WEEK THREE (3)
TOPIC: REVIEW OF SENTENCE INTONATION PATTERN
Introduction:
Intonation is another feature of speech which affect the understanding of a message. This is the rise and fall of the voice in speech (or the vanation) in pitch intonation convey the attitude or mood of the speaker to his audience.
Intonation is the change in the level of pitch (how high or low the voice is) make speech interesting.
The two basic pattern of intonation is the falling tune and the rising tune, using up and down for indication. Example
Statement
– The ‘student are’ working’ hard’ ( )
– Bola will be ‘here’ ‘anytime’ ( )
– ‘Rose is a ‘beautiful girl ( )
The people in the ‘office ‘stole the car ( )
Incomplete Sentence
‘when she ‘comes to school……( )
‘if I were ‘you……..( )
Just as the man arrived ( )
Command or Order;
‘Get out of here! ( )
‘Open the ‘door at ‘once! ( )
‘Don’t touch the food! ( )
‘Be careful! ( )
Yes/No Question
Is this your bag? ( )
Did you see them? ( )
Is the story true? ( )
WEEK THREE (3)
TOPIC: REVIEW OF ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY
An Argumentative Essay is the one that demands that the student should carefully consider an issue which has two sides to it and prove that one side has more merit than the other. It is like a debate in which you have two-sided topic and you have to decide that the other. Argumentative topic demand ones
( i) to prove a point
(ii) Express an opinion
(iii) Strike a balance between two side of an issue.
Types of Argumentative Essay.
There are three broad types of Argumentative Essay. What is common to all of them is that they all have two sides to them, which may not be too glaring at first
(a) Those that require one proving point- this require a lot of think and require a lot of think and generally proved on what one’s belief.
(b) Those that require you & Express your Opinion on an issue. This is the type of issue in which you should discuss both sides and end by indicating which one and you consider to be the best. Here are examples:
(i) Has Science helped man to lead a better, happier life?
(ii) Ane we happier than our fore father?
C. Those that require you to consider both side and judge.
These are topic that require one to examine the two side and like a judge, say which side has won. The topic specifically say you should consider both side criticallty
LESSON FOUR
WEEK THREE (6)
TOPIC: PART OF SPEECH (CONT’D)
ADVERB, CONJUCTION, PROPOSITION
1. ADVERB: These are used to modify a verb or an adverb in a sentence. Example: sadly, quietly, strongly, fairly, quickly, carefully, wisely, godly etc.
(i) The children acts carefully
(ii) The teacher speaks wisely
(iii) She answered her mother quickly
2. CONJUCTIION: These are words use in joining two or more word together to give a correct meaning. E.g. and, but, so, also, although, such as, so, because etc. Example in sentence form
(i) Bola and Kunle arrived late to the party.
(ii) I love to be at the party but my father hindered me.
3. PREPOSITIONS: These are words that show relationship between two words such as noun and pronoun E.g. into, between, behind, before, under, on below, after, across, etc.
(i) My father travels across the sea.
(ii) The Cat is under the table
(iii) The book is on the Shelf
LESSON THREE
TOPIC: WRITING AN OUTLINE
A Journey to my home Town.
INTRODUCTION
(i) A definition of key word (Journey)
(ii) The set time and place for the Journey. The Body
(iii) The purpose for the Journey.
(iv) Experience acquired during the Journey.
(v) Thing that interest you most in the Journey.
(vi) Reason why you will love to embark on such Journey again. The Conclusion
NOTE: The teacher will guide the student into proper writing.
LESSON FOUR
TOPIC: LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH
The recommended text is use as characterization is considered. i.e. Note on characterization.
WEEK THREE (7)
TOPIC: SPEECH WORK:/CI/ DIPHTHONG
DIPHTHONG /CI/
To articulate this /ci/, the tongue glide begins from the back toward the front and the lips which are rounded gradually become spread toward /i/. there are two spelling symbol for diphthong /ci/’
“oi” as in boli”
“oy” as in boy
Contrast between /c:/ and /ci
/c:/ /ci/
Corn Coin
Ball Boil
Call Coil
Tore toy
Jaw Joy
Lawn Loin
This diphthong a gradual glide toward /i/ as the vowel quality changes
LESSON TWO
TOPIC: COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVE
Adjective have three degree of comparison namely: Positive, Comparative and Superlative.
1. POSITIVE: It is used when describing object. Example: She has a long ruler.
(ii) Ajide has a small bag
(iii) Mr Obiora is a big man.
2. COMPARATIVE: It is form by adding ‘er’ to the positive. We can use comparative when comparing two things or person. Example
(i) Peter is taller than John.
(ii) This bag is bigger than James bag
(iii) Bunmi is more beautiful than her sister.
3. SUPERLATIVE: It is formed when three or more things or person compared and this is done by adding ‘est’ to the positive. Example
(i) He is the tallest boy in the Class
(ii) Emeka is the most generous man in Abuja.
(iii) Kemi hair is the longest among the girls.
Adjective can still be compared through the following ways. Add er and est tothe simple adjective to form the comparative and superlative.
POSITIVE COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE
Tall taller tallest
Big Bigger Biggest
Thin Thinner Thinnest
Rich Richer Richest
Long Longer Longest
Old Older Oldest
Fast Faster Fastest
Deepest Deeper Deepest
LESSON FOUR
NARATIVE ESSAY
TOPIC: WHAT I DO EVERYDAY
I work up every day by 6:00am to pray, and read my bible. After which I joined my mummy in the kitchen to assist her.
At exactly 6:45am, I have my bath, get prepared for school and have my breakfast at exactly 7:00am.
By 7:15am, I walk to school since my school is very clos to my house. At School I studied hard, listened to my teachers and wtite all my note and answer my assignment at home.
………………………………At exactly 9:00om I go to bed. This is what I do every day.
LESSON ONE
WEEK THREE (3)
Title: VOWEL SOUND – A Diphthong /ie/ Listening and speaking skill
DIPHTHONG /ie/
Diphthong is a “double sound” vowels because the articulation involves a glide from one vowel quality to the other. A diphthong is therefore, a vowel which change its qualify in the process of its articulation e.g ‘boy’ starts with /b/ and ends with /i/. So the shape of the lip changes from “rounded” to “spread”. In English and the phonetics, there are eight diphthong /ei, 2U, eU, eU, ci, i2, e2, U2/
/i2/_When one pronounce the word ‘here, the shape of the lips remains neutral from the beginning of the articulation of the diphthong to the end, while the glide begin with a tongue position for /i/ and moves in the direction of /e/. The spelling symbols for /ie/ are listed below:
“ere” as in here
“ear” as in hear
“eer” as in beer
“eir” as in weird
Note: Find out more on these sign symbols.
LESSON TWO
STRUCTURE (GRAMMAR)
TOPIC: QUESTION TAGS
These are phrases in question form which are asked at the end of statement. For example He is going to school, isn’t he ? He is going to school is a statement while isn’t he? Is the question tag. Question tags are also called question phrases. Auxiliary verbs are usually use in question tags.
Note the following steps in constructing question tags
1. If the statement is affirmative (positive), the question tag is negative.
2. If the statement is negative, the question is affirmative.
3. The tense of the verb in the statement should be used in the question tag.
4. Pronouns are used in question tags instead of nouns.
An affirmation statement is the one without “not” while a negative statement is the one with “not”
Affirmative statement with negative question tags.
a. She goes to school, doesn’t she?
b. He has gone to school, didn’t he?
c. He has gone to church, hasn’t he?
d. They will go school, won’t they?
Affirmative Auxiliary Verbs turned into negative
Shall – Shan’t
Can – Can’t
Must – Mustn’t
Could – Couldn’t
Might – Mightn’t
Should – Shouldn’t
Are – Aren’t
Were – Weren’t
Ought – Oughtn’t
Negative Statement with affirmative question tags
(i) He is not going, is he?
(ii) He does not go, does he?
(iii) He didn’t go, did he?
(iv) She hasn’t gone, has she?
(v) They won’t go, will they?
LESSON TWO
COMPOSITION
TOPIC: AN INFORMAL, AND FORMAL LETTER
1. Formal letter is refers to letter to the press, business, request for casual leave by staff in offices, an offices, an application for a job. It is also refer to as a letter written to people who are not too close to us.
THE FEATURES OF FORMAL LETTER
(i) The Address
(ii) Salutation (greeting)
(iii) The Introduction
(iv) The body of the Letter
(v) Conclusion
(vi) Subscription
(vii) Signature and name
(viii) The recipient address
THE INFORMAL LETTER
Informal letter refer to the letter we write to our friend and relation e.g brother, sister, parent, son, daughter, husband etc.
Features of informal letter
1. Writer address
2. Salutation (greeting)
3. Introduction
4. The body of the letter
5. Conclusion
6. Subscription. E.g Your Sincerely,
Hellen
LESSON THREE
LITERATURE: TYPE OF DRAMA
1. Tragedy: This is a play or dram which is usually ends in Catastrophe or sadness that is an unfortunate find incident, especially the death of a hero.
2. Comedy: This is generally an amusing play, without a complicated plot structure and a happy ending.
3. Tragic Comedy: This is a mixed plot of sad and funny (happy) part just as the name suggest.
4. Farce: this is the play that is meant to make the audience laugh.
5. Pantomome: This is a dram involving action like gesture, mimicry, dancing etc without making speech.