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In today’s English Language class, We will be working on our Dictation. We hope you enjoy the class!
CONTENT
Some words are commonly misspelt for the following reasons:
- transpositions of letters e.g., “ie” and “ei” as in:
believe ceiling
fierce deceive
field seize
2) assimilation of a letter as in:
debt ‘b’ is not pronounced
listen ‘t’ is not pronounced
honest ‘h’ is not pronounced
pneumonia ‘p’ is not pronounced
sword ‘w’ is not pronounced
3) The contemporary convention of shortening some words as in:
Exam – Examination
Libry – Library
Lab – Laboratory
Program – Programme
4) Some different letters are pronounced alike:
gh f ph ff
cough half graph cuff
g gue
big fatigue
s z
feasible zebra
ck c k que
cock zinc pink boutique
5) words with double consonants as in:
committee
accommodation
professor
6) Noun plurals as in:
baby babies
body bodies
wife wives
7) Word class as in:
Noun verb
Practice practise
Licence license
Advice advise
EVALUATION
Correct the following words.
- Refferred
- Reservation
- Segregation
- Installation
- Accummulation
- Boundries
- Residue
- Jerminate
REFERENCE
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary; English Grammar by P.O Olatunbosun.
READING ASSIGNMENT
Read page 97-98 of English Grammar by P.O Olatunbosun.
GENERAL EVALUATION/REVISION QUESTIONS
- Use a pronoun or an adverb as sub-ordinate conjunction to fill the space in each of the sentences.
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- Ladi is the student _______ solved the problem
- The book _________ I read has forty pages.
- The student _________ he flogged wept bitterly.
- She arrived _________ we expected her.
- He will eat ___________ you give him.
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- Fill in the gap with the correct letter(s).
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- privile_e (g, dg)
- boyco_ (t, tt)
- d_lapidated (e, i)
- extra_dinary (o, or, au)
- di_atified (s, ss)
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WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT
Do tests for continuous assessment nos 1 (1 – 10) and 2(1-5), page 155 of Effective English Bk3
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