1.Match these words to the definitions (1–7).
blog current affairs programme headline
interview journalist podcast report
1 When one person asks someone else a lot of
official questions. interview
2 Personal news and comments from an
individual on a webpage.
3 This is the person who finds and presents
information for a newspaper.
4 This is the name for the information which they
present.
5 This is the title for a newspaper story.
6 News in the form of audio files for downloading
from the internet.
7 Where people present and comment on events
in the news.
2.Match the sentence beginnings (1–8) to the
endings (a–h).
1 My sister loves clothes e 2 I don’t know all the details
3 We heard about a tsunami
4 She often uses her smartphone
5 My father always reads news stories
6 Opinion articles are not the same
7 I love our local newspaper
8 Sean has no time to read newspapers
a but he often listens to podcasts.
b written by the same journalist.
c to access a news website.
d because I recognise people and places in it .
e and reads a fashion blog every week.
f on a newsflash this morning.
g because I only read the headlines.
h as serious news reports.
3.Put the letters in the correct order to
complete the text.
I don’t mind watching the news on TV, like my
parents, but I’m not interested in those
1 current affairs (truncer frasifa) programmes,
where the news 2 (erserpent)
introduces a topic and then
3 (winevestir) people who
know more about it. And then they all
give their opinions. I only look at the
newspaper for the football, but my uncle’s a
4 (jolisaturn), and he says I
should read the 5 (delihsane),
and then the full 6 (perrot) if I
want to. But it’s easier for me to access a news
7 (ebistew): they’ve got the news
in pictures, on video and in audio files, too. And
the best part is the 8 (globs),
because you can always find one on a topic
you like.
blog current affairs programme headline
interview journalist podcast report
1 When one person asks someone else a lot of
official questions. interview
2 Personal news and comments from an
individual on a webpage.
3 This is the person who finds and presents
information for a newspaper.
4 This is the name for the information which they
present.
5 This is the title for a newspaper story.
6 News in the form of audio files for downloading
from the internet.
7 Where people present and comment on events
in the news.
2.Match the sentence beginnings (1–8) to the
endings (a–h).
1 My sister loves clothes e 2 I don’t know all the details
3 We heard about a tsunami
4 She often uses her smartphone
5 My father always reads news stories
6 Opinion articles are not the same
7 I love our local newspaper
8 Sean has no time to read newspapers
a but he often listens to podcasts.
b written by the same journalist.
c to access a news website.
d because I recognise people and places in it .
e and reads a fashion blog every week.
f on a newsflash this morning.
g because I only read the headlines.
h as serious news reports.
3.Put the letters in the correct order to
complete the text.
I don’t mind watching the news on TV, like my
parents, but I’m not interested in those
1 current affairs (truncer frasifa) programmes,
where the news 2 (erserpent)
introduces a topic and then
3 (winevestir) people who
know more about it. And then they all
give their opinions. I only look at the
newspaper for the football, but my uncle’s a
4 (jolisaturn), and he says I
should read the 5 (delihsane),
and then the full 6 (perrot) if I
want to. But it’s easier for me to access a news
7 (ebistew): they’ve got the news
in pictures, on video and in audio files, too. And
the best part is the 8 (globs),
because you can always find one on a topic
you like.
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