Friday, 17 December 2010

Oh, what a pun time we're having!

When teaching how to write a news intro, I offer students a selection of different styles they can utilise. One is the punning intro.
(a) Alesha Dixon waltzes away from Strictly's ballroom to have a ball on the beach.

(b) Brits face mayhem on icy roads today as the country slides back into the Big Freeze.

(c) When 21 budgerigars were stolen from an aviary and a champion stamped to death, the flutter it caused went far beyond the quiet world of bird breeding.
See they all do it But the question is from which papers do these intro come?

(i) = Daily Mirror; (ii) = The Sun: (iii) = The Daily Telegraph

1 comments:

Eugenio said...

I'll have a guess, let's see if I get it right:

a-ii
b-iii
c-i