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ENGLISH LANGUAGE SS1

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First Term

Review of the word class: Parts of Speech- Noun, Pronoun, Verb and Adjective. Spelling; Doubling of Consonants 
Reading Skills; Word Meanings in Context Structure: Introduction to Phrasal Verbs; More on Parts of Speech- Adverb, Conjunction and Preposition. Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Libraries
Essay Writing, Speech Work: Monophthongs;  Idioms, Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Entertainment.
Comprehension/Reading Skills: Skimming and Scanning. Vocabulary Development: Agriculture. Structure: Noun Phrase and Verb Phrase Spelling: Words Commonly Misspelt 
Kinds of Sentences- Simple, Multiple, Compound, Complex and Compound-Complex; Essay Writing: Expository- “Honesty is the Best Legacy”; Vocabulary Development: Stock Exchange and Insurance.
Comprehension/Oral Skills. Figures of Speech- Simile, Metaphor, Irony, Personification and Rhetorical Question. Structure: Adverbial Clause. Essay Writing: Descriptive. Speech Work: Diphthongs.
Structures: Learning about Noun Clause; Vocabulary Development: Transportation- Aviation, Rail, Road and Maritime. Speech Work: Introduction to Consonant Sounds. Essay Writing: More on Narrative- A story that ends with, “It Pays to be Hard-working”. 
Comprehension/ Reading Skills. More on Consonant Sounds Structure: Adjectival Phrase. Argumentative- “Patriotism Enhances the Growth of a Nation”
Comprehension/Reading Skills: Introduction to Answering Comprehension Questions Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Religion. Speech Work: Stress.
Comprehension and Writing Skills: Vocabulary Development. Introduction to Summary Writing. Spelling: Prefixes and Suffixes. Structure: Adverbial and Prepositional Phrase
Vocabulary Development: Registers of Judiciary. Essay Writing: Informal letter- “A letter to the sister who plans to divorce her husband advising her against the decision”. Structure: Definite and Indefinite Articles. Speech Work: More on Consonants.

Second Term

Homographs: Words that are Spelled the Same.
Comprehension/Listening Skills-Listening to Grasp the Main Points. Structure, Present Tense -Simple, Present Continuous, Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous. Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Government and Politics.
Comprehension: Comprehending Word, ‘Beauty’ Meanings in Context. Structure: Auxiliaries, “will and would”. Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Photography
Essay writing: Formal Letter. Speech work: Contrasting /Ɵ/and /ᵭ/ \ Ɵ\ and/t/ /d/ and /d/. Structure: Participle-Present and Past
Comprehension/ Writing Skill. Answering Summary Questions. Structure: Auxiliaries-“shall” and “should”. Essay Writing: Descriptive- The Evil Effect of Peer Pressure.
Vocabulary Development- Printing and Mass-media. Structure: ‘can and could’. Words Commonly Misspelt, the Use of Dictionary
Comprehension- Group Work on Oral and Written TV Interviews. Structure: Past Tense, Past Continuous, Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous. Comprehension/Writing Skills, Paraphrasing a Passage. Essay Writing: Various Methods of Introducing Writings
Essay writing: More on Argumentative “Child Abuse” Who is to be Blamed, Government or Parents? Vocabulary/Development: Words Associated with Religion. Structure: Future Tense: Simple Future Continuous etc.
Comprehension. Speech Work: Introduction Syllable. Spelling: Homophones (Words that sound alike). Structure Punctuation: Question Mark, Apostrophe and Exclamation Mark.
Speech work: Introduction to Stress. Essay writing: Writing Minutes of Meetings. Structure: Punctuation-Full Stop, Comma, Dash, Colon, Semi Colon, and quotation marks

Third Term

Comprehension- Reading to grasp word meanings in various contexts. Commonly Misspelt Word. The Use of Dictionary
Practical Approach to Summary Writing. Comprehension: Reading for the main point “Beauty”. Vocabulary Development: Advertising. Structure: Adjuncts (explanation and examples). Writing: Narrative Essay (Explanation, Features and Outline of a topic).
Comprehension. Summary Writing: A Sample Passage. Vocabulary Development: Words associated with home and family life. Writing: Expository Essay (Explanation, Features and Outline of a topic). Structure: Introduction to Clauses.
Essay Writing: More on the formal letter. Speech Work: Rhymes. Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Government and Politics.
Comprehension/Reading Skills: More on Skimming and Scanning. Speech work: Diphthongs /ei/ and /ai/. Structure: Conjuncts and Disjunct.
Structures: Plural Forms of Nouns and Compound Nouns. Speech work: Words of two syllables which are stressed on the first or second syllables. Essay Writing: Story Writing- A story which illustrates the saying- It is a man’s world”.
Comprehension and Reading Skills: Reading for leisure. Writing: Semi-formal Letter (Explanation and Features). Sentence Structure and formation. Spelling: Dropping (e) and retaining (e).
Comprehension; Summarizing in a specified number of sentences. Speech Work: Homophones. Structure: Functions of comparatives. Vocabulary Development: Sports and Entertainment.
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/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
Comprehension: Summarizing in a specified number of words. Vocabulary Development: Words associated with building. Structure: synonyms.

1 thought on “ENGLISH LANGUAGE SS1”

  1. Oluwakemi Asoh

    This is really educative but I think the evaluation should have answers at the end of the lesson . Anyways its just an opinion. thank you

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