• Give us passion, not precision. (The Times)

• Feelgood factor is back but industry stays wary. (Financial Times)

• Builders can’t get people to trust the car. (USA Today)

• Isn’t Blair at sea over Britannia. (The Mail)

• A rather curious mixture. (Financial Times)

• Nikko to launch accounts system acceptable in US. (Financial Times)

• City relieved over drop in sterling. (The Times)

• South a danger spot for walkers. (USA Today)

• In remarkably good health. (Financial Times)

• I created Mrs. Merton and Caroline Aherne walked off with her. (The Mail)

• Shiseido to raise US output. (Financial Times)

• Our kind of fun? (USA Today)

• Hunting benefits among the ashes of health care. (Washington Post)

• Leaner, fitter and more aggressive. (Financial Times)

• World’s future is rosy, says IMF. (Financial Times)

• Called to account. (The Times)

• Running with the big boys. (Washington Post)

• Man killed in crash near reservation. (USA Today)

• Still busy with their own housekeeping. (Financial Times)

• North Korea to respond next week to peace plan. (USA Today)

• Coach fired. (USA Today)

• Finding new friends on the hill. (Washington Post)

• Golf club man facing sack as cash vanishes. (Financial Times)

• Security compromised? (USA Today)

• Kohl’s tax reforms in trouble as talks fail. (Financial Times)

• Has Washington really lost touch with the people? (Washington Post)

• Stop treating babies as commodities for sale. (the Mail)

• Celsis in Unilever deal. (The Times)

• We didn’t help IRA breakout, warders insist. (The Mail)

• Return to Morgan Grenfell now unlikely, says Horlick. (The Times)

• Banking sector to create over 400 jobs. (Times)

• Must we waste time and money on this folly? (The Mail)

• Saudis refuse to share information on bombing. (USA Today)

• United technologies ahead. (Financial Times)

• Elan ahead 30%. (The Financial Times)

• Kmart chief known for bold action. (USA Today)

• Imf calls for early rise in interest rate. (Financial Times)

• Doom, disaster and dirty deeds as usual. (The Times)

• U.S. sits out as world backs land mine ban. (USA Today)

• Diana’s funeral drawing millions. (The St. Petersburg Times)

• Quarry diver feared dead. (The Mail)

• Glimpses of EU recovery. (Financial Times)

• Surrogate birth laws ruled out by Dorrell. (The Mail)

• The Deepening shadow of AIDS over Africa. (Washington Post)

• Loan for Polish phone group. (Financial Times)

• Choosing the right private policy for you. (The Times)

• How will we be cared for in our later years? (The Times)

• Black churches launch national anti-crime effort. (USA Today)

• Adding insult to abuse. (The Mail)

Assignment 11

The following headlines are elliptical sentences missing auxiliary verbs. Reconstruct grammatically full (complete) sentences.

1. Riordan re-elected mayor in LA. (LA - Los Angeles)

2. Bout postponed. (bout - a period of activity)

3. Indians’ Mesa acquitted in rape trial.

4. Holocaust fund board delayed.

5. Nigerian troops deployed.

6. US sergeant held in Okinawa.

7. Honda chief in prices warning.

8. Philips back in track after shedding Grundig.

9. Consolidation prescribed.

10. Ministers injured in riots over lost crash.

The following headlines contain infinitives to show future action. Reconstruct traditional grammatical forms to be used for describing future events.

1. Evangelist Reed to quit.

2. France to end Eramet impasse. (impasse - тупиковое положение)

1. Elderly to be hit by bus tax bombshell.

1. Moves to pin down uncertainty.

1. Reader’s Digest to invest $400m.

Assignment 12

Rewrite these sentences from newspaper articles as headlines to the articles. Use the underlined words and phrases to help you.

0. The chief inspector of prisons last night called for the release of the Bulger killers.

PRISONS CHIEF CALLS FOR RELEASE OF BULGER KILLERS

1. A High Court judge has blocked the proposed ban on tobacco adverts.

2. The chief of police admitted that errors were made during the Chinese President's visit to the UK.

3. Radio 1, the BBC's pop music station, has outshone all its commercial radio rivals in a recent poll.

4. The private member's bill on fox-hunting did not achieve the support needed last night to become law.

5. The government of India has snubbed the Pope on the eve of his visit to the country, as they have refused his invitation to attend a multi-faith gathering.

6. Makers of the latest Leonardo DiCaprio film are facing a huge protest from locals over their treatment of a beach used for filming.

Assignment 13

The following leads describe future events. Write headlines, using infinitives.

1. MOSCOW - President Boris Yeltsin’s abrupt dismissal of his man on military reform caught almost everyone off guard - including the man he named to take over - but it does not signal a reversal in plans to overhaul the armed forces.

Instead, analysts said, the Kremlin will follow through with reforms drafted last spring by Yury Baturin, who was fired last week as head of the influential Defense Council. (ST. Petersburg Times)

to overhaul - to examine thoroughly and perhaps repair if necessary

2. MIAMI - Cuba intends to seek the death penalty against an American charged with trying to start an uprising to overthrow Fidel Castro... (International Herald Tribune)

3. Mrs. Madeleine Albright, US secretary of state, announced yesterday that she would go to Moscow next week with an uncompromising message on the issues that are holding up a breakthrough in Russia - NATO relations. (Financial Times)

4. More than 400 jobs are being created in the banking sector, it was announced yesterday. (The Times)

5. Hewlett-Packard is to buy VeriFone, the leading supplier of credit card processing systems, in a $1.2bn stock deal. (Financial Times)