{"id":1902,"date":"2023-10-02T07:09:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T07:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ecole9ja\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2023-10-02T07:10:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T07:10:23","slug":"week-11-ss1-first-term-english-language-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/posts\/week-11-ss1-first-term-english-language-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 11 – SS1 First Term English Language Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0WEEK ELEVEN \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/strong>TOPICS: ESSAY WRITING: INFORMAL LETTER- “A LETTER TO THE SISTER WHO PLANS TO DIVORCE HER HUSBAND ADVISING HER AGAINST THE DECISION”
\n<\/strong>STRUCTURE: DEFINITE AND INDEFINITE ARTICLES
\n<\/strong>SPEECH WORK: MORE ON CONSONANTS.
\n<\/strong>
\n\u00a0A. ESSAY WRITING: INFORMAL LETTER
\n<\/strong>Content
\n<\/strong>Definition <\/strong>
\n\t\tFeatures
\n<\/strong>Informal letters are private or personal letters. They are letters we write to people who are very familiar to us such as our parents, relatives, friends, classmates and other people with whom we have close relationship.<\/p>\n

\u00a0FEATURES OF AN INFORMAL LETTER
\n<\/strong>Writer’s address
\nSalutation e.g. first name as in
\n‘Dear Peter’,Dear Chike’,
\n‘Dear Kemi’, Dear Father or you include “My”
\n“d” must be small when “My” is included e.g. My dear Mother
\n Introduction
\nIt is best to start with acknowledging the receipt of a letter written to you by the person. You may also start by asking after the person’s health or any other way you like.
\nBody of the letter: Do exactly what the questions says you should do to earn more marks.
\nSubscript: Informal letters close with “Yours sincerely”. However, a few other forms are accepted such as “Yours affectionately”, “Your loving daughter, “With love from” e.t.c. These are usually written at the bottom right hand of the page. No signature is required. Write your first name and put a full stop like this:
\n Yours sincerely,
\n Audu.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Yours ever,
\n Lizzy
\nor Yours affectionately,
\n Andrew Scott
\nEVALUATION
\n<\/strong>Write a letter to your sister who plans to divorce her husband advising her against the decision.<\/p>\n

\u00a0READING ASSIGNMENT
\n<\/strong>Page 70-72 of Countdown by Evans<\/p>\n

\u00a0B. STRUCTURE: DEFINITE AND INDEFINITE ARTICLES
\n<\/strong>CONTENT<\/strong>
\n\t\tDefinite Articles
\nIndefinite Articles
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0TYPES OF ARTICLES
\n<\/strong>Articles can be definite or indefinite
\n<\/strong>
\n\u00a0INDEFINITE ARTICLES<\/strong>
\n\t\t“A” and “AN” are indefinite articles and are used to indicate indefinite references to a noun. While “a” is used before a word starting with consonant sound such as boy, goat, house, hoe, elephant, aeroplane etc. NOTE that the following words begin in consonant sound despite having vowel letters starting them. They must therefore attract article ‘A’, e.g Europe as in A European man, University as in A university. Others include: Eucharist, Eunuch, unit, union, uniform etc,
\n “an” is used before words that start with vowel sounds.
\nExamples: an egg, an apple, an orange.
\nNOTE that the following words have silent ‘h’ and they must attract article ‘an’. E.g an hour, an honest, an honour. But words like house, home, hoe, etc attract article ‘a’ because they do not have silent sound ‘h’, e.g, a house, a hoe, etc.
\nDEFINITE ARTICLE “the”
\nThis refers to particular person or thing (i.e. a definite reference)
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0How the definite and indefinite articles are used<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n
Noun type<\/td>\nIndefinite reference <\/td>\nDefinite reference <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Singular count noun <\/td>\nA desk <\/td>\nThe \u2013 the desk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Plural count noun
\nNon-count noun<\/td>\n		Some \u2013 some books
\nSome water
\nWater<\/td>\n		The \u2013 the books
\nThe \u2013 the water<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

All nouns use “the as the word that makes definite reference. So, “the” is definite article making reference. <\/p>\n

\u00a0Uses of the definite article “the<\/strong>”
\nWhen there is only one of the things being referred to<\/strong>– the sun,
\n\t\t\tthe moon,
\n\t\t\tthe wind,
\n\t\t\tthe rainfall.
\n\t\tWhen the hearer or the reader is able to know which particular thing or things are being referred to:
\nGive me the bag under the bed.
\n(Both the bag and the bed are already known to the speaker and the listener) <\/p>\n

\t\t\tThe letter in the envelope.
\n‘The’ is also used before the title of a newspaper. E.g The Punch, The Nation etc.
\n(Both the letter and the envelope are also known) <\/p>\n

\u00a0Descriptive Use<\/strong>
\n\t\tHere the definite article describes a noun.
\nThe accused was acquitted for want of evidence.
\nShe has the courage of Esther.<\/p>\n

\t\tGeneric Use
\n\t\t\t<\/strong>Here<\/strong>, the definite article is used to refer to what is normal or typical for a member of a class.
\nThe banana is found mainly in the Southern Nigeria.
\nThe tiger is a very ferocious animal.
\nIt is used before the noun that indicates that there can be only one such thing or group of things.
\nThe Soviet Union
\nThe Principal
\nThe Minister of Education <\/p>\n

\u00a0EVALUATION
\n<\/strong>Fill in the gap with the correct article
\n________ European woman was here before
\nI know that _______rich also cry.
\nI desire to become _______ heir of God’s kingdom.
\nJoseph dreamt that ______ sun, ____ moon and ____ star bowed to him.
\nReading Assignment
\nThe articles(determiners). Complete English Course for Senior Secondary School page 216<\/p>\n

\u00a0C. SPEECH WORK: MORE ON CONSONANTS
\n<\/strong>CONTENT: CONSONANTS \/b\/, \/d\/, \/f\/, \/g\/, \/dz\/, \/h\/, \/k\/<\/strong>
\n\t\t\/b\/voiced bilabial plosive \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\nSpelling variants and word examples are
\n“b” \u2013baby, bank, break, barber, lab, embark,
\n“bb” \u2013 rubber, robber, babble, e.t.c.
\n\/p\/- voiceless bilabial plosive
\nSpelling variants and words examples:
\n“p” \u2013 pain, people, leap, leper, emperor
\n“gh” \u2013 hiccough
\n\/f\/ -voiceless labio dental fricative:
\nSpelling variants and words examples are:
\n“f” \u2013 form, frog, faith, fruit, proof, soft
\n“ff” \u2013 cliff, stuff, sniff, cuff, huff,
\n“gh” \u2013 rough, tough, cough, enough,
\n“ph” \u2013 physics, physical, Philip, phantom
\n“v” \u2013 Gorbachev, Volkswagen
\n\/g\/- voiced velar plosive
\nSpelling variants and words examples are:
\n“g” \u2013 goat, gun, bag, vogue, vigour, garnish, goose, gamble, group,
\n“gg” \u2013 haggle, baggage, baggy, struggle, bigger, shaggy
\n“gh” \u2013 ghost, aghast, getto, ghoul
\n\/dz\/
\nSpelling variants and words examples are:
\n“j” \u2013 jug, junior, Jew
\n“ge”- germinate, damage, badge, germ
\n“gi”- ginger, giant, giraffe, gigantic
\n“gy” \u2013 technology, archaeology, gym
\n“du” \u2013 educate, graduate, gradual, due
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0\/h\/ _ voiceless glottal fricative
\nSpelling variants and word examples are
\n“h” \u2013 hope, horse, holy, perhaps, hunger
\n“wh” \u2013 whole, wholly, who, whose,
\n\u00a0
\n\u00a0EVALUATION
\n<\/strong>Pick out the odd items from the list of words from options A-D
\n(a) gentle (b) educate (c) jug (d) gear
\n(a) hope (b) whole (c) perhaps (d) honour
\n(a) gift (b) beggar (c) ghetto (d) germ
\n(a) barber (b) blood (c) blue (d) plumber
\n(a) junior (b) geography (c) government (d) gradual
\nReading Assignment
\n\/v\/, \/ \u03b8<\/strong> \/, \/\u00f0\/, \/n\/, \/t\/, \/d\/ on page 2-4 of Standard Speech 10 Book Diction in English Course:<\/p>\n

\u00a0GENERAL EVALUATION\/ REVISION QUESTIONS:
\n<\/strong>From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that best completes each of the following sentences.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \n
    The patient has been ———— for several years. (a) bed-ridden (b) detained (c) diagnosed (d) examined (e) recommended\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  2. \n
    The trader ——- his income by repairing sewing machines. (a) added (b) integrated (c) replenished (d) supplemented (e)terminated\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  3. \n
    Dauda is said to be serving a two year ——– for rape. (a) conviction (b) penalty (c) punishment d. sentence e. verdict\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  4. \n
    He won the election by a ——- of 500 votes. (a) consensus (b) gap (c) majority (d) margin (e) surplus\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  5. \n
    The Governor paid a ——– call on the Oba. (a) courtesy (b) crank (c) farewell (d)\n<\/div>\n

    roll (e) wake up\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00a0WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT
    \n<\/strong>Choose the right option:
    \n1. I stayed with my cousin, the one ____husband is an engineer (a) who’s (b) whose (c) which
    \n2. You can’t give alms ____ you have something to give(a) unless (b) while (c) if
    \n3. I asked him how his promotion had come ____ (a) around (b) about (c) to
    \n4. It isn’t easy to succeed in becoming an airline pilot, but I am sure you will ___ in the end. (a) make best (b) make do (c) make it
    \n5. You fill the application form so that ____ there is a vacancy, they will let you know (a) if and when (b) although (c) only when<\/p>\n

    \u00a0(ii) Choose the alternative nearest in meaning<\/strong>
    \n\t\t1. Her parents have endorsed her marriage to the widower (a) criticized (b) refused (c) approval
    \n2. Corporal punishment is still used in some schools as deterrent to indisciplined students (a) discouragement (b) prevention (c) measure
    \n3. A reasonable man will never refuse to review his actions if it becomes necessary (a) re-examine (b) recapitulate (c) inspect <\/p>\n

    \u00a0(iii) Choose one of the following each expression to fill the blank provided<\/strong>:
    \n1. I will send a _____ to you (letter, mail)
    \n2. The girl was given a ____ for her attitude (blame, rebuke)
    \n3. She asked me to come for a (meal, lunch)
    \n3. We experienced a terrible ___ this season ( harvest, weather)
    \n4. She played a _____on me (fun, joke)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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