Let's Read the News of the Day
Remember how to understand news :
• What's happening? It is about a person, a thing, or an event
• Who is involved? People who get involved as a doer/doers, as a witness/ess .
• Where is this happening? The place
• When is it happening? The day and date
• Why is it happening? It is about a process, a reason, cause and effect.
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!REMEMBER!
Headlines often use a NOUN PHRASE, that is, a phrase without a verb:
Poor Service at Supermarkets
Best Strategies for New Tax Year / Thai Protesters Parade
There are also some VERB CHANGES. The simple tenses are preferred to continuous or perfect forms and auxiliary verbs are dropped in the passive:
Teachers Protest Pay Cuts (they are protesting)
Underground Strike Started Today (the strike has started today)
The INFINITIVE TENSE is used to talk about the future:
President to Open New Art Gallery
New Player to be hired by NBA
It is clear that the relationship between the title of the news and the main event (the main element of the news)
located in the first paragraph. The second paragraph is a closely related background with paragraph one.
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Example :
HEADLINE
Girl's kiss saves life of stranger
NEWSWORTHY EVENT
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Exercise :
Practice 1 (page 19-21)
Exercise part D & E (page 22-26)
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