PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper

Be healthy! Be happy!
Read the discussion text.
Editing skills
we need to improve our lifestyles.
The car TV and fast foods are turning
us into a nation off unhealthy, unfit people.
More peeple suffer from diet-related illnesses
than ever befour, as a result of regularly
eating meals high in fat and sugar Young
people need to lurn the importance of eating
hellthy food to prevent medical problems.
TV DVDs and computer games are becoming
the most popular leshure activities for many
young people. more time needs to be spent
enjoying physical activities that rays the
heart rate and make the body work harder
We are relying two much on the car for transport.
there must be times when we can walk instead.
If we look after our body’s they will work well for us.
Lets do it!
1 Punctuation
(a) Underline the 8 punctuation mistakes
in the text and write the correction in
the space at the end of the line.
2 Grammar
Adjectives describe nouns.
(a) Find the nouns in the text described by
these adjectives.
(i) fast
(ii) medical
(iii) popular
(iv) physical
3 Spelling
(a) There are 9 misspelt words. Underline
each and write it correctly in the space at
the end of the line.
Viewing Sample
The plural of words is made in
different ways: by adding ‘s’,
‘es’ or, if the word ends in ‘y’,
it is changed to ‘i’ before ‘es’ is
added; for example, ‘boot(s)’,
‘match(es)’, ‘ladies’ (‘y’ to ‘i’ and
add ‘es’).
(b) Underline all the plural nouns in the text
using a different colour for each of the 3
different ways the plural is made.
4 Vocabulary
(a) Write an antonym (a word with the
opposite meaning) for each of these
words from the text.
(i) popular
(ii) leisure
(iii) regularly
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