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W: What paper have you got there, John?
M: Oh, the Mirror. I bought it to look at the pictures of the big fight.
W: Oh, the boxing match. I thought you took the Daily Telegraph.
M: Well, I do usually, but the sports aren’t so good.
W: What do you think are the best newspapers for students who learn English to read?
M: It depends on their politics and their tastes, of course, but also, I think, on their knowledge of English.
W: What do you mean? I don’t see how their knowledge of English comes into it?
M: Well, I think it does.  The popular papers like the Mirror and the Sun have nice, short sentences which are easier for a foreign student to read.
W: I am not so sure, because they are very idiomatic and colloquial, and surely that makes them more difficult.
M: No, I really do think they are easier to read.
W: Well ...
M: After all these papers have a lot of pictures and short paragraphs. It must make them more attractive to the learner of English, definitely easier.
W: Yes, it’s true, I suppose, that people who buy these popular papers just want a quick glance at the news. They don’t want to study it in depth.
M: If you want to study some aspects of the news in depth, the best paper to buy is The Times.
W: Why?
M: It is supposed to be well-balanced and more authoritative. But it also takes practically all day to read it properly.
W: What about politics?
M: Well, The times is supposed to be neutral.
W: But people abroad seem to think it is the propaganda for the government.
M: No, it isn’t the mouthpiece of the government as people abroad often seem to think.
W: What paper do you usually buy?
M: The evening paper. I like reading the evening news on the tube on my way home;
W: Oh, I prefer the Evening Standard. It is the best guide to what’s on. 1 read the Telegraph in the morning, but then I like to relax in the evening.