Read the text and find eight mistakes (an unnecessary word, a missing word or an incorrect word). Circle the mistakes and write the corrections. There are no mistakes in two of the lines.


The sun was shining and Fred was having a lovely time fishing. 1 _______________
Suddenly, he seeing a hat in the middle of the river. 2 _______________
On the other side of the river, a woman were trying to reach the hat. 3 _______________
Fred saw the woman and he did decided to help her. 4 _______________
He tried to reach the hat, but he can’t. 5 _______________
So he took off his shoes, jumped into the river and swims to the hat. 6 _______________
Then he was threw the hat across the river to the woman. 7 _______________
She picked up the hat and smiled at Fred. 8 _______________
Then she take some money from her purse and put it in a little paper boat. 9 _______________
As the boat sailing across the river, a big fish jumped out of the water and ate it! 10 _______________