| Task 1 : Identify the 8 mistakes in this
passage then provide the corrections in the table below. There are 6 grammar mistakes, 1
spelling mistake and a misused word. When
the old lady returned to her flat she saw at once that the thieves had broken in during
her absent, because the front door was open and everything in the flat was upside down.
The thieves himself were no longer their, but they obviously had only just lived because a
cigarette was still burning in the ashtray. Probable they heard the lift coming up and ran
down the fire escape. She wondered if they had found his jewellery. The jewellery had been
given her by her husband, which had died some years before. Since his died, she hadn't had
the heart to wear it.
Mistakes |
Corrections |
1- absent
2- himself
3- lived
4- their
5- probable
6- his
7- which
8- his died
9- had been given her |
absence
themselves
left
there
probably
her
who
his death / he died
had been given to her |
Task 2 : Punctuate and
capitalize where necessary (Use 3 commas, 1 full stop and 4 capital letters).
The
American ideal of mass education for
all is matched by an awareness that America
also needs highly trained specialists. In
higher education, therefore, and especially at the graduate schools, the U.S has an extremely competitive and highly selective
system.
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Task 3 : Use the notes below to write a
biography of Mark Twain. (10 to 12 lines).
Real name : Samuel Langhorne
Clemens
Date and place of birth : 1835 ; Hannibal, Missouri
Formal schooling : ends early
Work experience : journalist in Hannibal, St Louis, Philadelphia and New York. Later : a
river pilot (Mississippi steamboats)
1865 : success as story teller
1870 : writes his best novels
1900 : writes a moral fable
1910 : death
Last two decades of his life : financial and family problems (collapse of publishing house
; death of son and 2 daughters) ==> bitterness and cynicism |
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* Les
critères suivants seront pris en considération lors de la correction :
- Coherence and cohesion (use of cohesive devices and other transition devices)
- Language (grammar and vocabulary)
- spelling / punctuation / capitalization. |
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