A headline's purpose is to quickly and briefly draw
attention to the story
The large type front
page headline did not come
into use until the late 19th century when increased competition between
newspapers led to the use of attention-getting headlines.
Headlines in English often use a
set of grammatical rules known as headlinese, designed to meet stringent
space requirements by, for example, leaving out forms of the verb "to
be" and choosing short verbs like "eye" over longer synonyms
like "consider". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline)
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Match the newspaper headlines in the box with the
articles below.
(A) Vanity Was Her Downfall (C) Unlucky Couple Throw Winning
Tickets Away
(B) Return to Sender (D) Sand in Their Eyes
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A bank
in Reno, Nevada, was the scene of a holdup which went wrong. The crook walked
casually up to the cashier and handed her a note. It instructed her to put
all the money into a bag and hand it over. The frightened woman obeyed and
the crook escaped into the crowded city streets. But there was a big surprise
for him when he reached home. The police were waiting to arrest him. The note
he had given the cashier had been written on the back of an envelope. On the
other side was his name and address.
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Twice a
week an American riding a bicycle crossed the Canadian border carrying a
suitcase filled with sand. Each time the customs officials searched the
suitcase, they never found anything illegal. Sometimes they even emptied out
all the sand, expecting to find jewelry, watches, or drugs. But always there
was nothing but sand. They couldn’t imagine what the American was smuggling.
It was many years later, long after the American had vanished from the scene,
that they learned the truth: he had been smuggling bicycles.
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Kenyan
police had no difficulty identifying and catching a master forger who
produced near-perfect bank notes. Instead of printing a portrait of the
president on the notes, she used a picture of herself.
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The
Peters family was heartbroken when they realized they had won $100,000 in the
lottery and they had thrown away the prize-winning tickets. Because they had
not read the rules carefully, they thought their tickets were of no use. They
spent all afternoon searching for the tickets at the local dump but with no
luck. A man from Texas won the prize instead.
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ANSWERS
NEWSPAPER HEADLINES
(B) Return to sender.
(D) Sand in Their Eyes.
(A) Vanity Was Her Downfall.
(C) Unlucky Couple Throw Winning Tickets Away.
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