【正文】 own writing.Besides, “l(fā)earning with us” section motivates students to write to the editors which can improve their writing skills by practice. The published work is a great encouragement in students’ English learning. This section promotes students’ creativeness and gets them active in writing. In all, by reading 21st Century, students can better master what they learn in the textbooks, spark their interests and enhance their English language petence. To cater to the students39。It can, to a large extent, motivate the students to read a readily available and relatively cheap source of discourse in English which contains texts that offer high interesting content ranging from sensational news, genderbiased articles to contentbased information. to avoid unnecessary, senseless repetitions so as to make sentences well knit.2. Abbreviations, clipping, shortening and acronyms are often used to arouse readers’ interests while strong and plicated words are avoided. Short words are used instead of difficult and long words or phrases. As the society is developing, new vocabularies are created in different fields. Old vocabularies with new meanings, that is to say, upgrade also occurs. Borrowed words are used frequently as well.3. Rhetorical expressions such as metaphor, pun, alliteration and rhyme, and personification are monly used in headlines. Vocabularies used by metaphor, simile and synecdoche are mon while euphemism is often used to make the readers more fortable and less anxious in newspaper reading.4. Accuracy upon tenses is not demanded in headlines. The most frequently used ones are present tense (indicating past time, present progressive and present perfect) and infinitive phrases (for future time). 5. Punctuation functioning as the connection of phrases and the emphasis of tones are often used.By knowing that the features of English newspaper headlines are created grammatically, lexicologically and rhetorically, it helps readers catch the gist of English newspapers through headlines. Being aware of the lexical features of news articles can help readers master journalistic vocabularies and improve the reading ability, enlarge vocabularies and broaden horizons. They help get twice the result with half the effort. Features of the structures of newspaper articlesA mon practice of journalism is to classify news stories as either news or features. One way of reinforcing this difference is to refer to these two as either hard news or soft news. In practice, however, it can be difficult to tell what is really news and what is a feature. Since most of the world’s newspapers take hard news reporting as their focus. Here, the writer gives a brief introduction of the features of hard news structure.Hard news refers to “breaking news” or uptotheminute news reports which follows the “inverted (upside down) pyramid” structure in developing the story. An “inverted pyramid” has the latest or the most significant developments of an event at the beginning. Supporting ideas and background are in the paragraphs below, with the least important forming the tip of the pyramid. The advantage of this structure is that it lets readers know the main idea without reading the whole story. The main idea often appears in the first paragraph, or the “l(fā)ead”. A typical hard news story lead gives an overview of the story. A lead often answers the “Who? What? Where? When? And Why?” questions, as well as “How?” The “five Ws” form the basis of a story. (21st Century Newspapers)From the above, it es as no surprise that the readers can only read the first or several paragraphs to understand the whole story. When time is limited, this method can be applied in newspaper reading. Significance of using newspapers in English teaching (Taking 21st Century Senior Edition TEENS as an example)Newspaper reading activity builds on students39。s paper (1996) is that using newspapers is a profitable element of language instruction, but students first must be familiarized with their features to make the best use of the articles they read. Therefore, a quick understanding of titles and vocabularies of English newspapers are of vital importance not only to the collection and analysis of information, but to the prehension of world developments. The understanding can be helpful to the reading of English newspapers and journals as well as to the improvement of English reading prehension and writing abilities.The headline which indicates what is going to be mainly discussed in the stories plays an important part of English news publications. Distinct discourse arrangements of news stories are the highlights of the reporting. They occupy the most essential position and are created with the editors’ full consideration. The headline releases the most important and valuable information while journalistic vocabularies make it more interesting and vivid. Generally speaking, the features of newspaper headlines and vocabularies are as follows: 1. Headlines usually have a short but distinct layout. Mostly there are inplete elliptic sentences or phrases consisting of nouns and verbs printed in italics. Modifiers like adj and adv are seldom used, while articles, linking verbs or auxiliary verbs are often omitted. A dash is usually used to link words as pound modifiers. The purposes are to save space。 involve me, I will remember it.” Third, real discourse such as videos of interviews with famous people will intermediate students to listen and try to imagine the real situation.As can be seen, applying authentic materials is a relatively easy and convenient way of improving not only the students’ general skills, but also their confidence in a real situation. The point is that teachers need to discover and choose properly. Authenticity of the present textbooksThe teaching of foreign languages has evolved for many centuries. Different teaching approaches and methods have been developed by linguists and lang