WEEK 4
TOPIC: Speech Work: Contrast of pure vowel /Ɔ/
- Vowel /D/:- Is a short vowel. To pronounce /D/ the tongue is low in the mouth but it is pushed towards the back. The lips from a round shape. E.g. (i) Elliot lost his little dog.
(ii) Put the doll in the baby’s cot
- Vowel /Ɔ/:- to pronounce /Ɔ/, the tongue position and the round shape of the lips are the same as for /D/, but it is a long vowel.
e.g. (i) Boys wear shorts in the boarding-house
(ii) The goalkeeper caught the ball in the air.
Note the following words: Shorts, boarding, caught, ball
EVALUATION: From the following sentence, identify the word(s) that has these vowel sounds in them /D/ and /Ɔ:/
(i) What do you want? (2) He shot at the dog on this spot (3) I wander what Mr. Lot wants (4) Lanre bought four pots at the port
ASSIGNMENT
Construct 5 sentences (each) that have these vowel sounds in them – /D/ and /Ɔ:/
TOPIC: Grammar: The present continuous tense
The present continuous tense is used for an action that is going on now. It is important to note that the action in question is still going on as at the time of reporting in ing.
Look at this table:
Subject Auxiliary verb Main verb
I am Speaking to you
You are reading this
She is not staying in
We are not playing
Is Lanre Watching
I am eating
EVALUATION: Choose the correct answers from the brackets.
- Lanre is clearly (winning, wining, wins) the race
- The sick is (lieing, laying, lying) on the bed
- The man is (rideing, ridding, riding) a horse
- The moon is (shinning, shining, shineing) this night
ASSIGNMENT
Construct 10 (ten) sentences using the present continuous tense.
TOPIC: Composition (Narrative Essay)
A narrative is a recount of past experience or shared experience of the past. In everyday life, we often need to give an account or a report of an event or something that happened in the past, when we do this, we are involved in narration. Note that you make use of the past tense form of verbs a you are reporting an event that has happened. You also make use of the simple and the compound sentence. E.g. i woke` up as early as 4:00am. I completedmy house work by 5:00am and left for school at 7:00am. The underlined words – work, completed, text are in the past tense.
EVLUATION: From your NOSEC – Clip over to page 32 – read the following composition and choose the best words from the boxes to fill up the gaps.
ASSIGNMENT:
Write an essay on the most memorable day of my life. (200 words).
TOPIC: Literature-Drama-Identification of the sentences of Drama.
DEFINITION: Drama is a literacy genre or work, that is meant to be performed on stage by characters. Long stories, which we call novely are divided into chapters. Plays are divided into acts and each act is usually divided into scenes. In every scene, there are two kinds of writings: (i) state directions, which tells us what the characters (= the people in the play). Do (I) speeches, which give us the actual words that say. –Before you act the scene in front of an audience, you must rehearse (i.e. practise) several rehearsals to make sure that every actor moves and speak as well as possible.
EVALUATION: (NOSEC page 181 – 183) – This is a scene from the play “kurunmi” by Ma Rotimi which is based on events in 1858 which led to the war between Ibadan and Ijaiye…. (Act it out in class).
ASSIGNMENT: Explain the following terms:
(i) Enter (ii) Exit (iii) Audience (iv) Part (v) Act (vi) Direct (Vii) Actors/Actres