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Britain under the Microscope – Newspapers

·      Britain is a nation ofnewspaper readers – “the papers”/”THE news”

o   Even though you have theinternet, you can still lots of people reading newspapers on trains, buses etc.

·      The oldest newspaper still incirculation is the Times (1785) 

·      Christmas Day is the only dayin which no newspapers are published

·      Sunday newspapers –usually much bigger with lots of magazines

·      There are 10 nationalnewspapers and lots of local newspapers

·      There are no government-ownednewspapers

·      Newspapers reflect the socialview of their readers and their owners

o   Tabloids

§  Daily Mail – generally conservative – mainly read by older people

§  The Sun

§  Daily Mirror

§  Daily Star – mainly about celebrity news and gossip

o   Broadsheet (usually bigger insize than tabloids but this is changing)

§   The Daily Telegraph 

§  The Times

§  Financial Times – focused on economy and finance

§  The Guardian – liberal 

o   You choose the newspaper that you like 

   （Socioeconomic background/views）

·      How to read articles –many students think that it is difficult?

o   It isn’t that hard! Pictures tohelp and the headline will tell you

o   Articles generally follow thesame structure

o   First paragraph – Who? What?Where? When? – This tells you the main point of the article

o   The other paragraph – Why?(More details)

o   The final paragraph – The outcomeand/or quote

·      Expressions aboutnewspapers

o   “to hit the headlines” – to bein the news very suddenly

o   “to break the news” – to revealsomething that is usually bad or upsetting

o   “No news is good news”- used tosay that there’s nothing wrong

o   “to be bad news” – someone whois bad and will probably cause trouble