Reading and Writing Portfolio 2

Reading peoples favourite things

Writing capital letters (2); punctuation;
My favourite thing a description of your favourite thing
Review have got; personal possessions
1 a Read texts 13 and match them to photos AC.

A B C

1 2
KATHY My favourite thing is
my car. Its a Fiat 500 and its about
forty years old. Its red my favourite
colour and its got an old radio. It
isnt very fast, but I love it. Oh, one
more thing its name is Rose!
DANNY Ive got a cat called
Jasper. Hes about three years old
and hes beautiful. Hes black and
white and hes very friendly. Hes got
two sisters, Missy and Topsy. Missy
is my brothers cat and Topsy is my
cousins cat.
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SABRINA Whats my favourite
thing? Its my new mobile. Of course,
its not just a phone, its also got
all my photos and music on it too.
Its a Nokia and its got an MP3
player, games, videos, the internet,
a camera everything, really!

b Read the texts again. Answer these questions.

3 Write these sentences with the correct capital letters.
1 How old is Kathys car? Its forty years old.
1 have you got helens mp3 player?
2 Is her car very fast?
Have you got Helens MP3 player?
3 How old is Dannys cat?
2 my brother has got a new car. i think its a bmw.
4 How many sisters has Jasper got?

5 Is Sabrinas mobile very old?

6 Has it got all her photos on it?

3 ive got a panasonic tv and a sony dvd player.

HELP WITH WRITING

Capital letters (2)
4 juans from spain and his wifes from the usa.
2 a When do we use capital letters? Check in 2a p64.

b We also use capital letters for these things.

At the beginning of a sentence: Hes about three
years old. 5 my address is 13 richmond road, melbourne, australia.
For the pronoun I: It isnt very fast, but I love it.
For companies: Fiat, Nokia.
For some things: an MP3 player, a TV, a DVD.
6 we havent got a german car. our cars japanese.
TIP We dont use capital letters with nouns: Ive got a car.
not Ive got a Car.

c Look again at the texts in 1a. Underline all the

capital letters.

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 HELP WITH WRITING 6 Read about Anthonys favourite thing. Then write the
Punctuation text with the correct capital letters and punctuation.
4 a Notice how we use punctuation.
We use a full stop ( . ) at the end of a sentence:
My favourite thing is my car.
We use a question mark ( ? ) at the end of a question:
Whats my favourite thing?
We use an exclamation mark ( ! ) at the end of
a surprising sentence: Its name is Rose!
We use commas ( , ) for lists: Its got an MP3 player,
games, videos, the internet, a camera
We use apostrophes ( ) for contractions (s = has, etc.):
Hes got two sisters.
We also use apostrophes ( ) for possessive s:
Topsy is my cousins cat. my favourite thing is my laptop i think its beautiful its very
fast and its also very easy to use ive got all my music
b Look again at Kathys text in 1a. Circle all the games films and school work on it my laptops very
punctuation. important to me and i love it

My favourite thing is my laptop.

5 Write these sentences with the correct punctuation.

1 This isnt my sisters coat

This isnt my sisters coat.

2 Have you got Susans address

3 Rob hasnt got any brothers or sisters 7 a Fill in the table about your favourite thing.

What is it?
how old
4 Sarahs got a bicycle its 50 years old
colour
adjectives (new, etc.)
things it has got
5 Ive got Jennys car but I havent got the keys
other information

6 My sisters got a camera a mobile a DVD player and a
new TV
7 My mothers house isnt very big
b Write about your favourite thing.
Use the information from the table in 7a.
Use capital letters and punctuation.
Read and check for mistakes.
Give your description to your teacher next class.

Tick the things you can do in English in the

Reading and Writing Progress Portfolio, p88.

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