PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper
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The Wallace Walking Club<br />
Teachers notes<br />
Lesson focus<br />
Punctuation<br />
• Capital letters for sentence beginnings<br />
• Full stops<br />
• Grammatical commas<br />
Grammar<br />
Spelling<br />
• Confused words: to/too/two, our/are,<br />
meats/meets, of/off, threw/through<br />
• Misspelt words<br />
• Suffix ‘tion’<br />
• Verbs: present <strong>and</strong> past tense<br />
• Conjunctions<br />
Teacher information<br />
This report, written in the present tense, provides information about an organisation.<br />
Answers<br />
The Wallace Walking Club is a recent addition to the<br />
Wallace Primary School healthy lifestyle campaign.<br />
The club promotes walking as an ideal way to exercise<br />
<strong>and</strong> enjoy the benefits of regular activity. Both staff <strong>and</strong><br />
pupils are regular participants.<br />
The club meets each day after lunch, on the school field.<br />
A variety of routes, each lasting 20 minutes, are enjoyed by<br />
the regular walkers.<br />
The two major benefits to members are improved health<br />
<strong>and</strong> the development of new relationships between<br />
pupils <strong>and</strong> staff <strong>and</strong> pupils of different year groups.<br />
The popularity of the club has developed throughout the<br />
term <strong>and</strong> is expected to continue for many more years.<br />
Answers<br />
1. Missing punctuation is in bold type.<br />
2. (a) (i) promoted (ii) met<br />
Viewing Sample<br />
addition<br />
lifestyle<br />
to<br />
benefits<br />
are<br />
meets<br />
minutes<br />
walkers<br />
two<br />
between<br />
of<br />
throughout<br />
many<br />
(b) Teacher check. Answers may include:<br />
(i) because, when, as (ii) When, After<br />
(iii) as, while, <strong>and</strong><br />
3. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.<br />
addition, lifestyle, to, benefits, are, meets, minutes, walkers, two, between, of, throughout,<br />
many<br />
(b) (i) promotion (ii) vacation (iii) nation (iv) education<br />
(v) separation (vi) station<br />
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