Language Focus
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 723.
Match the headline to its story and explain the play on words in each case.
| l Bad blood 2 Happy days? 3 Shell-shocked | 4 False impressions 5 Happy haunting 6 Hopping mad | 7 Flushed 8 Highly embarrassed 9 Round-up |
1. A grandfather's breathing problems were solved when doctors found four false teeth at the entrance to his lungs. They had been forced down his windpipe in a car crash eight years ago.
2. A 25-year-old terrapin is being treated for a fractured shell after surviving a 200ft drop.
3. A Shetland teacher has suggested labradors or golden retrievers could be used to control pupils in playgrounds.
4. A ghost society has been told not to scare off a friendly female apparition at a hotel.
5. Adults who have never quite grown up are to be offered school theme nights including uniforms, register, assembly and primary school dinners by a Nottingham hotel.
6. An ex-public loo in Hackney, East London, is to be sold for £76,000.
7. A Whitby curate has attacked the resort's attempts to profit on its connections with Dracula: 'a pale-faced man with a bad sense of fashion, severe dental problems and an eating disorder.'
8. A toad triggered a police alert when it set off a new hi-tech alarm system. i) Firemen had to scale a 30-foot tree in St Leonard's, East Sussex, to rescue a man who was trying to capture his pet iguana.