Reading and understanding newspapers. Пыж А.М. - 36 стр.

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and the governor and the Provincial Community Development Office came to
their rescue.
The governor gave them two ovens that cost around $2000. The aim was to
work out a banana preservation programme for communities of housewives
throughout the country.
Notice that you could stop reading the news story at almost any point and
still have the main facts. The feature story, however, has only just begun. It is
clearly written for readers who have the time to sit back and enjoy what they
read. Even from the brief excerpt it is clear the feature story is less formal and
the writer is much more involved in the story. In news stories, you hardly notice
the writer at all.
Tips for Reading Feature Stories:
1. Don’t give up too easily. Feature stories often seem difficult, but
usually only the introduction is troublesome. There, the writer tries to catch our
attention and some of the methods used (humour, word-plays or idioms) can be
difficult for non-native readers to understand. Once the main part of the feature
begins, however — usually after three or four paragraphs — it may become
much easier to read.
2. Take advantage of all the help the writer gives you. Pay special
attention to the pictures and the captions beneath them. Often the editor provides
an introduction as well. For example, in the banana story above, this is how the
editor introduced the story.
ENTERPRISE: A group of housewives have
become real high-fliers since their preserved
bananas found a place on the Thai Airways
International menu. Now other groups want
to learn their recipe for success
As a rule, features always have a headline that identifies the topic of the
story. There is a deck as well. A deck is a sentence or short paragraph that
suggests the theme of the story. It is set in large italic type before the story.
3. Take a quick look through the story to see how it is organised.
Usually a feature will have several distinct parts. Once you see them, the feature
becomes much easier to read — a series of short sections rather than one long
story.
4. Try to find the writer’s focus. Good writers generally focus on one or
two aspects of their subject. It may be a particular habit or characteristic of a

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