British Newspapers
Complete the text below by adding in the missing words wit one which fits the sense and grammar of the paragraph.
There are ……. newspapers, evening, weekly and Sunday newspapers. The main national daily newspapers are: the Times, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Independent, the Mail, the Express, the Sun, the Mirror and the Star.
The Guardian ………. six days a week, from Monday to Saturday, and the Observer is …….. by the Guardian Media Group on a Sunday, as a Sunday newspaper. Other Sunday newspapers ………. the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph, and the Sunday Express and they appear on a Sunday – unlike some European newspapers!
The Guardian Weekly is published for a Tuesday delivery. Evening newspapers …….. as the Evening Standard, the Newcastle Chronicle, or the East Anglian Evening Star appear on newsstands about mid-afternoon, and ………. a later news than the dailies, ……….. have usually been printed by midnight.
Freesheets ……….. appear on weekdays, but can also appear occasionally for ………. events. They are …….. because they are financed by selling advertising …………. There are some sports newspapers containing only sports coverage such as football or racing results, and ………… or financial newspapers such as the Financial Times. There are ……….., if not thousands, of provincial newspapers in the UK, many of them available online.
Don’t worry if you don’t get the same words exactly as long as you get a similar word in meaning and grammar.