PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper
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Be healthy! Be happy!<br />
Lesson focus<br />
Teachers notes<br />
Punctuation<br />
• Capital letters for sentence beginnings<br />
• Full stops<br />
• Commas for lists<br />
• Apostrophes in grammatical contractions<br />
Grammar<br />
Spelling<br />
• Misspelt words<br />
• Confused words – of/off, rays/raise,<br />
too/two<br />
• Plurals – ‘s’, ‘es’, changing ‘y’ to ‘i’ to add ‘es’<br />
Vocabulary<br />
• Adjectives<br />
• Antonyms<br />
• Nouns<br />
Teacher information<br />
Discussion texts present one side of an argument, to persuade the reader of a particular point of view.<br />
Answers<br />
We need to improve our lifestyles.<br />
The car, TV <strong>and</strong> fast foods are turning<br />
us into a nation of unhealthy, unfit people.<br />
Capital letter<br />
Comma<br />
of<br />
More people suffer from diet-related illnesses<br />
people<br />
than ever before, as a result of regularly<br />
before<br />
eating meals high in fat <strong>and</strong> sugar. Young<br />
Full stop<br />
people need to learn the importance of eating<br />
learn<br />
healthy food to prevent medical problems.<br />
healthy<br />
TV, DVDs <strong>and</strong> computer games are becoming<br />
Comma<br />
the most popular leisure activities for many<br />
leisure<br />
young people. More time needs to be spent<br />
Capital letter<br />
enjoying physical activities that raise the<br />
raise<br />
heart rate <strong>and</strong> make the body work harder.<br />
Full stop<br />
We are relying too much on the car for transport.<br />
too<br />
There must be times when we can walk instead.<br />
Capital letter<br />
If we look after our bodies they will work well for us.<br />
Let’s do it!<br />
1. (a) Missing punctuation is in bold type.<br />
Viewing Sample<br />
2. (a) (i) fast foods (ii) medical problems (iii) popular activities<br />
(iv) physical activities<br />
3. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.<br />
of, people, before, learn, healthy, leisure, raise, too, bodies<br />
(b) Plural nouns are underlined.<br />
‘s’ – lifestyles, foods, meals, problems, DVDs, games, times<br />
‘es’ – illnesses<br />
‘ies’ – activities, bodies<br />
4. (a) Possible answers include:<br />
(i) unpopular (ii) work (iii) irregularly, sometimes<br />
bodies<br />
Apostrophe<br />
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