Notes sometimes have missing words. The missing words are not important words. You can understand the note without these words.
Look at the different choices in the activity below and decide which one (a, b or c) is the best one for a note.
When you have finished, check your answers by reading the handwritten note.
Tips for reading handwriting:
Some notes are written quickly and sometimes the handwriting is not clear. When the handwriting is not clear it is a good idea to try to predict what the word could be.
For example:
In the first line of the note, Laura’s employers wrote:
‘Really s________ about mess in kitchen.’ The word beginning with ‘s’ is written quickly, so the letters are not clear. What do you think the word beginning with ‘s’ could be? There could be four or five letters in the word. Is it an important word?
The missing word is ‘sorry’. It doesn’t matter if you can’t read this word properly. The word is not important in the note.
It is helpful to compare letters or groups of letters with a word that you can read clearly. This might help you to guess the word correctly.
If most of the handwriting is not clear then it is not your fault. You can politely tell the writer of the note that you cannot read their handwriting!
