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Names written with a capital letter
Textbook: Part 3, topic 17, pp. 56–63
GoalFind and write correctly names that take a capital letter in a text.
New words
craftsman · hunarmandsilk · ipakskullcap · do‘ppipottery · sopol
Explanation
We write with a capital letter: the first word of a sentence, a person’s first name and surname, a name given to an animal, and names of cities, villages, streets and rivers. When we read a text we find the words with capitals and say why they are written that way.
Worked examples
“Land of craftsmen”. Uzbekistan has many skilled craftsmen. In Margilan silk and atlas cloth are woven. In Bukhara jewellers make beautiful jewellery. In Rishton potters make clay dishes. In Chust skullcaps are sewn. We value their work.
Marg‘ilon, Buxoro, Rishton, Chust are city names, so they have capital letters.
Class activity
“Capital hunters”: children mark the capitalised words in a text with a coloured pencil and give a reason for each (start of sentence, city name and so on).
Practice
1
Which cities are named in the text?
Marg‘ilon, Buxoro, Rishton, Chust
2
According to the text: what do jewellers in Buxoro make?
beautiful jewellery
3
Write with capitals: toshkent shahrida alisher navoiy ko‘chasi bor. (There is an Alisher Navoiy street in Tashkent.)
Toshkent shahrida Alisher Navoiy ko‘chasi bor.