Writing Activity:
A. All these sentences contain one or more words which have one
letter too many. Can you correct them?
Example: fourty = forty writeing = writing
Example: fourty = forty writeing = writing
1. Can your help me with my homeworks? 2 2. Why do you allways forgett to bring your materials to class? 2 3. I'm flying back to Brazil tommorrow. 1 4. We had a wonderfull time on our hoilidays in Switzerland. 2 5. I need to buy some tabletts; I've got a terrible stomache ache. 2 6. The last time I saw him he was liveing in a large appartment in the middle of the city. 1 7. If you want to get fit you must take plenty of excercise. 1 8. I was so tired last night that I sleept for ten hours. 2 9. I went shopping yesterday and brought all my Christmass presents. 2 10. Can you give me a differrent fourk, please. This one is dirty. 2 11. Have you written your 'thank-you' letters yet. - No, I'm going to do it when I have finnished cutting the grass. 1 12. Why where you absent yesterday? - I had to go to the optician to have my eyes tested. 1 13. My friend has a lot of pets: 3 hammsters, 4 rabbitts and 5 mices. 3 14. Where does your farther work? - In a factory, I beelieve. 2 15. What do you want four you're birthday? - A new settee with lots of soft cushions and a new cofffee-table. 3 16. Go to bed know, please! - But I cann't, I have to clean my teeth first. 2 17. I went to the zoo last weekeend and saw 3 kangarroos, 2 girraffes and a gorrilla. 4 18. What are you doing? - I'm fixxing my brother's biciycle. 2 19. I have choosen a nice blue blouse for my sister's birthday in Ocktober. 2 20. She always laughes when she gets an answer wrong. 1B. Now write 6 sentences which contain ONE word which has ONE letter too many.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.