Make Your Way 8, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

  A quick survey of teenage newspaper reading habits reported the following.   Selected Newspaper circulation figures   The average British adult reads for 42 minutes every day. Here’s how that time is spent. • Newspapers (17 minutes) • Magazines (5 minutes) • Fiction (11 minutes) • Reference books (2 minutes) • Internet (7 minutes) Title September 2012 Title September 2012 Sun 2,582,301 The People 701,246 Daily Mirror 1,102,810 Sunday Mirror 1,594,293 Daily Star 617,082 Daily Star Sunday 599,078 Daily Mail 1,945,496 The Mail on Sunday 1,882,469 Daily Express 577,543 Sunday Express 567,800 Daily Telegraph 578,774 Sunday Telegraph 461,280 The Times 397,549 The Sunday Times 939,395 The Guardian 215,988 The Observer 253,022 The Independent 105,160 Independent on Sunday 124,428 boys girls yes no yes no Do you spend more than 10 minutes a day reading the newspaper? 76% 24% 63% 37% Do you read the whole paper? 13% 87% 16% 84% Language for discussion: Reporting and comparing statistics Now make up sentences to test your partner’s understanding of the statistics. Use the language in the box to help you. 17 More/less than Approximately/roughly/around/about Just over/under Exactly Almost/nearly university students … teenagers … the time an adult spends reading is on … two thirds of two in three 66% of The … is three times more/less popular than the … British adults spend about the same time … as they do … Twice the number of people read the … as read the … Circulation figures as of September 2012 101 6 Unit 6: Read all about it Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv