Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
TEXT II
The Headline
1) Bigger and bold fonts stating the newsworthy facts of the event
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: ...
- “"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..
· 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.
In hopes of collecting crude oil after being told about a massive spill there,
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.
- in Aceh province
- on Wednesday evening
TEXT III
The Headline
6) Bigger and bold fonts stating the newsworthy facts of the event
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: ...
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
- 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.
- “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.”
· 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
- in a nearby forest
- in Kelantan