PR-0794UK Proofreading and Editing - Upper
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Trees cross railway line<br />
Lesson focus<br />
Teachers notes<br />
Punctuation<br />
• Capital letters for sentence beginnings<br />
• Full stops<br />
Grammar<br />
• Prepositions<br />
Spelling<br />
• Confused words: two/too/to, their/there,<br />
brought/bought, witch/which,<br />
threw/through<br />
• Misspelt words<br />
Vocabulary<br />
• Enrichment<br />
Teacher information<br />
A recount retells events as they happened, in time order. Recounts are usually written using verbs in the<br />
past tense.<br />
Answers<br />
People watched in disbelief yesterday as two trees which had been major<br />
l<strong>and</strong>marks in their small town, came crashing down on to the railway line.<br />
Just after 3 p.m., an ear-splitting thunderclap sounded <strong>and</strong> lightning struck the larger<br />
tree. A huge fissure appeared in the body of the tree <strong>and</strong> it collapsed. As it fell, it<br />
brought down the second tree, already weakened by the day’s barrage of<br />
nature’s anger. It was a miracle that no-one was injured. The debris from both trees<br />
was scattered across the platforms <strong>and</strong> the town square.<br />
As if satisfied with its work, nature comm<strong>and</strong>ed the wind <strong>and</strong><br />
rain to calm, <strong>and</strong> the thunder <strong>and</strong> lightning to cease. Even the sun,<br />
which had been hiding all afternoon behind thick storm<br />
clouds, was tempted to peep through <strong>and</strong> shed<br />
more light on the devastation.<br />
Answers<br />
1. (a) Missing punctuation is in bold type.<br />
Viewing Sample<br />
2. (a) (i) in (ii) with (iii) across<br />
(iv) of (v) by (vi) behind<br />
(b) Teacher check<br />
3. Spelling errors are in italic type.<br />
(a) two, their, brought, which, through<br />
(b) weakened, square, calm, light<br />
4. (a) (i) comm<strong>and</strong>(ed) (ii) barrage (iii) debris<br />
(iv) collapse(d) (v) fissure<br />
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