Week 8 – SS1 Third Term English Language Notes

 WEEK EIGHT
Comprehension: Summarising in a specified number of sentences .
Speech Work: Intonation for simple polite rquest, simple greetings that attract quick response
Structure: Functions of Comparatives

 A: Comprehension: Summarizing in a specified number of serntences
Content: Guide to summarizing in a specified number of ‘serntences’

1. Learn to identify the main idea or argument of the passage
2. change the order of the material if it is to your own advantage to do so.
3. as much as possible use your own words to answer the question
4. the explanation in your own words must not change or distort the meaning of the passage
5. do not change the original writer’s facts by wrong choice of words
6. answer to summary question must be as shrot as possible and as clear as possible.
7. your answers must be written out in sentences and nto phrases.
8. Do not answer in forms of paragraph each answer must be properly numbered and must appear on a separate live
9. Do not join two points in one sentences
10. Its expedient for you to know that brevity is the essence of summary writing.

 EVALUATION
Read the summary passage on pg 29-30 of your Effective English and Answer the Summary question under it.

 READING ASSIGNMENT
Summary writing page 102 – 103 of Countdown by Evans

 B: Speech Work: Intonation
Content: Simple polite requests
Simple greetings that attracts quick response

 Simple Polite Requests
A stressed syllable is indicated with a dash while an unstressed one is marked by a dot; a downward curve (,) shows a fall in voice, an upward ( ) points to a rise.
A request gives a rising intonation e.g
May I see your passport please
Let me come in
Come here
Get out of the room
May I sit down
I would like to meet your friend
Could I have a look at those pictures
Simple Greetings That Attracts Quick Response
Good morning Res- Morning
Well done

 EVALUATION
Study the conversation in practice 2 page 25 of your Effective English and answer the question in practice 3.

 C: Functions of Comparatives
Content
Meaning
Functions
Comparative is the second degree of comparison of adjectives. In the comparative we have the ‘er’ ending added to the plain ( positive ) word which means more so. E.g
Big bigger
The ‘est’ is the superlative which means more so than anything else.

 Functions of comparative

• It expresses a higher degree of the quality
• It compares two things e.g.

1. Tope is stronger than Caleb
2. Our team is more popular than yours.

Regular Comparative : Adding ‘er’
Positive            comparative
Poor                poorer
Tall                taller
Fat                fatter
Big                bigger
Short                shorter
Cold                colder.

 Add ‘more’

     Positive         Comparative
    Expensive        more expensive
    Important         more important
    Handsome        more handsome
Decreased degree of quality is usually shown by using less

 Positive        comparative
Strong            stronger
Worthy        less worthy
Fortunate        less fortunate

 Irregular Comparative: it changes the whole word to produce comparative and superlative forms.

 Positive        Comparative
Good            better
Bad            worse
Little            less
Far            farther .
EVALUATION
Write the comparative of the following adjectives: much, well, many, enviable, loyal.
READING ASSIGNMENT
Countdown in English by Evans pag 209 -210

 WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT
Pg 102 of the effective English test 1 & 4