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The Aquada<br />
Lesson focus<br />
Teachers notes<br />
Punctuation<br />
• Capital letters for sentence beginnings<br />
• Capital letters for proper nouns<br />
• Question marks<br />
• Exclamation marks<br />
• Apostrophes in contractions<br />
• Hyphens<br />
Grammar<br />
• Adverbs<br />
Spelling<br />
• Confused words: by/buy, off/of<br />
• Misspelt words<br />
Vocabulary<br />
• Compound words<br />
Teacher information<br />
Descriptions describe the characteristics, components <strong>and</strong> functions of specific living or non-living<br />
things.<br />
Answers<br />
Would you like to own a car that’s also a boat? You<br />
can buy one now—but you won’t get much<br />
change out of $500 000!<br />
The Aquada is a slick-looking sports car that can seat<br />
three people. It has all the normal car controls, like a<br />
speedometer <strong>and</strong> a fuel gauge. It doesn’t have any<br />
doors—you have to carefully climb in! This is so the<br />
car is completely watertight.<br />
If you want to go onto water, all you do is press a<br />
button. When the car senses it’s floating, it quickly<br />
retracts the wheels <strong>and</strong> lights up the navigation lights<br />
that surround the numberplate. The car is now a<br />
jet-powered boat! It can do almost 50<br />
kilometres per hour at top speed.<br />
also<br />
buy<br />
of<br />
seat<br />
controls<br />
gauge<br />
carefully<br />
completely<br />
water<br />
quickly<br />
wheels<br />
surround<br />
almost<br />
kilometres<br />
1. (a) Missing punctuation is in bold type.<br />
(b) (i) slick-looking<br />
(ii) Teacher check<br />
2. (a) Adverbs are underlined.<br />
carefully, completely, quickly<br />
3. (a) Spelling errors are in italic type.<br />
also, buy, of, seat, controls, gauge, water, wheels, surround, almost, kilometres<br />
4. (a) Compound words are underlined in bold.<br />
slick-looking, carefully, watertight, numberplate, jet-powered<br />
(b) Choose from: carefully, watertight, numberplate<br />
22 <strong>Editing</strong> skills R.I.C. Publications ® www.ricgroup.com.au
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