Mass media

Put the following words/ expressions under the right heading. Some might belong to more than one group.

● touch screen   ● broadcast   ● magazines   ● station  ● surfers   ● messaging

● link  ● band  ● commercials   ● national dailies   ● audio and video downloads 

● dubbed  ● tuning   ● circulation  ● soap operas   ● texting   ● advertisements

● waves  ● blogs  ● ringtones   ● newspapers  ● voice mail  ● editor  ● listeners

● Bluetooth ● electronic superhighway ● cable ● viewers ● chatrooms  ● tabloid  ● channel ● headlines ● modem  ● zapping   ● browsing ● roaming ● transistor   

Radio and Television. Match the words to their definitions.

a) The organized means of dissemination of information and entertainment, such as the radio and the television, among others.

b) A contest in which you take part by calling to a specific Radio /TV programme.

c) an advertisement broadcast on radio or television

d) the box that shaped the world.

e) A radio or TV broadcast.

f) People who listen to the radio.

g) Regular reports of recent events.

h) A short news report.

i) A person who reads news or introduces programmes.

j) a person that collects and writes news stories.

The Press. Complete the following text with words/ expressions from the bubble. You can use them more than once.

◊ articles   ◊ pictures  ◊ stories ◊ popular papers    ◊ readership

◊ headlines   ◊ language  ◊ news ◊ serious and objective ◊ informal  

  ◊ sensationalist      ◊ extensive ◊ coverage of  ◊ British  ◊ simple

◊ national dailies  ◊ quality papers ◊ paper(s)/newspaper(s)   ◊ Britain

The British Press

Reading a daily ______________ is part of the ___________ routine. Millions of ___________ are sold in _____________ every day. In fact, after the Japanese, the ______________ are the people who buy the most daily ____________ in the whole world. The fact that __________ are delivered door to door for a small extra charge contributes to a high rate of ____________.

Besides countless small local papers, there are __________________. Some have a high quality. That’s why they are called ________________. They used to have a large format – broadsheet, but nowadays some ________________ have adopted the smaller format. They deal with an __________________ political, financial, and foreign _________, use formal ________, have few ___________ and deal with the information in a __________________________ way.

Others, ________________, are smaller in format – tabloids. They have lots of __________, large _________ and short ________, written in ________ and _______ language, which deal with human interest ________. This kind of newspapers handle the information in a ____________ way.