Band 7: Why some people choose to read news on internet brother then in a newspaper (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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It's true that most people nowadays prefer reading news online rather than in newspapers. There are several advantages to reading news on the internet. Firstly, you don't have to carry a physical newspaper everywhere. You can simply access news online anytime, anywhere, by opening your internet browser. Secondly, newspapers don't allow you to zoom in on specific words. You have to strain your eyes to read small print. However, on the internet, you can easily zoom in on any word to read it clearly. Online news is generally presented in a clear and precise manner. This is why many people, especially younger generations, prefer reading news online instead of in newspapers.

Actual audio transcript (What native speakers are likely to hear):

Well yah it’s true. Most of the people nowadays tend to read news we news on Internet rather than newspaper. Um uh first of all there are many advantages of having a reading news on Internet. Like we don’t have to carry a newspaper everywhere and anywhere. If you go you just have to open your Internet and you can search any news there, any kind of news there. And secondly uh in newspaper you can’t zoom on a particular word. You have to just focus on that word for a long time and then you can clearly read that uh, that a particular word. But on the Internet um, people uh, people seems that they can zoom on the particular word and uh every word was uh written in the news. In the news provided by online. Internet is very clear and, and very precise so that’s why most of the people, especially youngers, youngsters tends to read the news on the Internet instead of newspaper.

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