NEW SCHEME OF WORK – ENGLISH LANGUAGE SSS 1
FIRST TERM – ENGLISH LANGUAGE SSS 1
- Oracy Skills: Spoken English
- Selected consonant sounds (j, z, etc.)
- Consonants followed by /w/
- Consonants followed by /j/
- Syllabic consonants /l/
- Consonants sounds followed by K + W
- Consonants followed by /J/ and /U/ sounds
- Vocabulary Development
- Vocabulary Associated with Home and Family
- Vocabulary Associated with Agriculture
- Vocabulary Associated with Fishing and Animal Husbandry-Fishing
- Vocabulary Associated with Animal Husbandry
- Vocabulary Associated with Religion – Traditional Religion
- English Grammatical Structures
- Nouns and Noun Phrases with the Definite Articles
- Countable and Uncountable Nouns
- Introducing Nominalisation of adjectives and verbs
- Literacy Skills: Writing For Effective Communication
- Continuous writing – Narrative
- Letter Writing – informal letter
- Record Keeping
- Oracy Skills: Reading for Comprehension and Effective Study
- Reading to comprehend main ideas or story line
- Reading to comprehend supporting details
- Reading to comprehend word-meanings through context
- Reading to identify the writer’s mood, tone and purpose and the relationship between purpose and tone
- Reading for Summary
- Oracy Skills: Listening For Comprehension
- Listening to grasp main points or ideas (in a speech, conversation, lecture, poem, recorded material, radio broadcast and short debates)
- Listening to identify a speaker’s mood, tone and purpose
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SECOND TERM – ENGLISH LANGUAGE SSS 1
- Oracy Skills: Spoken English
- Words of two syllables, stressed on the second syllable
- Words of three syllables stressed on first, second or third syllables
- Words of four syllables stressed on first, second or third syllables
- Oral Composition skills I; Narrative & Descriptive
- Vocabulary Development
- Vocabulary Associated with Religion – Christian Religion
- Vocabulary Associated with Religion – Islamic Religion
- Other Expressions Associated with Religion
- Antonyms As words (i) Exactly Opposite in Meaning (ii) Nearly Opposite in Meaning
- English Grammatical Structures
- Irregular Verbs
- Complex Tense form
- Phrasal Verbs I
- Phrasal Verbs II
- Literacy Skills: Writing For Effective Communication
- Continuous writing – descriptive
- Semi – Formal letters
- Speech Writing
- Oracy Skills: Reading for Comprehension and Effective Study
- Reading to comprehend main ideas or story line
- Reading to comprehend supporting details
- Reading to comprehend word-meanings through context
- Reading to identify the writer’s mood, tone and purpose and the relationship between purpose and tone
- Reading for Summary
- Oracy Skills: Listening For Comprehension
- Listening to identify details
- Listening for summary through identifying key words
THIRD TERM – ENGLISH LANGUAGE SSS 1
- Oracy Skills: Spoken English
- Stress timing in English Sentences; correct phrasing and voice modulation in continuous prose reading
- Speaking to persuade/convince
- Oral Composition skills II; Expository & Argumentative
- Vocabulary Development
- Synonyms As words (i) With the same Meaning (ii) Nearly same in Meaning
- Words Associated with Profession – Advertising
- Words Associated with Profession – Stock Exchange
- Spelling of Commonly Misspelt words and the use of the dictionary
- English Grammatical Structures
- Adjuncts (Adverbs)
- Complex Sentences
- Compound Sentences
- Literacy Skills: Writing For Effective Communication
- Popular Articles for Various Reading Audiences
- Oracy Skills: Reading for Comprehension and Effective Study
- Reading to comprehend main ideas or story line
- Reading to comprehend supporting details
- Reading to comprehend word-meanings through context
- Reading to identify the writer’s mood, tone and purpose and the relationship between purpose and tone
- Reading for Summary
- Oracy Skills: Listening For Comprehension
- Listening attentively to follow directions effectively
- Listening to tell the meanings of words in context
- Listening to identity a speaker’s style