Mrs Dubois’s Webquest about the press

  1. Parts of a newspaper
  1. Find the words (written on the website) corresponding to the definitions:
  2. In a newspaper, a detailed article on a person, an issue, or an event.
  3. The words printed in large type at the top of a newspaper article to catch the reader's attention.
  4. The opening page
  5. An article in which the people who run a newspaper give their opinion on an important issue.
  6. In a newspaper, a piece of writing about an event that has just taken place.
  1. The British press
  1. What are the 2 types of newspapers?
  1. Say what types of newspaper match the idioms:

Sensationalism
Neutrality
meant to inform the readers
meant to entertain (diverter) the readers
big size, 2 folds (plis)
smaller size, folded once
  1. Give 3 examples of each type:
  1. What are the main differences between the two? Complete the chart.
… / …
Quality press / Popular press
Readership
Layout
(pagination)
Articles
Headlines
Focuses on …
Use of gimmicks / Yes or no? / Yes or no?
  1. What are the 12 elements you can find in the front page of a newspaper?
  1. Visit these pages and, write their names and say what kind of newspapers they are.






  1. How to read a newspaper – Do the exercises on line

Homework

Look at these extracts and say which type of newspaper do you think these extracts are from?

  • DISTRAUGHT HolbyCity star George Calil last night paid an emotional visit to his critically ill girlfriend Laura Sadler. The weeping actor spent a few minutes with his 22-year-old co-star, who plunged 40ft from a balcony at his second floor flat.
  • Criminals are being sentenced to longer jail terms than before amid political and media pressure for judges to impose tougher punishments. Petty offenders are now three times more likely to receive custodial sentences than they were in 1991, while nearly all convicted offenders can expect harsher treatment.
  • Sadie's bruises. SADIE Frost puts on a brave smile as she takes a break in the sun after her furious bust-up with hubby Jude Law...but does little to hide some nasty bruises on her body. Sadie revealed the marks, on her right arm and beneath her shoulder, as she took a dip in a pool in Cyprus. She jetted there with a pal and her three kids after the angry exchange with Hollywood hunk Jude at her £2million north London home.
  • Consumer slowdown fuels calls for rate cut. Slower retail sales growth and weak order books from manufacturers fuelled fears of a marked slowdown in consumer spending and prompting speculation of a rate cut.
  • BEN AFFLECK is to star in two comedies - Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past and Sex Talk.Ghosts is about a bachelor visited by the spirits of former girlfriends at his brother's wedding. Real life former flames GWYNETH PALTROW, and SANDRA BULLOCK, are not in it.