Today I am going to understand when to use capital letters in my work.

Today I am going to understand why we use capital letters.

Make a list with a partner.You have 1 minuteGO!

Make a list with a partner. You have 1 minute GO!

FOR EFFECT AND EMPHASIS! Proper Grammar.

Make a list with a partner.You have 1 minutesGO!

For the names of people:

Anthony Coleman

Barack Obama

For the names of places:

England

Birmingham

For the months of the year:

January

August

For the days of the week:

Monday

Saturday

At the start of a sentence!

The students are in the canteen.

For the titles of books, films and music:

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

The Fast and the Furious

For abbreviations such as:

UK

SBC

day

tuesday

david

teacher

scotland

motorway

october

school

day

Tuesday

David

teacher

Scotland

motorway

October

school

In front of you there is an extract from a biography.......

Hands up if you can tell me what a biography is.....

The only problem is that , the biographer hasn’t had a lesson on capital letters, and has made all sorts of mistakes!

Each of you should have a green pen... Now you are the teachers! Mark the work in front of you,

underlining any where the biographer has missed a capital letter

Mark the work in front of you, underlining any where the biographer has missed a capital letter.

Underline, any other mistakes you can see in the writing, such as full stops, commas etc...

Mark the work out of ten, how well do you think the biographer did?

Underline any where the biographer has missed a capital letter.

Underline any where the biographer has made another mistake – spellings, full stops, commas and any thing else you spot.

Write one or two paragraphs on someone you really admire- for example: Stephen Gerrard.

You could write about any one you like, perhaps a friend or a member of your family.

Write about some one you admire in a biography-

Make sure you remember: Capital letters Correct Spellings The writing should be between one or

two paragraphs, but if you want to write more you can.

Underline the capital letter errors and other errors the biographer has made!

diana, princess of wales was the first wife of charles, Prince of whales, whome she married on 29 july 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century

her weddding to the prince of wales, held at st pauls cathedral, was televised and watcheed by a global audience of over 750 million people after this marriage she received the courtesie titles princess of wales, duchess of cornwall, duchess of rothesay and countess of chester the marriage produced two sons: princes William and harry, currentlie second and third in line to the thrones of the 16 commonwealth realms, respectively.

A public figure from the announcemente of her engagement to the prince of wales diana was born into an aristocratic english family with royal ancestry, and she remained the focus of worldwide media scrutiny during and after her marriage, which ended in divorce on 28 august 1996, including following her death in a car crash in paris on 31 august 1997 and the subsequent display of public mourninge a week later.

diana also received recognition for her charity work and for her support of the international campaign to ban landmines from 1989, she was the president of great ormond street hopital for children, in addition to dozens of other charities

What marks did you give the biographer out of ten?

How do you think the biography could have been improved?

Come and write on the board one thing you learned about Diana!

In your exercise books write down the following, leaving enough lines for you to write in…

Three things the person sitting next to me has learned this lesson

1- 2- 3-

When do we use a capital letter? We always use a capital letter at the

start of a sentence. We always use a capital letter for the

names of places, people and titles (proper nouns).

We always use a capital I for talking about yourself