Newspapers

Do you often read newspapers?

# Questions

• Do you often read newspapers?
• Which do you prefer reading, magazines or newspapers?
• What kinds of newspapers (or magazines) do you usually read?
• How old were you when you first started to read newspapers?
• Do you think it's important to read newspapers? (Why? /Why not?)

# Vocabulary

Newspapers

• probably
  • with considerable certainty
• reporting
  • the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television
• internationally
  • throughout the world
• Internet
  • a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
• political
  • involving or characteristic of politics or parties or politicians
• Occasionally
  • sporadically and infrequently
• particular
  • a fact about some part (as opposed to general)
• domestically
  • with respect to the internal affairs of a government

# Answers

Here are some model answers!

• Do you often read newspapers?
  • Not very often. Newspapers take time to get published so they are not updated as quickly as the news on social media sites is. Besides, I would have to go to the kiosks and spend money to buy newspapers.
• Which do you prefer reading, magazines or newspapers?
  • Well, if I had to choose between the two, I'll probably go with reading magazines in my spare time because they are well printed and always have in-depth reporting on particular events; whereas, you know, newspapers always report the same news as the Internet, so they now seem to be not so indispensable.
• What kinds of newspapers (or magazines) do you usually read?
  • I'm more interested in newspapers that write about foreign cultures. I like to learn about their religions, customs, and the foods they eat. Occasionally, foreign news interests me, too. I also really like reading scientific related news.
• How old were you when you first started to read newspapers?
  • I got in the habit of reading newspapers when I was in high school; I was around 17 years old then. The library in my school had several kinds of newspapers and magazines so when I had free time, I'd go to read news about the latest political events, sports and fashion news.
• Do you think it's important to read newspapers? (Why? /Why not?)
  • Yes, I feel that it's very important for me and other people to know what’s happened both domestically and internationally.

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