Date: July 31- August 02, 2019

OBJECTIVES:

At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:

A. Recall the rules of punctuation learnt earlier.

B. Relate punctuation rules to support accuracy and fluency in reading.
C. Recognize and use full stop with some abbreviations; apostrophe with contractions
and hyphen to intersection two words that performance as one unit.

SUBJECT MATTER:

PUNCTUATIONS and its USAGE

PROCEDURE:

A. Prayer and Checking of Attendance

B. Motivation
C. Ask the students to properly punctuate the given sentnces.
1. “We’re going to learn to cut and paste kids!” versus “We’re going to learn to cut and
paste, kids!”
2. “Let’s eat, grandpa” versus “Let’s eat grandpa”. Punctuation can potentially save
lives!
D. Lesson Proper/Discussion

· Punctuation: is the use of signs and symbols which make the text meaningful.

· Punctuation is "the use of spacing, straight signs, and certain typographical devices as supports to
the accepting and the correct reading, both silently and audibly, of handwritten and written texts."
Ø Sentence trimmings with some form of punctuation, i.e. full-stop (.) and question mark (?) or an
exclamation mark (!).
Ø Recognize and use an apostrophe (‘) to show possessions and exclamation mark (!) to show strong
feelings.
Ø A comma (,) is used to show a pause in the sentences, or naming a list of items. Take a short pause
when comma comes in a sentence.
Ø Semi-colon (;) The semicolon (;) is used to link autonomous clauses. It shows a nearer connection
between the clauses than a period would show. For example: John was hurt; he knew she only said it
to distress him.
Ø Colon: (:)A colon (:) has two main usages:
Ø The first is after a word familiarizing a quotation, an elucidation, an example, or a series. It is also
frequently used after the greeting of a business letter.
Ø The second is inside time languages. Within time, it is used to disperse out the hour and minute: 12:
15 p.m.
Ø Inverted commas (“-“) show that the enclosed words were spoken by someone.
Ø Intonation is the rise and fall in speech. Speech can be made effective by using variety in speech.
Ø Abbreviations are shortened forms of words. Most abbreviation has a period or full stop (.) at the end.
Ø Abbreviations of days of week and months of year can be made by taking first 3 letters and putting a
full stop in the end.
Ø Apostrophes are used to show a missing letter in a word. Apostrophes are also used to form
contractions, such as / have can change into /’ve. An apostrophe is used where letters have been
omitted.
Ø A contraction is a combination of two words which results in a single word. Contractions are common
in speaking and in formal writing. E.g. let’s- let us.
Ø Use a hyphen (-) to join the parts of compound numbers and to join two or more words that work
together as one adjective before a noun. It is used to avoid confusion and misreading by joining
compound words. E.g. light-blue paint, web-based, board-certified, thirty-two, etc.

Activity 1
· Dive the class into pairs.
· Ask them to find out any two sentences from their English textbook with the following punctuation
marks.

Full stop (.) Exclamation Mark

(!)
Question Mark Apostrophe (‘)
(?)
· Ask them to discuss their meanings with their partner.
· Each pair will write the sentences in the notebooks.
· After that, ask different pairs to read their sentences for the whole class.

Activity 2
· Choose a passage from the textbook before the lesson. Passage must have commas, full stops,
inverted commas, question marks and exclamation marks.
· Then ask the students to copy the passage from the board in their notebooks and insert punctuation
marks and capital letters.
(Did you see the rabbit go down that hole said the farmer no said Sara look over there by that big tree
said the farmer oh yes the rabbit has just jumped out again said Sara well it might not be the same
rabbit exclaimed the farmer there are lots of rabbits in the hole)

GENERALIZATION:

Ask the students:

What is punctuation and its importance?
Where do we use full stops, capital letters, commas, inverted commas and question marks?

ASSIGNMENT:

Answer the activity on page ________ (English Time).