PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper
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School vending machine<br />
Lesson focus<br />
Teachers notes<br />
Punctuation<br />
• Capital letters for sentence beginnings<br />
• Full stops<br />
• Grammatical commas<br />
• Apostrophes in contractions<br />
Grammar<br />
• Conjunctions<br />
Spelling<br />
• Confused words: by/buy/bye, which/witch,<br />
sew/so, there/their, some/sum<br />
• Misspelt words<br />
• Plurals (‘s’ <strong>and</strong> ‘es’)<br />
Writing<br />
• Double negatives<br />
Teacher information<br />
A discussion text evaluates an issue. Arguments are given to persuade the audience of a particular point<br />
of view.<br />
Answers<br />
I think it’s a good idea that our school has decided<br />
to buy a food vending machine for the<br />
pupils to use. It will raise money for the school,<br />
which will directly benefit the pupils.<br />
Also, there isn’t a canteen or tuckshop at the school<br />
so pupils can’t buy food from anywhere else.<br />
This means that parents must prepare s<strong>and</strong>wiches<br />
or other food for their children every day.<br />
In addition, the school board has promised that the<br />
vending machine will contain only healthy food.<br />
Therefore, I can’t underst<strong>and</strong> why some<br />
parents don’t want the vending machine. I<br />
hope it arrives soon.<br />
1. Missing punctuation is in bold type.<br />
Viewing Sample<br />
decided<br />
buy<br />
pupils<br />
which<br />
tuckshop<br />
so<br />
s<strong>and</strong>wiches<br />
their<br />
promised<br />
healthy<br />
some<br />
parents<br />
hope<br />
2. (a) canteen or tuckshop<br />
s<strong>and</strong>wiches or other food<br />
3. (a) buy, which, so, their, some<br />
(b) Spelling errors are in italic type.<br />
decided, tuckshop, promised, healthy, hope<br />
(c) Singular nouns are underlined in bold.<br />
pupils (line 3), s<strong>and</strong>wiches (line 7), parents (line 12)<br />
4. (a) One way of correcting the double negative has been underlined.<br />
‘…there isn’t no canteen or tuckshop …’ should read ‘…there isn’t a canteen or tuckshop …’ or<br />
‘…there is no canteen or tuckshop …’<br />
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