Back to: ENGLISH LANGUAGE SS3
Welcome to class!
In today’s class, we will be talking about writing: formal and informal letters, etc. Enjoy the class!
Comprehension: A Railway Journey
The passage centres on transportation by rail. Transport by rail is the best approach in a spirit of adventure and with an uncluttered schedule. This is because the Nigerian railway Corporation is not renowned for getting there on time. The train is usually overcrowded and some passengers even travel on top of the carriages.
Evaluation
Questions, page 141
Formal Letters
These are letters we write to people in their official positions.
Features of a formal letter
- Writer’s address and date: This is written at the top right-hand corner. The date is written beneath the address.
- Receiver’s address: This is written at the left-hand corner beneath the writer’s address.
- Salutation: The acceptable salutation is Dear Sir or Dear Madam.
- Heading or topic or title: This is written below the salutation
- Introduction: This should be straight forward and precise
- Body of the letter: This should consist of at least three well-developed paragraphs.
- Conclusion: this should be done in a paragraph.
- Subscript (Complimentary close): The acceptable closing is ‘Yours faithfully’ followed by a comma. The signature is appended beneath the closing with the full name written below the signature.
Sample question
Write a letter to the Commissioner of Education, informing him about the plan of your council to engage in the expansion of the only secondary school in your town and how the council intends to implement its programme of aid to the school.
Format
Baptist College,
Idi-Ishin,
P.O. Box 30,
Ibadan,
Oyo State,
14th October, 2019
The Commissioner,
Ministry of Education,
Ibadan
Dear Sir,
Expansion programme for Baptist college
Body of the Letter
Yours faithfully,
(Signature)
Adeyanjuu Adedayo
Informal Letters
These are the letters we write to people who are very familiar to us.
Features of an informal letter
- Writer’s Address and Date
- Salutation
- Introduction
- Body of the letter
- Subscript
Evaluation
Write a letter to your friend who is in another school about your annual inter-house sports which you celebrated recently.
Nominalization of Infinitives
Nominalization is the changing of a part of speech into a noun by the addition of a suffix
Verbs Nouns
- Advise advice
- Apologise apology
- Authorise authority
- Choose Choice
- Fail failure
- Fix fixture
- Hate hatred
- Enjoy enjoyment
- Know knowledge
- Live life
- Oppose opposition
- Obey obedience
- Secure security
- Rob robbery
- See sight
- Speak speech
- Serve service
- Think thought
- Strike stroke
- Weight weight
Non-restrictive clause: In the non-restrictive, the clause provides additional information to the subject and is marked with commas.
Examples
- The young lawyer, who is 25, gave the closing remark.
- The house, which has been renovated, looks very new.
- The book, about which so much has been said, is not interesting.
- The principal, who I told you about, is a sadist.
- My brother, who lives in Abuja, visited me last week.
Evaluation
Make five sentences each on restrictive and non-restrictive clauses.
Hints on Writing Essays in anExamination
Every type of writing demands a distinctive style and approach. Candidates are expected to be able to write the following kinds of essays; narrative, descriptive expository argumentative.
Hints on essay writing
- Treat as many ideas in relations to the topics as can be discussed within the time allowed.
- Even though the ideas may be old, they should be presented in a new perspective because of human development, and in an orderly manner.
- The language used in writing should be appropriate and clear to the reader.
- Due emphasis should be placed on the correctness of language.
- There should be neither bias nor overzealousness in the writing.
- Keep within the time allocated for the essay.
Evaluation
Write an essay on ‘The day I will never forget
In our next class, we will be talking about Structure: Hints on Lexis and Structure. We hope you enjoyed the class.
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