Capital Letters & Full Stops

Learning Intention: to revise the use of capital letters and full stops.

Rules of Sentences 1) A sentence starts with a capital letter. 2) A sentence is a group of words which makes complete sense. For example: This is NOT a sentence: To draw a line you must This IS a sentence: To draw a line you must use a ruler. 3) A sentence ends with a full stop- . Exclamation mark- ! Or a Question mark- ?

For practice… Which of these statements are proper sentences? Elephants are very large animals. So they live in. When they are ready to die. Hunters kill elephants for their tusks. The big bulls have biggest.

Task 1 Complete the following sentences so that they make sense. Very good at remembering Elephants like to be Scary when they Are very dangerous Safari is the best time to

Rules of Capital Letters Capital letters are used at the beginning of sentences. They are also used for proper names. For example: People: Miss Foster, Robert, William Wallace Places: Morocco, England, Paris Times: Wednesday, June Titles: The BFG, Shrek, Cloverfield. Special things: Eiffel Tower, Tower Bridge.

For practice… Place the capital letters where appropriate. miss douglas teaches english. edinburgh is the capital of scotland. daniel day lewis won an oscar last night. die hard is my favourite film. my birthday is in september. i was born on a wednesday.

Task 2 Copy out and place the capital letters where appropriate. 1) mr anderson used to work in aberdeen. 2) the new james bond film is released in september. 3) i went to visit the london eye when I was in london. 4) shrek is the name of my sister kirsty’s favourite film. 5) deans community high school is getting rebuilt.

Task 3 john goes to a comprehensive school in glasgow it was built in 1998 and has good buildings and equipment there are about 900 pupils and 50 staff it has excellent sports facilities with extensive playing fields but there is no swimming pool john doesn’t really enjoy swimming so this isn’t a problem he would rather be a famous footballer like his hero david beckham

“stone cold ”is a novel about homelessness there are two main characters in this story one is called link and the other is called shelter they both tell the story and are therefore called narrators link decides to leave home after his mother remarries a man called vince who is unpleasant and cruel towards link and his sister carole he lives on the streets of bradford at first but soon moves to london link seems like an ordinary teenager and appears lonely and upset that he has ended up living on the streets shelter used to be in the army but was forced to leave on medical grounds he dislikes homeless people and is hatching a plan to recruit as many homeless people as he can to an unknown cause shelter is quite arrogant and appears to be mentally unstable