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Unit 2 Newspapers

Analysing a newspaper

Newspaper's name: ________________________________________________________

Kind of newspaper: ________________________________________________________

Issue date: ________________________________________________________

Slogan: ________________________________________________________

Front page

Leading news story

Headline: ________________________________________________________

Subhead: ________________________________________________________

By-line: ________________________________________________________

Other leading stories

Headline 1: ________________________________________________________

Headline 2: ________________________________________________________

Headline 3: ________________________________________________________

Puffs: ________________________________________________________

Photograph(s), caption(s): ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Cartoons: ________________________________________________________

Menu: ________________________________________________________

Inside the newspaper

Find examples of:

Feature article (headline and page): ________________________________________________________________________________

Report on topics related to specific areas (headline and page number): ________________________________________________________________________________

Opinion article (headline and page number): ________________________________________________________________________________

Editorial (headline and page number): ________________________________________________________________________________

Letter to the editor (headline and page number): ________________________________________________________________________________

Book or movie review (headline and page number): ________________________________________________________________________________

Classified advertisement (text and page number): ________________________________________________________________________________

Advertisements (kind, name of product/service, target):

• Ad 1: __________________________________________________________________________
• Ad 2: __________________________________________________________________________
• Ad 3: __________________________________________________________________________

Exercises

Exercise 1 Headlines

Look for examples of headlines with the following characteristics, and fill in the chart with page number, headline, and headline rewritten as a regular sentence.

• "and" omitted and replaced with a comma
• A "be" verb omitted
• Additional characteristic: ________________________________________________________