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Birthday parties Lesson focus Teachers notes Punctuation • Grammatical commas • Question marks • Apostrophes to show possession Grammar • Subject-verb agreement Spelling • Misspelt words • Confused words: there/their, too/to Vocabulary • Antonyms Writing • Paragraphs Teacher information A report is usually written in the present tense and provides facts clearly without unnecessary information or opinions. Answers Have you ever wondered why we celebrate birthdays with parties? Long ago in Europe, people thought that evil spirits were attracted to people on their birthdays. To protect them, friends and family would gather to bring their good wishes and gifts for the birthday person. At first, only kings celebrated their birthdays, but soon people began to celebrate children’s birthdays too. Many children’s birthday parties include games. A lot of these games involve the unknown, such as ‘Pin the tail on the donkey’ or ‘Musical chairs’. Traditionally, they symbolise the unknown in the new year of life that lies ahead for the birthday child. 1. Missing punctuation is in bold type. Viewing Sample celebrate parties spirits attracted gather wishes their to too Many these chairs symbolise lies 2. (a) Verbs are underlined. celebrates – celebrate (line 1), gathers – gather (line 5), symbolises – symbolise (line 13) 3. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type. parties, spirits, attracted, wishes, their, to, too, Many, these, chairs, lies 4. (a) Possible answers: (i) good (ii) neglect/destroy/harm 5. Teacher check. Possible answers: Paragraph 2 – Why do we celebrate birthdays? Paragraph 3 – Why do we play games at birthdays? 26 Proofreading and editing skills Prim-Ed Publishing www.prim-ed.com
Birthday parties Read the report. Editing skills Have you ever wondered why we celebrates birthdays with partys Long ago in Europe people thought that evil spirrits were attrackted to people on their birthdays. To protect them friends and family would gathers to bring their good wishs and gifts for the birthday person. At first, only kings celebrated there birthdays, but soon people began too celebrate childrens birthdays to. Manny childrens birthday parties include games. A lot of theese games involve the unknown, such as ‘Pin the tail on the donkey’ or ‘Musical chaires’. Traditionally they symbolises the unknown in the new year of life that lyse ahead for the birthday child. 1 Punctuation (a) Find 3 missing commas, 1 question mark and 2 apostrophes. 2 Grammar In any sentence, the subject and the verb have to agree in person and in number; for example, ‘He sees’ but ‘They see’. (a) Three verbs in the text do not agree with their subjects. Circle them and write the correct form of each verb in the space at the end of the line. 4 Vocabulary (a) Write an antonym (a word with the opposite meaning) for these words from the text. (i) evil Viewing Sample (ii) protect 5 Writing The first paragraph states what the report is about. (a) Write a question answered by paragraphs 2 and 3. Paragraph 2. 3 Spelling Paragraph 3 (a) Write the misspelt words correctly in the space at the end of the line. Prim-Ed Publishing www.prim-ed.com Proofreading and editing skills 27
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Birthday parties<br />
Lesson focus<br />
Teachers notes<br />
Punctuation<br />
• Grammatical commas<br />
• Question marks<br />
• Apostrophes to show possession<br />
Grammar<br />
• Subject-verb agreement<br />
Spelling<br />
• Misspelt words<br />
• Confused words: there/their, too/to<br />
Vocabulary<br />
• Antonyms<br />
Writing<br />
• Paragraphs<br />
Teacher information<br />
A report is usually written in the present tense <strong>and</strong> provides facts clearly without unnecessary<br />
information or opinions.<br />
Answers<br />
Have you ever wondered why we celebrate<br />
birthdays with parties?<br />
Long ago in Europe, people thought that evil spirits<br />
were attracted to people on their birthdays. To<br />
protect them, friends <strong>and</strong> family would gather<br />
to bring their good wishes <strong>and</strong> gifts for the birthday<br />
person. At first, only kings celebrated their birthdays,<br />
but soon people began to celebrate children’s<br />
birthdays too.<br />
Many children’s birthday parties include games.<br />
A lot of these games involve the unknown, such as<br />
‘Pin the tail on the donkey’ or ‘Musical chairs’.<br />
Traditionally, they symbolise the unknown in the new<br />
year of life that lies ahead for the birthday child.<br />
1. Missing punctuation is in bold type.<br />
Viewing Sample<br />
celebrate<br />
parties<br />
spirits<br />
attracted<br />
gather<br />
wishes<br />
their<br />
to<br />
too<br />
Many<br />
these<br />
chairs<br />
symbolise<br />
lies<br />
2. (a) Verbs are underlined.<br />
celebrates – celebrate (line 1), gathers – gather (line 5), symbolises – symbolise (line 13)<br />
3. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.<br />
parties, spirits, attracted, wishes, their, to, too, Many, these, chairs, lies<br />
4. (a) Possible answers:<br />
(i) good (ii) neglect/destroy/harm<br />
5. Teacher check. Possible answers:<br />
Paragraph 2 – Why do we celebrate birthdays?<br />
Paragraph 3 – Why do we play games at birthdays?<br />
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