ENGLISH LANGUAGE THIRD TERM SCHEME OF WORK FOR SS1

English Language third term Scheme of work for Nigeria senior secondary school one (SS1) students.

Week 1

• Intonation patterns
• Words associated with religion (Christianity)
• Reading comprehension
• Types of sentences
• Speech writing

Week 2

• Oral composition
• Words associated with advertising
• Summary writing
• Types of sentences (Continued)

Week 3

• Intonation pattern (Continued)
• Words associated with the stock exchange
• Reading comprehension
• Complex sentence (Continued)
• Oral composition of a descriptive essay.

Week 4

• Emphatic stress
• Synonyms of words
• Reading to summarise
• Clauses (Dependent and Independent)
• Article writing

Week 5

• Simple polite requests; simple greetings
• Antonyms of words
• Comprehension: Listening to tell the meaning of words in sentence context.
• Summary writing (Continued)
• Noun clause

Week 6

• Oral composition for expository essay
• Words associated with investment
• Reading to make note
• Adjectival clause

Week 7

• Speaking to persuade (Argumentative essay)
• More on Adjectival clause
• Reading for speed and summary

Week 8

• Description(Oral presentation)
• Words commonly misspelled
• Reading for meaning in context
• Words associated with photography

Week 9

• Words associated with photography
• Reading to answer questions and to identify the speaker’s style.
• Introduction to active and passive verbs.
• Brutish and American spellings of common words.

Week 10 – 11  

• Listening to grasp main points or ideas in a speech.
• Revision on consonants
• Synonyms

Week 12/13

Revision and Examination