II. Look at the front pages of three British newspapers on pages 80-82 and answer the questions below. Fill in the chart as you work1. Approximately what percentage of each front page is devoted to:
c. headlines d. the nameplate
2. What is the subject of each newspaper’s main story? 3. Where is each newspaper’s main story located on the page? 4. What is the subject of each newspaper’s main photograph? 5. Where is it found on the page? 6. What similarities and differences do you notice between the broadsheet and tabloid newspapers regarding their layouts?
III. Take an English-language newspaper. Prepare a review of the front page. Use the following expressions:
at the top at the bottom in the upper half in the lower half in the upper left / right hand corner next to in the centre under the photograph the article occupies / takes up half the page a full-page picture gives much space to the page is taken up by the article reports on / focuses upon / highlights placed on the next page front page news stretches across the columns contains the name depicted in the photograph placed in a box
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