Text English Book 3 Teacher Guide

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Activity 1
Student Book page 54

Name: Date:

1 Remove any repetition. How could you reduce the number of words in
these sentences?

This season’s colours are great for blondes. In fact, they’re great for
blondes, brunettes and red-heads.

2 Take out unnecessary words. Which words could be deleted from this
sentence without affecting the overall meaning?

Before he was famous, he worked all day on the checkout in a

supermarket, five days a week.

3 Remove unnecessary sentences. Which sentence could be deleted

without affecting the overall meaning?

Always being nagged to tidy your room? Talk to your parents. Explain to
your mum that you like a messy room. Tell your dad that you’d rather
spend your time doing homework than tidying your room. Which might
even be true!

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Activity 2
Student Book page 54

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1 There are lots of different mistakes writers can make. Using the table below,
match the mistakes to the sentences in which they have been made.

2 Rewrite sentences A-C, correcting the mistakes.

3 Rewrite sentence D, using different connectives or breaking the sentence up

into smaller sentences, taking out the conjunction and adding a full stop.

Missing words D Dust your make-up

brush with loose powder
and give it a tap and
sweep it over your face
or apply with a powder
puff and dab it all over
and use your brush to
dust off any excess.
Repeated words or C How much difference
phrases does it make to
teenagers lives nobody
knows.
Jumbled letters A When he returned to
his hotel, he realised the
script had stolen.
Missing punctuation B I started going too
(full stops, capital drama school becuase
letters, apostrophes, my mum thouht it would
commas, etc.) make me more
confident.
Overlong sentences
using too many
connectives (e.g. and,
but, and so)
Homophone errors

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Sharpen your skills: Sentence punctuation
Student Book page 55

Name: Date:

1 Look at this list of punctuation marks. Write a definition for each one
explaining when and how you use them.

Punctuation mark Definition and use

Full stops

Question mark

Capital letters

Commas

Apostrophes

2 Only one sentence in the text below is correctly punctuated. Which one?

3 Once you have identified it, add the correct punctuation to the rest of the
text.

Sometimes it can be difficult to use punctuation accurately you

are so busy concentrating on what you want to write that it is

easy to forget little things like full stops capital letters commas

and apostrophes. You have to remember that punctuation is really

important. Its very difficult for the reader to understand what you

have written if you dont use it correctly

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