evidence to support your argument.
The reporter’s
position towards the issue
|
1)
Reporting the event by just
retelling the information given by the main sources, the police and officals
of Wildlife Depatment
Evidence:
Ø Four
heavily armed poachers who targetted wild elephants in Malaysia have been
caught, officials said Tuesday, the second such arrest in less than two
years.
Ø 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.
Ø “This crew
is notorious. They hunt elephants,” wildlife department chief Abdul Kadir
Abdul Hashim told AFP.
|
3. How would
each news report enlighten its readers? Provide the related words, expressions,
and sentences as evidence to support your argument.
Information obtained
|
Reading the news report, the readers
will have good understanding about:
A.
The event
The sentence of evidence:
Ø Four
heavily armed poachers who targetted wild elephants in Malaysia have been
caught,
B. The
sources of the information:
The sentence of evidence:
Ø Wildlife officials
and police
C. The evidence goods
The sentence of evidence:
Ø Deer antlers
and suspected tiger bones.
Ø An
elephant shot dead by the poachers in a nearby forest with its tusks ripped
out
Ø Weapons including
rifles, homemade shotguns, and animal snares
D. The place
of arrestment:
The sentence of evidence:
Ø Near the
town of Gerik in the nothern Malaysian state of Perak
E. The time
of arrestment
The sentence of evidence:
Ø The
arrests come a year after a seven-man gang was arrested in Kelantan, with
explosives, guns and parts of tusks seized
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Topic 2: Text Structures of News Reports
Now, you will analyze the text
structures of the three news reports. The analysis of News Report 1
has been done for you as an example. Study the example
carefully. Then, analyze the text structures of the other two texts as shown by
the example.
Here’s how to analyze the headline.
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Parts of News
|
Functions of the Parts
|
I.
|
Headline
|
Summarizing the event in a
telegraphic text
|
|
Aussie man dies while
surfing in Lombok
|
1)
The casualty
Ø Aussie man
2)
The unfortunate
event
Ø dies
3)
The time and location
(an activity)
Ø while surfing in
Lombok
|
Now, have a close look at the
structure of the section of the Newsworthy Event.
II.
|
Newsworthy Event
(The first paragraph)
|
Summarizing
the event:
Restating the headline in
a normal sentence or sentences, with more information added to the facts
stated in the headline
|
|
mataram:
An Australian tourist named Andrew Richard Wiseman has died after drowning
while surfing at Tanjung Aan Beach in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara.
|
1)
Restating the
casualty with further details
Ø An
Australian tourist named Andrew Richard Wiseman, ...
2)
Restating the death
Ø ...
has died ...
3)
Adding the reason of
the event
Ø ...
after drowning...
4)
Restating the time (in
an activity he was doing)
Ø while
surfing ...
5)
Adding the
specified details to the location
Ø ...
at Tanjung Aan Beach in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara
6) Starting
with the name of the location of coverage:
Ø mataram: ...
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The section of ‘Events in
Details’ elaborates the facts stated in the Newsworthy
Events by providing necessary and
additional details.
III.
|
Events in Details
(The following
paragraph)
|
Elaborating
the Newsworthy Event
providing more
details about the facts stated in the
Newsworthy Event
|
|
Based
on reports received by police, the 52-year-old man went surfing alone around
11 a.m. on Sunday, Central Park police Chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Kholilur Rochman
said. Andrew was found dead at around 1 p.m.
|
Elaborating the incident
1)
the source person
Ø Based
on reports received by police, ...
Ø Central
Park police Chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Kholilur Rochman said.
2)
the casualty’s age
Ø ...
the 52-year-old man ...
3)
the reason of the accident
Ø ...
went surfing alone around 11 a.m. on Sunday, ...
4)
the death
Ø Andrew
was found dead at around 1 p.m.
|
|
During
his time in Lombok, Wiseman was living in a homestay in Kuta village, Pujut
district, in Central Lombok.
|
Elaborating the casualty
5)
his accommodation
in Lombok.
Ø ...
was living in a homestay in Kuta village, Pujut district, in Central Lombok.
|
|
The
police questioned two other foreign tourists, Eva, from Germany and John
Robert Haton, from Australia, who had seen the incident firsthand.
“They
were the ones who saw the victim drown. Based on their information, the
victim drowned directly below his surfboard,” Kholilur said on Monday.
|
Elaborating the accident
6)
the firsthand witnesses.
Ø The
police questioned two other foreign tourists, Eva, from Germany and John
Robert Haton, from Australia, ....
Ø ...
They were the ones who saw the victim drown. Based on their information ...
7)
the accident
Ø ...
the victim drowned directly below his surfboard ...
8)
the source of
information
Ø ...
Kholilur said on Monday
|
|
The
two tourists, as well as local residents, immediately brought Wiseman back to
shore using a boat.
Wiseman
was given emergency first aid for 25 minutes, but he could not be
resuscitated, Kholilur said.
|
Elaborating the incident:
9)
the attempt to
save the casualty’s life.
Ø The
two tourists, as well as local residents, immediately brought Wiseman back to
shore using a boat.
Ø ...
was given emergency first aid for 25 minutes, but he could not be
resuscitated ...
10)
the source of information
... Kholilur said ...
|
|
Personnel
from the Kuta Police came to the location after receiving reports and brought
Wiseman’s body to the local health clinic.
The
victim’s brother, Steven Wiseman, took the body and refused an autopsy.
|
Adding information related to the death
11)
the authority’s
responsibility
Ø Personnel
from the Kuta Police came to the location after receiving reports and brought
Wiseman’s body to the local health clinic.
12)
the family’s
responsibility
Ø The
victim’s brother, Steven Wiseman, took the body and refused an autopsy.
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IV.
|
News Agent’s Initials
|
Closing
the news with the news agent’s initials
13)
the owner of the
copy right of the news report
— JP
|
Now, it’s your turn to
analyse the text structure of the
other two news reports by using
the same table as the template. First, write your analysis as shown in the
example.
When you are done, check out
the answer keys.
Fire erupts at illegal oil well in Indonesia
26 April 2018 — 10:26am
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.
The fire broke out around 1.30am at a backyard well in a
village in Aceh province, on the northern tip of Sumatra Island, according to
the National Disaster Management Agency.
Authorities were still trying to determine what had caused the fire. Local
news reports said it may have started with a spark from a blowtorch or a worker
smoking a cigarette.
Television news footage and photos showed 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.
Villagers had gathered at the well shortly after midnight, carrying
buckets, jars and barrels, in hopes of collecting crude oil after being told
about a massive spill there, according to the disaster agency.
"A group of people came to gather up oil and they
weren't supposed to be there," the disaster agency said in a statement.
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.
Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and
the state-owned oil company Pertamina sent teams to Aceh, which has industrial
oil and gas operations, to investigate the incident, said Agung Pribadi, a
ministry spokesman.
"This is a case of illegal drilling and the ones
responsible for it must be dealt with by the law," he said.
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.
Lieutenant Colonel Wahyu Kuncoro, chief of the East Aceh
district police, told reporters at the scene that firefighters were trying to
"break the chain of oxygen" in the well to stop the fire. He
confirmed the well operation was illegal, but he said many villagers depended on
it for their livelihood.
Illegal well operations are common in Indonesian regions
where oil is present, including on the islands of Sumatra and Java. In some
cases, the wells were abandoned by the Dutch colonial administration that once
ruled Indonesia, and are now run by groups of villagers working around the
clock.
"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.
"Then they sell it as kerosene to the local market,
or for motorcycles and fishing boats," he said. "Those are their
customers. The local governments know, but because they can't provide any other
jobs, they look the other way."
New York Times
Visited on 26 April 2018, 22:07
ANSWER
The Structure
of the Headline
Text 2
|
Parts of News
|
Functions of the Parts
|
I.
|
Headline
|
Summarizing the event in a telegraphic text
|
|
Fire
erupts at illegal oil well in Indonesia
|
1)
The unfortunate event
Ø Fire
erupts
2)
The time and location (an activity)
Ø At an
illegal oil well site in Indonesia
|
The Structure
of the Newsworthy Event
Text
2
II.
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Newsworthy Event
(The first paragraph)
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Summarizing
the event:
Restating the headline in a normal
sentence or sentences, with more information added to the facts stated in the
headline
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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.
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1)
Restating the casualty with further
details
Ø Killing
at least 18 people and injuring about 40 others, some of whom were badly
burnt
2)
Adding the reason of the event
Ø It may
have started with a spark from a blowtorch or a worker smoking a cigarette
3)
Restating the time
Ø The
fire broke out around 1.30am on wednesday
4)
Adding the specified details to the
location
Ø At a
backyard well in a village in Aceh province
5) Starting
with the name of the location of coverage:
Ø Jakarta:
...
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The Structure
of the Events in Details
The section of ‘Events in
Details’ elaborates
the facts stated in the Newsworthy Events by providing necessary and
additional details.
III.
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Events in Details
(The following paragraph)
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Elaborating
the Newsworthy Event
providing
more details about the facts
stated in the Newsworthy Event
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The fire broke out around 1.30am at a backyard well in
a village in Aceh province, on the northern tip of Sumatra Island, according
to the National Disaster Management Agency
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Elaborating the incident
1)
The source person
Ø the
National Disaster Management Agency
2)
The time and location of incident
Ø around
1.30am at a backyard well in a village in Aceh province
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Authorities were still trying to determine what had
caused the fire. Local news reports said it may have started with a spark
from a blowtorch or a worker smoking a cigarette.
Television news footage and photos showed 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.
Villagers had gathered at the well shortly after
midnight, carrying buckets, jars and barrels, in hopes of collecting crude
oil after being told about a massive spill there, according to the disaster
agency.
"A group of people came to
gather up oil and they weren't supposed to be there," the disaster
agency said in a statement.
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.
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Elaborating the accident
1)
The cause of accident
Ø it may
have started with a spark from a blowtorch or a worker smoking a cigarette
2)
The description of fire
Ø 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.
3)
The statement of disaster agency
Ø "A
group of people came to gather up oil and they weren't supposed to be
there," the disaster agency said in a statement
4)
The loss of incident
Ø 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.
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Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources
and the state-owned oil company
Pertamina sent teams to Aceh, which has industrial oil
and gas operations, to investigate the incident, said Agung Pribadi, a
ministry spokesman.
"This is a case of illegal drilling and the ones
responsible for it must be dealt with by the law," he said.
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.
Lieutenant Colonel Wahyu Kuncoro, chief of the East
Aceh district police, told reporters at the scene that firefighters were
trying to "break the chain of oxygen" in the well to stop the fire.
He confirmed the well operation was illegal, but he said many villagers
depended on it for their livelihood.
Illegal well operations are common in Indonesian
regions where oil is present, including on the islands of Sumatra and Java.
In some cases, the wells were abandoned by the Dutch colonial administration
that once ruled Indonesia, and are now run by groups of villagers working
around the clock.
"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.
"Then they sell it as kerosene to the local
market, or for motorcycles and fishing boats," he said. "Those are
their customers. The local governments know, but because they can't provide
any other jobs, they look the other way."
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Elaborating the incident:
1)
The respond of Indonesia's Ministry
of Energy and Mineral Resources
Ø Pertamina
sent teams to Aceh, which has industrial oil and gas operations, to
investigate the incident
Ø The
well was being operated by local residents, and not sure if there were other
illegal wells in the area.
2)
The statement of Police
Ø Lieutenant
Colonel Wahyu Kuncoro, chief of the East Aceh district police, told reporters
at the scene that firefighters were trying to "break the chain of
oxygen" in the well to stop the fire. He confirmed the well operation
was illegal, but he said many villagers depended on it for their livelihood
3)
Additional information historically
Ø The
wells were abandoned by the Dutch colonial administration that once ruled
Indonesia, and are now run by groups of villagers working around the clock
4)
The chronologies of the incident
Ø 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,".
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IV.
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New York Times
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Closing the news with the news
agent’s initials
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Text 3
malaysia: Four
heavily armed poachers who targetted wild elephants in Malaysia have been
caught, officials said Tuesday, the second such arrest in less than two years.
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.
A joint police and wildlife department investigation also
led the agents to find an elephant shot dead by the poachers in a nearby forest
with its tusks ripped out.
“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.”
A police statement said weapons including rifles and
homemade shotguns as well as animal snares were found after they arrested the
gang.
The elephant’s tusks were not found, with a wildlife
official believing that they were already sold.
He added that the gang – all
locals – were believed to have been operating since 2009, and were also active
in the nearby state of Kelantan.
The
arrests come a year after a seven-man gang was arrested in Kelantan, with
explosives, guns and parts of tusks seized.. – AFP
(Taken from The Jakarta Post, Thu, March 15, 2018,
p. 10)
The Structure
of the Headline
Text 3
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Parts of News
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Functions of the Parts
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I.
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Headline
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Summarizing the event in a telegraphic text
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Elephant
poachers arrested in Malaysia
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1)
The Perpetrators
Ø Elephant poachers
2)
The unfortunate event
Ø Arrested
3)
The time and location (an activity)
Ø Malaysia
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The Structure
of the Newsworthy Event
Text
3
II.
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Newsworthy Event
(The first paragraph)
|
Summarizing
the event:
Restating the headline in a normal
sentence or sentences, with more information added to the facts stated in the
headline
|
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Four heavily armed poachers who
targetted wild elephants in Malaysia have been caught, officials said
Tuesday, the second such arrest in less than two years
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1)
Restating the Perpetrators with further details
Ø Four heavily armed poachers
who targetted wild elephants in Malaysia have been caught
2)
Adding the time of the event
reported
Ø Tuesday
3) Starting
with the name of the location of coverage:
Ø Malaysia:
4)
The source
Ø Officials
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The Structure
of the Events in Details
The section of ‘Events in
Details’ elaborates
the facts stated in the Newsworthy Events by providing necessary and
additional details.
III.
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Events in Details
(The following paragraph)
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Elaborating
the Newsworthy Event
providing
more details about the facts
stated in the Newsworthy Event
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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.
A joint police
and wildlife department investigation also led the agents to find an elephant
shot dead by the poachers in a nearby forest with its tusks ripped out.
“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.”
A police
statement said weapons including rifles and homemade shotguns as well as
animal snares were found after they arrested the gang.
The elephant’s
tusks were not found, with a wildlife official believing that they were
already sold.
He added that
the gang – all locals – were believed to have been operating since 2009, and
were also active in the nearby state of Kelantan.
The arrests come
a year after a seven-man gang was arrested in Kelantan, with explosives, guns
and parts of tusks seized.. – AFP
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Elaborating of arrest
1)
The specific location
Ø Near
the town of Gerik in the nothern Malaysian state of Perak The description of
fire
2)
The efforts of arrest
Ø A joint
police and wildlife department investigation also led the agents to find an
elephant shot dead by the poachers in a nearby forest with its tusks ripped
out.
3)
The source
Ø Wildlife
department chief Abdul Kadir Abdul Hashim
4)
Additional information
Ø There
are maybe two more [poaching] groups [in the area].
Ø the
gang – all locals – were believed to have been operating since 2009, and were
also active in the nearby state of Kelantan
Ø The
elephant’s tusks were not found, with a wildlife official believing that they
were already sold.
Ø The
arrests come a year after a seven-man gang was arrested in Kelantan, with
explosives, guns and parts of tusks seized.. – AFP
5)
The evidence goods
Ø Weapons
including rifles and homemade shotguns, animal snares
Ø Explosives,
guns and parts of tusks seized
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IV.
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The Jakarta Post
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Closing the news with the news
agent’s initials
(Taken
from The Jakarta Post, Thu, March 15, 2018, p. 10)
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Task
4
Now,
you will analyse
the
lexicogrammatical features of the three news reports. The analysis of News Report 1
has been done for you as an example. Study the example carefully.
The
lexicogrammatical features of the headline
The Headline
1) Bigger and bold fonts
stating the newsworthy facts of the event
2) Telegraphic sentence: leaving out function words.
-
Aussie man
(telegraphic) = an Aussie man
(normal)
-
Aussie
(shortened name) = Australia (normal)
3) The Simple Present Tense for
‘active’ voice
-
Aussie man dies while surfing in Lombok
(for
the normal form “... died / has died
...)
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The Lexicogrammatical Features
of the Newsworthy Event
The
lexicogrammatical features of the Newsworthy Events
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 present perfect tense, and present participle.
[An Australian tourist named
Andrew Richard Wiseman] [has died]
[after drowning] [while surfing] [at Tanjung Aan Beach in
Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara].
5) It
starts with
the name of the place where the event was covered, in small cap characters:
mataram:
...
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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: went, said, was found
3rd
paragraph: was living
4th
paragraph: questioned, had
seen
5th
paragraph: were, saw,
drowned, said
6th
paragraph: brought
7th
paragraph: was given, could
not be resuscitated, said
8th
paragraph: came, brought
9th
paragraph: took, refused
2) The passive
voice
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Andrew was found dead at around 1 p.m. ...
3) Direct quotations to report the events
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“They were the ones who saw the
victim drown. Based on their information, the victim drowned directly below
his surfboard,” Kholilur said on
Monday.
4) Indirect quotations to report the events
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Based on reports received by police,
the 52-year-old man went surfing alone around 11 a.m. on Sunday, Central Park
police Chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Kholilur Rochman said.
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Wiseman was given emergency first
aid for 25 minutes, but he could not be resuscitated, Kholilur said.
-
Based on
reports received by police, the 52-year-old man went surfing alone around 11
a.m. on Sunday
5) Participle [present] to state the
circumstances surrounding the event
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…while
surfing at Tanjung Aan Beach in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara ....
-
… the
52-year-old man went surfing
alone around 11 a.m. on Sunday …
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… after
receiving reports, …
6) Participle [past] to modify a
thing or person
-
An Australian tourist named Andrew Richard Wiseman
....
-
Based on reports received by police, …
7) Adjective clauses to add more information about a
person/thing
-
... two other foreign tourists, Eva, from Germany and John Robert Haton, from
Australia, who had seen the incident
firsthand.
8) Prepositional
phrases to state the circumstances surrounding the
events
-
at
Tanjung Aan
Beach
-
in
Lombok
-
around
11 a.m.
-
on
Sunday
-
during
his time in Lombok
-
in a homestay
-
in Kuta village
-
Etc.
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Now, it’s your
turn to analyse the lexicogrammatical
features of the
other two news reports by using
the same table as the template.
When you are done,
check out the answer keys.
ANSWER
TEXT 2
Fire erupts at illegal oil
well in Indonesia
26 April 2018 — 10:26am
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.
The fire broke out around 1.30am at a backyard well in a
village in Aceh province, on the northern tip of Sumatra Island, according to
the National Disaster Management Agency.
Authorities were still trying to determine what had caused the fire. Local
news reports said it may have started with a spark from a blowtorch or a worker
smoking a cigarette.
Television news footage and photos showed 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.
Villagers had gathered at the well shortly after midnight, carrying
buckets, jars and barrels, in hopes of collecting crude oil after being told
about a massive spill there, according to the disaster agency.
"A group of people came to gather up oil and they
weren't supposed to be there," the disaster agency said in a statement.
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.
Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and
the state-owned oil company Pertamina sent teams to Aceh, which has industrial
oil and gas operations, to investigate the incident, said Agung Pribadi, a
ministry spokesman.
"This is a case of illegal drilling and the ones
responsible for it must be dealt with by the law," he said.
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.
Lieutenant Colonel Wahyu Kuncoro, chief of the East Aceh
district police, told reporters at the scene that firefighters were trying to
"break the chain of oxygen" in the well to stop the fire. He
confirmed the well operation was illegal, but he said many villagers depended
on it for their livelihood.
Illegal well operations are common in Indonesian regions
where oil is present, including on the islands of Sumatra and Java. In some
cases, the wells were abandoned by the Dutch colonial administration that once
ruled Indonesia, and are now run by groups of villagers working around the
clock.
"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.
"Then they sell it as kerosene to the local market,
or for motorcycles and fishing boats," he said. "Those are their
customers. The local governments know, but because they can't provide any other
jobs, they look the other way."
New York Times
Visited on 26
April 2018, 22:07
The
Lexicogrammatical Features of the Headline
The lexicogrammatical features of the headline
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 ...)
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The
Lexicogrammatical Features of the Newsworthy Event
The lexicogrammatical features of the Newsworthy
Events
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 simple past tense, and passive voice.
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 event was covered, in small cap characters:
Jakarta : ...
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The
Lexicogrammatical Features of the Events in Details
The lexicogrammatical features of the the Events in
Details
The Events
in Details
6)
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
Ø 3rd paragraph : were still trying, had caused,
have started
Ø 4th paragraph : showed
Ø 5th paragraph : had gathered
Ø 6th paragraph : came
Ø 7th paragraph : were gutted, were still trying
Ø 8th paragraph : sent
Ø 9th paragraph : was being operated
Ø 10th paragraph
: were trying, told, confirmed, depended, said
Ø 11st paragraph : were abandoned, ruled
The passive voice
Ø At
least five homes were gutted by the fire
Ø They
weren't supposed
Ø it must
be dealt
Ø the
well was being operated by local residents
Ø the
wells were abandoned
7) Direct quotations to report the events
Ø “"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.
8) Indirect quotations to report the events
Ø 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.
Ø 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. Participle [present]
to state the circumstances surrounding the event
9) Participle
[present] to state the circumstances surrounding the event
Ø In hopes of collecting crude oil after being told
about a massive spill there,
10) Adjective
clauses to add more information about a person/thing
Ø 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.
11) Prepositional phrases
Ø At an illegal oil well site
Ø In Indonesia's northernmost province
Ø In Aceh province
Ø About 1600 kilometres north-west of the Indonesian
capital, Jakarta.
Ø On Wednesday evening
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Text 3
malaysia: Four heavily armed poachers who targetted
wild elephants in Malaysia have been caught, officials said Tuesday, the second
such arrest in less than two years.
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.
A
joint police and wildlife department investigation also led the agents to find
an elephant shot dead by the poachers in a nearby forest with its tusks ripped
out.
“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.”
A
police statement said weapons including rifles and homemade shotguns as well as
animal snares were found after they arrested the gang.
The
elephant’s tusks were not found, with a wildlife official believing that they
were already sold.
He
added that the gang – all locals – were believed to have been operating since
2009, and were also active in the nearby state of Kelantan.
The arrests come a year after a seven-man
gang was arrested in Kelantan, with explosives, guns and parts of tusks
seized.. – AFP
(Taken from The Jakarta Post, Thu
The
Lexicogrammatical Features of the Headline
The lexicogrammatical features of the headline
The Headline
1)
Bigger and
bold fonts
stating the newsworthy facts of the event
2)
Telegraphic sentence: leaving out function words.
Elephant
poachers (telegraphic) = The elephant
poachers (normal)
3)
The Simple Present Tense for
‘active’ voice
Elephant poachers arrested
in Malaysia
(for the normal form “... arrested / has arrested...)
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The
Lexicogrammatical Features of the Newsworthy Event
The lexicogrammatical features of the Newsworthy
Events
The Newsworthy Events
4)
A sentence
or sentences in the first paragraph containing all important facts about the
event: (1) the perpetrator, (2) the accident, (3)
the reason, (4) the time, and the verb in the simple past
tense and Passive Voice.
Ø 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.
5) It
starts with the name of the place where the news was reported, in small cap
characters:
Ø
MALAYSIA:
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The
Lexicogrammatical Features of the Events in Details
The lexicogrammatical features of the the Events in
Details
The Events in Details
6) 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
Ø 2nd paragraph : was found
Ø 3rd paragraph : led
Ø 4th paragraph : showed
Ø 6th paragraph : were found
Ø 7th paragraph : were not found, were
already sold
Ø 8th paragraph : were believed
7) The passive voice
Ø 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.
Ø The elephant’s tusks were not found with a wildlife official believing
that they were already sold.
Ø He
added that the gang – all locals – were believed to have been
operating since 2009, and were also active in the nearby state of Kelantan.
Ø The
arrests come a year after a seven-man gang was arrested in Kelantan,
with explosives, guns and parts of tusks seized
8) Direct quotations to report the events
Ø “This crew is notorious. They hunt
elephants,” wildlife department chief Abdul Kadir Abdul Hashim told AFP.
Ø “There are maybe two more [poaching] groups
[in the area]. We are working together with the police on this.”
9) Indirect quotations to report the events
Ø 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
10) Participle [present] to state the
circumstances surrounding the event
Ø Weapons including rifles and homemade
shotguns
11) Participle (past) to modify nouns
Ø An elephant shot dead by the poachers
14) Prepositional phrases to
state the circumstances surrounding the events
Ø Near the town of Gerik
Ø In a nearby forest
Ø In the nearby state of Kelantan.
Ø In Kelantan
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