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.

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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.

• Essay writing: More on argumentative “Child Abuse”, Who is to be blamed, government or parents?

Explanation, points:

In this kind of argument which is a good example of an ordinary argumentative essay, not a debate topic. All you need to do here is to write the topic and start your essay

You are to choose who is to blame whether the government or parents

Format

(i) Write your topic e.g. Government is to Blame for Child Abuse

Or

(ii)Parents are to Blame for Child Abuse

If you choose parents are to be blame

Points:

• Some parents fail to plan on the number of children to give birth to.
• Some children are not given proper formal and moral education.
• Poverty: This makes some parents send their children to hawk goods on the road.
• Some parents lack proper upbringing thus, they cannot give their children.
• Covetousness: Some parents encourage their daughters to engage in child’s trafficking.
• Corporal punishment by some parents which can easily harden the heart of a child

Evaluation: Write an argumentative essay on the topic taught

• Vocabulary development: words associated with religion

Content: Definition, Relevant Words

Religion- Christianity.

Relevant Words:

1. Theology: This is the study of God.
2. Atheist: One who believes God does not exist.
3. Monotheist: One who believes in one God.
4. Ethics: Moral principles by which a person or group is guided.
5. Worship: Taking part in a religious ceremony in which reverence is paid to God or a god; the religious ceremony itself.
6. Seer: A seer is a prophet.
7. Crucifix: Cross with the figure of Jesus Christ crucified on it.
8. Denomination: This is an act of naming a religious group, class or society
9. Synagogue: A place of worship for the Jews
10. Baptism: Immersion into water
11. Christen: To perform the religious act of baptism. This also means ‘to name a child’
12. Christendom: This is the Christian world.
13. Episcopacy: Government of the church by Bishops.
14. Sacristy: A room in a church where sacred vessels, books, vestments etc. are kept.
15. Tenet: An opinion, belief or principle held to be true.
16. Benediction: This is a short invocation for divine blessing and guidance, usually after a church worship
17. Divinity: The state of being divine, or of being like a God
18. Papacy: This is the office of the pope. It is also a period when a particular pope reigns
19. Pew: This is an enclosed compartment in a church which provides seating for a group of people, often prominent people.
20. Eucharist: This is a Christian sacrament of the Holy Communion.
21. Communion: This means sacrament

Traditional Religion

1. Divinity: A deity.
2. Deity: This is a supernatural human or non-human being or entity, or an object that possesses miraculous or supernatural attributes, powers or supernatural powers. E.g. god/goddess
3. Gods/goddess: A deity
4. Priest: A man who worships and appeases gods on behalf of the people.
5. Myth: This a traditional story which embodied a belief regarding some fact, or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified. It is a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero or the origin of the world or of a people, etc.
6. Incantation: This is the act or process of words sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies for the purpose of invoking or raising spirits: this is chanted to create a magical result.
7. Reincarnation: This is a fresh embodiment; rebirth or coming back to life.
8. Propitiation: This is an atonement for sins. This is done to appease or pacify gods.
9. Cult: This is a group of people who share religious or spiritual beliefs, especially beliefs regarded by others as unorthodox. This is a secret society.
10. Ritual: These are rites carried out by a priest
11. Libation: this is an act of pouring out of liquid, e.g wine, as a sacrifice to God or in honour of a dead person

Islam/Islamic Religion

1. Ablution: This is an act of washing or cleansing the body or some part of it, as a religious rite
2. Hajj: This is a religious pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, by an adult Muslim.
3. Injunction: This means commandment
4. Pilgrimage: This is a journey made to a sacred place. It is a religious journey.
5. Adherent: A supporter or follower.
6. Haram: Forbidden by Islam. Unlawful, sin.
7. Hilal: Fit to eat according to Muslim religious customs.
8. Sharia: Islamic religious laws, based on the Quran.
9. Sect: A religious group with beliefs and practices that differ from those of the more established groups.
10. Monotheism: This is the belief in one God.
11. Imam: This is a Muslim leader. One who leads the salat prayers in the mosque.
12. Malam: This is an Islamic teacher.
13. Sheikh: This is a leader of an Islamic religious order. An Islamic religious clergy;
14. Pillars of Islam: These are five principles upon which Islamic religion is hinged.

These are:

1. Belief in Allah,
2. Fasting during Ramadan
3. Giving alms
4. Making pilgrimage/hajj
5. Praying five times daily.

Evaluation: Write out ten vocabularies of the Christian religion and use them in sentences.

• Structure:

Content: Simple Future, Future Continuous

 Simple future tense:

It makes use of the modal auxiliary verbs ‘shall’ and ‘will’.

1. I shall travel soon.
2. You see the manager when he arrives.
3. It also makes use of the form ‘be going’ and to-infinitive.
4. Emeka is go willing to succeed
5. It’s going to rain today
6. We are going to defeat them.

It makes use of simple present and an expression indicating the future.

1. The bus leaves tomorrow.
2. The plane arrives tonight.

Future progressive (continuous)

1. It uses the present progressive and an expression indicating the future.
2. Adamu is leaving tomorrow.
3. We are taking the examination next week.

Evaluation

Use the simple future and the future continuous tenses in sentences.

 

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