Rank the choices in order of importance

Lead-in

Exercise 1 Read the text and give Russian equivalents to the words in bold

The press usually refers just to newspapers, but the term can be extended to include magazines. Newspapers are either tabloid (= small in size), a format usually associated in the English-speaking world with the popular press (= short articles and lots of pictures), or broadsheet (=bigger in size), associated with quality journalism. Tabloids are sometimes referred to as the gutter press by people who disapprove of them.

Tabloids often have very large circulations ( numbers sold) and even bigger readerships (total numberof people reading them). Papers suchas these аге often referred to as mass circulation papers. A popular or tabloid newspaper focuses more on sensation than real news whereas a quality newspaper professes to be more interested in real news than in sensation. A tabloid usually has a smaller format than a quality paper, it has larger headlines and shorter stories and, in Britain, it prefers stories about film stars, violent crimes and the royal family. A journal is the name usually given to an academic magazine. A colour supplement is a magazine which comes out once a week (often on Sundays) as an addition to a newspaper. A comic is a magazine, usually for children or teenagers, with lots of picture stories and/or cartoons.

Most newspapers are daily (= they come out/are published every day). Some are national, some are local. Magazines are weekly or monthly (= published every week/month).

Exercise 2 Discuss the following quotations.

"I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides."

Richard Cobden

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."

Ben Hecht

"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."

Aneurin Bevan

3 What factors decide how you get the news? Complete the following questionnaire.

Tick the appropriate box

Daily	1-4 times a week	Less than once a week

Ø How often do you…

read newspapers?

watch the news on TV?

search for news on the Net?

Rank the choices in order of importance

Ø When I get the news, I want the source to be …

reliable direct entertaining

Ø I am mostly interested in coverage concerning …

politics weather sports art & entertainment

Grade your response to each of the statements, from 0 (completely disagree) to 5 (completely agree)

Ø How far do you agree with the following statements?

Journalists should tell the public the truth, no matter what the consequences.

News should be delivered in a way that makes us think.

Nobody's privacy is more important than the truth reaching the public.

Reading 1 Read the text and translate it into Russian

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