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Philip Leetch

Read about Mrs Chow. Each line has an error - it may be a grammatical or other kind of mistake such as a missing  or an extra word. Try to correct the mistakes. Do you know anyone like Mrs Chow?

1. Mrs Chow raises at 6am every day to get

2. breakfast ready to her husband and two children.

3. They always find clean, perfectly ironed cloths

4. ready for them. It's a miracle Mrs Chow finds the time

5. to do the things she do - and she does them

6. so well! She is a excellent cook, her dumplings are

7. mouthwatering and her crabs are very delicious that

8. she ought to selling her recipe to a famous restaurant.

9. She does all the cleaning and laundries - well, the

10. children do some housework, but they oftenly make

11. more of a mess than they are actually clear up. She can

12. turn her hand to almost thing: sewing, watch repair,

13. electrical work, house painting - you name its and Mrs

14. Chow will try it. It's all part her daily mission in

15. life: to keep her family together, comfortably and

16. happy. Of course, we all need more material things

17. and the Mrs Chow is also a great listener. She is

18. always willing to here about her children's

19. problems and their teenage heartbrokes, or to

20. lend sympathetic ear to her husband's complaints.

21. She got cross or scolds family members only

22. once in a pink moon. She prefers to look for

23. practical solutions to difficulties. Where theirs a

24. will, there's a way, she say - though she does know

25. that some time all we need is a big hug and some

26. words of consolation or encouragements. Mrs Chow

27. doesn't look very glamorous. How can she too when

28. she has a very tightly budget and won't spend anything

29. on herself? A tutorial class for one of the childrens

30. or a little treatment for all the family at dinner

31. means more to her than new blouse or smart hairstyle.

32. Mrs Chow has a part-time in a restaurant

33. washing dishes. It's tiring but she wants the extra

34. dollars and she quiet enjoys the conversations

35. in the kitchen. Co-workers are almost all mothers

36. on the same problems as she faces: getting the

37. children a decent of education, finding the

38. money at their school books and clothes,

39. worrying about his husband's job and sometimes

40. thinking about what would happen as they all

41. get older. Mrs Chow don't rest much, but

42. she just enjoys her soap operas, and she plays the

43. mahjong very well - but as quite infrequently,

44. and not for money. Mrs Chow's role clear: she's

45. a dedicate wife and mother, a wonderful housewife.

Answers:

1. rises, to raise something

2. breakfast for, for the benefit of

3. clothes, cloths are pieces of material

4. delete out, not finding out information here

5. does, she does

6. an excellent cook, vowel

7. so delicious, so ... that

8. sell, ought + to-infinitive

9. laundry, uncountable

10. often, correct form

11. delete are, unnecessary

12. almost anything

13. you name it, idiom

14. part of, necessary preposition

15. comfortable, adjective like happy

16. more than, sense

17. delete the, not used with title Mrs etc

18. hear, spelling

19. heartbreaks, correct form

20. lend a sympathetic ear, idiom

21. gets, general present tense

22. once in a blue moon, idiom

23. there's, spelling

24. says, agreement

25. sometimes

26. encouragement - uncountable

27. delete too, makes no sense

28. tight, adjective

29. children, correct plural form

30. treat, a special enjoyment

31. a new blouse, article needed

32. a part-time job, noun needed

33. tiring, but, sense

34. quite, spelling

35. Her co-workers, unclear without it

36. with the same problems

37. a decent education, adjective + noun

38. money for, for a purpose

39. her, Mrs Chow's

40. will happen, simple future

41. does not/doesn't, agreement

42. plays mahjong, article not used with games

43. delete as, makes no sense

44. role is clear, verb needed

45. dedicated, adjective from past participle



A wonderful housewife