G1A punctuation

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

punctuation?

Today's programme

Learning goals:

• You know what punctuation is and when to use it.
  
• You practice using correct punctuation.

Punctuation

• structure
• clarity

Capitalisation

You need to know when to use capital letters in English.

More often than in Dutch!

Punctuation

Match the punctuation marks to their names. Write the number behind the name. Work together!

full stop ___
semicolon ___
comma ___
exclamation mark__
colon ___
question mark ___
brackets ___
apostrophe ___
hyphen ___
quotation marks___

Punctuation - answers

full stop: 3
semicolon: 9
comma: 1
exclamation mark: 4
colon: 6
question mark: 2
brackets: 5
apostrophe: 7
hyphen: 10
quotation marks: 8

When to use what

Practice with punctuation

• make the exercises on the next slide
  
• work together

Copy the sentence and add punctuation to these sentences (also use capital letters!):

1.    when is he getting his new car
2.    ouch  that really hurt
3.    im going home now  she said  
4.    she went to the shop and bought carrots   beans  bread  and milk  
5.    i visited my brother in law on the weekend
6.    stop  you cant go in there
7.    when is your appointment
8.    pauls car has broken down

Answers

1.    When is he getting his new car?

2.    Ouch! That really hurt!
3.    “I’m going home now,” she said.
4.    She went to the shop and bought carrots, beans, oranges, bread and milk.  
5.    I visited my brother-in-law on the weekend.
6.    Stop!  You can’t go in there.
7.    When is your appointment?
8.    Paul’s car has broken down.

Last lesson we looked at punctuation marks. Today we will look at how many of them you can remember (and also if you remember how to use them)!

How many punctuation marks do you remember? type them in!

What is punctuation?

1. being on time
2. a medical procedure
3. using commas, capitals, and all that
4. never heard of it

When do you use an apostrophe?

1. at the end of a question
2. takes the place of missing letters
3. to divide or connect words

When do you use a full stop?

1. at the end of a question
2. to show speech
3. at the and of a sentence

Which of these should be capitalised?

1. days of the week
2. all nouns (zelfst. nw)
3. names of people, places and holidays
4. the letter 'i'