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and international events. The tabloids are smaller in size, have shorter articles and have more pictures. The articles in the tabloids are shorter and about less important events. Sometimes they are about private lives of well-known people. There are daily and Sunday papers. Sunday papers are larger than daily papers; they are national, and that means they can be bought all over Britain.
Many papers and magazines are printed in colour, and a number of papers produce colour magazines as a part of Saturday and Sunday papers. They provide reading material about fashion, clothes, cooking, diet, house and home, motoring and holidays. They publish sections with articles on travel, food and wine, and other leisure topics.
The great number of magazines are published for women. Their bright covers are designed to catch the eye, and they certainly succeed in doing so. There are magazines for motorists, farmers, gardeners, nurses, computer programmers and many others. There is always something to read.
Tapescript 8 (p.106) US Newspapers
In the USA daily newspapers are published in 34 different languages. The daily newspapers are of two kinds: quality and popular. The Wall Street Journal is a quality newspaper. It covers national and international news. It is a business newspaper with the largest number in the country. Тле Washington Post, a daily newspaper, is of national interest. It contains even speeches of congressmen. A truly national newspaper USA Today in its popular form offers news of general interest. It has a number of 1.2 million. But this is not enough for the country where state, city and local news most deeply influence the reader. The problem concerning the national press is very actual. One can say that there is no national press in the US, as most daily papers are distributed locally.
On the other hand there is a national US press, one that comes from the
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sharing of news. Some of the largest newspapers not only print, but collect and sell news, news features and photographs to the US and foreign newspapers. The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times are the best news services of this kind. Other newspapers of the international importance are: The Christian Science Monitor, The (Baltimore) Sun, The St. Louis Dispatch, The Milwaukee Journal. The New York Times is ranked as 'the world's top daily'. Tapescript 9 (p. 123) Britain and the British The United Kingdom is a multinational country today, but its peoples make up a unity. They call themselves British. Everyone who was born in Britain is British.
But don't call a Welsh or Scottish person English! He won't like it! Only people from England can be called English. People from Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland are not English. They are Scottish or the Scots, Welsh and Irish.
More than 56 million people live in Britain. Many of them live in big industrial cities like London. Manchester and Liverpool, for example, are the biggest industrial cities in the centre of England. Other industrial cities are Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and others.
Such cities as Plymouth, Portsmouth and Liverpool are big ports, where many sailors and fishermen live. Bristol'is not a very large port. It is smaller than others, but it's very beautiful because it's a royal port.
Stratford-upon-Avon is a very interesting town and the birthplace of famous Shakespeare. There is a church where he is buried.
Everyone in Britain speaks English. But in some parts of Scotland and Wales people speak different languages as well. The Welsh are especially proud of their language. They like to speak Welsh, to sing songs in Welsh, and when you travel you can see road signs in Welsh all over Wales.
Everyone in the UK speaks English
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