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Homework: 1: read the following 4 paragraphs and mark out the topic sentences, supporting sentences and concluding sentences in each paragraph. British newspapers can be classified into groups according to various criteria, such as area of distribution, size of sales, socioeconomic class of their readers, days (and times) of publication, and political bias. Each of these different criteria will lead to more or less different groupings. With regard to the area of distribution a fairly clear distinction can be made between national papers and local papers. The national, e.g. The Times, Daily Mirror and Sunday Express, are readily obtainable in virtually all parts of the United Kingdom at the same time. On the other hand, local papers, e.g. Yorkshire Post or Liverpool Echo, serve a particular area, and outside that area must be specially ordered. This is the first criterion for newspaper classification. Regarding the socioeconomic class of the readers, a classification on these lines will to a large extent reflect the above distinction into quality and popular. This is because the quality papers are mostly intended for the upper income groups, while the popular papers find their readers among the lower socioeconomic groups. Thus, a reader of The Observer or Financial Times, which are quality papers, is likely to be an educated person with quite a good income, while a reader of Daily Mail or The Sun is more likely to be a less well-educated person with a lower income.?This is obviously a broad generalization, for although in the main it follows the facts, it is nevertheless true that a more detailed study would show that the complete picture is somewhat more complicated. Large newspapers appear daily, such as the Times, and local papers with small circulations, however, might appear only once or twice a week, or even less frequently, depending on demand. The vast majority are morning papers, i.e. they go on sale early in the morning, while the minority are the so-calle