Learn about using capital letters while checking out some spectacular sports from different countries!
Directions: Find the 18 capitalization mistakes in the sentences below and correct them on your own paper.
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1. What happens when you put two popular Games together? You get amazing sports like chessboxing, which is popular in england. Players quickly switch between rough boxing and calm games of chess.
2. Some kids in Indonesia, a country in southeast asia, have put a hot spin on soccer. They’ve been known to play it with a Coconut that’s been lit on fire.
3. Ever wanted to get close—really close— to an active volcano? Head to the Central American country of nicaragua and try volcano surfing. Surfers speed down the ash-covered side of a Volcano on boards.
4. In a Desert in the Asian country of yemen, there’s a tribe that celebrates important events by playing the sport of camel jumping. Players compete to see who can leap over the greatest number of camels.
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5. Zorbing, a sport from new zealand, is not for people who get motion sickness. Zorbers speed and bounce down a hill strapped into a huge, squishy plastic Ball.
6. Invented by a Belgian man named filip eyckmans, bossaball is a sport that’s like volleyball. But it has two fun additions: a live DJ and bouncy Trampolines.
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7. Despite how it sounds, the German sport of “extreme sitting” is anything but boring. People do tricks on a special Stool—and land sitting down.
8. The sport of tuna tossing in australia used to be known as a very messy game—until they decided to start throwing rubber Fish instead of real ones.
This article was originally published in the October/November 2020 issue.
