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REVISION
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4. Compare any two newspapers or magazines. How do they differ? Give your comments on the way different topics are covered. Work in pairs.
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5. Give an example of a newspaper or a magazine with a section which is extremely popular among the readers.
6. a) Read about the press in the USA and do the tasks below.
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In the USA there are more than 1,500 daily papers. It speaks for the fact that the Americans like to read newspapers. Read the scheme and say what you would read first. A newspaper contains:
— facts about private lives of popular people
— the comics
— TV programmes
— cultural events
— advertisements for holiday-makers
— local news
— sensations and scandals
— advertisements for things on sale
— advertisements for jobs
— what's on at the theatre
— international news
— articles about business and finance
— sport events US papers are very big, especially
Sunday editions. They have many sections, which deal with different subjects. It makes a newspaper interesting to different people.
b) Using the information from a), write what sections are interesting to different persons. Use the scheme and the list below.
— I believe ... would read the information about. —... people would read...
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• educated people
• businessmen
• children and teens
• politicians
• housewives
• sport fans
• unemployed people
• holiday-makers
• middle class people
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