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1. Proofreading

2. 1. What is proofreading? ‹#›

3. This will be your job! You’ll be given a text with certain mistakes related to a tense (past, present, of future). You should figure out what’s wrong and fix it. Then you analyze the tense and explain when we use it. After that, your provide other examples of the same tense on your own. ‹#›

4. For example... Read the following texts and point out where the mistakes are... ‹#›

5. Group A Hands Up! Recently, in Oklahoma City, Pat Rowley, a security guard, deposit 50 cents in a City Hall vending machine and reach in to get a candy bar. When the machine catch his hand, he pull out his pistol and shoot the machine twice. The second shot sever some wires, and he got his hand out. ‹#›

6. Group B Late Bloomers Some very remarkable adults are known to have experience quite unremarkable childhoods. English author G.K. Chesterton, for instance, could not read until the age of 8, and he usually finish at the bottom of his class. "If we could opened your head," one of his teachers remark, "we would not find any brain but only a lump of fat." Chesterton eventually become a successful novelist. Similarly, Thomas Edison was label a "dunce" by one of his teachers, and young James Watt was called "dull and inept." ‹#›

7. Group C Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is one of the most famous portraits in the history of painting. Leonardo took four years to complete the painting: he begun work in 1503 and finish in 1507. Mona (or Madonna Lisa Gherardini) was from a noble family in Naples, and Leonardo may have paint her on commission from her husband. Leonardo is said to have entertain Mona Lisa with six musicians. He install a musical fountain where the water play on small glass spheres, and he give Mona a puppy and a white Persian cat to play with. Leonardo did what he could to keep Mona smiling during the long hours she sit for him. But it is not only Mona's mysterious smile that has impress anyone who has ever view the portrait: the background landscape is just as mysterious and beautiful. The portrait can be seen today in the Louvre Museum in Paris. ‹#›

8. Group D Not again! Every morning Ashley get out of bed, brush her teeth, and get ready for school. She tell herself that today would be better than the day before, and that Allah would stop bullying her. She take a deep breath and walk out of the door. Seconds later, a rotten tomato get thrown at her just like every day, but today Ashley is prepared. In a very swift move she shoot the tomato back with a baseball bat, and it hit Allan right in the face! ‹#›

9. Analysis This is your new best friend Language Sheet ‹#›

10. Our process is easy F irst: read S econd: analyze L ast: model ‹#›

11. Answer keys Find the answer keys to compare your answers in the link below: ‹#›