"Nếu anh ấy đọc báo thì đứa trẻ ngủ."

Translation: If he reads the newspaper then the child sleeps.

[elfusilado]

"If he reads the newspaper, then the child will sleep."

Would this be an acceptable translation? The sentences given (with the present tense in the main clause) sounds very awkward to me.

[Lazuli_Love]

Why is it not tờ báo? Is tờ not needed because độc already implies that a sort of document is meant?

[Lazuli_Love]

Or is tờ just the classifier for báo? I always thought, only if they are both together they mean newspaper.

[vngdhuyen]

"tờ" is indeed a classifier for newspapers, magazines, (sheets of) paper.