Newspapers and Magazines
Prompts
1. Do you often read newspapers?
2. Do you prefer to read local news or international news?
3. Which is more popular where you live, newspapers or magazines?
4. Do many people today read newspapers?
5. In the future, do you think more people than today will read magazines, or fewer people?
6. Do you think newspapers will be very important to you in the future?
7. Do you like to read newspaper articles online or on paper?
8. Do you get any news from social media?
9. Are there any topics of news you are more interested in (sports, politics, environmental, etc…)?
10. Why is it important to know about current events?
Vocabulary:
• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Prints
• Articles
• Journalism
• Journalist
• Edit
• Editor
• Exclusives
• Feature
• Media
• Tabloid
• Politics
Idioms:
• Read in between the lines
• You can’t judge a book by it’s cover
• Don’t beat a dead horse
• Get the wind of something
• A paper trail