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In today’s English Language class, We will be discussing Antonyms. We hope you enjoy the class!
TOPIC: Grammar
CONTENT: Antonyms
Antonyms are words of opposite meaning. Examples:
Above- below
Accelerate- retard
Active- passive
Adult-child
Amateur-professional
Assemble-disperse
Barren-fertile
Benevolent-malevolent
Brother-sister
Cautious-reckless
Coarse-fine
Celestial-terrestrial
Dynamic-static
Emigrant-immigrant
Freeze-thaw
EVALUATION
Write the antonyms of these words: immoral, minority, joy, spendthrift, prologue, feeble, intractable, folly, industrious, profane.
B. SpeechWork
TOPIC: Distinguishing the Consonant
Sounds /w/ and /j/
Listen attentively to the following words and difference between the sounds.
/w/ /j/
Wear year
Woke yoke
Warn yarn
Woo you
Quell yell
EVALUATION
Write ten words for each sound.
C. Vocabulary Development
TOPIC: Vocabulary Development + Armed force
CONTENT: Registers on the Armed forces.
The armed forces include The army (for fighting on the land), the navy (for fighting at the sea) the air force (for fighting in the air). The army, navy and air force are sometimes called the services. Let us look up the words on p. 195. Effective English.
Evaluation
Practice 2 p. 196
D. TOPIC: Literature Poetry
CONTENT: Eating Tomorrow’s Yam by Niyi Osundare
The poem is about an argument between a prodigal and the entire community in a rural environment. The poem seeks to pass a moral comment that only wise people always know the consequence of any action. The subject matter of the poem centres on what to be done with the only remaining yam for a whole village.
Evaluation
Revision Questions: Essays p. 180, Exam Focus
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