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InfoChase about Tabloids and Broadsheets |
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Go to BBC website and look for information |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/asguru/generalstudies/culture/04news/index.shtml
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to help you deal with the tasks and questions below |
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here to download and print the
photocopiable questionnaire: newsquest.doc |
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– Compare the consumption of newspapers in Britain to consumption
elsewhere. |
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– Which 6 terms used to describe the front page elements of both a
tabloid and a broadsheet do the pictures in the pop-up windows illustrate?
M
. . . . . . . ,
D . . .
L . . . ,
... ,
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– Compare tabloids and broadsheets with regard to the proportions of their
mastheads, headlines and pictures.
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– How do broadsheets compare with tabloids as far as text is concerned?
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– The site claims that "tabloids and broadsheets do not look
different by accident". What is the site author implying here? |
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– Who decides a paper's "style"? |
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– Which is closer to TV news – the tabloid or the broadsheet? Find two arguments to
support your answer. |
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– What percentage of tabloid space is dedicated to pictures? How does
that compare to broadsheets? |
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– How do tabloids make use of pictures? |
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– Which adjectives are used to describe the dominant features of the
language, (a) in a tabloid, (b) in a broadsheet?
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– In what manner do broadsheets deal with facts (through their choice of
language)? |
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– In choosing their language style, what effect are tabloid writers
after? |
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– An offline activity invites us to compare the lead story of a tabloid
and a broadsheet of the same day. What aspect are we invited to study?
Guess what the result is likely to be. Justify your opinion.
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– Why are editors so keen to give their readers what they want? |
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– What are the two categories "news" can be divided into? |
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– Give three examples of the first category. |
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– By what standard can you decide whether a given story is 'hard news'
or 'gossip'?
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procedure is suggested for the second offline activity? |
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– How do you know a story can classify as a "top ten story"?
(a) with a newspaper, (b) with a TV news item?
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– Why are we asked to compare the newspaper stories with the TV news of
the day before?
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| 21 – The third offline
activity invites us to write tabloid-style headlines. What advice does the
site give us? |
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– In what respect are broadsheet headlines different?
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| (c) This webquest was created by Jürgen
Wagner |
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