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Here you can find a collection of useful newspapers vocabulary. These words can be used for talking or writing about newspapers.

Types of newspapers

• tabloid (таблоїд, бульварна газета) – gossip newspaper
• broadsheets – newspapers printed on large sheets which are usually considered more serious
• daily / weekly / monthly newspapers – papers printed once a day / once a week / once a month
• quarterly newspapers – newspapers printed once every three months
• heavy newspaper – a newspaper with serious content
• gutter press (бульварна преса) – newspapers which focus on sensational journalism, often about the lives of famous people
• periodical (періодичне видання) – a newspaper or magazine published at regular intervals
• local / regional newspaper – a newspaper which contains news from a particular area
• national newspaper – a newspaper which contains news from the whole country

Newspaper Content

• headline (заголовок) – heading or title appearing at the top of a page or article
• columns – news that is printed in vertical columns rather than taking a whole page
• obituaries (некрологи) – a section in the newspaper about people who have recently died
• horoscope – a section in the newspaper about star signs and zodiac signs which foretell the future
• weather report – a section in the newspaper for weather forecasts
• business section – a section in the newspaper with business news
• international / world news section – a section in the newspaper which focuses on news from abroad
• letter to the editor (лист до редакції)  – a section in the newspaper for people to express their views to the editor of the newspaper
• editorial (передовиця) – a news article containing the editor’s opinion
• comic strip – a cartoon series in the newspaper
• TV guide – a section in the newspaper with a guide for TV programs for the coming day or week

Useful Newspapers Vocabulary

• circulation (тираж) – the number of copies a newspaper sold each day or each week (some newspapers have a wider circulation than others)
• edition (видання) – a particular version of a text
• layout (компонування) – the way articles are designed on a page (this can include the position of pictures, the number of columns and the size of headlines)
• attention-grabbing (привертає увагу) – a news story which draws public attention
• eye-catching – a picture or layout which catches a person’s eye
• sensational news – which causes public excitement or interest
• black and white – without colour
• paparazzi – a freelance photographer who follows celebrities
• front page – the first page of a news paper
• subject matter (тема) – the topic dealt with in an article
• proof reader (коректор)– a person who checks a text for errors
• fact checker – a person who checks if the newspaper facts  and information in an article are correct
• readership (читацька аудиторія) – the collective readers of a newspaper (some newspapers have a large readership)
• issue (випуск, видання)– a copy of a newspaper; an important topic for a debate
• online news – Інтернет-новини
• a press conference – прес-конференція
• a media outlet – ЗМІ
• yellow journalism – journalism that is based upon sensationalism
• invasion of privacy – порушення приватності
• government censorship – урядова цензура
• to cover a story (висвітлити історію) – to report on an event
• in-depth coverage of (поглиблене висвітлення) – a detailed analysis of
• eyewitness reports (повідомлення очевидців) – descriptions of what happened by people who actually saw an event take place
• breaking news (останні новини) – news which is just coming in

Have practice using Newspapers Vocabulary

Fill in the sentences with the words:

editorials   tabloids   paparazzi   obituaries   fact checker   headlines  regional   layout

1. I don’t understand why people buy __________  because they don’t contain real news, just gossip.
2. Famous people deserve the right to privacy and the government should do more to control and limit __________ .
3. There are so many mistakes in that article with information that they’ve got wrong. They really should employ a __________ .
4. I’m not keen on the __________ of some newspapers. It seems to me as though they are trying to fill the pages with pictures and big words to get people’s attention but I just think it’s messy.
5. Did you read about that amazing hero in World War II that recently died? There was a wonderful article about her life in the __________ today.
6. The reason that many people only glance through the papers to read the  __________ is that they are so busy and don’t have time to read the details in the articles themselves.
7. Although we live in a global world, where international news is important to follow, it is still vital that people read their __________ newspapers in order to learn about the community in which they live.
8. I like reading __________ because it’s interesting to read the views of the editor on particular issues.

Answer the questions

1. Do you often read the news?
2. Which magazines and newspapers do you read?
3. What kinds of articles are you most interested in? Why?
4. Have you ever read a newspaper or magazine in a foreign language?
5. Do you think newspapers and magazines might one day disappear?
6. Why is it important to read the news?
7. Should the government control what is in our newspapers?
8. What kind of person can become a good journalist?
9. Can you describe a newspaper or a magazine that you like to read? You should say: what the publication is; what kind of information it contains; how often you read it; explain why you read it.

I hope you find Newspapers Vocabulary useful to speak and write about newspapers and their content.

Based on: ieltsliz.com/newspaper-vocabulary/

Harmony seldom makes a headline.

Silas Ben

Task 1. Study
the following examples of newspaper headline language.

A. Features of headline language

Here are some typical
examples of headlines from tabloid
newspapers
with comments on their use or language. [popular papers with smaller
pages than more serious papers]

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• Articles, prepositions and auxiliary verbs are often omitted from
  headlines.

• This use of the present
  simple instead of the past tense makes the story sound more
  immediate.

• The use of language is
  often ambiguous. It is not entirely clear, for example, what mobile
  refers to
  here. It is actually about the dangers of mobile phone use but it
  could have referred to dangers that can move in some way. Readers
  have to look at the story in order to find out.

• Words with dramatic
  associations such as danger
  are often
  used.

TV STAR TRAGIC TARGET FOR MYSTERY GUNMAN

This story is about how a well-known television actor was shot by an
unknown killer.

• Tabloid newspapers like to use references to royalty or popular
  figures like film or pop stars or sports personalities in order to
  attract readers’ attention.

• Alliteration such as TV
  Star Tragic Target
  is often used to attract the eye in headlines and to make them
  sound more memorable.

• Newspapers sometimes use ‘shorthand’ words such as ‘gunman’ in
  order to express an idea or image as briefly and as vividly as
  possible.

B. Violent words

Violent and militaristic words are often used in newspaper
headlines, especially in tabloid newspapers, in order to make
stories seem more dramatic.

EU acts to crush
terror of
the thugs

Palace besieged
by journalists

Crackdown
on soccer louts

Typhoon rips
through town

C. Playing with words

Many newspaper headlines in
English attract readers’ attention by playing on words in an
entertaining way. For example, a story about the theft of traffic
signs erected to help tourists coming to see a solar eclipse in the
area was headlined Dark
deeds.
In this
collocation dark
usually
carries the meaning of wicked,
but the
headline is cleverly playing with the word dark
because at
the time of an eclipse the sky goes dark.

Another example is the use
of the headline Ruffled
feathers
to describe an incident where a wife was angry with her husband, a
wildlife expert, for allowing a Russian steppe eagle to sleep in
their bedroom. We use the idiom to
smooth someone’s ruffled feathers,
meaning to pacify someone after an argument. It is apt to use it
here as the story is about a bird (although, of course, it was the
woman’s feathers which were ruffled).

Task 2.
Read these
headlines. What do you think the stories might be about?

1. MOSCOW
   BLAST TERROR

2. I’m
   to reveal soccer lout plans

3. TOP MP IN LONE BATTLE

4. CRACKDOWN ON PORN

5. THUGS BESIEGE TEEN STAR

6. COPS TARGET LOUTS

Task 3.
These
headlines were written in a pretend tabloid newspaper about Ancient
Greece. Match them with the subjects of their stories (a) to (e)
below and comment on the features of headline language they contain.

1. NUDE SCIENTIST IN BATHTUB SENSATION

2. KING PHIL’S MACEDONIAN
   MASH-UP

3. MARATHON MAN IN DROP-DEAD
   DASH

4. QUADRUPLE ROYAL MURDER SENSATION

5. IT’S CURTAINS FOR CORINTH

   1. Mysterious death of four members of the royal family.

   2. Philip of Macedonia wins battle against city states of Athens and
      Thebes.

   3. Archimedes’ discovery of the laws governing the displacement of
      water.

   4. Burning of city of Corinth to ground by the Romans.

   5. Long-distance runner brings news of battle victory to Athens and
      then dies.

Task 4.
Match the newspaper articles with the headlines following them.

1. A girl fell from the top of a 50-metre high cliff at Southport and
   landed on a sandy beach. After the call, she stood up and walked
   away with only a broken ankle.

2. Theodore Lee has left all his money to the Society for the Blind.
   He died in April and his entire will of $ 460,000 goes to the
   Society.

3. Two men broke into a supermarket in Italy and walked off with 240
   tins of dog food, worth Lira 120,000. However, they did not take
   anything else from the shop.

4. Police yesterday began to look for thieves who stole 14 paintings
   from a museum in Taipei. The paintings were among the best in the
   mu­seum.

5. Two lorries crashed at the
   start of a new road system and caused a 7-mile queue. It took
   drivers three times longer to travel the same dis­tance as on
   the old road.

6. Ted Cornwall, aged 77, has
   started his own telephone service for unhappy people. They can ring
   his home and listen to his choice of jokes.

7. Robert Tadley had a hard day with his three-year-old daughter. At
   last he asked, «Why do you cry all the time?» Back came
   the answer: «But I don’t cry when I’m laughing, daddy.»

8. An amazing voyage to outer space can at last help scientists to
   discover the secrets of a mystery planet. The spacecraft Voyager 2
   can reach the planet Neptune in three years.

1. Lost art

2. Dial a smile

3. Traffic chaos

4. Girl underground

5. Girl’s lucky break

6. Thieves with pets

7. Cats and Dogs

8. Picture of a city

9. Bad language

10. Buying a car

11. Ringing the bells

12. Gift for the blind

13. Like a bird in the sky

14. Journey into space

15. Laughter and tears.

Task 5.
Write these newspaper articles as complete sentences.

1. GRIMSBY’S NEW MP TAKES SEAT IN COMMONS

2. PRICE OF ELECTRICITY TO GO UP AGAIN

3. VALUABLE PICTURE STOLEN FROM ITALIAN MUSEUM

4. U.S. PRESIDENT TO VISIT IRELAND

5. GERMANY BEATS BRITAIN AT ATHLETICS

6. UNION LEADERS TO MEET PRIME MINISTER ON THURSDAY

7. UNIVERSITY LAB TECHNICIANS ON STRIKE

8. SIX KILLED IN MOTORWAY ACCIDENT

9. BABY HIPPO BORN IN DETROIT ZOO

10. NEW YORK’S OLDEST HOTEL DESTROYED IN FIRE LAST NIGHT

11. PICTURE BY PICASSO FOUND IN CELLAR

12. LARGE U.S. CAR COMPANY TO BE SOLD TO JAPANESE SOON

13. DOG LEFT IN GARAGE FOR 10 DAYS — OWNERS ON HOLI­DAY

14. POP STAR SUZI WELLS KILLED IN ACCIDENT AT WEEKEND

Task 6.
Look at this collection of headlines. Say what the following
articles can be about.

• President Announces Conference on Nuclear Weapons

• U. S. Embassy Official Opens School

• Typhoid Epidemic In Midlands: Doctors Blame Impure Water

• Bomb Sent To Minister Of Agriculture By Post

• United Nations Plan
  Attacked In Parliament — «Impossible» Says Minister.

• 14 Injured In Motorway Crash Taken To Hospital

• 10% Of School Leavers Illiterate Says Report — «Report Is
  Inaccu­rate And Irresponsible» Says Education Expert

• New Shopping Precinct
  Planned For City Centre

• Queen Visits School In Yorkshire

Task 7.
Match the headline to its story and explain the play on words in
each case.

1. Bad blood

2. Happy days?

3. Shell-shocked

4. False
   impressions

5. Happy Haunting

6. Hopping mad

7. Flushed

8. Highly
   embarrassed

9. Round-up

1. A grandfather’s
   breathing problems were solved when doctors found four false
   teeth at the entrance to his lungs. They had been forced down
   his windpipe in a car crash eight years ago.

2. A 25-year-old terrapin
   is being treated for a fractured shell after surviving a 200 ft
   drop.

3. A Shetland teacher has suggested labradors or golden retrievers
   could be used to control pupils in playgrounds.

4. A ghost society has been told not to scare off a friendly
   female apparition at a hotel.

5. Adults who have never quite grown up are to be offered school
   theme nights including uniforms, register, assembly and primary
   school dinners by a Nottingham hotel.

6. An ex-public loo in
   Hackney, East London, is to be sold for £76,000.

7. A Whitby curate has attacked the resort’s attempts to profit on
   its connections with Dracula: ‘a pale-faced man with a bad
   sense of fashion, severe dental problems and an eating
   disorder.’

8. A toad triggered a police alert when it set off a new hi-tech
   alarm system.

9. Firemen had to scale a 30-foot tree in St Leonard’s, East
   Sussex, to rescue a man who was trying to capture his pet
   iguana.

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SPEAKING

Task 8.
Look at the layout of any newspaper
or magazine and comment on the function of the various elements
used.

A layout
is the way elements are arranged on a printed page. The layout
includes such elements as the type of letters, the use of bold type,
italics, underlining, bullets ( = dots or other symbols used at the
beginning of a next passage), the size and number of columns, color,
the placement of illustrations. The layout determines whether a text
is attractive to the eye and it helps writers to structure their
texts and to emphasize certain words, phrases or passages.

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WRITING

Task 9.
Take any recent story you’ve
heard seen or read and use it as a basis for a tabloid front page.
Choose an appropriate headline and design the layout.

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A collection of useful vocabulary for newspapers. These words can be used for talking or writing about newspapers. There is also an audio for each section to help you improve your pronunciation. This topic can come in all parts of the IELTS speaking test, writing task 2 and also listening and reading. It’s well worth learning this useful newspaper vocabulary.

Types of Newspapers

• tabloids = gossip newspapers
• broadsheets = newspapers printed on large sheets which are usually considered more serious
• daily / weekly / monthly newspapers = papers printed once a day / once a week / once a month
• quarterly newspapers = newspapers printed once every 3 months
• heavy newspaper = a newspaper with serious content
• gutter press = newspapers which focus on sensational journalism, often about the lives of famous people
• periodical = a newspaper or magazine published at regular intervals
• local / regional newspaper = a newspaper which contains news from a particular area
• national newspaper = a newspaper which contains news from the whole country

Newspaper Content

• headlines = heading or title appearing at the top of a page or article
• columns = news that is printed in vertical columns rather than taking a whole page
• obituaries = a section in the newspaper about people who have recently died
• horoscope = a section in the newspaper about star signs and zodiac signs which foretell the future
• weather report = a section in the newspaper for weather forecasts
• business section = a section in the newspaper with business news
• international / world news section = a section in the newspaper which focuses on news from abroad
• caption = a explanation or title matching a picture or cartoon
• letter to the editor = a section in the newspaper for people to express their views to the editor of the newspaper
• special feature = a special story
• editorial = a news article containing the editor’s opinions
• comic strip = a cartoon series in the newspaper
• advice column = a column in the newspaper where advice is given to people who write in for it
• TV guide = a section in the newspaper with a guide for TV programs for the coming day or week

Other Useful Vocabulary for Newspapers

• circulation = the number of copies a newspaper distributes on an average day (some newspapers have a wider circulation than others)
• edition = a particular version of a text
• layout = the way articles are designed on a page (this can include the position of pictures, the number of columns and the size of headlines)
• attention-grabbing = a news story which draws public attention
• eye-catching = a picture or layout which catches a person’s eye
• in-depth = with many details
• sensational news = news which causes public excitement or interest
• black and white = without colour
• direct quotation = words taken directly from what a person has said
• paparazzi = a freelance photographer who follows celebrities
• front page = the first page of a newspaper
• supplementary magazine = a magazine which sometimes is given free with a newspaper
• back issue = an old newspaper edition
• subject matter = the topic dealt with in an article
• proof reader = a person who checks a text for errors
• fact checkers = a person (people) who checks if the newspaper facts and information in an article are correct
• hot off the press = news that has just been printed and is very recent
• readership = the collective readers of a newspaper (some newspapers have a large readership)
• issue (n) = 1. an important topic for a debate   2. a copy of a newspaper

Practice with Newspaper Vocabulary

Fill in the following sentences with word(s) from the above lists. Words can be adapted to make the sentences grammatically correct.

Try to fill in the answers before you listen to the audio below.

1.  I can’t understand why people buy ……………….. because they don’t contain real news, just gossip.
2. Famous people deserve the right to privacy and the government should do more to control and limit ……………
3. There are so many mistakes in that article with information that they’ve got wrong. They really should employ a …………….
4. I’m not keen on the …………… of some newspapers. It seems to me as though they are trying to fill the pages with pictures and big words to get people’s attention but I just think it’s messy.
5.  Did you read about that amazing hero in WWII that recently died? There was a wonderful article about her life in the …………….. today.
6. The reason that many people only glance through the papers to read the ……………….. is that they are so busy and don’t have time to read the details in the articles themselves.
7. Although we live in a global world, where international news is important to follow, it is still vital that people read their ……………… newspapers in order to learn about the community in which they live.
8. I quite like reading …………… because it’s interesting to read the views of the editor on particular issues.

Listen to the full sentences to check your answers.

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Error Correction

Find the mistakes in the following sentences. There is one mistake in each sentence.

1. The paparazzi, who work freelance, are notorious for hound celebrities.
2. Gutter press focuses on mainly sensational news.
3. Tabloid are not popular newspapers among the educated people in my country.
4. Fact checkers do important work and are responsible to make sure that people are quote correctly in articles.
5. The recent article about marine environmental problems is hot of the press.
6. For my research, I had to go through a lot of back issues of various newspapers to find the articles relate to my degree thesis.
7. I’m pleased that newspapers are starting to include some colour photographs and pictures because it makes the articles more interesting and eye-catch.
8. One of my favourite parts of a newspaper is the comic strip because I find the message in the cartoons so relevent to the major issues of the day.

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