Newsworthy/main events - The part of News Item text which tells about Newsworthy event(s): it recounts the event in summary form., Background events - The part of News Item text which elaborates what happened, to whom, why, in what circumstance the news happened in detail., Source - The part of News Item text which contains comments by participants in, witnesses to and authorities expert on the event., Social Function of News Item - To inform the readers about newsworthy or important events of the day, Language features - Past tense in explaining news events, present tense in explaining a fact that until now still happen or still in the form of fact, passive voice, and direct & indirect speech., News Item Text - A text which informs readers about the newsworthy events of the day., Direct speech - The speaker’s own words without any modification and written inside the speech/quotation marks., Indirect speech - The paraphrased and modified speaker’s words to talk about something with different point of view from the original words., Passive voice - The type of sentence which focuses on the object that has been switched into the subject of sentence and written in form of "To Be + Past Participle"., Past tense - The language feature of News Item text to talk about something when the action/incident happened.,

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