1. Understanding a Foreign Country Through Viewing Its Newspapers.

One of the better ways of understanding a foreign country is to spend time viewing one of their newspapers, written in English of course. Foreign students in class may wish to read a paper in their native language. Your task is this: Set up a list of criteria for good English writing and then apply those criteria to the foreign paper. Some criteria you may wish to consider are these:

a. Use of headings to the stories

b. Tendency to overuse certain words, such as the article the

c. Control over prepositions

d. Difficulty with using tenses