SIGMA TERM SCHEME OF WORK FOR JSS2
ENGLISH LANGUAGES

WEEKSTOPICS
1Revision of last term’s work

  • Speech Work: Revision of Diphthongs
  • Grammar: Reported speech: ruler guiding the use of Reported speech
  • Reading and Comprehension: Reading to provide alternative words that van fit into the context to replace the target words
  • Composition: Writing report: Outline and features
  • Literature – In – English: Use the recommended text on Prose
  • Literature – In – English: As in 105
2Speech Work: Intonation: Identification of intonation patterns in statements, questions and commands

  • Grammar: Making sentences with prepositions
  • Reading and Comprehension: Reading for speed with emphasis on avoidance of vocalisation, regressive reading and reading words instead of phrases.
  • Vocabulary Development: Law and Justices
  • Composition: Writing a Report: An Accident I witnessed
  • Literature – In – English: Use the recommended text on prose
  • Literature – In – English: Themes/characterization in the recommended prose text.
3Speech Work: Intonation/stress: making statement, giving command and asking questions, using different intonation patterns

  • Grammar: Regular and Irregular verbs
  • Reading and comprehension: Techniques of speed reading: surveying, scanning and skimming.
  • Vocabulary Development: Culture and Tourism
  • Composition: Writing an Informal letter continued. Letter to a friend about your school inter – house sport
  • Literature – In – English: Use the recommended text on Drama
  • Literature – In – English: Themes and plot in the recommended Drama text.
4Speech Work: Stress; Identification of the correct points of pauses in different words (im’port/i’mport, ‘refuse/re’fuse)

  • Grammar: Reported commands
  • Reading and comprehension: Dialogue
  • Vocabulary Development: ICT
  • Composition: Formal letter – Write to the Local Government Chairman about the bad roads in your area
  • Literature – In – English: Use the recommended text on Drama
  • Literature – In – English: Language setting anf characterization in the recommended Drama text
5Speech Work: Rhythm – identification of the appropriate rhythm in a given poem

  • Grammar: reported Requests
  • Reading and Comprehension: Dialogue continued
  • Composition: Argumentative Essay – Herbal Medicines are more potent than Orthodox Medicines
  • Literature – In – English: Identification of some figures of speech in the recommended prose text
6Speech Work: Review of /stress/ intonation. Refer to week 3 and 4

  • Grammar: Adverbials and the present tense
  • Reading and Comprehension: More on week 1 topic
  • Vocabulary Development: Science and technology
  • Composition: Expository Essay – entrepreneurship
  • Literature – In – English: Distinguish between Irony, Ephemism, and Hyperbole.
7Speech Work: Consonant /s/ and /z/ (sip, zip, store, zebra), this/these, loose/lose

  • Grammar: introduction to punctuation marks
  • Reading and comprehension: Reading to summarize a selected passage
  • Composition: Narrative Essay – My Last Birthday
  • Literature – In – English: Summary of recommended prose text.
8Speech Work: Consonant Sound /k/ and /g/ (cup/gulp, chaos/alligator)

  • Grammar: Punctuation marks – The full stop and The comma.
  • Reading and Comprehension: Reading to identify the main and supporting ideas in a selected passage
  • Composition: Write a story: The Meeting
  • Literature – in – English: Summary of the recommended text.
9.Speech Work: Consonant /m/, /n/, /⌡/ (man, many, singer, anchor)

  • Grammar: punctuation Marks continued. The question mark, the colon, and the semi-colon marks
  • Reading and Comprehension: As in week 8
  • Composition: Review the types of letters and essays
  • Literature – In – English: Reviews the literary terms
10REVISION
11 – 12EXAMINATION

 WEEK ONE
RIVISION OF LAST TERM WORK

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