For question 1-12 read the following teacher's comments on a school project. use the information in it to complete the numbered gaps in the informal letter from the student who did the project. The words which you need do not occur in the teacher's comment. use no more than two words for each gap. The exercise begins with an example (0).



Example: 0 to complete

Teacher's comment

Content: Margaret's report on 'Language Development in Two-Year-Old Twins' represents a year's painstaking work. The case study shows various strengths, particularly acute observations but the material could have been more efficiently organised. The paper was perhaps over-ambitious since it extended 10,000 words instead of the recommended 5,000.
Style: The writing is lively but too colloquial for this kind of text. Margaret is also sometimes inaccurate in her choice of vocabulary, with unfortunate results.
presentation: The project is pleasantly illustrated with photographs and some useful charts, though it is a pity these were not original. The work is marred by a number of typing and spelling errors and would have benefited from stricter proof-reading before submission.


Informal Letter


Dear Annie

How are you getting on with your language project? As you know, it took me a year (0) to complete mine. And now I've just got a copy of the comments the teacher made on it, and she obviously thinks it's a disaster!

She seems quite (1)
____
pleased/satisfied/happy/impressed/content
with my observations, but said the material could have been much (2)
____
better planned
. I think that I probably (3)
____
aimed to
high because I (4)
____
went up
to 10,000 words when we were only (5)
____
asked to /expected to/supposed to
do 5,000. She certainly thought it was far (6)
____
too long
. Then she criticised me for using too much (7)
____
slang/informal language
and sometimes getting the (8)
____
wrong word
completely.

At least she (9)
____
approved
of the pictures I spent hours preparing (although she seemed to think I had (10)
____
(photo)copied
them!). But then she had a go at me about the number of (11)
____
mistakes/typos
I made, and she obviously thinks these have (12)
____
ruined/spoiled
the whole project. I suppose the lesson to learn is that I should have let someone read it before I (13)
____
gave/handed/sent
it in.

Hope you have better luck than me.

Love, Margaret