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Be healthy! Be happy!<br />
Read the exposition.<br />
Editing skills<br />
we need to improve our lifestyles.<br />
The car TV and fast foods are turning<br />
us into a n<strong>at</strong>ion off unhealthy, unfit people.<br />
More peeple suffer from diet-rel<strong>at</strong>ed illnesses<br />
than ever befour as a result of regularly<br />
e<strong>at</strong>ing meals high in f<strong>at</strong> and sugar Young<br />
people need to lurn the importance of e<strong>at</strong>ing<br />
hellthy food to prevent medical problems.<br />
TV DVDs and computer games are becoming<br />
the most popular leshure activities for many<br />
young people. more time needs to be spent<br />
enjoying physical activities th<strong>at</strong> rays the<br />
heart r<strong>at</strong>e and make the body work harder<br />
We are relying two much on the car for transport.<br />
there must be times when we can walk instead.<br />
If we look after our body’s they will work well for us.<br />
Lets do it!<br />
1 Punctu<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
(a) Underline the 8 punctu<strong>at</strong>ion mistakes<br />
in the text and write the correction in<br />
the space <strong>at</strong> the end of the line.<br />
2 Grammar<br />
Adjectives describe nouns.<br />
(a) Find the nouns in the text described by<br />
these adjectives.<br />
(i) fast (ii) medical<br />
(iii) popular<br />
(iv) physical<br />
3 Spelling<br />
(a) There are 9 misspelt words. Underline<br />
each and write it correctly in the space <strong>at</strong><br />
the end of the line.<br />
The plural of words is made in<br />
different ways: by adding ‘s’,<br />
‘es’ or, if the word ends in ‘y’,<br />
it is changed to ‘i’ before ‘es’ is<br />
added; for example, ‘boot(s)’,<br />
‘m<strong>at</strong>ch(es)’, ‘ladies’ (‘y’ to ‘i’ and<br />
add ‘es’).<br />
(b) Underline all the plural nouns in the text<br />
using a different colour for each of the 3<br />
different ways the plural is made.<br />
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4 Vocabulary<br />
(a) Write an antonym (a word with the<br />
opposite meaning) for each of these<br />
words from the text.<br />
(i)<br />
popular<br />
(ii) leisure<br />
(iii) regularly<br />
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