British (Online) Newspapers

Can You Guess the Names of the Newspapers Listed Below?

1. You can see yourself in it.

2. It sounds like a kind of train.

3. You find it in the sky at night.4. An old means of sending messages along wires.

5. It doesn’t rely on anyone else.

6. It rises in the East.

7. It sounds like a letter or a parcel.

8. It collocates with ‘angel’.

Evaluating Your Newspaper

1. What’s the front page story?

2. Find the Editorial.

3. Look for the letters page and read a few letters. What are the writers concerns?

4. Take a short article (about your country, preferably) and read it. Share it with the person sitting next to you.

5. What is the language like? Easy to read? Slang.

6. Is this newspaper similar to any in your country?

7. What do you like/ dislike about it?

Newspapers

Some useful websites:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

http://www.independent.co.uk/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

http://ft.com/home/uk

http://metro.co.uk/pictures/weird

Listen to the two men speak. Can you remember who reads what newspaper?

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=yes+minister-who&search=Search

So, who reads what?

‘I know exactly who reads the pepers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; The Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think their country ought to be run by another country; and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.’

What about the Sun. The Sun readers don’t care who runs the country, as long as she’s got big tits.’