Explore the language of headlines in tabloid and broadsheet newspapers. Discuss also the way in which electronic media is changing the way that we get news (e.g. tweets and newsfeeds.)
Provide students with an assortment of headlines. Ask students to identify the way headlines are composed to draw attention to stories, consider also font and layout. What do the different forms have in common, how are they different. This can be done as a table. Time may need to be spent looking at the tabloid use of plays on words and puns.
Now divide the students into groups. Give each group a key incident from the play that they are studying. Each group must now produce a head line for that particular story in each of the different formats they have investigated.
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