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You will learn

you will describe how a traditional newspapernewspapernewspaper is built
you will recognise the linguistic means specific to the media style
you will create a news to a daily newspaper
you will distinguish are the press genres and their characteristics
you will use press‑related vocabulary

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Before the lesson

Browse through selected newspaper editions (traditional and online). See which topic sections are in each of them and how the hierarchy of topics looks like. Pay attention to the graphic designgraphic designgraphic design of the newspapers and the layout of the content.

Language of the media

The media speak to the audience by means of various forms of expression. All of them are supposed to reach the audience and attract their attention. Although many media texts contain facts and data, it is a feature of journalistic communications that they affect emotions, often using everyday language. What characterises the way of expressing opinions in contemporary media?

Texts are characterised by creativity – in many cases descriptions and assessments are combined with an interesting play on words and associations; while serious topics are often accompanied by comments maintained in a humorous form.
The media speak the language of the average reader. You can find there means similar as in advertisements (e.g. metaphors, commonly used idiomatic expressions, transformations of well‑known and frequently repeated statements).

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Exercise 1

Highlight the features of the media style:

{#topicality} {formality} {#sensationalism} {trite} {#expressiveness} {existence of terminology} {complex syntax} {#colloquiality}

Exercise 2

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Write down the thematic sections that most often appear in newspapers. Think about which of them you are particularly interested in. section section section section section section

Exercise 3

Working in groups, gather topics for a daily newspaper. Divide into groups as much as possible according to your interests (defined in the previous exercise). Suggest a hierarchy of news, you can also find illustrative material.

Group I – politics
Group II – economy
Group III – society
Group IV – culture
Group V – sport

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Exercise 4

Can you identify the basic journalistic genres and their characteristics?

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Source: domena publiczna.

Exercise 5

Search for a comprehensive interviewinterviewinterview in any issue of the newspaper, read it and follow the instructions:

Indicate the questions the journalistjournalistjournalist uses to:

establish and maintain a discussion,
know the opinion of the interviewer,
complete important information,
present the interviewer.

Indicate the answers of the interviewer in which:

a description of his experiences appears,
you can find interesting information about his biography,
his world of values appears.

Exercise 6

Choose the person you would like to interview (a well‑known writer, actor, musician, sportsman, etc.) and write down the questions you would like to ask him/her. Try to approach the subject creatively.

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Exercise 7

Check if you know the press vocabulary.. Match in pairs.

graphic information, combination of text and image, title of an article, an article published on an exclusive basis, graphic design, summary of the most important information, the final date for the delivery of the finished material