NEWS REPORT Main Features

STRUCTURE HEADLINE: short and eye catching. INTRUDUCTION: summary of the event ▫Time ▫Place ▫People MAINBODY: describe event. CONCLUSION: ▫Peoples’s comments ▫Future actions

MAIN FEATURES LANGUAGE: ▫Past tenses ▫Passive voive ▫Reporting verbs OBJECTIVE: NO personal comments or feelings

HEADLINES Tenses: ▫Recent events: present simple  Norway Killer Claims He 'Had English Mentor‘ Norway Killer Claims He 'Had English Mentor‘ ▫Future events: TO-infinitive  Pakistan To Deport Bin Laden Family Pakistan To Deport Bin Laden Family ▫Past event: simple past  Sleepy Pilot Forced Plane Into Sudden Dive Sleepy Pilot Forced Plane Into Sudden Dive

HEADLINES Use: ▫passive voice  Newborn Boy Snatched After Mum Shot And KilledNewborn Boy Snatched After Mum Shot And Killed ▫Abbreviations (UK, USA, UNESCO…) DON’T use: ▫Stops, commas, articles pronouns, auxiliary verbs, words understood from context ▫Verb “to Be” in passive to describe pas event  Emergency Landing At Gatwick: 15 Injured Emergency Landing At Gatwick: 15 Injured

Spain VS Argentina. The YPF issue Argentina’s President: Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Last Monday Argetina nationalized part of oil firm YPF (YPF is currently under the control of Spain's Repsol oil company). Argentina has some of the world's largest reserves of oil and gas. In November last year, YPF, which was privatised in 1993, announced a major find of one billion barrels of oil. The authorities in Argentina accused YPF of not investing enough to increase the output from its oil fields. The firm denies it. Ratings agency Moody's cut the oil firm's debt rating to B3 from Ba3, saying further downgrades were possible. Jose Manuel Soria has said:” we are considering taking some action” Antonio Brufau said “this action will not remain unpunished and we want a compensation”