ADAPTED FROM STUDENTS’ EXAMPLES IN CLASS, BY LAURENTINO QUIRIFE FERRER
FIND THE MISTAKE
Each text contains a mistake where one letter in a word is wrong. Example:
“Boeing’s new plant will carry 400 passengers”
MISTAKE: plant CORRECTION : plane
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• Relax in the quiet atmosphere of Harry’s bar. Means served in the restaurant from 12.00 – 2.30 and 5.00 to 11.00. Delicious snacks served all day.
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• Lonely Hearts. Small, single, intelligent woman wishes to meet tall, attractive, non-smoking mule. Please send photos and phone number to Box 242
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• Men’s final. Federer VS Murray. Andy Murray knows what it well take to defeat the world’s number one player and end Britain’s 74 year Slam drought.
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• Aries (Mar 21 – Apr 20) This is an important week for you. You will meet somebody who can change your wife. Listen carefully and many of your problems will go away and this will be a happy time for you.
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• Smith sent off. Bobby Smith, the English international footballer, was sent off during a match against Germany. The referee showed Smith the red card after he licked the German goalkeeper in the last minute of the game.
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• 46, High St. Small, comfortable flat for sale in the town centre. One bedroom, large kitchen and loving-room. Suit young couple with no children. $45,000 o.n.o (or new offer). Visiting Sat & Sun 2.00 – 4 pm.
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• Dear Juliet; I must see you as soon as possible or I will go mad. Please meet me outside the cinema on Saturday night at six. I don’t want there to be any problem, so sell your parents before you come. Much love, Romeo
8Television
• 3.05 The secret life of the plants - 3.30 Football Barcelona versus Manchester United - 6.00 News followed by news for the dead - 6.20 Weather - 6.30 The Natural World: food from the sea
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• A seven-year-old boy got a free trip to America last month, on the Queen Elizabeth II, one of the world’s largest chips. He didn’t have a ticket but he told a member of the crew that his parents were on the boat and they had his ticket and passport
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• Holiday of a lifetime. Get close to nature. Sleep under the stars. Eat outside at an open fire. Go where you like. Hire a cat to take you into the jungle. Photograph wild animals
11• Is the Web Driving Us Mad?
Tweets, texts, emails, posts. New research says the Internet can make us lonely and depressed—and may oven create more extreme forms of mental illness.
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• It starts out as a tiny egg. It becomes a caterpillar. It eats lots of leaves. It grows and grows. Then it goes inside a cocoon. At fast, it comes out. It’s a butterfly!
13• This old age home has a place for a married
couple. Cooking and cleaning are done by the home’s domestic staff, and there is a 24-hour medical and security service. Visitors are welcome, but jets are not allowed for health reasons.
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• Since businesses operate globally, social networks can make it easier to keep in touch with contacts around the world. Companies can also use social networks for advertising in the farm of banners and text ads.
15• In Tiger Woods Learning Center students learn
best by doing, engaging scholars in creative thinking. It’s a 35,000-square-food facility , devoted to get students thinking about the role education plays in their futures.
16• The Grammy Award Winning, hip-shaking singer
went back to school at the University of California to study History of Western Civilization. She reportedly even went by a different name whole taking classes so she would be less recognizable.
SEND YOUR ANSWERS!
Only write the corresponding MISTAKE and CORRECTION to each NUMBER.
Don’t forget your Name and Course.Send your information to your teacher’s email.
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