PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper
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Chinatown<br />
Lesson focus<br />
Teachers notes<br />
Punctuation<br />
• Capital letters for sentence beginnings<br />
• Capital letters for proper nouns<br />
• Full stops<br />
• Apostrophes for possession<br />
• Commas in lists<br />
• Grammatical commas<br />
Spelling<br />
• Confused words: main/mane,<br />
reflects/reflex<br />
• Misspelt words<br />
Grammar<br />
• Adjectives<br />
• Nouns<br />
• Collective nouns<br />
Teacher information<br />
This description describes the characteristics of a specific place.<br />
Answers<br />
While the climate <strong>and</strong> beautiful<br />
beaches attract thous<strong>and</strong>s of tourists<br />
to the Western Australian coastal town<br />
of Broome each year, for me the most<br />
interesting <strong>and</strong> fascinating part of the<br />
town is, no doubt, Chinatown.<br />
Consisting mostly of shanty-like<br />
buildings along the two main streets,<br />
bordering the brilliant, aqua water <strong>and</strong><br />
mangroves of Roebuck Bay, Chinatown<br />
reflects Broome’s rich pearling history.<br />
Places of interest include many small<br />
shops <strong>and</strong> restaurants, galleries<br />
displaying some of the world’s most<br />
beautiful pearls, the old jetty with an<br />
original pearling lugger <strong>and</strong> the Sun<br />
Picture Theatre, a popular, outdoor<br />
cinema since 1916.<br />
Broome is a cosmopolitan place,<br />
home to the descendants of the local<br />
Aboriginal people, Chinese immigrants,<br />
Japanese pearl divers, Afghan camel<br />
drivers, Europeans <strong>and</strong> people from<br />
around the world. It has survived<br />
numerous cyclones, fires, floods, the<br />
changing fortunes of the pearling<br />
industry <strong>and</strong> the bombs of World War II.<br />
1. Missing punctuation is in bold type.<br />
2. Nouns have been underlined.<br />
(a) beautiful beaches, interesting part,<br />
brilliant water, original pearling lugger,<br />
popular cinema, cosmopolitan place,<br />
changing fortunes<br />
(b) (i) crowd (ii) herd<br />
(iii) fleet (iv) string<br />
(v) school<br />
3. Spelling errors are in italic type.<br />
(a) coastal, fascinating, main, reflects,<br />
original, theatre, descendants,<br />
immigrants<br />
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