Unit 11: Error Correction

Read the following text carefully. Some of the lines are correct and some have an extra word which should not be there. If the line is correct, place an X in the space. If the line has an extra word, write that word in the space provided.

Bad Weather

0 I'm writing to you from our hotel room on the Mediterranean island of............... X

00 Mallorca. Unfortunately, I can't tell to tell you very much about the island...... to

1 because we've had such a terrible weath that we've hardly been out of................___

2 the hotel since we have arrived. On our very first day here the sky was............. _X_

3 overcast and the temperature was about 20ºC, much lower than......................... ___

4 normal is at this time of year. Then, the next day, we woke up to the.................. ___

5 sound like of torrential rain beating against the windows, and it's been................ _X_

6 pouring with almost non stop ever since. We'd have brought more books............ _X_

7 and games with us if we would have known it was going to be like this-................ ___

8 the kids are beginning to get bored with playing cards all the time. Poor.............. _X_

9 Katie was really looking forward to go swimming in the sea, but it's far................ ___

10 too rough for that and she can't even go in the pool, which it has been................ ___

11 closed. The weather forecast says us that it should begin to improve by............. _X_

12 the end of the week, but some of the shopkeepers we've spoken to in the.......... ___

13 town of Palma aren't so optimistic-they think it might well go on......................... ___

14 raining for longer. We've decided that unless it will brightens up in the............... _S__

15 next few days, we'll probably come home a week earlier than had planned. ...... ___

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