Mass Media

The British are great newspaper readers. Newspapers are often thought of as either ‘qualities’ or ‘poplars’ which depends on differences in style and content. The ‘qualities’ are newspapers which give serious news and reports on business matters, industry, culture and society.

The ‘quality’ papers, like The Times, The Guardian and others, are directed at reads that want full information and are prepared to spend a lot of time reading it. ‘Qualities’: The Times, Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent.

‘Poplar’ newspapers appeal to people wanting news of a more entertaining character and with lots of illustrations. They offer little political issues in early understandable language. ‘Poplars’: Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Star, The Sun.

Some newspapers come out only on Sundays:

‘Qualities’: The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent on Sunday, The Observer, The Sunday Correspondent, The Sunday Times. ‘Poplars’: News of the World, Sunday Express, Sunday Mirror, Sunday Sport, The Mail on Sunday.

Many newspapers are printed in color, and a number of papers produce color magazines as a part of the Saturday and Sunday paper. They provide reading material about fashion, clothes, cooking, diet, the house and home, motoring and holidays.

There is a wide variety of magazines in Britain. Their titles show that they cater for all tastes and interests: Amateur Gardening, British Chess Magazine, Creative Needle Craft, Country Life, Do-It-Yourself, Dog News and Family Pets, Homes and Gardens, Modern Knitting, Good Housekeeping. There is always something to read.

The most prominent American newspapers are: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor.

Many Americans consider The New York Times the nation’s most prestigious newspaper. The paper gives coverage of important national and international events. It is used as a reference tool by American libraries, and is standard reading for diplomats, scholars and government officials.

People have begun to buy less newspaper, and the most important reason for this is television and the Internet.

Among popular magazines are: Time, News Week and US News & World Report. But the largest readership has been won by magazines are good at leisure time, such as: Cosmopolitan and The Ladies Home Journal.

How To Keep Fit

People all over the world like sport. But many of them don’t do sport professionally. They do morning exsiceses, jog in the morning and train themselves in clubs, in different sections and take part in sports competitions. It’s popular among young and old people.

Other people like sports too, but they only watch sport games, listen to sport news. They prefer reading interesting stories about sportsmen. They don’t do sports themselves. Physical education is an important subject at school. Pupils have physical education lessons twice a week. Boys and girls play volleyball and basketball at lessons. There’s a sport ground near our school and school children do sports in the open air.

A lot of different competitions are held at schools, a great number of pupils take part in them. Sport helps people to keep fit. If you do sports you have good health and don’t catch cold.

Children and grown-ups must take care of their health and do exsiceses regularly. There are some popular kinds of sports in our country. football, volleyball, hockey, gymnastics, skiing, skating, athletics, there are a lot of amateur clubs and keep fit centuries in Russia where people do aerobics yoga, body-building, swimming, jogging, tennis, horse-ratting. Thousands of people go the stadiums. A lot of attention is given to sport in schools, colleges and universities. Sport also plays an important part in the life of the British and the Americans. The most popular sports in British are Football: Rugby and Soccer, Cricket, tennis, swimming and the Americans most popular sports are hockey, baseball, football and basketball.

As for me we have physical education twice a week. I like to skate in winter and go to swim in summer. I also do some cycling. I’m very fond of football and hockey. My favorite football-player is Arshavin and hockey-player is Radulov.