- •The uk Media reading I
- •British Newspapers
- •2. Look through the text and find the main characteristics of tabloids
- •Newspapers
- •Read the profiles of some British newspapers and answer the questions.
- •Listening 1
- •Reading II British Newspapers
- •1. Read the text and fill out the graphs classifying British newspapers.
- •2. What different phrases does the writer use to indicate that he is
- •Use of english
- •1 . Match the words from the text with their definitions.
- •2. Below there are 18 typical extracts from different newspapers. Identify each one with one of the following words or phrases.
- •3. Complete each sentence with a word or phrase from the list below.
- •4. Fill in the gaps with suitable words from the box.
- •Articles the newspaper carries. Fill in the gaps with suitable words from the box.
- •6. Complete the sentences using the following words. Some of the
- •7.Complete the gaps with any suitable word.
- •8. Complete the gaps with any suitable word. The Mass Media in the usa
2. Below there are 18 typical extracts from different newspapers. Identify each one with one of the following words or phrases.
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__________________ Starting overcast with intermittent rain, followed by sunny spells. Max Temp. +21c.
__________________ The word is that Clinton Ross, 32, playboy son of US steel billionaire Dwight Ross, has left his girlfriend, actress Lee-Ann Van Post, 26, and is now in Europe.
__________________ Prince Edward (left) enjoys a joke with actor Sam Cool (center).
__________________ PREMIER TO PROBE RIDDLE OF ‘SPIES IN MINISTRY’
__________________ He received a number of international literary awards, culminating in the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986. He leaves a widow and two sons.
__________________ Today is a good day to do business but a bad one for romance.
__________________ Our front page today gives details of the government’s new economic proposals. Our readers may think, as we do, that these measures are too little and too late. We say to the government, not for the first time, it is time.
_________________Mix too egg yolks with butter in a frying-pan over a low gas. Add sugar and then …
_________________A pair of silver George II candlesticks fetched $ 17.000. Bidding was slow for Victorian oil paintings but a landscape by Soames went for $ 55.000.
_________________Yesterday at 7 p.m. her Majesty gave a dinner-party at Windsor Castle for members of the Spanish Royal Family. At noon today Her Majesty will Receive the new Ambassador of the Republic of Venezuela at Buckingham Palace.
________________ Robson equalized with a header from five yards just before the half-time whistle.
________________ The cheapest bucket-shop air-return to Hong Kong is now about $ 480 and Hong Kong is a good base to visit Macao, China and Taiwan. The best season is….
________________Across 1 kind of tree (5), 2 child (3), 4 performed (5)…
________________ Mr. Richard Cauder asked if the Minister of Transport could inform MPs of train-fare concessions for pensioners. However, the Speaker declared that…..
__________________ Now is the time to plant roses. Put trees in at least 2’apart, and cover roots with 6’’ of soil.
_________________ But I don’t know if I can ever forgive him. What can I do? Desperately unhappy, London N.W. Dear Desperately Unhappy, I think you should see a marriage-guidance counselor…
_________________A hard-hitting documentary series starts tonight at 10 p.m. Viewers might be shocked at scenes of …
_________________ Road holding and fuel consumption are good but otherwise the performance lacks zip.