Using Capital Letters (Part 2)

 This is the second part of the post we started last Tuesday ! Don't  forget to  test yourself at the end !

7.Use a capital letter for trade-marks and names of companies and other organizations:

Coca Cola 

Apple

Microsoft Corporation, Mitsubishi

the United Nations, the Red Cross

8. Use a capital letter for places and monuments:

London, Paris, the Ramblas

the Eiffel Tower, St Paul's Cathedral

Buckingham Palace, the White House

Oxford Street, Seventh Avenue

Jupiter, Mars

Asia, the Middle East, the North Pole

9. Use a capital letter for names of vehicles like ships, trains and spacecraft:

the Titanic

the Orient Express

Challenger 2, the Enterprise

10. Use a capital letter for titles of books, poems, songs, plays, films etc:

War And Peace

The Shadow of the Wind

Like a Virgin

Romeo and Juliet

Gone With The Wind, The Dark Knight

11. Use capitals letters (sometimes!) for headings, titles of articles, books etc, and newspaper headlines:

HOW TO LEARN ENGLISH

Chapter 2: OBAMA’S EARLY LIFE

LIFE FOUND ON MARS!

DOG WINS LOTTERY

 Now test yourself by rewriting this sentence using capitals where necessary.

australian english teacher jane crocket loves eating italian food. she bought a cookbook by famous chef stefano bibiano after she had dinner at his award winning restaurant the lemon cello in rome. she goes on holiday each christmas and enjoys visiting museums like the national gallery in london or barcelona’s picasso museum. her favourite song is imagine by john lennon and she enjoys doing voluntary work for the royal society for the protection of animals, known as the rspca.


How did you do? Check your answers.

Australian English teacher Jane Crocket loves eating Italian food. She bought a cookbook by famous chef Stefano Bibiano after she had dinner at his award winning restaurant the Lemon Cello in Rome. She goes on holiday each Christmas and enjoys visiting museums like the National Gallery in London or Barcelona’s Picasso Museum. Her favourite song is Imagine by John Lennon and she enjoys doing voluntary work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals, known as the RSPCA.

Using Capital Letters (Part 1)

In English, we do not use capitals letters very much, but perhaps we use them more than in Spanish. They are mainly used for the first letter of sentences, names, days and months and  for some abbreviations. In addition, of course, we always write the first person pronoun as a capital  I.

When do we Use Capital Letters?

1. Use a capital letter for the personal pronoun 'I':

What can I have to eat? 

2. Use a capital letter to begin a sentence or to begin speech:

The man entered the room. He didn’t speak. 

Finally John asked, "What is the matter?" 

3. Use capital letters for many abbreviations and acronyms:

G.M.T. or GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) 

N.A.T.O. or NATO or Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) 

4. Use a capital letter for days of the week, months of the year, holidays:

Monday, Tuesday ,January, February ,Christmas ,Independence Day 

5. Use a capital letter for countries, languages and nationalities, religions:

China, France ,Japanese, English ,Christianity, Buddhism 

6. Use a capital letter for people's names and titles:

Anthony, Ram, William Shakespeare ,Professor Jones, Dr Smith ,Captain Steel, King Henry VIII 

Laughter is the best medicine !

Reir te hace sentir mejor.Esperamos que estos tres chistes ( jokes) te ayuden a conseguirlo ! 

The future of the frog

A frog telephones the Psychic Hotline:

-You are going to meet a beautiful young girl who will want to know everything about you.

The frog says:

-This is great! Will I meet her at a party, or what?

-No. Next semester in her biology class.

 "Laughter is a powerful antidote to stress. "

Wake Up!

A teacher is speaking in the classroom when he notices a student sleeping way up in the back row. The teacher shouts to the sleeping student’s neighbour:

- Hey ! wake that student up!

The neighbour says:

- Oh, no. You put him to sleep, you wake him up!

 Books about elephants

In an international contest, every nation has to write a book about the elephant:

The French book: The Sex Life of the Elephant or: 1000 ways to cook Elephant.

The English book: Elephants I have shot on Safari.

The Welsh book: The Elephant and its influence on Welsh language and culture.

The American book: How to Make Bigger and Better Elephants.

The Japanese book: How to Make Smaller and Cheaper Elephants.

Mastering Technology

El mundo está cada vez más condicionado por el uso de Internet, la tecnología y las diferentes formas de comunicación. Nadie se puede cuestionar el hecho que la lengua inglesa contribuye notablemente a enriquecer el vocabulario usado en el campo de la tecnología. En este post, repasaremos algunos de estos términos relacionados con el mundo de la comunicación.

      

Useful Nouns and Verbs related to Technology and Communication

NOUNS	VERBS
a phone	to phone; to ring
a mobile	to phone; to ring; to text
a fax	to fax; to send; to receive
a printer	to print; to print off  (BE), to print out  (AE)
a scanner	to scan
a photocopier	to photocopy; to copy;  to make copies
a tape recorder; a tape / cassette player	to tape (grabar) ; to rewind; (rebobinar)   to fast forward;(avanzar)   to eject;(expulsar)
a video player; a CD player; a DVD player	to record; to tape; to rewind; to fast forward;
an e-mail	to email; to reply; to delete; to send;  to forward;(reenvíar) to type (teclear);  to attach (adjuntar)
a click	to click (clikear)
a radio; a radio broadcast (una retransmisión radiofónica)	to listen; to record
a TV; a TV programme	to watch; to record