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The media
Destination C1&C2 Vocabulary Unit 10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| anchor (n) | someone who presents a television or radio programme, especially the news |
| anchor (v) | to present a television or radio programme, especially the news |
| broadcast (n) | a programme that can be seen or heard on radio or television |
| broadcast (v) | to send out messages or programmes to be received by radios or televisions |
| broadcast (v) | to tell people something, especially something that you wanted to be a secret |
| caption | words printed near or on a picture that explain something about the picture |
| columnist | a journalist who writes a regular series of articles for a particular newspaper or magazine |
| correspondent | a newspaper or television reporter, especially one who deals with a particular subject or area |
| coverage | news about something on television or radio or in the newspapers, sometimes used about the amount of attention that television, radio, and newspapers give to something, or the way in which something is reported |
| coverage | information about a range of things, for example in a book or course of education |
| critic | someone who does not like something and states their opinion about it |
| critic | someone whose job is to write or broadcast their opinions about things such as books, films, or plays |
| footnote | a note at the bottom of a page that gives more detailed information about something on the page |
| ghostwriter | someone who writes something for someone else whose name will appear on it as the writer |
| handbook | a small book that gives information about a subject or instructions about how to use something |
| manifesto | a formal statement expressing the aims and plans of a group or organization, especially a political party |
| novelist | someone who writes novels |
| pamphlet | a very thin book with a paper cover, usually given free to people |
| prerecorded | prerecorded messages, music, televison or radio programmes have been recorded so that they can be used later |
| reviewer | someone whose job is to write articles in a newspaper or magazine giving their opinion about a new play, book, art exhibition etc |
| spine | the edge of a book where all the pages are fixed together |
| subtitles | a translation of what people are saying in a foreign language film or television programme, that appears at the bottom of the screen |
| supplement | a separate part of a newspaper or magazine |
| tabloid (adj) | relating to newspapers with fairly small pages mostly containing stories about famous people and not much serious news |
| tabloid (n) | a newspaper with fairly small pages mostly containing stories about famous people and not much serious news. More serious newspapers are called broadsheets, which have bigger pages, or compacts |
| trailer | an advertisement for a film or television programme that shows a short part of that film or programme |
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patrick.d.a
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