This document discusses punctuation marks. It provides examples of different punctuation marks such as periods, commas, questions marks, etc. It then has exercises for the reader to practice identifying punctuation marks and their meanings in different languages and contexts.

1. ICT generated materials
CIL Language Integrated Curriculum
Punctuation
María Loredo, SonsolesGarcía, Emili Gene and Bernat Amengual
September 2009
Punctuation Marks Punctuation
Write a Marks?????
Are punctuation marks..... ... ... ...
Symbols?
Phonemes? ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds?
Words?
Why dowe use punctuation marks?
•To separate sentences •To indicate intonation
•To structure ideas •Are they necessary for writing?
•To indicate pauses •Are they necessary for reading?
•The nose is made with ______________________________
•The ears are made with_______________________________
•The hair is madewith________________________________
•The eyes are made with ______________________________
Match the names with their corresponding symbols
English Spanish Catalan
Symbols
1. Apostrophe
a) ()
2. Brackets
b) -
3. Colon
4. Question mark
c) /
5. Comma
d) ...
6. Dash/ low dash e) .
underscore f) !
7. Ellipses g) ;
8. Full stop/period h) :
9. Hyphen i) “
10. Exclamation mark
j) ?
11. Semicolon
k) ’
12. Slash/stroke
13. inverted commas
l) _
m),

2. ICT generated materials
CIL Language Integrated Curriculum
Punctuation
María Loredo, SonsolesGarcía, Emili Gene and Bernat Amengual
September 2009
Reflect on the following:
•Are punctuation mark symbols used the same way in books and in chats? Give
examples
•In letters and in messaging?
•Are they used the same in all languages?. Write in the appropriate column the ones that
are used differently. Give examples.
Punctuation is everything in written language other than the actual letters or numbers,
including punctuation marks, inter word spaces and indentation. Look at thedifference in meaning
between the following sentences:
•King Charles walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off.
•King Charles walked and talked; half an hour after, his head was cut off.
A young boy wrote this story. He did not know
anything about punctuation. Can you put in the
capital letters, full-stops, commas, question
marks, exclamation marks and speech marks for
him?
marvin the martian was flying around the solar
system one day when he saw a strange light in
front of him what is that he thought to himself
marvin was scared but he flew a little bit closer
so that he could see it better hello he called out there was no reply hello is anyone there
he called but again there was no reply suddenly a creature appeared in front of the light
boo it shouted poor marvin was really scared and he flew off home and hid under his
bed
adapted from Mark Warner in http://www.teachingideas.co.uk