Newspaper Reports
' z7 \0 Z" f, a4 kThere are many type of reports. A report is simply __1__ of something that has happened. The commonest are __2__. We get them in newspapers, over radio and __3__ television. Sometimes cinemas also show us newsreels.
8 L' k2 v6 ?; v, n: m* N4 s6 h& yThe main purpose of a newspaper __4__ provide news. If you __5__ a newspaper closely, you will find that there are all types of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars, sports, books, etc. The news __6__ everything that happens to people and their surroundings. Sometimes there are news items which are very __7__.' }6 u7 u+ z# A2 h# q
The big __8__ bold words above the news items are called headlines. Their purpose is to __9__ attention so that people will buy the newspaper because they want to read __10__ of the news.- f; @1 w3 ^* N' E5 H, T
A news report is usually very short, __11__ when it is about something very important, but it __12__ a lot of information. It is also written in short paragraphs. The first paragraph is in __13__ a summary of the news item. It gives all the necessary information: what, when, where, how, why. The other paragraphs give __14__ of the subject. + j8 S. Y" M- V6 h
There may also be interviews __15__ people. The words actually spoken by them are within inverted commas. n4 V, s4 Q/ A+ D/ b3 X
Often there are photographs to go with the news to make it more interesting.( P, M; i. r9 k7 q; ?
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