The Times, symbol of tradition and establishment

The Times is one of Britain's oldest and most influential newspapers. It (1) ___ (begin) its life in 1785. It (2) ___ (start) by John Walter. In those days it (3) ___ (cost) two and a half old pennies. In the nineteenth century, The Times (4) ___ (develop) a reputation for accurate reporting and independent editorial views. Now it (5) ___ (sell) over 650, 000 copies a day. It (6) ___ (publish) in London, along with its sister newspaper The Sunday Times, which (7) ___ (have) at least ten sections and takes all week to read! The Times (8) ___ (have) an excellent reputation for over 200 years, said its editor, who (9) ___

(work) for the paper since 1980, 'and now we (10) ___ (try) our best to continue

that tradition in order to produce a newspaper for the twenty- first century.'

 

Exercise 6 Match the words with their definitions.

 

Words	Definitions
Obituaries	Announce births, deaths, engagements, weddings
Small ads	Give you information about the price of shares on the stock exchange
Share prices	Tells you who has won and lost at sporting events
Announcements	Recount the life of people who have just died
Results service	Offer things for sale or rent, often in restricted language
Strip cartoons	Are humorous continuing features with illustrated characters
Pin-ups	Tell you what's on the radio and TV
Programme listings	Are photographs of attractive people, frequently women

Exercise 7 Explain the difference between to publish and to print. Illustrate your answer with sentences of your own.

Exercise 8 Explain the difference between a copy and an issue. Illustrate your answer with sentences of your own.

Exercise 9 Give English equivalents for the word события and make with them as many word combinations as you can.

Exercise 10 Give English equivalents for the word вопрос and make with

them as many word combinations as you can.

 

Exercise 11 Which words can go together? Tick the boxes.

 

	newspaper	magazine	section	supplement
daily
evening
Sunday
fashion
local
business
tabloid

Exercise 12 Complete the table. What are the differences between the items on the list?

item	writer
report
column
forecast
letters page	readers
editorial
review
horoscope	astrologer
crossword	compiler

Exercise 13 Work with a partner to suggest the contents, layout and design of your ideal newspaper. How many pages would it have, what would it contain, what wouldn't it contain, how much space would be given to what, etc.?

Exercise 14 Guess the words by their definitions.

1.	A person responsible for publishing a newspaper or a magazine.
2.	A printed notice about things to be sold or things that are needed.
3.	A printed publication giving chiefly news.
4.	Some room on a newspaper page for an article.
5.	A summation of news items.
6.	A paper that circulates all over the country.
7.	An article presenting the opinion of the editor.
8.	Reporting the news in the press.
9.	The main idea.

 

Exercise 15 Guess the words by their definitions.

 

1.	A magazine that is issued once a month.
2.	A newspaper with pages approximately 15 х 11 inches in size.
3.	A person who writes articles, reviews, etc. for papers and magazines.
4.	A paper that circulates in one town or district.
5.	A magazine or other publication that is issued at regular intervals.
6.	To meet to question somebody.
7.	An order for a periodical.
8.	A small article in a paper.
9.	An addition to a periodical.
10.	A verbal or written communication.

 

Exercise 16 Translate into English.

1.	Эта газета выходит три раза в неделю.
2.	Статья дает обзор последних событий за рубежом.
3.	Тираж этого издания - пятьсот тысяч экземпляров.
4.	Средства массовой информации должны публиковать объектив­ные сведения о событиях в мире.
5.	Ты думаешь, этому событию будет уделено много внимания?
6.	Наряду с ежедневными изданиями, которые не выходят по воск­ресеньям, существуют воскресные газеты, большинство из ко­торых распространяются по всей стране.
7.	Цель данной статьи - предоставить читателю информацию о последних событиях в Индонезии.

 

Exercise 17 Translate into English.

1.	Автор статьи полагает, что необходимо создать всеобъемлющую систему международной безопасности
2.	Цель данной статьи - дать читателю представление о проблеме запрещения ядерных испытаний.
3.	Газеты Великобритании сильно различаются по способу подачи новостей.
4.	В статье рассматриваются последние события в Африке.
5.	Задача средств массовой информации не только информировать читателя о событиях в стране и за рубежом, но и помогать ему правильно их интерпретировать.
6.	Это событие широко освещается в печати.
7.	В Москву приехала большая группа корреспондентов, представ­ляющих ведущие зарубежные теле- и радиокомпании.
8.	Популярные издания используют крупные заголовки.

 

 

Exercise 18 Translate into English.

1.	В номере от 15 июня «Индепендент» пишет о кинофестивале в Венеции.
2.	Сейчас тираж этой газеты гораздо больше, чем три года назад.
3.	Прочитай статью о джазовой музыке.
4.	Сегодня газета «Сегодня» поместила на своих страницах много интересных статей о событиях в стране и в мире.
5.	События в России широко освещаются телевидением и другими средствами массовой информации.
6.	Наш корреспондент взял интервью у известной актрисы.
7.	В этой газете вы можете найти ежедневный комментарий по политическим вопросам.
8.	Далее в статье говорится об экономическом сотрудничестве Евро­пейского Союза с развивающими странами.

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

THE BRITISH PRESS

The British press means, primarily, a group of daily and Sunday newspapers published in London. They are known as national in the sense of circulating throughout the British Isles. All the national newspapers have their central offices in London, but those with big circulations also print editions in Manchester (the second largest press centre in Britain) and Glasgow in Scotland.

All the newspapers whether daily or Sunday, totalling about twenty, can be divided into two groups: quality papers or broadsheets and popular papers or tabloids. The Times, the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and the Independent are known as quality papers. They are analytical, serious national daily papers appealing to the more intellectual and professional readership. They contain political, industrial and cultural news and devote pages to financial matters and international news. They have an undramatic layout (design) with lengthy articles.

The other large group are popular papers which are called the tabloid press or tabloids. Here belong such papers as the Daily Express, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, the Daily Star and the Sun. Popular newspapers are smaller in size, have bigger prints and bigger headlines and contain more photographs. They are not so analytical, formal and serious as the quality papers. They concentrate mostly on sensational news, stories of crime, of film and football stars, etc. They contain some political news too, but it is given much less extensive coverage than in the serious press. There are also Sunday newspapers. Some of them are Sunday equivalents of the quality papers. Thus the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph and the Observer are Sunday equivalents of the Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian. They are serious in nature and give detailed coverage of the week's news. The News of the World and the Sunday Mirror are similar to the popular daily papers, dealing mostly with sensational news, rumours and gossip.

BRITISH NEWSPAPERS TODAY

In Britain there are currently 13 national daily papers, ten Sunday papers, 60 regional evening papers and ten regional morning papers. There are also hundreds of weekly local papers.

QUALITY PRESS

The term 'quality press' is used to describe papers which were mainly founded before 1896 or which follow the tradition of the journals of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They contain political, industrial and cultural news, financial matters and international news. Examples of quality daily papers are the Times, the Guardian, and the Independent. The Daily Telegraph, with its circulation of over a million copies, sells more than twice as many copies as any of the other broadsheets.

POPULAR PRESS

Papers founded after the launching of the Daily Mail in 1896 mainly represent the popular press. Today such papers are largely tabloids, half the size of a broadsheet. 'Tabloid' is a pharmaceutical term, used for substances which were compressed into pills. The tabloids 'compress' the news and are printed on small sheets of paper. They contain sensational stories and aim to excite the reader visually, using techniques such as very large headlines and photographs. Other tabloids include the Daily Mirror, the Daily Star and others. The Sun sells the largest number of copies, over three and a half million copies per day.

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