【正文】 s for “beginning”), I (stands for “intermediate”), C(stands for “college”) and A (stands for “advanced”). Readers with a mand of 2000, 3000, 4000, or 6000 English vocabulary can choose to read materials marked B, I, C and A respectively. The reader chooses the articles he or she thinks can be easily understood and enjoyed, 21st CENTURY is another choice for reader like university students, with its focus on news, culture and English language learning. The language level is adjusted for its intended readers。 the choice of topics takes into consideration the interests and needs of collage leaners. Besides, some columns are designed particularly for collage readers, for instance: LANGUAGE CLASS。 CATCH THE WORD。 YOUR ENGLISH TUTOR。 ENGLISH FOR ALL。 CAMPUS LIFE。 LANGUAGE LEARNER’S MAILBAG. It could be foolhardy to push aside this very helpful friend.3. Articles of Different Lengths It is fairly easy to see that both newspapers and magazines contain articles of lengths. Some consist of only about one hundred words, for instance: selection of outstanding novels, speeches. Therefore, depending on the time and need of students, the teacher is free enough to help students to budget their reading plan.4. Interesting Topics and Rich Information Newspaper and magazine articles often try to attract readers’ attention with catchy headlines and titles giving clues to the main ideas of the articles. Readers can therefore skim through the pages choosing the things they’re interested in, while sometimes they can scan for the needed information. For example, it is tempting for readers to stories like BARSABUZZ IN BEIJING, THREE WOMEN INFLUENCE CLINTON, FRIM OPEN ROAD TO INTERNET. Most college students are in the late teens and early twenties, therefore interesting topics and authentic stories often suit their tastes of reading. Moreover , owing to the presence of various papular topics and wide coverage of knowledge and convenience of obtaining them newspapers and magazines always provide rich and municative information era like today, those who have quickest access to information often remain unbeatable. The countless valuable information in these readings makes us feel more confident and successful. If students keep on reading them, their capacity of prehension will been boosted, their knowledge will be enriched.5. Convenience and Reasonable Price Bookstores, libraries, reading rooms, postoffices and Internet all open their doors for eager readers. English newspapers and magazines are within readers’ easy reach. What is more, readers sometimes feel rather helpless to stand in front of piles of books in the store, for they cannot afford to buy some of the books they like. Books tagged with price about ten yuan are considered as the cheapest ones. This is especially a headache for students, who in most cases get very little or even no ine at all. It is therefore suggested here that like and subscribe to it. The following examples can give them confidence and courage :Beijing review, yuan per copy。 English Language Learning, yuan 。 The World of English, 5 yuan 。 English Salon, yuan。 Teaching English in China, 4 yuan 。21st Century, 2 yuan.6. Promise of Sense of Selfsatisfaction They can give readers great sense of selfsatisfaction. Articles, though of varied lengths, are usually not very long, so that readers need to spend less than minutes to skim through them. Consequently readers can get information within a short time. Compared with other readings, newspaper and magazine are presently rewarding and give immediate selfsatisfaction and thus encourage readers to read more.III. How to Make Use of English Newspapers and Magazine around us in the ERCAs has been discussed, English newspaper and magazines are ideal reading materials in the ERC. Now let us focus on using them to organize municative activities in our ERC. We can roughly divide the activities into three large categories:1. Listening and Speaking Activities(1) Predicting from the title, headline and nonverbal information Articles and stories often have their most important information pacted into their headline and first paragraph, Therefore, before each reading. It is very rewarding to lead students to predict the main idea of the story from its title, graphs, cartoons. When predicting, students should be encouraged to use their background knowledge to anticipate. Students can involve themselves fully into this prereading warming up activities in either oral or written form.(2). Employing photographs in newspapers and magazines as cue cards Photographs are another popular clement in newspaper and magazine articles. With new technology, it is easier to find many highquality photos and more and more pictures. In “the World of English”, for example, every copy contains six pages of color pictures and a great number of simple sketches. Students can predict, retell, make up a story ,using as cue cards the photos and sketches, which are direct, interesting and informative.(3) Describing pictures As a very useful afterreading activity, there is picture describing. For instance the Ernest Hemingway story on page 51, June 2000 “The World of English”, students can bu organized in pairs or in small groups to describe the Ernest Hemingway picture in the same issue.(4). Retelling the news or story Newspaper and magazine stories are contemporaneous and are closely related to our life. Hence, it is not all boring to read them and retell it to each other. Teacher can divide neighboring students into group A and B and distribute two sets of reading materials to each group. After reading, the teacher can require each student to retell the story to his or her partner.(5). Interviewing, having press conference While covering the hottest, most controversial topics home and abroad they also introduce about famous people, new books, new films, popular songs, etc. All these provide us very good topics to or