ABSTRACT

Task 1: Match the words and expressions in Box A with a suitable definition in Box B. Box A

current affairs

reporters

journalists

tabloids

broadsheets

coverage

information overload

broadcasts

web

website

download

the Internet

log on

Box B

large format newspapers

small format newspapers

people who write for newspapers or periodicals

the amount of space or time given to an event in newspapers or on television

the political situation as it is now

radio or television programmes

to enter a password and start to access a computer system

journalists who write reports of events for a newspaper, periodical or television programme I the millions of pages and sites which display text and images within the Internet

to transfer pages from a web site onto our own computer

the international network linking millions of computers

a modern expression referring to the inability of a human to process everything he or she hears and sees

a collection of related pages on the World Wide Web created by a company, organisation or individual