Week 3 – Jss 2 Second Term English Studies Lesson Notes

WEEK Three
TOPIC: SPEECH WORK: Intonation / Stress
SUB – TOPIC: Making Statement, giving command and asking questions, using different intonation pattern.
INTRODUCTION: Intonation is another feature of speech which affect the understanding of a message. It is the rise and fall of the voice in speech (or the variation in pitch). Intonation explains the attitude or mood of the speaker to his audience. Whichever mode the speaker is when speaking, intonation changes the level of pitch (how high or low the voice is) that makes speech interesting.
A. Making statement giving Command

1. Close the door at once! (↘)
2. Get out here (↘)
3. Don’t touch the broom! (↘)

   COMMANDS

Making Statements

1. Deborah is a beautiful girl (↘)
2. The student are working hard (↘)
3. The people at the meeting stole the car (↘)

Asking Questions

1. Why did you come here? (↘)
2. Whose book is this? (↘)
3. How did you get there? (↘)
4. What is your name? (↘)
5. Who is your mother? (↘)
6. Is this your book? (↗)

 Assignment
Using statement, command and question pattern to write five sentences that sho a fallen tune.

 
 
 LESSON TWO: GRAMMAR
TOPIC: Regular and Irregular Verbs
Regular Verbs: are verbs which form their past tense and past participle with ‘ed’. Examples are:
PRESENT TENSE        PAST TENSE            PAST PARTICIPLE

1. Wed            Wedded            Wedded
2. Close             Closed                 Closed
3. Hang             Hanged             Hanged/hung
4. Play             Played                 Played
5. Call            Called                Called
6. Bleed             Bled                 Bled
7. Dictate         Dictated             Dictated

Irregular Verbs: Verbs which do not add ‘ed’ to form their past tense and past participle. Examples:
PRESENT TENSE         PAST TENSE            PAST PARTICIPLE

1. Am, are, is         was, were             been
2. Broadcast         broadcast            broadcast
3. Cut             cut                cut
4. Grow             grew                grown
5. Catch             caught                 caught

 Assignment
Pick out regular anf irregular verb from the following words using tabular form

1. Open
2. Take
3. Walk
4. Sit
5. Dance
6. Drive
7. Shut
8. Strike
9. Attack
10. Flow
11. Cut
12. Lie
13. Know
14. Ring
15. Hide
16. Wash
17. Fall
18. Show
19. Climb
20. Kick

 LESSON THREE: READING AND COMPREHENSION
TOPIC: TECHNIQUES OF SPEED READING

1. Surveying
2. Scanning
3. Skimming

1. SURVEYING: This talks about text, (title, author, date etc) and skimming and scanning are essential academic reading skills for you and for native English speakers too, who also need to develop this skills.
2. SCANNING: When you scan a text, you are looking through it quickly to find keywords or information. After scanning a text, you should know if it has references to things you want to know about.
3. SKIMMING: This is looking quickly through a text to gain a general impression of what it is about. You can often do this by reading on the title and sub-titles of a text, and the first sentence of reading without using a dictionary.
LESSON FOUR: INFORMAL LETTER (CONTINUED)
TITLE: Letter to a friend about your school Inter – house Sport.
                                    7, Adesanya Street,
                                    Ile – Epo,
                                    Oke – Odo,
                                    Lagos.
                                    13^th May, 2015.
Dear Ade,
    It is a pleasure writing to you at this time. How are you and your studies? Hope all is well over there in Abuja? Bola called and suggested that we should all meet during this coming festive period.
    The purpose of writing is to inform you about my school recent inter-house sport which came up on 12^th April, 2015 at Oke – Odo school field. It was coloured and eventful.
    At exactly 10:00am, we all matched to the field accompanied by two big horses and the “Bridgade boys” with their steady inviting musical instrument which attracts the attention of the passers-by.
    The programme commenced immediately with prayer, recitation of national anthem and the school anthem, followed by colourful match pass by different houses with different displays to attract winning in the end.                
    In addition, students from different house’s run such as: relay race, 200m race, 1,200k race, high jump, throwing of javelin etc.
    There are companies who sponsored the programme such as: Milo, Indomie Noodles, Sky bank plc, Mtn, Nestle Castle etc. There are other activities that time will not permits me to explain all.
    In all, yellow house came first followed by Red house, then green and finally blue. As I have said earlier on, it was a great fun and very eventful. I believe you will like to witness the next one. Till the festive time, remain great.
                                Yours sincerely,
                                Moses.

 
 Assignment
Write a letter to your friend telling him/her five good interesting things about your school.

 
 LESSON FIVE: LITERATURE – IN – ENGLISH
Use of recommended text on Drama (Dangerous Rewards)

1. Theme
2. Plot