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English Audio Request

silverteacher
194 Words / 3 Recordings / 2 Comments
Note to recorder:

Would you be nice enough to record the following text? Thanks in advance.

The British Press
Reading a daily newspaper is part of the British routine. Mullions of newspapers are sold in Britain every day. In fact, after the Japanese, the British are the people who buy the most daily papers in the whole world. The fact that newspapers are delivered door to door for a small extra charge contributes to a high rate of readership.

Besides countless small local papers, there are national dailies. Some have a high quality. That’s why they are called quality papers. They used to have a large format – broadsheet, but nowadays some quality papers have adopted the smaller format. They deal with an extensive coverage of political, financial, and foreign news, use formal language, have few pictures and deal with the information in a serious and objective way.

Others, popular papers, are smaller in format – tabloids. They have lots of pictures, large headlines and short articles written in simple and informal language., which deal with human interest stories. This kind of newspapers handle the information in a sensationalist way.

There is also the Sunday press, which provides reading material about motoring, holidays, fashion, cooking, house and home, among others.

Recordings

  • Tabloids versus quality newspapers. ( recorded by TheLilyLiveredDuke ), American

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    The British Press
    Reading a daily newspaper is part of the British routine. Millions of newspapers are sold in Britain every day. In fact, after the Japanese, the British are the people who buy the most daily papers in the whole world. The fact that newspapers are delivered door to door for a small additional charge contributes to a high rate of readership.

    Besides countless small local papers, there are national dailies. Some are of high quality. That’s why they are called quality papers. They used to have a large format – broadsheet, but nowadays some quality papers have adopted a smaller format. They deal with an extensive coverage of political, financial, and foreign news, use formal language, have few pictures, and deal with the information in a serious and objective way.

    Other, popular papers, are smaller in format – tabloids. They have lots of pictures, large headlines and short articles written in simple and informal language., which deal with human interest stories. These kinds of newspapers handle the information in a sensationalist way.

    There is also the Sunday press, which provides reading material about motoring, holidays, fashion, cooking, house and home, among others.

  • Tabloids versus quality newspapers. ( recorded by briand ), Northeastern American

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    The British Press
    Reading a daily newspaper is part of the British routine. Millions of newspapers are sold in Britain every day. In fact, after the Japanese, the British are the people who buy the most daily papers in the whole world. The fact that newspapers are delivered door to door for a small extra charge contributes to a high rate of readership.

    Besides countless small local papers, there are national dailies. Some have a high quality. That’s why they are called quality papers. They used to have a large format – broadsheet, but nowadays some quality papers have adopted the smaller format. These papers deal with an extensive coverage of political, financial, and foreign news. They tend to use formal language, have few pictures and deal with the information in a serious and objective way.

    Other popular papers, called tabloids are smaller in format. They have lots of pictures, large headlines and short articles written in simple and informal language. These kinds of newspapers handle the information in a sensationalist way, and tend to deal with human interest stories.

    There is also the Sunday press, which provides reading material among others about motoring, holidays, fashion, cooking as well as house and home.

  • Tabloids versus quality newspapers. ( recorded by _undertoad ), American English (Pacific Northwest)

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    The British Press
    Reading a daily newspaper is part of the British routine. Millions of newspapers are sold in Britain every day. In fact, after the Japanese, the British are the people who buy the most daily papers in the whole world. The fact that newspapers are delivered door to door for a small extra charge contributes to a high rate of readership.

    Besides countless small local papers, there are national dailies. Some have a high quality. That’s why they are called quality papers. They used to have a large format – broadsheet, but nowadays some quality papers have adopted the smaller format. They deal with an extensive coverage of political, financial, and foreign news, use formal language, have few pictures and deal with the information in a serious and objective way.

    Others, popular papers, are smaller in format – tabloids. They have lots of pictures, large headlines and short articles written in simple and informal language., which deal with human interest stories. This kind of newspaper handles the information in a sensationalist way.

    There is also the Sunday press, which provides reading material about motoring, holidays, fashion, cooking, house and home, among others.

Comments

briand
Nov. 24, 2013

Please enjoy the recording. I corrected some minor grammar, spelling and syntax errors in your text.

silverteacher
Nov. 25, 2013

thank you for both recording and correcting the text. Have a great day!

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