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In today’s class, we will be talking about speech work: contrasting /i/ and /i:/, etc. Enjoy the class!
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
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Comprehension: Speaking skills, communicable sequence
Content
Reading page 99 – 100
Dialogue: Effective English.
The passage is about Titi’s parents who want to choose a suitable husband for her. Titi, however, loves someone else. In this scene, her parents try to persuade her to get rid of ‘cast off’ the man she loves and accepts their choice. If she agrees, she will have an enormous bride price (all my store of coral and gold shall be yours to command for dowry) Tit refused to be offered for sale so, she disobeyed her parents.
Evaluation
Answer the questions under the passage
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Speech work: Contrasting /I/ and /i:/
Contrast
/I/ is a short vowel
The spelling variants and word examples are
‘a’ – adage, village, palace
‘e’ – Peter, between, English
‘u’ – busy, minutes
‘ei’ – foreign
‘ie’ – chief, thief
‘y’ – busy, myth
o – Women
‘I’ sit, pin, bin.
/i:/ is a long vowel
The spelling variant and words example are
‘a’ quay
‘ae’ – Caesar, aesthetic
‘e’ – eve, procedure
‘ee’ feed, weed, seed
‘ea’ – neat, peak, real
‘ei’ receive, deceive
‘I’ machine, prestige
‘ie’ relieve, believe
‘oe’ amoeba, oesophagus
‘ui’ suite
‘eo’ people.
Contrast:
/I:/ /i:/
hit heat
hill heel
sit seat
sin seen
dim deem
will wheel
list least
dip deep
lip leap
fill feel
bitch beach
Evaluation
Find your own five words to contrast /i and /I/
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Essay writing: Argumentative
Outline
- Write your topic
- Do not greet because it is not a debate topic
- Give a clear, intelligent definition of the subject of discussion
- Define indiscipline in your introductory paragraph
- In the second to the fifth paragraph
- Conclude your argument in the last paragraph.
Evaluation
Write an argumentative essay on the topic “Indiscipline is responsible for poor performances of students in examination ‘.
Weekend assignment
Write an essay setting out your argument, either in favour or against the following topic. “Co-education should be encouraged in secondary schools’.
In our next class, we will be talking about Comprehension: Summarizing in a specified number of words; Vocabulary Development: Words associated with the building; Structure: synonyms. We hope you enjoyed the class.
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