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suffering severe damage. Which side seems to have the most public support? Or
if the courts become involved, which side seems to have the stronger case?
After-reading task: find a dispute article and analyze it (the following
questions will help you)
1. As you read, try to determine the opposing sides. Who is involved in the
dispute?
2. What is the grievance that caused the dispute, and the demands made?
3. What attempts have been made to resolve the dispute and what additional
steps might be taken.
4. Why do you think this story is in the news? Are any pressure tactics being
used?
5. What tactics are both sides using to strengthen their positions?
Additional Exercise: Newspaper Parts.
Now that you’ve learnt quite a bit about the newspaper try to identify the 18
typical extracts from different parts of a newspaper given below.
Obituary football report television preview
horoscope
Gossip column auction report travel and holidays
editorial
New car report caption parliamentary report
Gardening tips recipe headline
(a) The word is that Clinton Ross, 32, playboy son of US steel billionaire
Dwight Ross, has left his girlfriend, Lee-Ann Van Post, 26, and is now in
Europe.
(b) Prince Edward (left) enjoys a joke with actor Sam Cool (centre).
(c) PREMIER TO PROBE RIDDLE OF ‘SPIES IN MINISTRY’
(d) He received a number of international literary awards, culminating in the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He leaves a widow and two sons.
(e) Today is a good day to do business but a bad one for romance. Don’t take
the members of the opposite sex too seriously today.
(f) Our front page today gives details of the government’s new economic
proposals. Our readers may think, as we do, that these measures are too
little and too late. We say to the government, not for the first time, it is
time…
(g) Mix two eggs yolks with butter in a frying-pan over a low gas. Add sugar
and then…
