PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper
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Plant more trees!<br />
Lesson focus<br />
Teachers notes<br />
Punctuation<br />
• Capital letters for sentence beginnings<br />
• Full stops<br />
• Grammatical commas<br />
Grammar<br />
• Verb tense<br />
• Subject-verb agreement<br />
Spelling<br />
• Confused words: by/bye, to/too/two, more/<br />
moor, affect/effect<br />
• Misspelt words<br />
Vocabulary<br />
• Enrichment – word definitions<br />
Teacher information<br />
A discussion text can analyse, interpret <strong>and</strong> evaluate. Its purpose is to persuade by presenting one side<br />
of an argument.<br />
Answers<br />
We need to plant more trees to prevent the levels of carbon dioxide in<br />
the air from rising, which would increase the greenhouse effect <strong>and</strong><br />
lead to global warming.<br />
During the process of photosynthesis, the trees use up carbon<br />
dioxide, which is a waste product of the human breathing process.<br />
They then release oxygen, which humans need for breathing.<br />
We need to plant more trees because their root systems hold<br />
together fertile topsoil.<br />
When trees are cut down in such great quantities, the soil is more<br />
vulnerable to erosion by wind <strong>and</strong> water. Plants are unable to<br />
thrive <strong>and</strong> the l<strong>and</strong> is left useless.<br />
We need to plant more trees to hold the topsoil together so that<br />
crops needed for global consumption will not be in short supply.<br />
We need to plant more trees!<br />
1. (a) Missing punctuation is in bold type.<br />
Viewing Sample<br />
2. Verbs are underlined.<br />
(a) is (line 5) need (line 6)<br />
(b) is (line 9) need (line 12)<br />
3. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.<br />
more, effect, warming, process, systems, topsoil, by, useless, global, to<br />
4. (a) (i) erosion (ii) thrive<br />
(iii) vulnerable (iv) consumption<br />
more<br />
effect<br />
warming<br />
process<br />
is<br />
need<br />
systems<br />
topsoil<br />
is<br />
by<br />
useless<br />
need<br />
global<br />
to<br />
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