It is useful for students to learn how to read English newspapers. More than half of newspapers published in the world are printed in English. Almost all of the major cities in the world have at least one English newspaper. In addition, English newspapers provide good material for studying English. They carry a wide variety of information, and everyone should be able to find something of interest.
Newspapers can be a good source of information about other cultures.
They are easy to obtain, and they are inexpensive, considering the amount of information they include. We have applied our opinion about the usefulness of newspapers since the early 1980's. We have written explanations of why students should read English newspapers, how they are organized, how to read headlines and news, special terms used in English newspapers, and so on. Our original readings were revised to form the first eight chapters of this textbook. While studying these first eight chapters, students subscribed to an English newspaper for a month and read various kinds of articles with the assistance of our explanations.