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English In Use - 'Ground Control To Major Tim'

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.

'Ground control to Major Tom' is a famous line from David Bowie's 1969 song Space Oddity, and is perfect to adapt for the headline 'Ground Control To Major Tim' on a Daily Express story that former army major Tim Peak became one of a handful of Britons to be blasted into space when he was sent up to the join the International Space Station.

 

Update - He's going to do his first spacewalk today.  Good luck Major Tim!

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