Planning the closing of a journalistic report about the Titanic | English

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Order the sections of a journalistic report.
- 1
  
  ⇔
  
  opening
- 2
  
  ⇔
  
  recount section
- 3
  
  ⇔
  
  quotes section
- 4
  
  ⇔
  
  closing
The purpose of a journalistic report is...
- to tell a story.
- to record a person's thoughts and feelings.
- to explore different viewpoints about a topic.
- to inform the reader about a real-life event. ✓
'Text cohesion' refers to...
- a sentence including a main clause and a subordinate clause.
- a text's flow and ability to achieve its purpose. ✓
- language commonly found in journalistic reports.
Match the cohesive devices to their definitions.
- fronted adverbial
  
  ⇔
  
  a sentence starter followed by a comma ✓
- subject-specific language
  
  ⇔
  
  vocabulary associated with a particular subject ✓
- journalistic language
  
  ⇔
  
  words and phrases used by journalists in their reports ✓
- parenthesis
  
  ⇔
  
  additional information that can be removed from a sentence ✓
Select the examples of journalistic language.
- suddenly
- according to reports ✓
- it is believed that ✓
- fascinatingly
- allegedly ✓
Match the complex sentence types to their definitions.
- adverbial complex sentence
  
  ⇔
  
  sentence with a main clause & adverbial subordinate clause ✓
- relative complex sentence
  
  ⇔
  
  sentence with a main clause & relative subordinate clause ✓
- non-finite complex sentence
  
  ⇔
  
  sentence with a main clause & non-finite subordinate clause ✓