Headline 标题
1. Learning Objectives：
1)Vocabulary building: Students need to acquaint themlves with the new words and expressions
2)Knowledge: Students will learn about headline in news reports.
双一流建设学科3)Reading skill: Students will appreciate the language and ntence structure as well as some description in details.
4)Writing skill：晒吧Students will be introduced the definition and functions of headline, Linguistic features of headlines.
2. Teaching periods: 6
班级趣事3. Difficulties：
1. Objectively description about activities details.
2. Relationship between the leader of China and U.S.
4. Teaching practice：
Students conduct a ries of reading, listening, speaking and writing practice to deepen their understanding of the points taught in class.
5. Teaching methods：
A combination of traditional teaching methods with the communicative approach will be adopted. Special attention should be paid to classroom interaction. Give students time to adapt to the new teaching mode in the university that are quite different from the one they were ud to in the middle school. More encouragement is needed and more guidance will be given to them in their extracurricular study.
I. Definition
The headline is the most attractive part of a piece of news. It comes into audience’s eyes
when they open a piece of newspaper. The headline is a “synthesis,” a crystallization, a distillation put into a capsule for easy swallowing. Here, crystallization means “easy to read,” distillation means “very well written” and capsule means “very well structured.”
II. Types of headlines
There are two types of headlines. Most news stories u ntence headlines although they may be shortened by omitting certain words as you will e later. Many feature stories and some very short news stories u phra headlines or titles which leave out the verb. Here are some examples of both:
昂贵的英语⑴ Sentence headlines
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Doctor’s AIDS Death Renews Debate on Who Should Know Pen
校尉羽书飞瀚海Manufacturers Still See Good Future for Luxury Pens
⑵ Phra headlines
Getting in Touch with the Spirits Heroism and Cowardice at the “Top of the World”
Reward for Tracing Suspect
The grammar of ntence headlines
Almost all ntence headlines u the prent ten---despite the fat that they generally describe past events. The prent ten gives the subject a n of freshness and immediacy, making it more interesting to read.
Headlines pack a great deal of information into a limited space, so it is not surprising that headline writers u veral methods to conrve space. One obvious example is to u abbreviations(“PM” for “Prime Minister,” etc.). But they also u a special grammar, omitting articles(“a” and “the”) and the verb “to be” wherever possible.
III. Purpos& functions of headlines
a. to adverti news
b. to tell the gist of the accompanying news
c. to help the reader evaluate the news
d. to break the monotony of a newspaper page
IV. Tens
1.The simple prent ten is ud to describe past action.
to conrve space, -s is shorter than –ed;
to give reader fresh impression
ENT doctor dies at 86
Mount St. Helens erupts after 50 year’s silence
2.The future ten is expresd by an infinitive verb
Largest Chine trade delegation to visit US in Nov.
Japane dash to US to say ‘I do’
3.The prent progressive ten is expresd by an –ing verb to indicate the continuity of an action of an event.四年级数学题
Death toll in quake-hit Kobe growing
V. Voices
As for voices, active voice is more colorful and appealing, more forward and powerful in transferring meanings. So in headlines it is more often ud than passive voice, like “Fed expected to cut key rates to lowest since early 60’s by a half-point.” But passive voice is also ud when the person or subject receiving the action is more important, but here “be” is often omitted as in “Journalist fired in spy debate,” “37 killed in Italian plane crash.”
VI. Omissions
The omission of Articles and Pronouns:
Israel, Palestine to resume peace talks
NBC’s President Robert Wright eks big acquisitions, ventures for the network
In the following cas, “the” cannot be omitted:
if “the” is among a t phra
if “the” is ud to make up the space
if “the” is to cover the picture below
VII. Punctuations
Comma(,) conjunction end
Colon(:) introduce what a speaker says
Dash（-）introduce what a speaker says
Political efforts vital to reform---Party leader
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World unity against terrorism needed---Blair
French professor: Malaria still menaces quarter of humanity
Chine cooks: masters at turning turnip into flower
Short, dynamic wording
Another way to conrve space in headlines is to u short words instead of long ones. In the example below notice the various ways the headline writer can shorten the headline “MP Criticis Dishonest Election Plan.”
