A Local Newspaper

1.

2.

A Local Newspaper
is a newspaper which is sold only in a
restricted area, and mainly carries
news about that area

3.

A Tabloid
• is a newspaper with half-size
pages; includes sensational
crime stories, astrology, and
celebrity gossip; is yellow press,
easy for reading.

4.

A Broadsheet
• is a serious, quality and
independent newspaper

5.

Local Newspapers

6.

Tabloids

7.

Broadsheets

8.

Popular English and American
Newspapers and Magazines
Tabloids :
Broadsheets :
Great Britain
• Financial Times
•The Independent
•The Daily Telegraph
•The Times
Great Britain
• Daily Mail
• The Sun
• The Daily Mirror
The USA
•The Washington Post
• The New York Times
•USA Today
•The Baltimore Sun
•Chicago Tribune
•The Denver Post
•Los Angeles Times
•The Wall Street Journal
The USA
• The New Yorker
• National Enquirer
• Globe
• People

9.

Tell about your favourite newspaper
buy / borrow
from…
The information in
it is reliable /
unreliable
broadsheet /
tabloid
My favourite
newspaper
It’s interesting for
me, because…
Girls/ boys/ men/
women/ businessmen/
housewives/ students
read it
writes about…
a lot of
photos,
jokes,
articles,
intriguing
headlines

10.

In the United Kingdom there are two kinds of
newspapers: broadsheets and tabloids.
A broadsheet is a serious,
quality and independent
newspaper.
A tabloid is yellow
press, easy for reading.

11.

What features have got
broadsheets
and
don’t check information
tabloids
use intriguing headlines
publish a lot of photographs
publish horoscopes

12.

Check yourself
The difference between
broadsheets
• big
and
format
• information is reliable
• businessman read them
• publish the opinion of the
best experts in the world
• never publish gossip
• have a weather forecast
• main topic is politics
tabloids
• small format
• don’t check information
• publish a lot of photographs
• write about celebrities and
their secrets, private lives
• publish horoscopes
• you can find jokes and
crosswords, puzzles there
• use intriguing headlines