Презентация к уроку по английскому языку в 8 классе по теме "Newspapers"

Newspapers

Irina Averkieva

The History of the newspapers

• The modern newspaper is a European invention. The oldest direct ancestors of the modern newspaper were the handwritten news sheets. They circulated widely in Venice as early as 1566.

The History of the newspapers

• . The first printed newspapers were published weekly in Germany in 1609.
• On 7 November 1665, The London Gazette (The Oxford Gazette ) was published.

The First Russian Newspaper

• Peter the Great signed a decree for the establishment of the first Russian newspaper « Ведомости».
• The first Russian newspaper was published in January 1703.

Read the names of the newspapers

British newspapers

Quality papers (broadsheets) – serious newspapers

Tabloids - popular newspapers

Broadsheets

• They produce serious quality journalism.
• Broadsheets:

the “Times”,

the “Guardian”,

the “Independent”,

“ Daily Telegraph”,

“ Financial Times”

Tabloids

• Tabloids are half the size of a broadsheet. They have a more sensational reporting style.

• Tabloids:

“ Daily Mail”, “Daily Express”, “Today”, “Daily Mirror, “’Daily Star”, “Morning Star”, “the Sun”, “Daily Sport”.

Tell about your favourite newspaper

• My favourite newspaper is …(the newspaper under review is …)
• It’s a … (regional, local) paper.
• It’s published … a week.
• It consists of … pages.
• The circulation of the paper is … issues.
• It contains (political, industrial, cultural, national, international, financial) news.

My Favourite Newspaper

7. It has more pictures(writing) than writing (pictures).

8. The main headlines of the paper are …

9. It provides readers with articles about … (sport, theatre, cinema, art, gossip in the private lives of famous people, …).

10. It has/not got advertising.

Your home task

Write a short article for a school newspaper

Sections:

• School news
• Class news
• Sports news
• Funny situations at the lessons
• Interesting and unusual hobbies of your classmates
• Amazing pupils of your class
• Art, cinema, theatre news

Well done! Thank you!