Writing Skills 1.

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Writing Skills - 1

Writing Skills

For your A2 English Writing exam you will get some writing assignments: a selection of filling in a form, writing an email, and/or writing a summary. These classes will deal with various areas involving writing skills. 

Waar denk jij aan bij het onderwerp Writing Skills?

Today we will focus on SPELLING:

1. Capitalization (hoofdletters)

2. Plural endings (meervoudsvormen)

3. Suffixes (achtervoegsels)

See also your preparation to this class in Studiewijzer wk 02 - To Learn/Study in Spellingwijzer

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this class you will be able to correctly apply English capitalization rules, plural endings, and suffixes.

1. Capitalization

Capitalization is when we use capital letters (hoofdletters) at the beginning of some words.

1. Capitalization rules 

Words that start with a capital letter (1 of 2)

First word of a sentence. 

Proper names of people and places (cities, countries, streets, rivers, oceans).  (Charles, London, United Kingdom, 10 Downing Street, Thames, North Sea)

The names of languages. (Dutch, Spanish, French, German)

1. Capitalization rules

Words that start with a capital letter (2 of 2)

Days of the week, months of the year, and special holidays. (New Year's Day)

The letter I when talking about yourself.  (I am a teacher)

Titles of songs, books, and magazines. (Yes, And? - The Hobbit - The Times)

Acronyms (ASAP, FAQ), abbreviations (BBC, FBI),  and initials (J.K. Rowling)

my aunt lucy, who lives in madrid, spain, speaks spanish.

j j r tolkien is the author of the hobbit.

2. Plural endings (meervoudsvormen

Plurals (= meervoud):
What is the plural of
watch?

1. watchs
2. watches
3. watch's
4. watchis

Plural (=meervoud):
What is the plural of:

1. heroes
2. hero's
3. heros
4. held

Plurals (= meervoud):
What is the plural of:

1. child's
2. childs
3. kinderen
4. children

Plurals (= meervoud):
What is the plural of:

1. knife's
2. knifes
3. knives
4. kniven

Plurals (= meervoud):
What is the plural of:

1. puppies
2. puppy's
3. puppys
4. puppen

Ik weet nu hoe ik hoofdletters, meervoudsvormen en suffixes moet toepassen

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