Struktur teks News Item Text

Squad, struktur teks News Item Text ada tiga, lho! Ketiga struktur tersebut adalah main event
/newsworthy event (Kejadian inti), background event/elaboration (latar belakang peristiwa), dan source
(sumber informasi). Squad, yang dimaksud dengan main event/newsworthy event adalah berita utama.
Main event tersebut menjelaskan ringkasan berita yang akan dijelaskan tersebut.

Lalu, bagaimana dengan background event/elaboration? Background event/elaboration menceritakan

Dalam menulis News Item Text, kamu harus mencantumkan sumber juga lho, Squad! Dalam Bahasa
Inggris, sumber disebut dengan source. Sumber yang dimaksud di sini bisa merupakan pernyataan,
komentar, atau pendapat dari pihak-pihak yang terkait dengan peristiwa tersebut.

Mengenal News Item Text dalam Bahasa Inggris

Contoh teks News Item Text

Squad, setelah membahas mengenai struktur dan ciri-ciri News Item Text, sekarang kita lihat contoh
News Item Text, yuk! Cek contohnya di bawah ini!

Nepal Rescuers Find 3 Bodies Near Crashed US Marine

Nepalese rescuers on Friday found three bodies near the wreckage of a U.S. Marine helicopter that
disappeared earlier this week while on a relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation, officials
said. Nepal’s Defense Secretary Iswori Poudyal gave no details about the nationalities of the victims. The
helicopter was carrying six Marines and two Nepalese army soldiers. The wreckage was found near
Gothali village in the district of Dolakha. The U.S. Embassy in Nepal had no immediate comment Friday.
The discovery of the wreckage, first spotted by a Nepalese army helicopter Friday, followed days of
intense search involving U.S. and Nepalese aircraft and even U.S. satellites. The U.S. relief mission was
deployed soon after a magnitude-7.8 quake hit April 25, killing more than 8,200 people. It was followed
by another magnitude-7.3 quake on Tuesday that killed 117 people and injured 2,800. The second quake
was centered between Kathmandu and Mount Everest, and hit hardest in deeply rural parts of the
Himalayan foothills, hammering many villages reached only by hiking trails and causing road-blocking
landslides. (Source: Nepal rescue team finds three bodies near crashed U.S. Marine helicopter, The
Globe and Mail, May 15 2015)

Hayo, siapa yang tahu arti teks di atas? Supaya lebih paham, kita simak terjemahan teks tersebut dalam
bahasa Indonesia di bawah ini, yuk!

Regu Penyelamat Nepal Menemukan 3 Mayat di dekat Jatuhnya Marinir AS

Pada hari Jumat, penyelamat Nepal menemukan tiga mayat di dekat reruntuhan helikopter Marinir
Amerika Serikat yang hilang awal pekan ini saat melakukan misi bantuan di negara Himalaya yang
dilanda gempa, menurut pihak berwenang. Menteri Pertahanan Nepal, Iswori Poudyal, tidak
memberikan rincian tentang kebangsaan para korban. Helikopter itu membawa enam Marinir dan dua
tentara Nepal. Reruntuhan pesawat ditemukan di dekat desa Gothali di distrik Dolakha. Kedutaan Besar
Amerika Serikat di Nepal tidak segera memberikan komentar terkait peristiwa ini pada hari Jumat.

Reruntuhan pertama kali ditemukan oleh helikopter tentara Nepal pada hari Jumat, diikuti oleh
pencarian intens dengan melibatkan pesawat Amerika Serikat dan Nepal, bahkan dengan menggunakan
satelit Amerika Serikat. Misi bantuan Amerika Serikat dikerahkan setelah gempa berkekuatan 7,8 skala
richter melanda pada tanggal 25 April yang menewaskan lebih dari 8.200 orang. Hal ini diikuti oleh
gempa susulan berkekuatan 7,3 skala richter pada Selasa yang menewaskan 117 orang dan melukai
2.800 orang. Gempa kedua berpusat antara Kathmandu dan Gunung Everest. Daerah yang paling besar
merasakan gempa adalah di wilayah pedesaan di kaki bukit Himalaya. Gempa menghancurkan banyak
desa yang dapat dicapai hanya dengan mendaki dan menyebabkan tanah longsor yang menutup jalan
[07:59, 6/8/2020] Wiji Astuti: Read the following text to answer questions number 1 to 3.

Singapore to Develop Marine Tourism in Riau Islands of Indonesia

Singapore has expressed its interest in developing marine tourism in Natuna, Anambas and Lingga, three
beautiful yet hidden regencies in the Riau Islands province of Indonesia.

According to Riau Islands deputy Governor, Soeryo Respationo, the three areas have their own beauty
but lack of adequate infrastructure to boost tourism.

Singapore's investment in the tourism sector would perfectly match with the islands' need, he said
recently. Soeryo said that Singapore Ambassador Anil Kumar Nayar visited the Riau islands
asministration on Tuesday to show the country's commitment in developing the marine tourism sector.

1. Singapore is interested in making investment in ....

A. Tourism in the three islands in Riau

B. Tourism in the sea around the three islands in Riau

C. Building marine infrastructure in the three islands in Riau

D. Building tourism infrastructure in the three islands in Riau

E. Developing tourism industry in the three islands in Riau

2. What is the main idea of paragraph 3?

A. Singapore shows its commitment in developing the marine tourism sector in the three islands in
Riau

B. Singapore ambassador visited the three islands in Riau

C. Singapore needs to invest in the three islands in Riau

D. Anil Kumar Nayar is the Singapore ambassador in Indonesia

D. Tourism is the best sector to invest your money in Riau

A. Orientation-Backgroud Event-Source

B. Newsworthy Event-Backgroud Event-Source

C. Background Event-Elaboration-Source

D. Main Event-Newsworthy Event-Source

E. Main Event-Source-Backgroud Event

Read the following text to answer questions number 4 to 6.

A survey has found about 13 percent of first-time smokers in the country are junior high school
students. It also revealed 89 percent of young female employees were smokers.

The survey was conducted in five major cities across the country, including Surakarta in Central Java.

Muhammad Syahril Mansyur, the Surakarta Health Agency’s respiratory illness division, said that the
finding of the survey showed an alarming growth rate of Indonesian smokers. "This situation is a cause
for concern,” he said. “It appears the country’s younger generation is uneducated about the health risks
of smoking.”

The Indonesian anti-tobacco campaign has reportedly been deemed as ineffective as the government
refuses to sign the international convention on tobacco control. It said that cigarette producers
contributed to a large amount to state revenue and gave jobs to thousands of workers.

4. The text mainly tells you about ….

A. The increase of Indonesian smokers

B. The health risks of smoking

C. Large amount of cigarettes

D. Young female smokers

E. The danger of smoking

A. It decreases the selling of cigarette

B. It cannot make people work at cigarette factory

C. There are increasing younger smokers in Indonesia

D. It cannot make the large amount of cigarettes be distributed

E. It is likely that younger generation is uneducated to the risks of smoking

6. One of the advantages of cigarette industry is ....

A. To cause people addictive

B. To contribute a little amount to state revenue

C. To make sellers rich

D. To give a great job chance

E. To give jobs for certain people

Read the following text to answer questions number 7 to 10.

Indonesia has embarked on the task of counting its islands in order to better protect its territory and
marine resources. It hopes to locate and name an additional 1,700 islands in time for the UN Conference
on the Standardization of Geographical Names in August. Indonesia wants to claim sovereignty and
fishing rights in the waters surrounding the islands, many of which its neighbors also claim.

The Indonesian government says illegal fishing in its waters is costing billions of dollars in lost revenue
each year. A fisheries spokeswoman told the BBC: "Sixty per cent of islands in Indonesia don't have a
name or officially have legal status, so they can easily be taken or claimed by another country."

Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago. At the last UN conference on geographical names in 2012,
Indonesia registered 13,466 islands. A law in 1996 estimated that the number of islands was 17,508. The
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea defines an island as, "a naturally formed area of land, surrounded
by water, which is still exposed at high tide".
A spokesman from Indonesia's Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries explained the scale of the task
the counting team had. He said: "We have to visit every one of these islands, and then we note the
coordinates, the name, the meaning of the name, the history of the land and describe the landscape and
its geographical history…all that in great detail."

7. What kind of rights does Indonesia want to claim?

A. Water rights

B. Legal rights

C. Fishing rights

D. Lost rights

E. Mountain rights

8. Why does the growth of Indonesian smokers have to be concerned?

A. 1,000

B. 11,000

C. 17,000

D. 7,100

E. 1,700

9. When must an island be exposed for it to officially be an island?

A. At noon

B. At midnight

C. At low tide

D. At high tide

E. At night
10. "Indonesia has embarked on the task of counting ...." (paragraph 1) synonym of the underlined word
is ....

A. Stayed

B. Launched

C. Stopped

D. Moved

E. Convened

[08:02, 6/8/2020] Wiji Astuti: 1.D

2. A

3. B

4. A

5. E

6. D

7. CLICK

8. E

9. D

10. B
[08:04, 6/8/2020] Wiji Astuti: Text for questions number 1-3.

Half of all heart patients make

medication errors

(Reuters Health) - Half of all heart patients made at least on medication-related mistake after leaving the
hospital, and guidance from a pharmacist didn't seem to reduce those errors, in a new study.
Consequences of mistakes - such as forgetting to take certain drugs or taking the wtong dose - can range
from side effects like constipation to more serious drops in blood pressure. Two percent of errors were
life - threatening.

Hospitals involved in the study were already taking steps to prevent medication mistakes in addition to
the extra pharmacist intervention, said Dr. Sunil Kripalani, the study's lead author from the Vanderbilt
University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. "We were surrised to see that in spite of these
efforts that 50 percent (of patients) were still having these medication errors," he told Reuters Health.
Although the pharmacist visits didn't help the average patient, he added, certain ones seemed to benefit
- such as patients who were on multiple drugs or had trouble understanding health information. As for
traditinally lower - risk patients, he said other strategies to prevent errors may the needed.

1. What does the text tell us about?

A. The patient's medication errors

B. The hospital's medical treatments

C. The doctor's unconroblable mistake

D. The doctor's medical treatment

E. The uncontrolled medical treatment

Jawaban: A
Yang ditanyakan adalah informasi yang ingin disampaikan text tersebut (main idea). Main idea dari suatu
paragraf biasanya terletak di awal kalimat dari kalimat dari paragraf yang dimaksud. Dalam teks di atas
dapat dilihat pada kalimat pertama yang berbunyi "Half of all heart patients made at least on
medication-related mistake" yang berarti separuh dari pasien yang ada pasti pernah melakukan
kesalahan dalam berobat (pengobatan). Maka, dari kalimat tersebut jawaban yang benar adalah A.

2. What is the effect of medication errors?

A. Bleeding on heart

B. Health information

C. Life-long time

D. Life-threatening

E. Happy life

Jawaban: D

Pada kalimat pertama paragraf kedua yang berbunyi "Consequences of mistakes - such as forgetting to
take certain drug..." yang menjelaskan konsekuensi dari kesalahan tersebut. Dan kalimat-kalimat
selanjutnya yang berbunyi "Two percent of errors were life - threatening." Yang menjelaskan kelanjutan
dari konsekuensinya yaitu "Dan 2% di antaranya membahayakan nyawa". Maka, jawaban yang paling
tepat adalah D.

3. "... and giudance from a pharmacist didn't seem to reduce those errors ..." (Part 1)

The underlined word is closes in meaning to ....

A. Improve

B. Upgrade

C. Deccrease

D.Degrade

E. Raising

Jawaban: C
Reduce = mengurangi = decrease

Maka, jawaban yang tepat adalah C.

Text for question number 4-8.

Antibiotic is kind of both natural and synthetic, which has function to press or stop a process of
organism's growth particularly bacteria. Antibiotic is used to treat bacterial infextions and used as a tool
for genetic engineering in biotecnology. Antibiotic works as pesticides by pressing or break the chain of
bacteria's metabolism. Nevertheless, antibiotic is different with disinfectant in the process to kills
bacteria. Disinfectant kills bacteria by creating an unnatural environment for germs to live.

In terms of treatment, antibiotics dubbed as "magic bullet" because antibiotic kills instantly without
injuring its sufferers. Although antibiotic is good for medication, it is not effective in handling infection
caused by viruses, fungi, or other nonbacterial.

Antibiotic has diverse types based on their affetiveness against bacteria. There are antibiotics that target
gram-negative or gram positive bacteria and some antibiotic has wider spectrum. The affetiveness
dapends on location of the infection an…

[08:05, 6/8/2020] Wiji Astuti: Contoh soal teks News Item dan pembahasan

1. The Beckham’s huge income is depended on their ….

a. news

b. image

c. contracts

d. marriage

e. lifestyle

2. According to the newspaper, the Beckham’s marriage was unhappy because of David Beckham's ….
a. affair

b. income

c. profession

d. public image

e. free kick

3. The marriage was really "on the rocks" (Paragraph 1 sentence 4)

The phrase "on the rocks" means that the beckham’s marriage is in a …. condition.

a. bad

b. good

c. strong

d. happy

e. strange

4. The Beckhams' huge income (Paragraph 2 sentence 1)

The word huge means ….

a. large

b. high

c. wide

d. big

e. small

5. David almost had a nervous breakdown because of arguments with his wife (Paragraph 2 sentence 3)

The word arguments means ….

a. fight
b. angry

c. marriage

d. discussion

e. exercise

Kunci Jawaban:

1. b

a
[08:10, 6/8/2020] Wiji Astuti: Pengertian conditional sentences
Conditional sentence (kalimat pengandaian) adalah kalimat yang mengandaikan suatu keinginan,
harapan, rencana, dan Iain-lain yang masih bisa terjadi [possible), sesuatu yang tak terpenuhi/angan-
angan (unreal), dan tak ter- wujud (impossible).

Contoh:

If I work hard, I will have a lot of money. (Jika aku bekerja keras, aku akan memiliki banyak uang)

If I study English, I will get good score in TOEFL. (Jika aku belajar bahasa Inggris, aku akan mendapatkan
nilai yang bagus dalam tes TOEFL)

If I had a lot of money, I would buy an expensive car. (Jika aku memiliki banyak uang, aku akan menibeli
mobil yang mahal)

If i were you, I would work in that foreign company. (Jika aku jadi kamu, aku akan bekerja di perusahaan
asing itu)

If I had got high score in the national examination, I would have studeid in a state university. (jika aku
mendapatkan nilai yang bagus di ujian nasional, aku akan belajar disebuah perguruan tinggi negeri)

We would have got the ticket if we had come earlier. (Kita akan mendapatkan tiket jika kita datang lebih
awal.)

Catatan:

Terdapat dua bagian di dalam struktur kalimat pengadaian. yaitu mduk Kalimat (main clause) dan anak
kalimat (dalam bentuk if clause).

Contoh:

If I work hard, 1 will have a lot of money.

If clause main clause

Struktur atau posisi induk dan anak kalimat pada kalimat pengandaian dapat diubah-ubah.

Contoh:

If I had got high score in the national examination, 1 would have entered state university.

1 would have entered state university If I had got high score in the national examination.

Catatan:
Ketika posisi induk kalimat berada di depan, maka tidak perlu adanya pemisah berupa tanda koma (,) di
antara induk dan anak kalimat.

Ketika posisi anak kalimat (if clause) berada di depan, maka digunakan pemisah berupa tanda koma (,).

KINDS OF CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

Kalimat pengandaian (conditional sentence) terbagi menjadi tiga, yaitu:

Kalimat pengandaian tipe 1 (type 1)

Pola kalimat pengandaian tipe 1:

If + subject + VI (Simple Present Tense)+Subject + will + VI (Simple Present tense)

atau

If + subect + (be) present + adjective/noun+Subject + will be + adjective/noun

Contoh:

If I study hard, I will pass the final examination. (jika aku belajar dengan sungguh-sungguh, aku akan
lulus dalam ujian akhir)

Keterangan:

> Kalimat pengandaian (conditional sentece) tipe 1 digunakan untuk mengungkapkan atau
mengandaikan sesuatu yang belum terjadi pada waktu sekarang dan memiliki kemungkinan untuk
terjadi dalam waktu dekat. Kalimat semacam ini menjelaskan untuk menyatakan suatu pola sebab dan
akibat.

Kalimat pengandaian tipe 2 (type 2)

Pola kalimat pengandaian tipe 2:

If + subject + V2/simple past tense + Subject + would + Vl/past future tense

atau

If + subject + were + adjective/noun + Subject + would be + adjective/noun

Contoh:

Rony would buy a new car if he got the job in foreign company. (Rony akan membeli mobil baru jika ia
mendapatkan pekerjaan di perusahaan asing)

If I passed the company entrance test, I would treat you a plate of steak. (jika aku lulus dalam tes masuk
perusahaan, aku akan mentraktirmu sepiring bistik)
If I were you, I would apply for that scholarship. (jika aku jadi kamu, aku akan melamar untuk beasiswa
itu)

Keterangan:

Kalimat pengandaian (conditional sentence) tipe 2 merupakan kalimat yang digunakan untuk
mengungkapkan sesuatu yang tidak mungkin terjadi atau yang bertentangan dengan kenyataan pada
waktu sekarang. Kalimat dengan tipe ini biasanya digunakan untuk menyatakan suatu khayalan.

Fakta: fakta yang diungkapkan oleh kalimat pengandaian tipe 2 adalah bahwa saat ini apa yang
diandaikan itu tidak terjadi.

Contoh:

Condotional Sentence:

If I had long holiday, I would visit your home. (jika aku libur panjang, aku akan mengunjungi rumahmu)

pengertian dan contoh conditional sentence tipe 1 2 3 terlengkap

Fakta/Fact :

I have not long holiday. (Aku tidak libur panjang)

Conditional Sentence:

If I were you, I would go to that party. (Kalau aku jadi kamu, aku akan pergi ke pesta itu)

Fact:

I am not you. (Aku bukan kamu)

Catatan : were digunakan baik oleh subjek tunggal maupun jamak. Namun. ada kalanya bentuk was
digunakan pada subjek (I , he, she, it) ketika digunakan pada percakapan tidak formal.

Misalnya : If I was you. I would accept his invitation.

Kalimat pengandaian tipe 3 (type 3)

Pola kalimat pengandaian tipe 3:

If + subject + had + V3/past perfects + subject + would have + V3/past perfect

atau

if + subject + had been + adjective/noun + subject + would have been + adjective/noun

If I had had enough time, I would have come to your wedding party. (Kalau saja aku punya waktu yang
cukup, aku akan datang ke pesta pernikahanmu)

Ifl had worked hard, I would have got the promotion for manager position. (Kalau saja aku bekerja keras,
aku akan mendapatkan promosi untuk jabatan manajer)

If I hadn’t gone to the mountain, I wouldn’t have had an accident. (Kalau saja aku tidak pergi ke gunung,
aku tidak akan mengalami kecelakaan)

Keterangan:

Kalimat pengandaian (conditional sentence) tipe 3 adalah kalimat yang mengandaikan sesuatu yang
sudah terjadi dan tidak terjadi di masa lalu. Tipe kalimat ini biasanya digunakan untuk menyatakan suatu
penyesalan.

Fakta yang diungkapkan dalam kalimat pengandaian ini adalah bahwa apa yang diandaikan tidak pernah
terjadi di masa lalu.

Contoh:

Conditional sentence:

If I had studied English well, I would have got good score in TOEIC. (kalau aku belajar bahasa Inggris
dengan baik, aku akan mendapatkan nilai yang baik di TOEIC.

Fact:

I did not study. Therefore, I had bad score in TOEIC. ( Aku tidak belajar. Maka dari itu, aku mendapatkan
nilai yang buruk di TOEIC. )

Kalimat pengandaian (Conditional Sentence) juga dapat menggunakan bentuk progressive atau
continuous jika memang menerangkan proses yang sedang terjadi.

Contoh:

Conditional Sentence:

If I were working in England, I would be living together with my family. (jika aku bekerja di Inggris. aku
akan dapat tinggal bersama dengan keluargaku)

Fact:

I am not working in England. I am not living together with my family. (Aku tidak bekerja di Inggris. Aku
tidak tinggal bersama dengan keluargaku)