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Good grammar means more money (20th August, 2013)

PARAGRAPH ONE:

1.	use grammar	a.	made fewer mistakes
2.	companies make	b.	at the spelling
3.	Grammarly.com looked	c.	grammar mistakes
4.	grammar and	d.	companies
5.	six	e.	well
6.	They	f.	money
7.	The companies who	g.	all made mistakes
8.	made more	h.	punctuation

PARAGRAPH TWO:

1.	Coke made fewer writing	a.	buy a Coke
2.	sold	b.	things
3.	GM made more mistakes	c.	more cola
4.	good	d.	they trust
5.	make you	e.	than Ford
6.	good writing is	f.	grammar
7.	people buy	g.	mistakes than Pepsi
8.	companies	h.	professional

LISTEN AND FILL IN THE GAPS

Do companies (1) ___________________? Is the grammar in Apple's "(2) ___________________ " commercials a mistake? Big companies (3) ______________________. Grammarly.com looked at the spelling, grammar (4) ___________________ six companies. They (5) ___________________. The companies who made fewer mistakes (6) ___________________.

Grammarly said Coke (7) ___________________ mistakes than Pepsi, (8) ___________________. Google made fewer mistakes than Facebook, (9) ___________________. Finally, GM made more mistakes than Ford. Maybe good (10) ___________________ you buy a Coke. However, good (11) ___________________, and people buy things from (12) ___________________.

PUT A SLASH ( / )WHERE THE SPACES ARE

Docompaniesusegrammarwell?IsthegrammarinApple's"ThinkDif
ferent"commercialsamistake?Bigcompaniesmakegrammarmist
akes.Grammarly.comlookedatthespelling,grammarandpunctuat
ionofsixcompanies.Theyallmademistakes.Thecompanieswhoma
defewermistakesmademoremoney.GrammarlysaidCokemadefe
werwritingmistakesthanPepsi,andsoldmorecola.Googlemadefew
ermistakesthanFacebook,andisricher.Finally,GMmademoremist
akesthanFord.Maybegoodgrammarwon'tmakeyoubuyaCoke.Ho
wever,goodwritingisprofessional,andpeoplebuythingsfromcomp
aniestheytrust.

WRITE QUESTIONS & ASK YOUR PARTNER(S)

Student A: Do not show these to your speaking partner(s).

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Student B: Do not show these to your speaking partner(s).

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WRITING

Write about grammar for 10 minutes. Read and talk about your partner's paper.

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