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Four heavily armed elephant poachers were arrested in Malaysia. Wildlife officials said the poachers were caught near the town of Gerik in northern Malaysia's Perak state. They were found with deer antlers and suspected tiger bones. The head of the wildlife department said this group of poachers was notorious for hunting elephants and there may be two other poaching groups still active in the area.

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Assignment Task 4 Module 4

Four heavily armed elephant poachers were arrested in Malaysia. Wildlife officials said the poachers were caught near the town of Gerik in northern Malaysia's Perak state. They were found with deer antlers and suspected tiger bones. The head of the wildlife department said this group of poachers was notorious for hunting elephants and there may be two other poaching groups still active in the area.

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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

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