Reading and understanding newspapers. Пыж А.М. - 28 стр.

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(g) Police questioned a third man about the alleged kidnap of baker Michael
Varne in Peterborough last week.
(h) Navy divers blew up part of the sunken World War II cargo ship Breda off
Oban, Strathclyde, to stop divers removing dangerous ammunition.
(i) Four pop musicians were remained in custody at Willesden magistrates
court, London, charged with the murder of Clement Henry at his Wembly
home last Monday.
10. Analyze headlines of an English-Language newspaper issue. How do
they attract the reader’s interest? Find several headlines in which a past
event is referred to in the present tense. Search for several headlines with
the passive voice.
11. Give 5-7 examples of headlines with the most typical Headlinese English
characteristics.
12. Questions for general discussion.
• When you pick up a newspaper, do you scan the headlines
before choosing an article to read?
• What kinds of articles do you look at first?
• Who are some of the world’s leaders in the headlines today?
III. The news lead
Finding out what happened
The lead refers to the first (and occasionally the second) paragraph of a
news story. In newspapers the lead is usually one information-packed sentence
which expands on the story’s main point as introduced in the headline. As we
mentioned earlier, news stories are basically variations of “something
happened”. The lead will usually tell you what the “something happened” is.
That information is generally found in the subject and the main verb of the lead
sentence, so a little knowledge of the grammar of the lead can be very useful.
The grammar of the lead
We will focus on single-sentence leads because they are by far the most
common. The majority of the leads are simple subject-verb-object sentences
with the subject and the main verb appearing together at or near the beginning of
the sentence. The problem for the reader usually begins when the subject and the
main verb are either delayed or separated from each other. Notice how the
following lead becomes more complicated as the writer adds information:

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