Week 7 – Jss 1 Third Term English Lesson Notes

WEEK SEVEN

 Topic: THE JOB OF TEACHING

 The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill is known as teaching words Associated with teaching.

1. Education – Knowledge acquired by learning and instruction. Sentence: He received no formal Education
2. Pedagogy – The principles and methods of instruction. Sentence:Pedagogy is recognized as an important profession
3. Extracurricular activity – Educational activities that are not failing within the scope of regular curriculum
4. Curriculum – An integrated course of academic studies. Sentence – He was admitted to a new Curriculum at the university
5. Institution – An organization founded and united for a specific purpose. Sentence: This is an academic institution
6. Course – Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings. Sentence – He took a course in basket weaning
7. Syllables – An integrated course of academic studies. Sentence – He was admitted to a new syllabus at the University
8. Degree Program – A course of study leading to an academic degree (Course at Study)
9. Lecture – Teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class). Sentence (Question) Did you ever lecture (verb) at Harvard?
10. Tutorship – The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor

 SPELLING DRILL         WORDS – SYNONYMS

1. Circumvolve         Discrepancy – imbalance, disparity
2. Dendrochronology        Rampant – common, widespread
3. Pepper – upper         Oblivious – Unaware, unmindful
4. Funambulist            helter – skelter – in a disarray
5. Nonevent            indisputably – unarguably, certainly
6. Cibber             Astute – clever, shrewed
7. Maldemer            Puzzlement – Surprise
8. Anthesis             Thorny – knotty, difficult
9. Amain             Unraveled – cleared, solved
10. Collywobbles         Unwholesome – Negative, harmful

 EVALUATION

1. Write out five words that are associated with the teaching profession
2. Give the correct spellings of these words;
   1. Hostile     – Unfriendly
   2. Worthwhile – Reliable
   3. Vandalized     – Annihilated
   4. Germane     – Relevant
   5. Mundane    – Worldly

       

ASSIGNMENT
Use the following words in sentences
i) Course     ii) Institution    iii) Education     iv) Helter – Shelter     
v) Thorny     vi) Unwholesome