Week 7 – Jss 1 Second Term English Studies Lesson Notes

 WEEK 7
Topic: Speech work: Contrasting Vowel /e/ and /Ʒ:/

1. To pronounce vowel /e/, the front of the tongue is raised a little from the floor of the mouth. It is also pushed a little to the front. The tip of the tongue touches the lower teeth. Read out the following sentences – note the underlined letters.
   1. He said “let us go home”
   2. My elder brother is the new treasurer
   3. Lanre met his friend at the railway station
2. To pronounce vowel /Ʒ:/, like vowel /^/, the centre of the tongue is raised but the mouth is not as wide open, and /Ʒ:/ is a long vowel.

   Read out the following sentences and note the underlined letters (in those words:

   1. This shirt on me in new
   2. In a hospital, you will see doctors and nurses at work
   3. The early bird catches the worm

 EVALUATION: Make your own sentences with these words: next, debt, spread, bet, guess

 ASSIGNMENT: Transcribe the following words: (i) nurse (ii) hurt (iii) burst (iv) heard (v) worm

 TOPIC: Grammar: Making sentences with future Tense – will and shall.
The future tense is used for an action which is about to take place. It is formed by using shall or will and a simple.
Present tense – for example:

1. They will work hard next week
2. She will sell bread in the evening
3. I shall eat rice tomorrow

Aside will and shall – we also make use of ” be going to” to express a future action e.g.

1. You were going to meet Lanre tonight
2. Are you going to meet Lanre tonight?

 EVALUATION:
Use the following to construct sentences in the futures tense:
(i) Will (ii) Be going to (iii) Shall

 ASSIGNMENT
Explain the following tense forms using your own words.
(i) Future tense (2) past continuous tense

 TOPIC: Vocabulary Development – Prefixes
A prefix is a letter or groups of letter added in front of another word to change its meaning e.. anti + body = antibody, ex + president = expresidetn
Suffix is a letter or group of letter added at the end of the word. E.g. Use +less = useless, punish + ment = punishment

     Prefix        meaning        examples

1. A-        on            afloat, ashore
2. Ab-        away, from        absolve, abnormal
3. Mal-        bad            malnutrition, mal administration
4. Post-        after            post war, post natal

   Suffix        meaning        examples

5. Er-        these are suffixes    teacher, friendship
6. Or-        that turn words    surveyor, goodness
7. Ship-        into a noun        Materialism e.t.c
8. Ism-

 EVALUATION: Generate words with the following prefixes –”bi”, “super”, “tele”, “inter”, “re”, sub”.

 ASSIGNMENT
Generate more words while giving their meaning (s) with the following suffixes (a) “-ful” (b) “-ic” (c) “-ous” (d) “-ise” (e) “-ed”

 TOPIC: Literature (Drama Text Zunju and Uchenna by pierce Meunier
Zumji and Uchenna is an exciting play which ends in tragedy. It is the story of tow passionate lovers from the ethnic divide whose marriage plan was disallowed on tribal grounds. When the undaunted due eventually in the epic battle and are joined in wedlock, the celebration of victory is brutally scuttled by some demented lovers whose thirst for vengeance result in a harvest of death.

 EVALUATION:
Explain the roles of two of your favourite characters in the play – Zumji and Uchenna.

 ASSIGNMENT:
Summarize Act 2 Scene 1 of the drama presentation.