Ice age for migrant fishermen in Iceland

13.01.2009

http://www.spotlight-online.de

Read the short text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, but
five of them have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick. If a line
has a word which should not be there, write the word in the space provided. There is one
example at the beginning.

at “There are no jobs at here,” Isleifur Gunnursdottir, an 18-year-old

____________ fisherman from now eastern Iceland, told the Daily Telegraph. “I’m
____________ going to Norway.” Almost 1,200 years after Viking Ingolfur
____________ Arnarson left Norway and has founded the town of Reykjavik, the
____________ crisis facing Iceland is forcing his descendants to return home.
____________ The Atlantic island of 320,000, which is experiencing in the worst
____________ financial crisis in its history, now each expects its biggest exodus in
____________ also a century.
Read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct but seven
of them have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick (√) on the
space provided. If a line has a word that should not be there, write the word on the
space provided.

……of……… Many of people know the Flying Doctor Service that has had numerous

……√………. successful flights over the last decades.

……………… Pilot Scott Gordon of the Flying Doctor Service in the Australia had a

……………… lucky escape yesterday. He was been coming in to land when he noticed

……………… that one of his wheels was stuck. Because he knew that it was too dangerous

……………… to land on only two of wheels, he radioed for help while he was circling the

……………… airport again. When he was told about the situation, mechanic Lippo had to

……………… have act quickly. He sent for a stunt driver called Moser. Something highly

……………… unusual was to needed. After he had explained his plan to Moser, Lippo

.…………….. radioed back to Gordon and told him to approach the airport again and fly

……………… a few feet above the ground. Meanwhile Moser`s car, which with Lippo

……………… on board, was on the runway and was driving right under the plane. At

……………… exactly the right moment Lippo stretched through the sunroof, grabbed

……………… the wheel of the plane, and forced it down into position. The trick worked

……………… and Gordon was able to land the plane safely. But afterwards Lippo and

……………… Moser agreed with that they would never do anything like that again.
Error spotting. Three of the lines are correct, six of them have a word which shouldn’t
be there or which is incorrect. If a line is correct, please put a tick. If a line has a word
which should not be there, write the word in the space provided.

.…….….. Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Johnson. Even as a child she wanted to be an

.…….….. actress. Whoopis career didn’t begin as she had intended it to. She left high school at 17

.…….….. and became involved from drugs. At the age of 18 she got married. At 19 she had a

.…….….. baby. Her marriage failed but Whoopi managed giving up drugs and went to an acting

.…….….. school. In the late 1970s she succeeded in getting roles in small theater productions and

.…….….. slow progressed to her own one-woman show on Broadway. One of the people who saw

.…….….. Whoopi was the american director Steven Spielberg. Afterwards he offered her a leading

.…….….. role in the film “The Color Purple”. Since then Goldberg has made many quiet successful

.…….….. films winning Oscars and Golden Globes.