4. Working with HEADLINES. Headlines of newspapers are always hard to understand at first sight. Sometimes they play with words, give double meanings, cut out articles/prepositions, and so on. You are going to do a simple practice with the headlines of the four columns above. Write an explanation for each headline in the chart below. What does it mean? Why was it chosen?

Why do this?
   To practise how to interpret headlines which are always very carefully chosen, usually concise and economical in terms of words.
   To practise writing good explanations accurately related to the heading and to the story.