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"CHOCOLATE"

 

  1. Copy these paragraphs, number them correctly, then use CUT and

    2. PASTE to put them in the correct order.

     

    I was completely bored. I was very glad when her film ended. "What a lot of rubbish!’ I said. ‘Now we can see some action!’

    The repairman took the cover off and looked inside. ‘It just needs a little oil,’ he said. ‘No problem.’

    My wife, Mary, and I sat down in front of the TV. I wanted to watch ‘Batman’, but she wanted to see the final part of ‘Love in the Spring.’

    The repairman took the cover off again. There inside was a bent bar of chocolate! ‘No wonder it doesn’t work,’ he said. ‘With that inside, what do you expect?’

    I clicked the remote control, but nothing happened. The cassette would not come out of the slot. I got up and pressed a few buttons. Still nothing happened.

    On my way home, I stopped at a newsagent’s and bought two small bars of chocolate. I dropped the chocolate into the plastic bag with the video player.

    I went back to the shop and put the video player on the counter. 'The cassette won’t go in!’ I said angrily. ‘What did you do?’

    I took the video player out and looked into the bag. I could only see one bar of chocolate. ‘You must have dropped the other one in the street,’ my wife said. ‘Never mind. We’ll share this one.’

    Luckily there’s an electrical shop just round the corner. I put the video player in a plastic bag and took it to the shop.

    I plugged the player in. Then I tried to push the Batman cassette into the slot. No matter how much I tried, it would not go in. ‘What on earth did the repairman do?’ I said.

  2. Now delete the numbers and close the spaces to make one paragraph.

 

  1. Copy these words at the top of the document and put a border round them. Centre the words, and shade the box.

    2. and in of to on when but out up round

    off inside at into with out backClick

     

  2. Click Edit on the Menu Bar.
  3. Click Replace.
  4. Click the ‘whole words only box’.

c) Replace each of the above words in the next with a line e.g. ________

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- Enter ‘and’ in the ‘Find what’ box.

- Enter a line ___________ in the ‘Replace with’ box.

- Click on ‘Replace all’

- Click on ‘Cancel’.

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NOTE: You can use the SHORTCUT Keys CTRL + H to open the Replace dialogue box again.

Repeat these operations until you have pasted lines in place of all the words in the box.

SAVE as CHOC.2 – F12.

 

3)

a) Now use CUT and PASTE to put the words in their original places.

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- Copy ‘and’ - Ctrl + C.

- Double Click on the line.

- Paste ‘and’ – Ctrl + V.

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  1. When you have Pasted all the words in the box, you can use a second

Window to check your work.

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4)

  1. Close CHOC.1 and CHOC.2.

    2.  

  2. Open a new document. Answer the questions using the joining words in brackets. Make a complete paragraph.

 

 
  1. Where were the writer and his wife sitting? (The writer…….)
  2. What did he want to watch? What did she want to watch? (He, …….but….)
  3. How did he feel? Why? (……… because…….)
  4. Was he glad, or not? Why? (When the ………….. because he could …………)
  5. What did he click? What happened? (….,but…..)
  6. Would the cassette come out of the machine, or not? What did he do? (The …, so he……)
  7. What was there ‘just around the corner’? What did he do? Where did he take the video player? (There ………,so ……… and…….)
  8. What did the repairman do?
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  9. What did the writer do after had left the shop? (After……. and…..)
  10. Where did he put the chocolate?
  11. What did he do when he got home? Could he see the chocolate, or not? (When……………… and ……….., but…)
  12. Did he plug the player in, or not? Did he try to push the Batman cassette into the slot, or not? Would it go in, or not? (He ……. and …… ,but……….)
  13. Did he take the video player back to the shop, or not? What did the repairman do again? (He …………………., where the ………………………)
  14. What did they see inside? (Inside, ……………………..)





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