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- Handout - activity 4
- With your partner, “translate” these newspaper headlines to more formal correct English.
- What rules do you notice for how headline grammar works?
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- The stock market is crashing. / has crashed.
- The US population is moving (to the) west.
- The new budget was termed a “disaster”.
- The US is going to protest nuclear testing.
- The president is going to visit China.
- The drought is expected to worsen.
- There is / has been a big White House shake-up.
- There is a new plan to improve bus services. / The new plan is going to improve bus services.
- Test scores are improving in public schools.
- A link has been found between diet and heart disease.
- Cancer is reported to be increasing.
- There is a major decrease in international students in the US.
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- no articles
- no auxiliary verbs
- no past tense
- future -> infinitive
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- Look at the list of headline vocabulary. Find headlines with one of the words and try to figure out what it means.
- rift - split; separation
- quit
- ramp up - “Prosecutors ramp up foreign lobbying probe in New York”
- guru - leader; expert; advisor
- vie - “Two vie for bench”
- about-face = “CTA does an about-face on insurance coverage for gender reassignment surgery”
- amid - in the middle of
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- tabloid = newspaper about gossip and sensationalized things
- https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/dec/04/sub-ire-as-hacks-slash-word-length-getting-the-skinny-on-thinnernyms
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