2. Answer the following questions:

1. When you see a broadsheet (a quality paper), a middle market paper and a popular tabloid, how do the papers differ in terms of size, headlines, photographs and use of colour? What sort of reader is each paper appealing to? Are the differences between paper similar in different countries?

2. Which of the following would you be more likely to find in a broadsheet or a popular tabloid or both: a) horoscopes; b) a gossip column; c) sport pages; d) stock market prices; e) an analysis of foreign news; f) art reviews; g) law reports; h) a problem page; i) crosswords.

3. Match the word underlined in the headline to the explanation given on the list on the right:

1. Aid for famine victims increased a) surprise

2. Free school meals axed b) connected

3. Ban on football hooligans c) bad experience

4. Takeover bid for BP d) reduction

5. Bomb blast kills 9 e) question

6. High Street spending boom f) caused to suffer adverse effects

7. MPs clash on green policy g) increase

8. Cut in arms spending h) extreme danger

9. Fugitives flee fighting i) attempts to persuade

10. Drugs haul at airport j) something seized or stolen

11. Test match hit by protest k) marries

12. Drinking water linked to disease l) try/attempt

13. Rail strike looms m) leaves

14. Kidnap victim’s ordeal n) fall sharply

15. Peril on oil rig o) run away

16. PM’s pledge on pollution p) number of people killed

17. Shares plunge q) assistance

18. Football manager quits r) stopped

19. Police quiz star s) approaches in a threatening way

20. Police seek rapist t) disagree

21. Public spending shock u) explosion

22. Threat to cup final v) potential danger

23. Death toll now 28 w) look for

24. MP weds actress x) prohibition

25. Candidate woos voters y) undertaking/commitment

4. Do you know the parts of a newspaper? What information can you find on the following pages?

Letters page, obituary, reviews, business, TV listings, features, appointments, comment and analysis, oversees news, leisure.

5. Complete the text. Use the words given to form new words that fit the gaps:

Fleet Street is a street in the centre of London, ¹ named (name) after the Fleet River which used to run nearby. It is also synonymous with the ²______ (England) press because of its ³______ (history) links with newspapers.

The first printer in Fleet Street was called Wynkin de Worde, and opened his shop in 1500. Soon, the area became well known for the printing of books and pamphlets and during the 1700s, the first ⁴_____ (day) newspapers appeared. By the middle of the 20th century, almost every major newspaper in England had its head office in Fleet Street. It was the perfect ⁵_____ (locate) for gathering news: close to the City, the ⁶ ____(finance) centre of London; the Old Bailey, which is the main ⁷______ (crime) court, and the Palace of Westminster (the British parliament). There were also plenty of pubs and restaurants on Fleet Street where journalists would spend hours interviewing their 'contacts' while enjoying large quantities of ⁸_____ (expense) food and drink which their employers paid for!

During the 1980s, it became clear that technology was changing the way newspapers were produced and that new premises were needed. The Times and Тhe Sun, both owned by Rupert Murdoch, were the first to move away from ⁹_____ (centre) London to the eastern edge of the capital. Gradually, all the other papers followed. Printing became ¹⁰_____ (computer). Journalists began spending more time on their mobile phones and less time on their ¹¹ _____ (prolong) business lunches. But many older journalists are still unhappy about the changes. One of them, a gossip columnist called Peter McKay, wrote in The Independent in 2005: 'Fleet Street was a seething mass of printers, advertisers and journalists, drinking and punching each other every night, all night. People ¹²_____(literal) never went home: there was a Turkish bath we went to for a shave in the morning ... Nowadays we sit in the far corners of London, like battery hens at computer terminals, pecking out our stuff and never meeting one another.'