- •The Headline
- •Assignment 3
- •The Sleigh Stops on Capitol Hill
- •U.S. Taxes Built Still-Sleeping ‘Giant’
- •Assignment 9
- •Assignment 10
- •Imf calls for early rise in interest rate. (Financial Times)
- •Assignment 11
- •Assignment 14
- •Assignment 15
- •Instead she steered the coach on to the hard shoulder then, after 300 yards, managed to bring it to a standstill by running it alongside the crash barriers.
- •Assignment 19
- •Assignment 20
- •Assignment 21
- •Disney growth beats expectations
- •Revenues boosted by box office takings from Oscar-winning film
- •Vocabulary
- •300 Bank branches face chop
- •30 Arrested in anti-tax demo
- •Investors grab shares in scottish companies
- •Vat on food: new row looms
Assignment 14
The following leads describe past events. Write headlines, using the Present Indefinite Tense.
Russian border guards in Tajikistan have killed five unidentified gunmen who tried to cross into the former Soviet republic from Afghanistan, a Russian military source said Thursday. (ST. Petersburg Times)
PROKOSKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - A UN helicopter crashed Wednesday into a fog-shrouded mountain in central Bosnia, killing a senior German diplomat and 11 others working to translate the accord that ended Bosnia’s three-and-a-half-year war into a lasting peace. (International Herald Tribune)
President Clinton warned Canadians that the United States would retaliate if there were any more ‘illegal’ acts to protest alleged American overfishing off the West Coast, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported Wednesday. (USA Today)
Nearly 1m foreigners were granted permanent resident status in the US last year, reversing a four-year decline in legal immigration rate. (Financial Times)
Assignment 15
From each of the following news leads, select the key words. Using these key words and adding others as necessary, write a headline sentence.
1. PARIS - Police investigating the accident that killed Princess Diana said Wednesday they are seeking a Fiat Uno car that might have had a brush with her Mercedes limousine as it crashed Aug.31. (USA Today)
2. Three small children were in hospital yesterday after contracting the E-coli food poisoning bug. (The Mail)
3. NEW YORK - A New York judge Wednesday reinstated a federal securities class action lawsuit against Philip Morris based on new evidence of alleged misinterpretations and omissions by the tobacco company, according to court filings. (USA Today)
Assignment 16
Analyze the structure and meaning of noun pre-modifiers and attributive noun groups in particular in the following Financial Times headlines:
Relief at the end of 18-week Lima Hostage siege.
IMF predicts faster wool output growth.
Czech bank fraud arrests.
EU trade surplus widens.
Call to speed China WTO entry talks.
Hong Cong property joint venture.
US oil groups post first-quarter gains.
Molins shares fall 13% after US accounting irregularity.
Saks earning warning.
Urban cleanup grants.
Assignment 17
Look through several copies of British or American newspapers and find examples of different tense forms of the predicate used in the headlines. Which tense is dominating in the headlines?
Assignment 18
Read the following article from The Mail and supply it with a) a headline in the form of a sentence and b) a headline in the form of a phrase.
A QUICK-THINKING coach stewardess averted a horrific motorway crash yesterday after the driver blacked out at the wheel.
About 30 passenger were aboard the coach travelling down the M42 when Tina McCall grabbed the wheel.
But Tina was too small to reach the brake pedal as, like a scene out of the hit movie Speed, the coach sped at 60mph along the inside lane to apparent disaster.