PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper
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School concert<br />
Lesson focus<br />
Teachers notes<br />
Punctuation<br />
• Hyphens<br />
• Grammatical commas<br />
• Full stops<br />
• Exclamation marks<br />
Grammar<br />
• Adverbs<br />
Spelling<br />
• Misspelt words<br />
• Confused words: whole/hole<br />
• Plurals (‘s’ <strong>and</strong> ‘es’)<br />
Vocabulary<br />
• Enrichment – musical instruments<br />
Teacher information<br />
A recount retells events as they happen, in time order. Recounts are written using verbs in the past tense.<br />
Answers<br />
Dear diary<br />
Today was the big day! I felt so nervous about<br />
playing my guitar in front of the whole school.<br />
There were twenty-two of us from different classes<br />
waiting offstage to perform, all with different instruments.<br />
When my name was called, I slowly walked on. I had<br />
a heart-stopping moment when I almost dropped my<br />
guitar. But once I’d sat down <strong>and</strong> started playing, I felt<br />
much better. I made a few mistakes but I managed to<br />
keep going, so I hope no-one noticed! When I’d finished<br />
the audience began to applaud loudly. It felt great! I<br />
haven’t stopped smiling yet. I can’t wait to play again.<br />
1. Missing punctuation is in bold type.<br />
2. (a) Adverbs are underlined.<br />
slowly, loudly<br />
Viewing Sample<br />
nervous<br />
whole<br />
classes<br />
different<br />
slowly<br />
when<br />
guitar<br />
mistakes<br />
hope<br />
loudly<br />
smiling<br />
(b) Teacher check<br />
3. Spelling errors are in italic type.<br />
(a) classes, mistakes<br />
(b) nervous, whole, different, when, guitar, hope, smiling<br />
4. (a) Teacher check. Answers may include: piano, harp, violin, viola, cello, double bass, banjo,<br />
m<strong>and</strong>olin etc.<br />
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