Transform the sentences to express the same idea in a simpler way.

1. News magazines generally go a little more in-depth into stories than newspapers, trying to give the readers an understanding of the context, surrounding important events, rather than just the facts.

2. The publication targets an educated readership, and among its audience there are influential business and government decision-makers.

3. It is the second largest news weekly magazine in the US, having trailed Time in circulation and advertising income for most of its existence, although both are much larger than the third of America’s prominent weeklies, U.S. News & World Report.

Answer the questions.

1. What’s the difference between a newspaper and a news magazine as their content, readership and audience are concerned?

2. What subjects does The Economist cover?

3. What is Newsweek like?

4. What news magazine has Newsweek competed for all its existence? What other prominent American news magazine do you know?

5. Do you read any Russian news magazines? Why? What subjects are you most interested in?

6. What have been the most important news stories in our country during the last few months? Make a list of three things you would tell a foreign visitor.

Find in the text the sentences with the participles and analyze them.

5. Look at the verb in each sentence bellow and circle the active verbs and underline the passive verbs.

1. The Economist was first published in 1843.

2. News magazines cover international news and current affairs.

3. The publication targets an educated readership.

4. Newsweek is distributed throughout the US and internationally.

5. Subjects covered include news in economics, politics, business, finance, science and technology.

6. Newsweek has trailed Time in circulation and advertising income.

7. Newsweek is published in four English language editions and 12 global editions written in other languages.

8. The circulation of Newsweek hasn’t changed since 2003.

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