{"id":2963,"date":"2023-10-04T08:25:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T08:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ecole9ja\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2023-10-04T08:27:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T08:27:50","slug":"week-9-ss2-first-term-english-language-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/posts\/week-9-ss2-first-term-english-language-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 9 – SS2 First Term English Language Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u00a0ENGLISH LANGUAGE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0WEEK NINE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SS2 <\/strong>
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\n\u00a0TOPIC: COMPREHENSION <\/strong>
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\n\u00a0COMPREHENSION: reading a passage in New oxford secondary English SS2 page 62 unit 9.
\nClass work: answer the comprehension question in unit 9
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Structure: Complex sentences: analysis of complex sentences
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The complex sentence is a combination of the main clause and one or more subordinate caluse(s)
\nEx: I prayed before I left
\nShe came as soon as she heard
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\n\u00a0The analysis of a complex sentence <\/p>\n

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  • Find out the principal clause\n<\/li>\n
  • Find out the subordinate clause\n<\/li>\n
  • Identify each sub \u2013 clause as noun clause, adjective clause and adverb clause\n<\/li>\n
  • Explain how each sub-clause is related to the principal clause\n<\/li>\n
  • And finally analyse both the principle and sub-clause as you analyse a simple sentence\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    \n\u00a0Examples:
    \nBukola told me that she would marry me <\/p>\n

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    1. Bukola told me \u2013 main clause\n<\/li>\n
    2. That she would marry me \u2013 noun clause, object of the verb “told”\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      \n\u00a0When I received my salary I went to Lagos where the zoo was situated. <\/p>\n

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      1. I went to Lagos \u2013 main clause\n<\/li>\n
      2. When I received my salary \u2013 adverb clause of time modifying the verb “went”.\n<\/li>\n
      3. Where the zoo was situated \u2013 adjectival clause, qualify the noun ‘Lagos’\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        I believed that she had married the person whom she had loved <\/p>\n

          \n
        1. I believed \u2013 main clause\n<\/li>\n
        2. That she had married the person \u2013 noun clause object of the verb “believed”\n<\/li>\n
        3. Whom she had loved \u2013 adjectival clause qualify the noun ‘person’\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          \n\u00a0THE ANALYSIS OF A COMPLEX SENTENCE
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          \n\n\n\n\n\n
          THE CLAUSE<\/td>\nKIND OF CLAUSE<\/td>\nCONNECTIVE<\/td>\nSUBJECT WORD + ATTRIBUTE<\/td>\nVERB<\/td>\nOBJECT + ATTRIBUTE<\/td>\nCOMPLEMENT<\/td>\nADVERBIAL QUALIFI
          \nCATION<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
          Bukola told me<\/td>\nPrincipal clause<\/td>\nThat <\/td>\nBukola <\/td>\nTold <\/td>\nMe <\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
          That she would marry me<\/td>\nNoun clause object of the verb “told”<\/td>\nThat <\/td>\nShe <\/td>\nWould marry <\/td>\nMe <\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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          \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
          I went to Lagos<\/td>\nPrincipal clause<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\nI <\/td>\nWent <\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\nTo Lagos<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
          When I received my salary <\/td>\nAdverbial clause of time modifying the verb “went”<\/td>\nWhen <\/td>\nI <\/td>\nReceived <\/td>\nMy salary<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
          Where the zoo was situated <\/td>\nAdjectival clause of time modifying the verb went <\/td>\nWhere <\/td>\nThe zoo<\/td>\nWas situated<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
          I believed <\/td>\nPrincipal clause<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\nI<\/td>\nBelieved <\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
          That she had married the person<\/td>\nNoun clause object of the verb “believed”<\/td>\nThat <\/td>\nShe<\/td>\nHad married<\/td>\nThe person<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
          Whom she loved <\/td>\nAdjective clause qualifying the noun “person”<\/td>\nWhom <\/td>\nShe<\/td>\nHad loved <\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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          \n\u00a0WEEK NINE
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          \n\u00a0TOPIC: SPEECH WORK: SYLLABLE
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          \n\u00a0Syllable is a unit of sound composed if a central peak of sonority (usually a vowel) and the consonants that cluster around this central peak.
          \nA syllable is also that part of a word, which is said with one breath or pulse. It is the smallest unit of speech, which can be pronounced at once. It usually contains one vowel and some consonants e.g. in ‘baby’ there are two syllables, each containing a consonant and a vowel \/beil\/ and \/bi\/.
          \nWords and syllables
          \nWords may be classified in the bars of the number of syllables they have. It could be one syllable, two or more than two syllables. There are three (3) categories of syllables namely.
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          \n\u00a0Monosyllable Words: words that are made up of one syllable. Every monosyllable word which makes makes its counterpart, i.e. structural words to be stressed is when they appear in isolation e.g.
          \nPrepositions \u2013 on, in, of, etc
          \nConjunctions \u2013 and, but, etc
          \nPronouns \u2013 she, he, you etc
          \nOther monosyllabic words \u2013 man, go, book etc
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          \n\u00a0Disyllabic words: words which are made up of two syllables. One of the two syllables gets stressed which the second has its quality reduced.
          \nDisyllabic words can receive the stress placement on the first or second syllable depending or the state and class of the word. Nouns usually receive their stress placement in the first syllable while verbs receive them on second syllable.
          \nExamples:
          \nWord\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Noun\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Verb
          \nExport \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0EXport\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0export
          \nDesert\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0DEsert \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0deSERT
          \nConvict \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0CONvict \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0conVICT
          \nRefuse \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0REfuse \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0reFUSE
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          \n\u00a0Also, adjectives are stressed on the first while verbs are stressed on the second syllable. E.g.
          \nWord \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Adjective\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Verb
          \nFrequent \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0FREquent \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0freQUENT
          \nAbsent \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ABsent \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0abSENT
          \nPolysyllabic Words: words with more than two syllables. Importantly the stress placement changes as the word class of the word changes e.g. examination, impossible, generation etc.
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          \n\u00a0Activity: Write out five words each for the following types of syllable <\/p>\n

            \n
          1. Monosyllabic words\n<\/li>\n
          2. Disyllabic words\n<\/li>\n
          3. Polysyllable words\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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            2. \n
              WEEK NINE
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            3. \n
              CREATIVE WRITING
              \n<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
            4. \n
              WRITING A PLAY OR POEM
              \n<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
            5. When one intends to put ideas, information findings or opinions down in paper for the purpose of storage for postenfy, utmost care and castion need to be taken by the writer to ensure that the intention is perfectly communicated and the readership duty considered.\n<\/li>\n
            6. Stages in the creative writing process\n<\/li>\n
            7. 1. Deciding on a theme and genre: taking a decision on what to write about and the genre to adopt for your writing is an important exercise towards a fulfilling writing process or career.\n<\/li>\n
            8. 2. Language Usage: Writing involves using the words of a language. A writer must therefore be versatile in the language he choosed to write in. perhaps the fact needs to be stressed that the quality of any writing is largely assessed in the basis of language. Therefore, a writer should be at home with the rules of punctuation, spelling and grammar of the language for correct usuage. A writer should also be conversant with the connotative use of words in the language apart from the normal meaning.\n<\/li>\n
            9. 3. Research: another prewriting activity which is common to all writing is the choice of a subject. Some experts are of the view that a writer should write only things he knows while others one of the view that he should write also in those things he does not know by researching into them.\n<\/li>\n
            10. Activity: the students would be grouped to write on any of the genres of literature\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              \u00a0 \u00a0ENGLISH LANGUAGE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0WEEK NINE\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SS2 \u00a0 \u00a0TOPIC: COMPREHENSION \u00a0 \u00a0COMPREHENSION: reading a passage in New oxford…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","category-first-term-ss2-english-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","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=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecolebooks.com\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}