Section outline
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A brief explanation of the rules with examples from Michael Swan's Practical English Usage 5th ed. (Index: 172, 364, 474.4, 556)
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Open the Caps or No Caps presentation. On the first slide you can check what you know: decide which of the words should be capitalized. After you finish, go to the second slide to see the answers. Consider why some words are capitalized and others are not. When you finish, fill in the blanks in the quiz below to complete the rules for capitalizing.
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Read the text in the attached file.
ONE noun in EACH line (6 - 24) is used incorrectly. The mistakes could be of any kind (wrong spelling, a different noun with meaning irrelevant to the text, a wrong plural form, a countable noun, used as an uncountable - or vice versa, etc.)
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Read the introduction to Piers Morgan's book "Wake up: The World’s Gone Nuts" from the sample provided in Harper Collins' Sales site (there is a free sample available after clicking the "Read a Sample" button (below the cover).
After reading, make a list of the most important facts the author offers as examples of the maxim "Nothing in excess". Be ready to discuss your answers in class.
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Open the link and:
1) Choose one of the pictures from the Ficrion Section
2) Describe it with 5 or 6 sentences that contain:
5 common nouns
2 nouns that are either always singular or always plural
3 proper nouns
3 possessive case forms (DIFFERENT)
2 gender neutral expressions
2 expressions with marked gender
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