PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper
The Aquada Lesson focus Teachers notes Punctuation • Capital letters for sentence beginnings • Capital letters for proper nouns • Question marks • Exclamation marks • Apostrophes in contractions • Hyphens Grammar • Adverbs Spelling • Confused words: by/buy, they’re/there • Misspelt words Vocabulary • Compound words Teacher information Descriptions describe the characteristics, components and functions of specific living or non-living things. Answers Would you like to own a car that’s also a boat? You can buy one now—but you will need to be rich, as they’re very expensive! The Aquada is a slick-looking sports car that can seat three people. It has all the normal car controls, like a speedometer and a fuel gauge. It doesn’t have any doors—you have to carefully climb in! This is so the car is completely watertight. If you want to go onto water, all you do is press a button. When the car senses it’s floating, it quickly retracts the wheels and lights up the navigation lights that surround the numberplate. The car is now a jet-powered boat! It can do almost 50 kilometres per hour at top speed. Viewing Sample also buy they’re seat controls gauge carefully completely water quickly wheels surround almost kilometres 1. (a) Missing punctuation is in bold type. (b) (i) slick-looking (ii) Teacher check 2. (a) Adverbs are underlined. carefully, completely, quickly 3. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type. also, buy, they’re, seat, controls, gauge, water, wheels, surround, almost, kilometres 4. (a) Compound words are underlined in bold. slick-looking, carefully, watertight, numberplate, jet-powered (b) Answers may include: carefully, watertight, numberplate 22 Proofreading and editing skills Prim-Ed Publishing www.prim-ed.com
The Aquada Read the description. Editing skills would you like to own a car thats allso a boat you can by one now – but you will need to be rich, as there very expensive The aquada is a slick-looking sports car that can seet three people. It has all the normal car kontrols, like a speedometer and a fuel gage. It doesnt have any doors—you have to careful climb in! this is so the car is complete watertight. if you want to go onto warter, all you do is press a button. When the car senses its floating, it quick retracts the wheals and lights up the navigation lights that suround the numberplate. the car is now a jet-powered boat It can do allmost 50 kilomeetres per hour at top speed. 1 Punctuation (a) Write the missing 6 capital letters, 1 question mark, 3 apostrophes and 2 exclamation marks needed for emphasis. A hyphen (-) is used in some words to connect smaller words; for example, ‘happygo-lucky’, ‘self-pity’, ‘able-bodied’. (b) (i) The word ‘jet-powered’ is one of the hyphenated compound words in the text. Underline the other. (ii) Find three hyphenated words starting with ‘j’ in a dictionary. 2 Grammar Adverbs are words that describe verbs. They often end in ‘ly’; for example, ‘happily’, ‘quickly’. (a) Write 3 adverbs that are missing the ‘ly’ ending, in the space at the end of the line. Viewing Sample 3 Spelling (a) Write the correct spelling for the misspelt words in the space at the end of the line. 4 Vocabulary Compound words are made up of two smaller words; for example, ‘rainbow’. (a) Circle the compound words in the text. (b) Write 2 which are unhyphenated. Prim-Ed Publishing www.prim-ed.com Proofreading and editing skills 23
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The Aquada<br />
Lesson focus<br />
Teachers notes<br />
Punctuation<br />
• Capital letters for sentence beginnings<br />
• Capital letters for proper nouns<br />
• Question marks<br />
• Exclamation marks<br />
• Apostrophes in contractions<br />
• Hyphens<br />
Grammar<br />
• Adverbs<br />
Spelling<br />
• Confused words: by/buy, they’re/there<br />
• Misspelt words<br />
Vocabulary<br />
• Compound words<br />
Teacher information<br />
Descriptions describe the characteristics, components <strong>and</strong> functions of specific living or non-living things.<br />
Answers<br />
Would you like to own a car that’s also a boat? You<br />
can buy one now—but you will need to be rich, as<br />
they’re very expensive!<br />
The Aquada is a slick-looking sports car that can seat<br />
three people. It has all the normal car controls, like a<br />
speedometer <strong>and</strong> a fuel gauge. It doesn’t have any<br />
doors—you have to carefully climb in! This is so the<br />
car is completely watertight.<br />
If you want to go onto water, all you do is press a<br />
button. When the car senses it’s floating, it quickly<br />
retracts the wheels <strong>and</strong> lights up the navigation lights<br />
that surround the numberplate. The car is now a<br />
jet-powered boat! It can do almost 50<br />
kilometres per hour at top speed.<br />
Viewing Sample<br />
also<br />
buy<br />
they’re<br />
seat<br />
controls<br />
gauge<br />
carefully<br />
completely<br />
water<br />
quickly<br />
wheels<br />
surround<br />
almost<br />
kilometres<br />
1. (a) Missing punctuation is in bold type.<br />
(b) (i) slick-looking<br />
(ii) Teacher check<br />
2. (a) Adverbs are underlined.<br />
carefully, completely, quickly<br />
3. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.<br />
also, buy, they’re, seat, controls, gauge, water, wheels, surround, almost, kilometres<br />
4. (a) Compound words are underlined in bold.<br />
slick-looking, carefully, watertight, numberplate, jet-powered<br />
(b) Answers may include: carefully, watertight, numberplate<br />
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