English Studies Lesson Note for SS 1 Third Term

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                       SCHEME OF WORK FOR THIRD TERM S S 1

          

WEEK 1:The Use of the Dictionary and Words commonly miss pelt.

WEEK 2: Words associated with Advertising. (Register)

WEEK 3:  Adverbs: Adjunct, Conjuncts and Disjuncts

WEEK 4: Narrative Essay or a Recount

WEEk5:The Dos and Don’ts of story writing

WEEK 6:plural forms of nouns – includes compound words

WEEK 7: pronouns – Reference to the three person i.e. 1^st person, 2^nd person and 3^rd person

WEEK 8: questions tag

WEEK9:words associated with sport and entertainment – some

relevant words.

WEEK 10: Comprehension: Reading from NOSEC or Goodbye To Failure

WEEK ONE:

Topic: THE USE OF THE DICTIONARY

The dictionary is one of the reference materials that is being used to check:

1. The spelling of a word
2. The transcription of the same word/the syllabic component/stress placement
3. The part of speech/derivative
4. The meaning of the word (Semantics)
5. The usage of the word

Dictionary can also be used to find out the idiomatic usage/meaning of a wow. In addition, the collocates (collocation) of the now in question (words that goes together) e.g. Doctor           –    Nurse

• Injection    
• Medication
• Prescription
• Hospital

WORDS COMMONLY MISSPELT

1. Maintenance (right)                      maintenace (wrong)
2. In fact (right)                                 infact (wrong)
3. In spite (right)                               inspite (wrong)  
4. A lot (right)                                   a lot (wrong)
5. Convenient (right)                         convinient (wrong)
6. Grateful (right)                              greatful (wrong)
7. Privilege (right)                             priviledge (wrong)
8. Occasion (right)                            occassion (wrong)  
9. Strenuous (right)              strainous (wrong)
10. Query (right)                                 quary (wrong)
11. Nonchalant (right)            nonchallant, non-challant,

nonchallant (wrong) 

• Modern (right)                              mordern (wrong)

EVALUATION

Give the correct spelling of the following wows

1. Mischievous (right)                       mischierious (wrong)
2. Fusion (right)                                fussion (wrong)
3. Bellwether (right)             bellweather (wrong)
4. Changeable (right)                        changeble (wrong)
5. Conscientious (right)                    conscientous (wrong)
6. Liaison (right)                                liason (wrong)
7. Pronunciation (right)                    pronounciation (wrong)
8. Questionnaire (right)                    questionaira (wrong)
9. Tyranny (right)                              tyrany (wrong)
10. Supersede (right)              superside (wrong)

ASSIGNMENT

Give the definition of the dictionary – use the dictionary to find out the following words;

1. Bellwether
2. Liaison
3. Questionnaire
4. Tyranny
5. Pronunciation

                            WEEK TWO

TOPIC: WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH ADVERTISING

1.  Advertorial:   An advertisement that is written and presented in the style of an editorial or journalistic report

2. Bill:  A statute in a draft before it becomes law

3. Preview: An advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future

4. Throwaway: An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution

5. Mailer:  An advertisement that is sent by mail

6. Newspaper ad:       A printed advertisement that is published in a newspaper

7. Billboard:                Large outdoor signboard

8. Brand:     A name given to a product or service also known as – brand-named, morgue, trade name

9. Trademark: A formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product

10. Logo: A company emblem or derive

WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE STOCK EXCHANGE

1. Bear – This is a speculator who buy securities with the anticipation of fall in their prices
2. Bankrupt – A court’s in ability to pay his debits. The debtor’s properties consequently seized and auctioned to settle the debts.
3. Broker – This is an agent who negotiates and make contract for sales and purchase of goods. He links his principal with potential customer for which he is paid a commission called brokerage.
4. Assurance – It means that of an incident is certain e.g. death or life assurance
5. Turnover – It is the total value of goods sold during a particular period. It can also be called sales
6. An Insured – A person who pools his risk with others in insurance i.e. A person who takes up an insurance policy
7. Deficit – This is the excess of expenditure over income
8. Premium – It’s the amount paid by an insured to an insurer periodically
9. Wind up – This is when a company ceases to exist when operation comes to an end or liquidated.
10.  Stock Exchange – An exchange where security trading is conducted by professional stockbrokers
11.  Securities – Property that your creditor can claim in case you default on your obligation.
12.  SEC – (Securities and Exchange Commission). An independent Federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors

EVALUATION

Use your dictionary to find out the meaning (s) of the following

– Print media advert

– Electronic media advert

– Internet

ASSIGNMENT

Give other examples of wows that are associated with the stock exchange.

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WEEK THREE

TOPIC: Adverbs: Adjuncts, Conjuncts, and Disjuncts

Regardless of the position an adverb is often neatly integrated into the flow of a sentence. When this is true, it’s most always is, the adverb is called an Adjuncts.

(Notice the underlined Adjuncts or adjunctive adverbs the first two sentences of the paragraph above).

When the adverb does not fit into the flow of the clause, it is called a Disjunct and it is often set off by a comma or set of commas. A disjunct frequently acts as a kind of evaluation of the rest of the sentence. Although it usually modifies the verb . We could say that it modifies the entire clause too.

Examples of Disjunct in Sentence (s)

1. Frankly, Martha, I join give a damn
2. Fortunately, no one was hurt

A conjunct on the other hand serves as a connector functions within the flow of the sentence or text while signaling a transition between ideas.

Examples of conjuncts in sentences are:

1. We’re told the landlord about this ceiling again and again yet he’s done nothing to fix it.
2. If they start smoking, these awful cigars, then I’m not staying

Evaluation

Identify the adjuncts, the disjuncts and the conjuncts from the following sentences.

1. Frankly, Martha, is a bit scary – Disjunct
2. If she starts singing again, then  I’m not staying answer – conjunct
3. She after  plays the piano alone – Adjunct
4. I love chocolate, however I’m allergic to it – conjunct
5. She told him the instructions repeatedly, yet he just sat there – conjunct

Assignment

1. Explain the following
2. Adjunct
3. Conjunct
4. Disjunct
5. Identify them in the underlined expressions below; –
6. His mom told him to come home before dark – Adjunct
7. Although he was an actor, he could sing well, too – Disjunct
8. She yelled his name loudly – Adjunct
9. Fortunately no one was hurt – Disjunct

                                          WEEK FOUR

TOPIC: NARRATION OR A RECOUNT

What is a narration? A narrative is a story that can be imagined or factual. Most narrative essays are the factually incidents you have witnessed or experienced.

Features of narrative involves

1. People
2. Actions
3. Time
4. Place

Question that must be answered before writing a narrative essay

1. What actions took place? E.g Robbery, Accident etc.
2. Who were responsible for these actions? E.g stranger, friend, etc.
3. Where did the action/events take place? Home, school, etc
4. At what time or period did the actions take place? E.g morning, afternoon or mighty etc.
5. What was the order of the action? Anger to fight to destruction
6. What were the results? Agony, sadness, success etc.

You must understand that your impression may be favorable or unfavorable, happiness or sadness etc. based on the facts you have stated.

Evaluation

Intensive English – page 114 – 116

Class activity

Continuous narrative

As I sit in the School Hall, watching the Principal address the New students, I remember clearly my first day in the secondary school four years ago.

I woke up early that morning and lay restless on my bed. Strange thoughts filled my mind as I wondered what staying away from home would mean for me at the tender age of eight 

Assignment

Individual activity – page 116

Reread the narrative as a connected piece for:

1. Your own enjoyment of the story
2. The actions in the story
3. The time and place of these actions
4. The sequencing of the events

Answer one:

1. The day I will never forget
2. A memorable of the events         

                           WEEK FIVE

TOPIC: THE DOS AND DON’T OF STORY WRITING

                        DOS                                                                             DON’T

1	Use past tense of verbs to give an account of events in the past. For instance: the reporting and the narrative verbs are should be in the past e.g. was soon outlined … almost fluning himself.	Never use a mixture of present and past tense to report something that happened in the past.
2	Use imagery or symbolism to achieve greater sensory effect according to the demands of a story.	Avoid symbolism or imagery that do not help to enlarge or broaden the meaning of your story.
3	Use humour, proverbs, dialogue, and anecdotes as the case may be to enrich your story.	Never fail to use appropriate anecdotes, e.t.c to give colour to your story as the case may be.

FEATURES OF IMAGINATIVE WRITING

A good imaginative writing or story must involve:

1. Characters
2. Actions by characters
3. Places where the actions of people occur
4. Time when the action occur

EVALUATION

Write a story which ends with the words “if I had known, I would not have gone out with him.

Answer

I am in absolute misery right now as I write this painful story. I took a decision some years ago and now, I will live to regret it for the rest of my life. My name is Ronke and I am twenty-three years old. I will live to curse the day I met Dare, the man who ruined my entire life.

I come from a very good family. Though we are not very wealthy, we are morally upright and I am proud of my family. But I have brought shame and disgrace to them with my actions that I now regret. If I could turn back the hands of the clock, I would do things differently.

I had just graduated from the University at a tender age of eighteen and my parents were proud of me. They wanted me to get a good paying job and begin a good life. This was what I had in mind, until I met Dare. That fateful morning, I was on my way to a job interview. I am sure that if I had gone for the interview that day, I would have gotten the job with the oil company.

Unfortunately, as I was going to board a bus, a car stopped beside me and I bent over to see if the driver of the vehicle was someone I knew. To my surprise, I saw a very handsome young man smiling at me. His smile was so captivating that I fell in love with him immediately. Then he said “Hello” to me and I was lost in his deep baritone voice. My knees turned jelly and I would have fallen if the car was not beside me to lean on. He told me his name was Dare and that he wanted to give me a ride to wherever I was going.

I did not even object; I just got into the car and he started driving. We started discussing as if we had known each other for a long time. I totally forget about the interview I was supposed to go for. I ended up in his bed that same day.

From the onwards, there was no looking back for me. I sell head-over-heels in love with him. My parents then noticed that I had changed. I acted absent-mindedly whenever I was at home. They talk to me about getting a job, but when I told Dare, he said I did not need a job, that he would take good care of me. I should have refused him then and gone ahead to get a job, but as stupid as I was, I listened to him and sat down at home, collecting money from him to take care of myself.

Some months later, I found out that I was pregnant and I was very happy thinking that Dare would get married to me and we would live happily. I never knew Dare would be so callous as to do what he did to me. He seemed so nice, caring, kind and gentle. When I told him that I was carrying his baby, he gave me the biggest shock of my life. He denied being responsible for my pregnancy, calling me “a lying bitch”. I was so flabbergasted that I just opened my mouth and nothing could come out of it. He then told me to get rid of the “Child” in my womb and when I found my speech, I told him that I could not endanger my life in the process of having an abortion. He then told me that he already had a wife and three kids in the United States of America and that he loved his wife. He asked me to go and take care of myself. I asked what he was doing with me in the first place when he loved his wife as he claimed. He just stormed out of the house, leaving me there alone.

I never set my eyes on Dare after that day. It was like he just disappeared from the face of the earth. He is probably in America now with his wife and kids. I am now six months pregnant and my parents haved kicked me out of the house because of the shame I have brought on them. I am now squatting with a friend of mine, with no money and no hope of taking care of the Child I will soon give birth to. Anytime I think of my affairs with Dare, “the destroyer” that is what I called him; I blame myself and regret my stupidity. Had I known I wouldn’t have believed him and I would not have gone out with him.

ASSIGNMENT

Write a story which end with the words ….. “and I have had to live with this stigma for the rest of my life”

WEEK SIX

TOPIC:PLURAL FORMS OF NOUNS – INCLUDE COMPOUND WORDS

We must note the following(s) about some nouns that have no singular – they are used in the plural e.g. clothes, scissors, trousers, riches, people, pliers, spectacles, shears, alms, pancers, bellows.

Sentence:

1. Your trouser are  dirty
2. Scissors are used for cutting, cloth and paper

Some Nouns have no plural: they are used in the singular e.g Mathematics, Information, Advice, News, Furniture and Physics.

We say the news or some news and pieces of furniture or some furniture.   

Sentence:

1. I know that Mathematics is an easy subject
2. Here is the news

Compound words / Nouns – While some compound nouns form plural by changing only the last wows, others change the first word while others still change both words.

Singular	Plural	Singular	Plural
Workman	Workmen	Brother-in-law	Brother-in-law
Step-mother	Step-mothers	Runner-up	Runners-up
Passer-by	Passers-by	Secretary-general	Secretaries general
Classroom	Classrooms	Man student	Men students

Some Greek and Latin words have a different way of becoming plural

Singular	Plural
Stratum	Strata
Axis	Axes
Radius	Radii
Criterion	Criteria

REGISTER

WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

1. Demagogue – This is  a strategy used by a political party to influence the political interest of voters
2. Referendum – This is a “Yes” or “No” or issue that affects the structure of the state
3. Prorogation – The speech delivered by the Chief Executive (President) to the National Assembly that marks the end of the session.
4. Mace – A symbol of authority in the legislative house
5. Dissolution – This is the bringing to an end of the tenure of the parliament
6. Veto power – The right used by the president to change or criticize the decisions or policies of the legislative
7. Magna courts – This represents the body of fundamental Human Rights as established by the imperial parliament
8. Gerrymandering – The creation or delimitation of constituencies in the selfish interest of politician
9. Guillotine – A device used to stop or limit a debate in the house so as to avoid impending violence
10. Filibuster – A strategy used to prolong a debate in the house in order to avoid taking hasty decisions

EVALUATION

Intensive English by Benson O. Oluikpe et al – page 124 – 127

ASSIGNMENT

1. Give the meaning of the following wows
2. Use these words in sentences
3. Recall
4. Constituency
5. Bye-law
6. Impeachment
7. Treaty
8. Manifesto
9. Recess
10. Communiqué

WEEK SEVEN

TOPIC: PRONOUNS – REFERENCES TO THE THREE PERSON I.E 1^ST PERSON, 2^ND PERSON AND 3^RD PERSON

First person	Subjective case	Objective case	Possessive case
Singular   Plural	I   We	Me   Us	My   Our
Second person	Subjective case	Objective case	Possessive case
Singular   Plural	You	You	You   You
Third person		Subjective case	Objective case
Singular		He (masculine) She (feminine) It (neuter)	Him (masculine) Her (feminine) It (neuter)
Third person	Subjective case	Objective case	Possessive case
	They	Then	Their/theirs

1. Spelling Dropping “e”

Learn this spelling rule – spell in the third column the following table, the words formed by joining the words in the first column with suffixes in the second column

Word	Suffixes	New words
Admire	-ation	Admiration
Arrive	-ing	Arriving

• Look at this spell in Spelling: Retaining “e”

Look at this spell in the third column each word formed by joining a word from the first column and the given suffix from the seond column. The example is given  

Word	Suffix	New words
Advantage	-ous	Advantageous
Change	-able	Changeable
Courage	-ous	Courageous

EVALUATION:

Intensive English (Page 173 – 190) Question 1 – 10

ASSIGNMENT

1. Use the following pronouns in sentences

(i) I       (ii) We (iii) Me (iv) Us

• Explain the following
• First person objective case plural
• Third person subjective case singular
• Second person possessive case plural 

WEEK EIGHT

TOPIC: QUESTION TAGS

Question tags are short questions at the end of statements. They are mainly used in speech when we want to:

1. Confirm that something is true or not or
2. To encourage a reply from the person we are speaking to.

Question tags are formed with the auxiliary or modal verb from the statement and the appropriate subject

A positive statement is followed by a negative questions tag.

1. Lanreis from Spain, isn’t  he? Yes he is
2. Many can speak English, can’t he? Yes she can

A negative statement is followed by a positive question tag.

• They aren’t funny, are they? No they are not
• He shouldn’t say things like that, should he?

When the verb in the main sentence is in the present simple we form the question tag with do/does

• You play the guitar, don’t you?
• Alison likes tennis, doesn’t she?

The verb is in the past simple we use did

• They went to the cinema, didn’t  they?
• She studied in New Zealand, didn’t she?

When the statement contains a word with a negative meaning, the question tag need to be positive

1. He hardly ever speaks, does he?
2. They rarely eat in restaurants, do they?

HOMOPHONES

Homophones are wows that have the same sound but different forms (spellings) and meaning

Example:

1. Allowed (“permitted”)                                          (a) Aloud (not silently)

He allowed me to slap him                                                     He spoke aloud

• Stake (“stout stick”)                                                          (b) Steak (slice of beef)

The farmer drove a stake into the ground           I like to eat steak it is usually soft

• Fare (“money changer for a journey)                   (c) fair (=just) it is not fair to condemn

The taxi driver asked for his fare                          he did not commit

• Court (“a plus for trying offences)                                    (d) Caught (past tense of catch

The magistrate is sitting in court                          the thief was chased and caught

• Right (“correct”)                                                   (e) Write (“make letters with pen 

                                                                                           (etc.)

The answer is right                                                             I will unite a letter to you

WEEK NINE

TOPIC: WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH SPORT AND ENTERTAINMENT SOME RELEVANT WORDS

Athletics:        Exercise of physical strength or speed

Contingent:    Group that is a part of a large group

Marathon:      Long – distance race

Podium:          Raised platform

Track suit:       Woolen clothes worn especially by athletes to keep warm before and after exercise.

Football:         Otherwise called soccer, is the most popular game in the world. The playing space is large and is covered with how grace.

Linesman:       Official who assists the referee, especially by deciding whether the ball touches or crosses the line or not, and where, if it does. 

Entertainment

Actor:              Person who takes part in play on stage or in a film

Box – Office:    Office where seats in the theatre are booked and tickets are paid for

Cast:                Actors of a play

Curtain-call:   Call made by the advance to an actor at the end at the play to appear and acknowledge applause

Director:         Person who directs the performance of a play

Usher:             Person who shows people to their seats

EVALUATION

i. Write out ten wows that are associated with sports

ii. Write at ten wows that are associated with entertainment

iii. Transcribe these wows

ASSIGNMENT

Give the meaning (s) of these twenty (20) words and use then in sentences          

Topic : RHYME

Rhyme is simple the saneness or uniformity of sounds in the last syllable in two or more words. Therefore, two wows are said to rhyme with each other when they have the same final consonant sounds or similar or the same final vowel sounds.

It should be borne in mind that the yardstick for determining wows that rhyme is not the spellings of the wows but the sounds that the words produce.

Words may have different spelling and meaning but rhyme because they produce the same sound. For example, although the wows “sweet” and “suite” have different spellings and meaning, they rhyme with each other because they are both pronounced as /swi:t/.

On the other hand, wows may have identical or similar spellings but do not rhyme because the sounds produced by them differ. For example, the words “of” and “off” have close spellings but do not rhyme. While the “f” in “of” has the “V” sounds, the double “ff” in “off” has the “f” sound.

To cap it all, it should be noted that although words that rhyme may not necessarily have the same spelling or identical letters, the rhyming words must have the same phonetic transcription in the last syllables beginning from night to left.

SHORT CLASS WORK

                    /ki:/

1. Query (a) wary (b) day (c) key (d) dual

/dzei/

2. Goal (a) jail (b) goal (c) coal (d) loan

3. Detain (a) obtain (b) detail (c) claim (d) relay

4. Ballet (a) palate (b) chalet (c) fablet (d) blanket

5. Rain (a) herring (b) morning (c) foreign (d) reign

• Laugh (a) life (b) light (c) ghost (d) half

EVALUATION

Explain the term rhyme with adequate examples 

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