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    Newspaper Headlines January 2012

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    This document discusses key aspects of newspaper headlines: 1) Headlines are usually short, omitting unnecessary words like articles and verbs to conserve space. Short words are preferred over long ones. 2) Journalists use techniques like puns, alliteration, and rhyme to attract and engage readers. 3) Very brief headlines can sometimes be ambiguous or difficult for English learners to understand.

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    This document discusses key aspects of newspaper headlines: 1) Headlines are usually short, omitting unnecessary words like articles and verbs to conserve space. Short words are preferred over long ones. 2) Journalists use techniques like puns, alliteration, and rhyme to attract and engage readers. 3) Very brief headlines can sometimes be ambiguous or difficult for English learners to understand.

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    Newspaper headlines, in authentic newspapers especially, have their own language.


    First, headlines in English language newspapers are usually short and they thus tend to
    leave out all the inessential words, such as articles and auxiliary verbs. Because of that,
    headlines use short words wherever possible, rather than long ones. Sometimes, of course,
    the very briefness of headlines makes them ambiguous and difficult for the English
    language learners to understand.
    Second, journalists use a variety of techniques in order to attract and keep the readers
    attention. Some of them are pun (play on words), alliteration or rhyme.

    1. Read these examples of newspaper headlines and match them with the
    techniques used.

    Wenger off the hook over referee rant

    Police hold teen over kidnap


    and murder of young mum

    a)
    b)
    c)
    d)
    e)
    f)
    g)

    Omission of articles;
    Passive sentences written without the auxiliary verbs;
    Present Simple used for a completed action;
    Infinitive used for future actions;
    Leaving out the words which can be guessed from the text;
    Punctuation used to add new meaning;
    Preposition change: in = involved in; over = about, because of; for = in favour of

    2. Look at these headlines. What do they actually mean? Write full sentences.

    At least 16 dead in China bus crash


    2

    Sick pet killer who microwaved


    friend's cat jailed
    3

    1. ______________________________
    2. ______________________________
    3. ______________________________

    Give me the dosh


    and Ill cosh Utd

    3. Make headlines for these articles


    a) Can you believe these celebrities are the same age?
    b) Thousands of dead fish washed up on a beach in Norway
    c)

    Concerns have been raised about the public availability of proposed security measures for the
    Kensington Palace
    a) _________________________
    b) _________________________
    c) _________________________

    4. Write headlines for these articles


    ____________________________________

    Blackbirds have fallen dead from the sky in


    Beebe, Arkansas, for the second New Year's
    Eve in a row.Television station KATV showed
    a radar image that it said showed a large
    mass over Beebe a few hours before
    midnight on Saturday.The Little Rock station
    reported that hundreds of birds had died.

    ____________________________________
    A man has been banned from having a dog
    for three years after his six-month-old
    Labrador puppy got drunk on vodka and
    coke.Matthew Cox, 26, had been at home
    drinking with his flatmate on August 22
    when he put his drink down on the floor and
    went outside to smoke.
    When he came back in he realised his black

    Read
    more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weirdworld/2012/01/01/blackbirds-fall-dead-from-thesky-for-second-new-year-s-eve-in-a-row-11587523672371/#ixzz1ifORDIMd

    puppy, Max, had swallowed the contents of


    the glass, which was made up of one quarter
    vodka and three quarters coke

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