PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper
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Annie the witch<br />
Lesson focus<br />
Teachers notes<br />
Punctuation<br />
• Quotation marks for direct speech<br />
• Exclamation marks<br />
• Hyphens<br />
• Apostrophes in grammatical contractions<br />
• Capital letters for proper nouns<br />
Grammar<br />
• Verb tense – past, present, future<br />
Spelling<br />
• Misspelt words<br />
Teacher information<br />
A narrative tells about a series of events, usually involving fictitious characters.<br />
Answers<br />
‘You’re crazy, Mike! Old Annie’s a witch—everyone knows that!’<br />
‘Rubbish, Ian! My mum <strong>and</strong> dad say she’s just a lonely old lady.’<br />
‘I’m telling you she’s a witch!’<br />
Ian shook his head, his eyes behind the thick lenses opened<br />
wide <strong>and</strong> round. He dropped his voice to a whisper.<br />
‘And she killed her husb<strong>and</strong>—she served him poisoned cookies <strong>and</strong> milk. Homemade<br />
choc-chip cookies. And you want to go there by yourself—you’re a nutcase!’<br />
But nothing could shake Mike.<br />
‘I’m going to weed her garden for her—<strong>and</strong> she’s going to pay me cash. And<br />
when I have that cash, I’ll have saved enough for a new engine for my model<br />
aeroplane. And if you’re very lucky, I might let you play with it sometimes.’<br />
‘Yeah, if you’re alive, you mean …’<br />
1. Missing punctuation is in bold type.<br />
(d) Teacher check<br />
Viewing Sample<br />
(f) you are, Annie is, she is, I am, I will<br />
2. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.<br />
lonely, whisper, poisoned, enough<br />
3. (a) (i) knows – present (ii) shook – past (iii) dropped – past<br />
(iv) am going to weed – future<br />
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