Question

expand the news headlines​

Answer 1

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Explanation:

Newspaper headlines are often not full sentences, but they are nevertheless quite easy to make sense of. In this starter, students will use their implicit knowledge of grammar to expand newspaper headlines into complete sentences, and then explicitly analyse what they've done. The Activity slide show appears in the menu entitled 'This Unit' in the upper right corner of this page. In the Activity slide show, five example headlines are presented. Students should do the following:

• Expand each headline into a complete sentence by adding as few words as possible.

• Expand the headline into a more detailed complete sentence by adding even more additional words and phrases.

• Identify what types of words and phrases have been omitted from the headline, and discuss why they were omitted.

Newspaper headlines often use very compressed language, as in the following example:

• Lorry driver cut free after crash

This could be expanded into the following, adding as few words as possible:  

• A lorry driver was cut free after a crash.

• A lorry driver has been cut free after a crash.

One example of a more detailed, longer sentence might be the following (though there are many other possibilities too):

• A lorry driver was taken to hospital after being cut free from his vehicle, which overturned and collided with a van.

The above sentence does not use the phrase after a crash, but instead gives details of the crash.