A selection of headlines from stories in the news. They use English in a way that you might think is intended to confuse but it’s all perfectly clear to the native speaker.
Football fans will get The Sun headline ‘It’s Kop Of The Pops’ on a story that a charity record aimed at raising money for families of victims of the Hillsborough stadium disaster, managed to become the Christmas No 1 in 2012.
The Kop is the name for one of the stands at Liverpool’s Anfield ground and Top Of The Pops was a BBC TV pop music show.