Comprehension/Reading Skills: Identifying statutory topic, theme and key sentences of a passage. Vocabulary Development: Words associated with journalism and advertising. Structure: Antonyms as words opposite in meaning and nearly opposite in meaning. Informal Letter Writing: Explanation and Features.

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Comprehension/Reading Skills: Identifying statutory topic, theme and key sentences of a passage.

Vocabulary Development: Words associated with journalism and advertising.

Structure: Antonyms as words opposite in meaning and nearly opposite in meaning. Informal Letter Writing: Explanation and Features.

• Comprehension: Identifying statutory topic, theme, and key sentences of a passage.

Statutory topics are the main topics of a passage.  They are topics fixed for a particular passage. For example, we have passages that their topics are based on statutory topics, like Law, Journalism, Fishery, Photography etc.

The theme of a passage is the subject or main idea of a passage

Key sentences are the sentences comprise the main idea or what a particular paragraph is all about.

Let’s analyse the passage on page 125 of Effective English.

– the fixed or statutory topic for the passage is nutrient supply to plant or sufficient nourishment to plants.

–  the themes are:  Plants growth, Eradicating plants  Deficiency.

–  Key sentences are the topic sentences, they are the sentences that give birth to other contribution in a paragraph, for example; the first sentence of paragraph one: “Undernourishment is the cause of many failures in vegetables, growing is the key sentences in paragraph one.

“Most plants obtain some of their food from the air …………..” is the key sentence for paragraph 2.

“Extra supplies of essential chemical ……….” Is the key sentence for the last paragraph

Evaluation

Read the passage on page 152 of Effective English and analyze the statutory topics, themes, and key sentences.

• Vocabulary development: Words associated with journalism and advertising

Advertising is a form of selling. It is a means of passing across messages from manufacturer and advertisers to reach the customers.

Relevant words

1. Mass media: the means of communication such as television, newspapers, and radio that reach a large number of people
2. Journalism: the profession of collecting, writing and publishing news through the newspapers and magazines or radio or television.
3. Press conference:  An interview for reporters  given by a politician or film stars
4. Press gallery: An area of newspaper reporters, especially in a legislative assembly.
5. Advertisement:  any public announcement designed to sell goods or publicize an event
6. Copy-writer: a person who writes the words contained in an advertisement
7. Mass communication: the art of reaching a great number of people with information at the same time
8. Commercial:

• A radio or television advertisement
• Sponsored or paid for by an advertiser

Other words to check

Advertisement space, yellow journalism, stickers, media, articulation, information, press release, junk news, print media, journals, direct mail, periodicals, newspaper, magazine, television, radio.

Evaluation

Choose five vocabularies of advertisement and sue them in sentences.

 

• Antonyms as words opposite in meaning

Formation of antonyms

Antonyms are words which have opposite meanings.  Sometimes, the antonyms are completely different fin form (friend: enemy, seldom, often, fertile: barren) at the other times, they are partially similar inform (superior: inferior, regular:  irregular)

Study the following antonyms:

• antonyms that are completely different in form:

fertile              barren

friend             enemy

opaque        transparent

victory           defeat.

• Antonyms formed by adding a prefix (a prefix is a word – elements added in front of a word)

adequate    inadequate

legal               illegal

loyal               disloyal

possible         impossible

regular          irregular

respect          disrespect

• Antonyms formed by changing the prefix:

ascend                      descend

construction        destruction

encourage             discourage

export                        import.

Cheerful                    cheerless

pitiful                        pitiless

sinful                         sinless.

Evaluation

Write the antonyms of the following words

1. Cowardice
2. Fertility
3. Careful
4. Protagonist
5. Relevant

 

In our next class, we will be talking about Comprehension/Speaking skill; Speech work: contrasting /i/ and /i:/; Essay writing: Argumentative – Indiscipline is Responsible for the Poor Performances of Students in Examinations’; Structure: Pronoun References to the Three Persons in English.  We hope you enjoyed the class.

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