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In today’s English Language class, We will be reading the Comprehension: The Forbidden Fruit. We hope you enjoy the class!
COMPREHENSION
“The Forbidden thing”
Content
- Summary of the comprehension passage
- Questions on the passage
The passage is a playlet with three characters only- Ogwuoma, Uloko and Odubei. Ogwuoma is a widow who is mourning the death of her husband, Adigwu. However, she has a lover Uloko, who comes to see her during her mourning period. Odubei, Ogwuoma’s mother-in-law stood against their love.
Evaluation: Do practice 3 on page 21 and 22.
Reading Assignment: Read more about the play in Zulu Sofola’s Wedlock of the Gods
Weekend Assignment: Do test for continuous Assessment on page 33 of the Effective English book 3 (Number 1 only)
GENERAL EVALUATION/REVISION QUESTIONS
- Use a suitable word to fill each of the blanks below.
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- “Please give me some water,” he —————–
- “Yes I would like some tea, thank you,” Mrs Dike —————-
- “I’m always the one to do the cleaning up,” Yaro——————-
- They —————, “what? How dare he be so rude!”
- He —————–, “I was late because my car broke down.”
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- Give the meanings and make sentences with the following words.
Swagger, totter, tiptoe, shuffle, roam
- Identify the sounds underlined:
Bad, legal, said, Geoffrey and greedy
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Hi. for my number 2 answers.
1) swagger -walk or behave in a very confident and arrogant or self-important way.
sentence
“he swaggered along the corridor”
2) totter- move in a feeble or unsteady way.
sentence
“a hunched figure was tottering down the path”
3) tiptoe -walk quietly and carefully with one’s heels raised and one’s weight on the balls of the feet.
sentence
“Liz tiptoed out of the room”
4) shuffle- walk by dragging one’s feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground.
sentence
“I stepped into my skis and shuffled to the edge of the steep slope”
5) roam- move about or travel aimlessly or unsystematically, especially over a wide area.
sentence
“tigers once roamed over most of Asia.
Hi. For my revision questions answer.
1) ” please give me some water” he pleaded.
2) “Yes i would like some tea, thank you” Mrs Dike replied.
3)” I am always the one to do the cleaning job” Yaro replied.
4) They exclaimed ” what? How dare he be so rude”!
5) He complained “i was late because my car broke down”.