ENGLISH LANGUAGE THIRD TERM SCHEME OF WORK FOR JSS2

English Language third term Scheme of work for Nigeria junior secondary school two (JSS2) students.

Week 1

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

Week 2

• Reading comprehension: Identifying topic sentences; identifying key ideas; identifying words/expressions that redirect attention to main points in paragraphs and passages that reflect on issues of national concern, e.g. population explosion, youth management etc.
• Summary writing.
• Adverbial clauses.
• The vowels /æ/ and /a:/

Week 3

• Summary reading techniques
• More on Summary writing.
• Adverbial clause: Forms of expressing condition, e.g. if, unless, provided, as long as etc.
• Intonation: Rising tone.

Week 4

• Reading to identify facts and opinions.
• Writing speeches on “The family”, “Discipline in schools”, “Our environment”, “Examination malpractice” etc.
• Tenses: Present perfect tense and Past perfect tense.
• Intonation: Falling tone.

Week 5

• Reading comprehension.
• Writing speeches on different topics.
• Tenses: Past continuous tense.
• Intonation: Rising and falling tones.

Week 6

• Reading comprehension.
• Writing a composition.
• Tenses: Present continuous tense.
• Question tags.

Week 7

• Reading for the contextual meanings of words.
• Writing a composition on a given topic.
• Conditional statements.
• More on Question tags.

Week 8

• Reading to acquire new words.
• Writing: Organising main ideas correctly into paragraphs.
• Qualifiers: Adjectives.
• The vowel /əʊ/ — know, go, sow, bone etc. Sentences, paragraphs, passages, poems and plays should form the content for highlighting the sounds indicated.

Week 9

• Reading selected passages to identify facts and opinions.
• Writing a composition on either of the topics: “Why I chose to become a doctor”, “Why I chose to become a teacher”. Make out an outline for introduction, body, and conclusion as regards these essay topics.
• Turning sentences into questions.
• Oral comprehension: Listen to speech or recorded material on a selected topic.

Week 10

• Reading to acquire new words.
• Writing an essay on the topic, “My school”.
• Modifiers: Adverbs.
• Identifying adverbs, making sentences with adverbs and functions of adverbs.

Week 11

• Reading to obtain main substance in selected text.
• Format for writing a formal letter and an informal letter.
• Direct statements and Indirect statements.
• Contrasting the following sounds: /f/ and /p/, /r/ and /l/, /tʃ/ and /ʃ/.

Week 12

Revision.

Week 13

Examination.