Newspaper Reports
o4 T6 W, ]- y$ v$ G) u5 a" [' tThere 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.
2 `( v* r" L J. E; w# cThe 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__.
( z5 H6 k$ G$ I y _( ?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.
, s, D* t$ ~$ v w. \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. . J4 P8 e3 G* C+ z
There may also be interviews __15__ people. The words actually spoken by them are within inverted commas.1 {% S- c# C6 m' _5 u
Often there are photographs to go with the news to make it more interesting.
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