I've been working as an English language teacher and with English language teachers for over two decades, and it has always been very clear to me that punctuation is a badly neglected area in our business. Course books don't focus on it; syllabuses often don't include it; and we keep on hoping our students (and teachers themselves) will somehow pick up the rules of punctuation from their reading or through some sort of 'osmosis'. Well, that doesn't usually work, I'm afraid.
In this course, you'll learn a lot about punctuation in English --why it's important; how to study it; why learn it-- and will also learn how to use all punctuation marks correctly in your writing, such as apostrophes, commas, semicolons, colons, and others.
Join me on an important (and often fun!) journey through what Lynn Truss --in her brilliant 'Eats, Shoots, and Leaves'-- calls "the stitching of language": punctuation! Without it, she says, "language comes apart".
For more information, write to me at higor@higorcavalcanteelt.com, or reach out via WhatsApp: +55 11 94505-1811.
NB: This course is being completed and will be completely available on April 22, 2024.
Content Benefits Details
- 1. A brief intro to the course
- 2. Why study punctuation
- 3. When punctuation fails
- 4. The punctuation marks
- Module 1 quiz
- 1. The period
- 2. The interrogation mark
- 3. The exclamation mark
- 1. The basic uses of the comma
- 1. The serial comma (aka Oxford/Harvard comma)
- 3. Other possible uses of the comma
- Module 3 quiz
- 1. Stronger than a comma; weaker than a period
- 2. An important acronym: FANBOYS
- Module 4 quiz
- 1. Apostrophes and plurals
- 2. Apostrophes and possessives
- 3. Other uses of the apostrophe
- Module 5 quiz
- 1. Using colons
- 2. Using dashes
- 3. En dash or em dash?
- Module 6 quiz
- 1. Using hyphens to form new words
- 2. Using hyphens to separate syllables
- 3. Other uses of the hyphen
- Module 7 quiz
- 1. Brackets and parentheses
- 2. The ellipsis
- 3. Quotation marks - double and single
- 4. How to study punctuation
- Module 8 quiz
I am an English teacher, teacher educator, author, and CELTA tutor based in São Paulo, Brazil. I have been in English language teaching (ELT) for over two decades, and my main areas of interest in ELT are teacher development, phonology, and language development for teachers. Here on Hotmart, my intention is to offer long and short courses for teachers of English in areas such as teaching grammar, vocabulary, phonology, listening, reading, writing, speaking, and much, much more. You can find out more about my work at www.higorcavalcant...
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