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ERROR CORRECTION

Read the text and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct,
and some have a word vvhich should not be there. If a line is correct, put a
tick (✓ ). If a line has a word vvhich should not be there, vvrite the word. There
are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00).

1. TAKING UP TENNIS
I did not really enjoy to playing sports much when 0........to...
I was at the school. I suppose this was because we did 00.......
not really have very good physical education teachers. 1.............
They were always shouting at us and telling to us to try 2..............
harder. If you asked them what did you had to do to improve 3..............
they could never give you a good advice. When I left school 4..............
I started pla5ãng at tennis with some íriends. To my great 5..............
surprise, I loved to it. I became a completo tennis addict, 6.............
sometimes playing as many as ílve times a week. I played so 7.............
much that I eventually became quite a good player. The only 8............
problem was that I wasn’t very a íĩt and consequently I started 9............
to getting all sorts of injuries. First it was my elbow and then 10..........
my shoulder. Once I managed to get over of those two 11............
problems my knees started to give me the trouble. My only 12............
consolation is that even the top players suffer from these 13..........
injuries too. Of course I can’t compare myself to someone 14...........
like as Martina Hingis, but I enjoy the game and have some of 15...........
the same problems.

A THREATENING PHONE CALL

A leading politician had been charged with corruption and 0 ............. y ..........
I had been covering the trial which had hnished more earlier 00. more
that day. Despite of being very tired I went on working until 1 ....
the midnight. I had promised to finish the story and have it on 2................
the editor’s desk by morning. I was almost certain no other 3 .....
journalist had to got hold of the story or not the whole 4 .....
story anyway. Jack had told me he would wait for my version 5 .....
because of it would be an exclusive. I was worried that 6 .......
if I have used real names, there might be trouble later 7 .....
but in the end I decided that to include them. After all 8 .....
the journalism is all about giving the public information 9 .....
and that includes the names of all those involved in the news. 10 .....
Just as it I was reading through the final draít the telephone 11..............
rang. I picked up the receiver expecting it is to be Jack. 12..............

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