Comparing tabloids and broadsheets

(Activity adapted/taken from Nikolina Tsvetkova 2002)

http://www.beta-iatefl.org/pages/publications/Sofia_2002/Nina%20Tzvetkova.doc

Task 1:

Scan the table below trying to work out which type of newspapers the
information in the respective column refers to and put in the top cells of
columns A and B the words broadsheets and tabloids.

Task 2:

Fill in the numbered spaces with the below words:

cheaper, tabloid, twice, expensive, low, broadsheet, gutter press, in-depth,

high heavyweights, human interest political.

Some of the words can be used more than once.

A. B.
Size Are half the size of (1).. Are (7)the size of (8)..
Coverage More often concentrate on More often concentrate on
(2) (9).coverage

..stories than hard of (10).national and international

news news
Cost Are (3)..than (4).. Are more (11)..than (12).

Circulation Usually have (5) Usually have (13)

..circulation figures circulation figures

Referred The (6).. The quality press
to as
The (14).
 Analysing newspaper language

From: OSullivan et al 1994:87 88

Group 1: (Capellos double delights /England see off Egypt: March 4 2010)

What page has the article been published on? Where is it placed on the page?
What does it tell you about the mediums attitude to the news presented?
What is the size of the headline compared to the size of the text?
(How) does the headline influence the way the reader will approach the story?

Group 2: (They Sphinx its TALL over! / Not Terryble could have been bedder: March
4 2010)

What page has the article been published on? Where is it placed on the page?
What does it tell you about the mediums attitude to the news presented?
What is the size of the headline compared to the size of the text?
(How) does the headline influence the way the reader will approach the story?

Group 3: (Capellos double delights /England see off Egypt: March 4 2010)

What page has the article been published on? Where is it placed on the page?
What does it tell you about the mediums attitude to the news presented?
What is the size of the headline compared to the size of the text?
(How) does the headline influence the way the reader will approach the story?

Group 4: (They Sphinx its TALL over! / Not Terryble could have been bedder:
March 4 2010)

What page has the article been published on? Where is it placed on the page?
What does it tell you about the mediums attitude to the news presented?
What is the size of the headline compared to the size of the text?
(How) does the headline influence the way the reader will approach the story?
Capellos double delights /England see They Sphinx its TALL over! / Not
off Egypt: Terryble could have been bedder:
Find two articles covering the same story on the

same day (in the Japanese press) and analyse the

language and style of the article (and the

newspaper). Your analysis must be, of course, in
English.

Mr. Walker: walker@warpmail.net