Week 1 – SS2 Third Term English Language Notes

THIRD TERM E-LEARNING NOTE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
WEEK    TOPIC

1. Revision of the Last Term’s Examination Questions, Resumption Test,

   Revision of Tenses in Grammar
   Narrative: My Holiday Experience

2. Conditional Clauses; Complex Sentence

   Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Publishing
   Essay Writing: Speech Writing, Meaning and Features

3. Speech Work: Stress Patterns

   Structure: Active and Passive Voice
   Vocabulary Development: Prefixes
   Essay Writing: Article Writing; Explanation and Features

4. Structure: Prepositional Phrase

   Vocabulary Development: The Use of Dictionary
   Grammar: Rules of Concord
   Comprehension: Bullying (pg 84, Countdown English)

5. Speech Work: Stress Placement on Two or More Syllable Words

   Essay writing: Story Writing
   Comprehension: Reading for the Writer’s purpose
   Vocabulary Development: A Manufacturing Industry

6. Summary writing: Agriculture Technical Aid to Africa p.85

   Structure: Adjectival Clause
   Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Films and TV

7. Speech Work: Vowels /I/ & /I:/

   Essay Writing: Expository: Raising a Total Child
   Comprehension: Reading to Identify Sentence Types in a Passage
   Structure: Adverbs

8. Vocabulary Development: Hotel & Catering

   Summary Writing: Summarising to get Implied Meaning
   Structure: Prepositional Phrases

9. Comprehension: African Plucked Lutes

   Structure: Idioms
   Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Politics and Government
   Writing: Essay Writing; Descriptive Essay: A Festival I Like.

10. Structure: Affixation: Suffixes

    Speech Work: Nasal Sounds (/m/ /n/ and /h/)
    Comprehension/Register: Vocabulary Associated with Transportation

11. Structure: Clauses- Subordinate and Insubordinate

    Speech work: Stress on the 5th and 6th syllable
    Comprehension: Reading for Implied Meaning and Interpreting Examples

12. Revision
13. Examination

     

REFERENCES
1.     Montgomery et al: Effective English for S.S 2 (Main Textbook) Evans PublishersIbadan.
2.     Ogunsanwo et al: Countdown to SSCE Evans Publishers Ibadan.
3.     Onuigbo S.M: Oral English for Schools and Colleges Africana Publishers,Enugu.
4. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 5.WAEC Past Questions.

 
 WEEK ONE
TOPIC:

1. Revision of the Last Term’s Examination Questions, Resumption test,
   
2. Revision of Tenses in Grammar
   
3. Narrative: My Holiday Experience
   

1. REVISION OF LAST TERM’S EXAMINATION
   
2. Grammar: Tenses
   

   Tense is a term which applies to verbs, and it is used to indicate the time of an action: past, present, future tense. These are the basic categories of tenses we have in English.

    The Past Tense – is used to express a past action. This is indicated in most verbs by adding ‘ed’ or ‘d’ to them. This type of verbs are called the regular verbs.
   Example of such verbs are: voted, waited, counted, preached, visited, cured, answered, elected, abrogated, punched, perfected etc. verbs which do not take ‘ed’ or ‘d’ to form their past are called irregular verbs e.g. built, threw, said, paid wore, sent, swam, set, cast, ran, wrote etc.

    The Present Tense – is used to express the current time i.e. now. This tense could be singular or plural and it must agree with the subject in a sentence.
   Examples are vote, wait, say, count, preach, elect, answer(v), remove, empower, tolerate, activate etc.

    The Future Tense –This is done by putting an auxiliary before the verb and so on. Examples are as follows.

   1. Will + go e.g. I will go tomorrow.
   2. Shall + visit e.g. I shall visit you next week
   3. Be + going e.g. I am travelling next year.
   4. Be + -ing verb e.g. She is coming next month
   5. Be + about to + verb e.g. Theyare about to start the lecture.
   6. ‘s’ i.e. progressive form of verbs e.g. the bus leaves tonight.

 EVALUATION
Write out the past tense of the following verbs: fly, cast, let, burn, lose, read, swim, call, bathe, lay, lie, sting, tie, fling

 READING ASSIGNMENT
Pg. 232 Countdown English

1. Narrative: My Holiday Experience
   

   Features
   

• As a narrative, use the past tense
• Arrange your events one after the other
• Use connectors/transitional expressions
• Raise suspense
• Describe people, places and events.
• Use figurative language, proverbs or idioms.

 Outline

• Write your title boldly in capital letters (preferably)
• Your introduction should be interesting
• Indicate when the holidays started
• Describe how you had felt at the prospect of a holiday.
• Mention where and with whom you spent the holiday.
• Disclose what happened and your reactions
• Mention the interesting parts and annoying ones.
• Reveal the lessons learnt.

 EVALUATION
Write the essay outlined above.

 READING ASSIGNMENT
Pg. 87 Effective English

 GENERAL EVALUATION QUESTIONS
Mention the three types of tenses and list the six ways of expressing future tense with examples.

 WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT
SECTION A
Choose the word that contains the given phonetic symbol
1.    /e/    (a)    net        (b)    they    (c)    eke    (d)    wanted
2.    /I/    (a)    heel        (b)    sit    (c)    high    (d)    bite
3.    /I:/    (a)    say        (b)    seize    (c)    kill    (d)    ill
4.    /Z/    (a)    cars        (b)    loose    (c)    cease    (d)    lace
5.    /٨/    (a)    cough        (b)    lock    (c)    clerk    (d)    tough

 SECTION B
Test for Continuous Assessment Effective English 2 (A: 1 – 10), pg 45 .