ENGLISH LANGUAGE THIRD TERM SCHEME OF WORK FOR JSS1

English Language third term Scheme of work for Nigeria junior secondary school one (JSS1) students.

Week 1

Resumption test on/Revision of second term’s work.

Week 2

• Reading comprehension.
• Writing a story or passage, highlighting main points and supporting ideas.
• Tenses (Future tense).
• Word boundaries.

Week 3

• Reading to interpret maps and sentences accurately.
• Writing: writing appropriate introduction and conclusion (of a given composition).
• Identifying features of adverbials from passages on Peace and Dialogue.
• Compound words.

Week 4

• Reading comprehension.
• Writing formal letters on different topics.
• Adverbs.
• Phrases.

Week 5

• Reading: Identifying how a given diagram or map clarifies or complements written materials.
• Informal letter: One address, opening, salutation, body of the letter and closing.
• Identification of active and passive verbs from passages on “Preventing HIV/AIDS”.
• Questions and their tags (Question tags).

Week 6

• Reading comprehension.
• Identification of active and passive verbs from a passage on “War against cultism”.
• Listening/speaking: Listening for main ideas from a selected passage on “Cleanliness”.

Week 7

• Reading comprehension: Identifying keywords in the passage that signals direction.
• Making sentences using active and passive verbs.
• Listening and speaking: Making conversational sentences with question tags and responses to the questions.

Week 8

• Reading comprehension.
• Identification of active and passive verbs from passages on “Dangers of examination malpractice”.
• Listening and speaking: Listening for main ideas from a selected passage on Malaria, Polio, Cleanliness etc.

Week 9

• Reading comprehension.
• Identification of active and passive verbs from passages on drug abuse.
• Listening and speaking: Positioning of main ideas in given passages: beginning, middle or end.

Week 10

• Reading comprehension.
• Discussions on choice of words and punctuation of writing perfect letters.
• More practice on identification of conjunctions from a given passage.

Week 11

Revision.

Week 12/13

Examination.