Vocabulary: In the news

 VThe press

1Choose the correct words. 

• 1Would you like to see Catching Fire? It had really good reviewsheadlines.

• 2Don't believe everything you read about celebrities in the front pagegossip columns. Not much of it is actually true.

• 3Most magazines are full of advertisingarticles and pictures. There isn't much to read.

• 4I never read the whole newspaper. I just look at a few of the editorsheadlines to get the main ideas.

• 5You should read this reviewarticle about the Brazilian rainforest. It's very interesting.

• 6The stories in some tabloidsbroadsheets are definitely made up! Some people call them 'junk food news'.

Vinsight Collocations: the media

2Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in the box. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

MOVE
• broadcast
• report
• confirm
• gather
• investigate
• publish

• 1I was very proud when they  my novel.

• 2The police are  evidence against the suspect and will arrest him soon.

• 3Can you  the rumour that the football club has bought a new player?

• 4All national newspapers  the event. It was on the front pages.

• 5I don't think violent films should be  on TV.

• 6Sometimes journalists work together with the police to  a crime.

VParts of a newspaper

3Match extracts A−F to the parts of a newspaper 1−6. 

AThe new Bond film is probably the best yet. It isn't just the special effects, … .

BThe three goals took Manchester City back to their position at the top of the league.

CMOUNTAIN BIKE in good condition, $75. Call … .

DIt sounds unbelievable, but eating cake can actually help you to lose weight. Nutritionists … .

EAcross

1 The smallest continent in the world.

3 A large seabird.

FSCORPIO (23 Oct−21 Nov)

Expect some big changes in your life. Everything will …

• 1crosswords and games

• 2sports section

• 3classified ads

• 4arts and entertainment

• 5horoscopes

• 6health and beauty

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VParts of a newspaper

4Complete the article from an online encyclopaedia with the words in the box. There is one word that you do not need. 

MOVE
• international
• guide
• editor
• broadsheet
• finance
• published
• journalists
• gossip column
• interview
• investigate
• articles
• front page

History

Surprisingly, the first newspaper in the English language was not 

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in England. It was printed in Amsterdam by Joris Veseler around 1620. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, many famous writers, such as Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift, worked as 

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too. Defoe set up his own newspaper, The Review, while Swift was an 

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for The Examiner. By 1720, there were twelve London newspapers and twenty-four in other English cities.

Tabloids and broadsheets

Today, the 

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is the largest of the various newspaper formats, and it contains more serious news.

The word 'tabloid' comes from the name given to a type of small tablet of medicine in the 1880s. Later, people started using it for newspapers that have short news 

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and are small in size.

Broadsheets used to be about twice the size of tabloids, but now some have become smaller. In the past, a broadsheet didn't have colour photos on the 

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but this has changed, and both kinds of newspaper now do this. You will not usually find a 

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in a broadsheet, and although both kinds of paper often 

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famous people, a tabloid newspaper is more likely to speak to a celebrity than a politician. Broadsheets focus more on 

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news, politics, business and 

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Both kinds of newspapers have a television 

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5 CHALLENGE! What kind of newspaper do you or people in your family read? What are your favourite parts of the paper? Speak for no longer than one minute.

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