1. ENGLISH FAL REVISION PROGRAMME GRADE 12
2015

2. LANGUAGE AND EDITING SKILLS
What is editing?
Means to:
Correct
Revise
Amend
Change rearrange
Improve
rewrite

3. Editing “ You say what you have to say
Editing “ You say what you have to say. But you have to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.” - Kurt Vonnegut (American Novelist)

4. Let us look at the following example.

5. What is it that we must keep in mind when we edit?

7. What do we call subject verb agreement?
Concord Activity: Read the following passage and identify and correct as many mistakes you can find.

8. LANGUAGE AND EDITING SKILLS

9. Possible response
“Minding the Mind” According to a research at Cambridge University, it doesn’t matter in what order the letter of a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without a problem. This is because the human brain does not read every letter by itself., but the word as a whole. And this property of the brain makes us commit many mistakes, in identifying the spelling errors we commit.

11. What is language and editing all about?
Let us have a look.

21. Example

22. Humour

25. No excuses

26. Activity One W: ordiness A: greement S: pelling P: punctuation
While Editing Remember W A S P . How to catch those little mistakes that make a big difference?
W: ordiness
A: greement
S: pelling
P: punctuation

28. Active and Passive Voice Example One

29. Example Two

30. Direct and Indirect Speech

32. Direct and Indirect Speech

33. Can you spot the changes?
Refer to the previous slide and identify the changes

34. Question Tags

35. What is a tag question?
A tag question is a sentence with a question phrase connected at the end.
Example:
It’s windy today, isn’t it?
Sentence part
Tag

36. Tag questions have two purposes:
To clarify information
(the speaker expects an answer)
Example:
We have a test tomorrow, don’t we?
Mr. Smith is coming to the meeting, isn’t he?
I’m permitted to park here, aren’t I?

37. Forming Tag Questions(6 easy steps)
Step 1: Identify the verb in the sentence. Sergio likes to eat at buffets, ______ ______? verb

38. Forming Tag Questions(6 easy steps)
Identify the type of verb.
(Is it the verb “to be”, an auxiliary verb, or the main verb?)
Sergio likes to eat at buffets, ______ ______?
Main verb

39. Forming Tag Questions (6 easy steps)
Identify the tense of verb.
(Is it in present or past tense?)
Sergio likes to eat at buffets, ______ ______?
Present tense

40. Forming Tag Questions (6 easy steps)
If in present tense, determine if 1st or 3rd person.
If in past tense, use auxiliary “to be” or “do” in past.
Sergio likes to eat at buffets , _ _ ______?
Use the auxiliary verb “does”.
does
Third person

41. Forming Tag Questions (6 easy steps)
Is the verb affirmative or negative?
Sergio likes to eat at buffets, __________?
Write in the opposite.
doesn’t
Affirmative

42. Forming Tag Questions (6 easy steps)
Add the pronoun at the end.
Sergio likes to eat at buffets, doesn’t ? he
Noun

43. Let’s Practice Lunch was delicious, ?
Spring break is next week, _________?
Class finished quickly, _________?
wasn’t it
isn’t it
didn’t it

44. He won the prize, didn’t he?
question tag …

45. Question Tag 2.a. NEGATIVE QUESTION TAG:
If the sentence is positive, the question tag is negative:
You have seen that film, haven’t you?
+ -
2.b. POSITIVE QUESTION TAG:
If the sentence is negative, the question tag is positive:
You haven’t seen that film, have you?
If the sentence contains a negative word (never, hardly…) the question tag is positive:
Ann never goes anywhere, does she?

46. Tag-Questions Whose books are these? – a true question
These are your books, aren’t they?
-Tag-question – Positive
These are not your books, are they?
- Tag-question -- Negative

47. Tips!
In replies to question tags we use short answers. You’ve been here before, haven’t you? No, I haven’t, actually! Notice that when the information is not correct people use actually after the short answer. Notice the comma before the question tag

48. Question Tags

51. Activity: Allow learners to do the activity and report to the class

52. Homophones

54. Homophones Too/Two/To Choose the correct word:
________men walked down the street.
It is ______ cold out today.
She sent a letter ______her best friend.
Too/Two/To

55. Possible responses from learners
Two
Too To

56. There, They’re. Their 1. Who has _____. 2. Michael went over _______.
3. ______going to see you tomorrow.

57. Possible responses
1. Their
2. There
3. They’re

58. Were, We’re, Where, Wear 1.What ill you ____ to the party later?
_____ did you put my laptop?
____ going to see a play later.
4. ____ you going this way, too?

59. Let us think of other examples
Allow learners to respond:

60. Activity One Refer to Work Guide One .
Refer to notes and guide learners.
Learners must attempt each set of activities and report back.
Use the memorandum provided to guide the learners responses.

61. Activity Two
Refer to Work Guide Two. Learners are to attempt each question and report back to the class. Use the Memorandum for the work guide to guide learners

62. Activity Three – Activity Four
During each session make use of dictionaries.

65. Resources elt@gmx.us Grade 12 Exam Papers – 2014 – 2015 Nov and March.
Grade 12 Exam Papers – 2014 – 2015 Nov and March.