Reading and understanding newspapers. Пыж А.М. - 22 стр.

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• Are used instead of the name of a person who is not well-known or
instead of a thing that has a difficult or technical name (Just 2 years [jail
term] for ‘beauty queen’ thief ‘Suicide machine’ takes first life)
Serious journalism requires that the source of quotation be named at the
beginning of the article.
After-reading task: answer the following questions:
1. What is the main purpose of a headline?
2. What way should the headline present the information?
3. Why do they often use a second sentence to headline a newspaper
article?
4. Why are many words from the headline often repeated in the
article?
5. What types of headlines are usually used in newspapers?
6. Why are verbs in headlines mainly used in a present tense?
7. Are past and future tenses possible?
8. What construction is very frequent to express futurity?
9. What special verb phrases are often used in newspaper headlines
not to disclose the source of information?
10. Why do editors often resort to elliptical (some words have been
omitted) sentences?
11. What elements are omitted as a rule?
12. What punctuation marks are usually used in headlines?
Headline Vocabulary
Another way to conserve space in headlines is to use short words instead of
long ones. In the example below notice the various ways the headline writer can
shorten the headline
“MP criticizes dishonest election plan”.
An average newspaper uses about one hundred easily-learned short words
in its news headlines. Here are a few of the most common.
probe
investigate, investigation
graft
Corruption
bid
attempt, offer
row
quarrel or disagreement
There are, of course, many more words of the same kind that you will get
acquainted with in the exercises that follow. It will be useful if you make your
own list of these words.
So, English used in the newspapers headlines (Headlinese English) has its
own peculiarities, some of the most commonly used features of Headlinese
English are:

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