1. International News

2. Headline: Straight forward headline
Strong Earthquake Rattles Northern Japan
What happened?
Where did it happen?

3. News Resource News resource cited from: AP– Associated Press 美聯社
Reporter’s name: HIROKO TABUCHI, Associated Press Writer

4. Getting the Main Ideas The opening paragraph: - place: Tokyo
- time: early Tuesday 11/15, 2005
- What happened: earthquake, tsunami

5. Further Details The magnitude of the quake
Tsunami waves generated by the quake
The further influence of the quake
Geographical background and damage of the quake in the past

6. Concluding Paragraph Further development of the quake and tsunami.
Influence of local tsunami generated by the quake.