{"id":1892,"date":"2023-10-02T07:07:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T07:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ecole9ja\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2023-10-02T07:10:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T07:10:23","slug":"week-6-ss1-first-term-english-language-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/posts\/week-6-ss1-first-term-english-language-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6 &#8211; SS1 First Term English Language Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<strong>WEEK SIX<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>TOPICS: COMPREHENSION\/ORAL SKILLS: FIGURES OF SPEECH- SIMILE, METAPHOR, IRONY AND PERSONIFICATION<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>ESSAY WRITING: DESCRIPTIVE<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Speech Work: Diphthongs<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<strong>A. COMPREHENSION\/ORAL SKILLS<br \/>\n<\/strong>ADVERTISING: Page 86-87 of the Effective English.<br \/>\nThe passage discusses about two basic objectives advertising, which are: to inform the target audience about the product or service; and to create or stimulate demand for the product or service through persuasion.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Evaluation<br \/>\n<\/strong>Answer the questions below the passage.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<strong>Reading Assignment<br \/>\n<\/strong>Effective English page 85-86.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<strong>B. FIGURES OF SPEECH<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t<strong>Content:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><strong>Meanings<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong>Kinds<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Figures of speech are ways of creating imagery by using figurative language, through which we conjure the picture of two or more things into writing and thereby bringing out very aptly the quantity or idea we are presenting.<br \/>\nExamples:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>SIMILE:<br \/>\n<\/strong>A simile is that figure of speech in which a likeness is definitely or formally expressed. It is introduced by &#8220;like&#8221; &#8220;as&#8221; e.t.c.<br \/>\nExamples<br \/>\nHe runs like a hare<br \/>\nHer cheeks appear as the dawn of day.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>METAPHOR<br \/>\n<\/strong>It is a figure of speech founded on the resemblance. It is also used like simile to create a picture or images of events without using as or like.<br \/>\nExamples<br \/>\nThe general, who is a lion in the field, has seen many wars.<br \/>\nHe is no good at crickets, he has okro fingers. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>PERSONIFICATION<br \/>\n<\/strong>It is the transfer of the quality of human being to animals and inanimate objects.<br \/>\nExamples<br \/>\nLet the floods clap their hands.<br \/>\nConfusion heard his voice.<br \/>\n<strong>IRONY<br \/>\n<\/strong>It is also a device by which a writer expresses a contrary meaning, which appears contrary to the stated or ostensible one.<br \/>\nExamples<br \/>\nCharles is so brilliant that he passed one subject out of his nine papers.<br \/>\nHe is such a good keeper that he conceded ten goals in the first half of the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>RHETORICAL QUESTIONS:<\/strong> This is a kind of question which requires no answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>EVALUATION<br \/>\n<\/strong>Give one example for each of the figures of speech taught.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>READING ASSIGNMENT<br \/>\n<\/strong>Essential Literature in English for SSS page 42-43<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>C. ESSAY WRITING (DESCRIPTIVE)<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>CONTENT<br \/>\n<\/strong>A descriptive essay is the one that requires you to write a description of, for example, an object, a person, an animal, an incident or scene.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0Let us examine how a descriptive essay question like   the following one should be treated.<br \/>\n&#8220;Describe a rainy day you will live to remember<br \/>\n<strong>FORMAT<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\tDescribe the ordinary details of a rain<br \/>\nDescribe the kind of rain it was and how long it lasted<br \/>\nState the effects of the rain: both the comfort which the rain brought and the inconveniences or damages it caused<br \/>\nDo not limit your consideration to the area where you live (urban or rural)<br \/>\nShow great imagination in your description<br \/>\nThe presentation of the essay should be logically arranged. Describe incidents that took place in the morning before moving on to those that followed in the afternoon, then, later in the evening. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>EVALUATION: <\/strong>Write an essay on the title &#8220;A rainy day I will live to remember&#8221;<strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<strong>READING ASSIGNMENT: <\/strong>Page 34 of Effective English<strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<strong>D. SPEECH WORK: DIPHTHONGS<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>CONTENT<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Definition<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\tExamples<br \/>\nWe have eight diphthongs. They are two quality sounds. To realise their sounds, you must glide from the first to the second sound:<br \/>\nThe eight diphthongs are these:<br \/>\n\/ei\/, \/au\/, \/ai\/, \/\u044di\/, \/i\u018f\/, \/e\u018f\/, \/\u03c5\u018f\/<br \/>\n\/ei\/<br \/>\nSpelling variants and words examples are:<br \/>\n&#8220;a&#8221; \u2013 cake, brake, make, lake, plate,<br \/>\n&#8220;ai&#8221; \u2013 braid, sail,<br \/>\n&#8220;ay&#8221; \u2013 May, day<br \/>\n&#8220;au&#8221; \u2013 gauge,<br \/>\n&#8220;ey&#8221; \u2013 they, hey, prey<br \/>\n&#8220;ei&#8221; \u2013 rein, reign, heinous<br \/>\n&#8220;e&#8221; \u2013 ballet, brought, chalet<br \/>\n&#8220;ee&#8221; \u2013 fianc\u00e9e, nee<br \/>\n&#8220;ea&#8221; \u2013 great, break, steak<br \/>\n\/ \u018f\u03c5\/- The long sound for letter &#8220;o&#8221;<br \/>\nAs in:<br \/>\n&#8220;au&#8221; \u2013 chauffeur, faults<br \/>\n&#8220;o&#8221; \u2013 go, rote, note<br \/>\n&#8220;eo&#8221; \u2013 hoe, foe<br \/>\n&#8220;oa&#8221; \u2013 goat, both, road<br \/>\n&#8220;ou&#8221; \u2013 grow, thrown<br \/>\n&#8220;ew&#8221; \u2013 sew, sewn<br \/>\n&#8220;oo&#8221; \u2013 brooch<br \/>\n \/ai\/<br \/>\n&#8220;ai&#8221; \u2013 aisle , naira<br \/>\n&#8220;ei&#8221; \u2013 height, either<br \/>\n&#8220;ey&#8221; \u2013 eye<br \/>\n&#8220;uy&#8221; \u2013 buy, guy<br \/>\n&#8220;ye&#8221; \u2013 bye, dye<br \/>\n&#8220;y&#8221; \u2013 Scythe, by, sky<br \/>\n&#8220;ie&#8221; \u2013 pie, tie, lie, die<br \/>\n\/a\u03c5\/,<br \/>\n&#8220;ou&#8221; \u2013 doubt, count, stout, about,<br \/>\n&#8220;au&#8221; \u2013Nassau<br \/>\n&#8220;ow&#8221; \u2013 how, cow, allow<br \/>\n \/\u0186i\/ as in<br \/>\n&#8220;oi&#8221;- boil, oil, noise<br \/>\n&#8220;oy&#8221; \u2013 boy, employ<br \/>\n&#8220;uoy&#8221; \u2013 buoy, buoyant<br \/>\n \/i\u018f\/ as in<br \/>\n&#8220;e&#8221; \u2013 era, period<br \/>\n&#8220;ea&#8221; \u2013 idea, pear, beard<br \/>\n&#8220;ere&#8221; \u2013 here, mere<br \/>\n&#8220;eer&#8221; \u2013 peer, sheer<br \/>\n&#8220;ier&#8221;-  pier, weir<br \/>\n&#8220;ir&#8221; \u2013 fakir<br \/>\n\/e\u018f\/ &#8211; as in<br \/>\n&#8220;ir&#8221; \u2013 air , fair, hair<br \/>\n&#8220;are&#8221; \u2013 care, fare, dare<br \/>\n&#8220;ear&#8221;- bear, tear, wear<br \/>\n&#8220;ere&#8221;- there, where<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0 \/u\u018f\/ as in<br \/>\n&#8220;u&#8221; \u2013 plural , during<br \/>\n&#8220;ure&#8221; \u2013 pure,  cure, sure<br \/>\n&#8220;our&#8221; \u2013 tour<br \/>\n&#8220;oor&#8221; moor, boor, poor<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<strong>EVALUATION<br \/>\n<\/strong>Write two examples for each of the eight diphthongs <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>READING ASSIGNMENT<br \/>\n<\/strong>Standard Speech Book 10: Diction in English language Course page 16-18.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>GENERAL EVALUATION\/ REVISION QUESTIONS:<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>From  the words lettered A to D, choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0packet\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a. psychology  b. physics  c. pseudonym  d. sparkle<br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0tin<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>a.  thin b. tent  c, then  d. hatch<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0leagues\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a. lick   b. pleasures  c. people  d. learn<br \/>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hunt \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a. hurt  b. hot  c. hoot  d. run<br \/>\n5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0sword  \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0a. word  b. occasion  c. boys  d. pass<strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<strong>WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT: <\/strong>Question 41-60, page 355-357 of Countdown by Evans<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0WEEK SIX TOPICS: COMPREHENSION\/ORAL SKILLS: FIGURES OF SPEECH- SIMILE, METAPHOR, IRONY AND PERSONIFICATION ESSAY&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","category-first-term-ss1-english-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}