Magazines

There are thousands of weekly and monthly magazines in Britain. These can be divided into four main categories: specialist magazines, such as the computer magazine PC Weekly; general magazines, such as the TV listings magazine Radio Times; women's magazines and teenage magazines.

Young people below the age of 18 do not buy newspapers, but they do buy magazines. Many more girls than boys buy magazines. Their main interests seem to be boys, pop music, clothes and make-up. Teenage girls like reading magazines which are aimed at an older group. Sugar is not only the most popular magazine for 15-year-olds, it is also very popular with 12-year-olds. 

Do a survey. Which magazines are the most popular in your class? Is there any difference between what boys read and girls read?

Michael Vaughan-Rees, Geraldine Sweeney, Picot Cassidy: In Britain; Cornelsen Verlag, 2000, page 55