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SPELLING 19 journeys
Sentences with circled spelling mistakes 20 resign
1 neighbour 21 families
2 release 22 earlier
3 practical 23 championship
4 copying 24 fever
5 amateur
6 dishonest Sentences with missing words
7 variety 1 accident
8 disappear 2 dungeon
9 familiar 3 expensive
10 machine 4 ally
11 excitement 5 doubtful
12 exhibit 6 bloom
13 rehearse 7 knuckles
14 specialist 8 cordial
15 apologised 9 disobedient
16 explosion 10 worst
17 appeal 11 squeezed
18 anonymous 12 climbing
19 adequate 13 knocking
20 scholarship 14 terrible
21 combination 15 anchor
22 knives 16 transparent
23 force
24 confusion Sentences with missing words
1 refrigerator
Sentences with hidden spelling mistakes 2 shouldn’t
1 guess 3 skeletons
2 numb 4 We’re
3 tomatoes 5 whiskers
4 population 6 pieces
5 manufactured 7 juicier
6 accepted 8 admirers
7 ghostly 9 comedian
8 enemies 10 disgust
9 writing 11 excellent
10 navigate 12 heard
11 hazard 13 inflated
12 departure 14 prey
13 opinion 15 dissatisfied
14 likely 16 lifestyle
15 happiness
16 necessary
17 column
18 arrival

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Short texts with circled spelling mistakes Short texts with hidden spelling mistakes
1 saving 1 volunteers
2 habit 2 accommodate
3 encouraged 3 veterinarian
4 guarantee 4 recommended
5 tempting 5 release
6 sensibly 6 unique
7 favourite 7 ticket
8 science 8 aeroplanes
9 feature 9 series
10 ourselves 10 quite
11 medium 11 whistled
12 chocolate 12 view

Short texts with circled spelling mistakes Prefixes and suffixes

1 you’re 1 additional
2 inexpensive 2 counterfeit
3 leaves 3 descend
4 cocoons 4 diagonal
5 layers 5 exit
6 transformed 6 hopeful
7 remote 7 telephone
8 lessons 8 bicycle
9 specific 9 claustrophobia
10 annual 10 tonsillitis
11 Territory
12 isolated Problem words and phrases
1 Dad poached an egg for his breakfast.
Short texts with hidden spelling mistakes 2 I make a lot of mistakes in my typing.
environmental 3 The students missed their teacher, who had retired.
2 interested 4 wear
3 pollution 5 because
4 responsibility 6 couldn’t
5 difference 7 had
6 addressing
7 affect
8 relaxed
9 alert
10 clothing
11 calming
12 bright

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USING LANGUAGE Adjectives
Nouns 1 smaller
1 common nouns 2 ancient and interesting
2 proper nouns 3 long, scenic and lakeside
3 collective nouns 4 better
4 a common noun and an abstract noun. 5 nicer
5 both abstract nouns. 6 eldest
6 a common noun 7 an
7 pen
8 team and herd Adverbs
9 drought, grass, cows 1 carefully
10 Saturday 2 swiftly
11 Friesian 3 brightly
12 Australian 4 slowly
5 beautifully
Pronouns 6 especially
1 its 7 rudely
2 Who 8 smoothly
3 their
4 they Conjunctions
5 I 1 but
6 we 2 yet
7 are 3 whenever
8 them 4 Since
5 so
Verbs 6 nor
1 drove 7 Although
2 practises
3 ballooning Prepositions
4 performing 1 below
5 drank, training 2 by
6 watches 3 around
7 ordered 4 during
8 lived 5 from
9 made 6 against
10 found 7 past
11 packed 8 off
12 added
13 took Sentences
14 started. 1 It’s obvious that
2 to the
3 without
4 to eat
5 “The Lord of the Rings” is a book series written by Tolkien.
6 Mum said that my sister should stop asking so many
questions.

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Tense
1 past
2 past
3 present
4 past
5 future
6 bought
7 Shake
8 write
9 known

Putting it all together

1 a noun.
2 an adjective.
3 an adverb.
4 and
5 on and off
6 will go and sit

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PUNCTUATION Colons and semicolons
Full stops, question marks and exclamation marks 1 introduces a list
1 That car’s tyres need replacing. They are dangerously worn. 2 introduces a quotation
2 The new bowling club is now finished. It will be open for 3 colon
business on Monday. 4 ; as a man he’s even louder.
3 No one could have anticipated the disaster. It was just a 5 : a chicken burger, fries, fruit cake, a chocolate bar and
freak accident. a milkshake.
4 “Do you have a dollar coin I could borrow?” asked Jai.
5 There were over fifty guests at the wedding. It was lovely Dashes, ellipses and parentheses
to see so many people could attend
1 - (dash)
6 “We’re going to crash!” exclaimed Natalie.
2 - (dash)
3 ellipsis
Commas
4 that the speaker’s voice is interrupted
1 Regardless of the weather, tomorrow’s training session will be
5 They provide additional information.
going ahead.
6 a pause.
2 Even though the substitute teacher is nice, I’m looking
forward to having our teacher back. 7 Parentheses should enclose the phrase (which are black and white)
3 My four favourite foods are lasagne, roast chicken, baked 8 Insert ellipsis after the word at and before the first set of
potatoes and spaghetti. quotation marks
4 It is extremely rude to be late to a business meeting, whatever 9 dashes or parentheses
your excuse may be.
5 Although I am happy we won, I can’t help feeling sorry for Capital letters
the other team’s supporters. 1 Rafael and Angela went to the cinema on Sunday afternoon.
2 The Red Baron was a German pilot who flew many missions
Apostrophes in World War One.
1 The boys suffered serious injuries from playing with Uncle 3 My brother and I were silver medallists at the
John’s fireworks. Commonwealth Games held in Brisbane.
2 These three ladies’ husbands all work for the same company. 4 “You’ll need to have some physiotherapy on that knee,” said
3 This is my brother Lewis’ room. Doctor Chang.
4 It’s a shame we don’t have a good doughnut shop in this town. 5 “I’d prefer to buy a washing machine made by Simpson,” said
Alison to the sales assistant.
5 It’s Curtis’ turn to do the dishes tonight.
6 “There’s no Vegemite left,” complained Brad.
6 There were two kangaroos on the road right in front of us.
7 The tree was loaded with dozens of ripe oranges.
Quotation marks
8 The bird’s wing was badly damaged.
1 “Would you like tea or coffee?” asked the flight attendant.
9 Is this jacket yours or hers?
2 The flight attendant asked me if I would like tea or coffee.
10 People often hire clowns to provide entertainment at
children’s parties. 3 “Congratulations. You’ve got the job!” said the store manager.
11 Here’s 4 “There are too many people here,” sighed Anil, “let’s just go home.”
12 It’s 5 The surfer said he’d seen a huge grey fin only metres away from him.
6 Yul said that the soup was very tasty.
Contractions
1 they will
2 are not
3 I will
4 wouldn’t
5 haven’t
6 couldn’t
7 would’ve
8 there’ll
9 mustn’t

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