PREVIEW OF LESSON NOTE ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE
CLASS: SSS2 First Term
REFERENCE: New Oxford English Secondary English Course 2 (NOSEC)
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WEEK ONE | LESSON ONE ———————————————————– 4 ANSWERING QUESTIONS ON COMPREHENSION – A REVIEW 4 COMPREHENSION EXERCISE – PAGE 5 4 LESSON TWO | CONSONANT CLUSTER 4 LESSON THREE | VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT – WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN INTERNAL BODY SYSTEM AND FUNCTION 5 EXTRA LESSON ONE | GENERIC NOUN 6 EXTRA LESSON TWO | ANSWERING QUESTIONS ON SUMMARY – A REVIEW 6 EXTRA LESSON THREE | PUNCTUATION: CAPITAL LETTER (UPPER CASE) 7 WEEK TWO | LESSON ONE ———————————————————– 8 WEEK THREE | LESSON ONE ———————————————————– 11 WEEK FOUR | LESSON ONE ———————————————————– 14 WEEK FIVE | LESSON ONE ———————————————————– 19 WEEK SIX | LESSON ONE ———————————————————– 23 WEEK 7 | MID-TERM TEST ———————————————————– 26 WEEK EIGHT | LESSON ONE ———————————————————– 26 WEEK NINE | LESSON ONE ———————————————————– 29 WEEK TEN | LESSON ONE ———————————————————– 33 WEEK ELEVEN | REVISION ———————————————————– 35 |
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WEEK ONE | LESSON ONE
ANSWERING QUESTIONS ON COMPREHENSION – A REVIEW
The aspect of English Language curriculum known as reading comprehension is meant to train students to efficiently understand what they read. This does not only apply to this subject but to all other subjects where the language, English is used.
The word, comprehension means understanding. A key to understanding a comprehension passage is identifying the topic sentence. There is a general topic sentence that is usually at the beginning of a passage which hints you about the theme of the passage you are reading. Once you grasp this topic sentence, your frame of reference is activated. This would enable you to understand the passage better with more efficiency.
Read the passage titled ‘A Journey for Resumption’ on page four and try to identify the topic sentences. Then, read the passage that follows it and answer the questions on it.
COMPREHENSION EXERCISE – PAGE 5
ANSWER
a) Do the right thing at the right time.
b) [i] They are passive in the class [ii] They sneak in and out of the class.
c) [i] Overpopulation in schools [ii] Inadequate seats
d) Luck
e) [i] Relative clause [ii] It qualifies the noun, ‘students’
f) [i] Personification [ii] examinations are about to start
g) [i] valid – true
[ii] Skip – avoid
[iii] Negative – wrong, evil, untoward
[iv] Postponed – shifted
[v] Demonstrate – showcase, prove
[vi] Diligent – hardworking, responsible
LESSON TWO | CONSONANT CLUSTER
Consonant cluster exists where two or more consonant sounds occur at the beginning or at the end of a syllable. It is important to note that, cluster is not just about consonants but consonant sounds. Thus, spelling is inadequate to determine consonant cluster in a lot of cases. A good knowledge of phoneme and syllable structure is essential.
A syllable is the smallest unit of speech that we can pronounce. It has three parts, namely: a beginning or release, a centre or nucleus, and an end or arrest. Only consonants occur at the beginning and at the end of a syllable. Syllables don’t always have all the three parts, but where all the three parts are present, vowel sound takes the nucleus position. While there can be clusters of consonant sounds at the beginning and/or at the end of a syllable, only one vowel sound can be present at the centre of a syllable. In other words, cluster does not exist in the middle of a syllable.
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| Word | Beginning | Centre | Ending | Syllable Structure |
Phoneme |
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| eye | /- | ai | -/ | V | /ai/ |
| tie | /t | ai | -/ | CV | /tai/ |
| tight | /t | ai | t/ | CVC | /tait/ |
WORDS WITH VISIBLE CONSONANT CLUSTERS
These are words in which both spelling and pronunciation are consistent in showing they consist consonant clusters.
| Word | Phoneme | Syllable Structure |
|---|---|---|
| Play | /plei/ | CCV |
| Pray | /prei/ | CCV |
| Plate | /pleit/ | CCVC |
| Ask | /a:sk/ | VCC |
| Bend | /bend/ | CVCC |
| Pots | /pɒts/ | CVCC |
| Sweet | /swi:t/ | CCVC |
Note that some words are spelt with consonant sequence but they lack consonant cluster when pronounced. This is due to silent sounds. Example: doubt, talk, island, pneumatic, knife, knight,etc.
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LESSON THREE | VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT – WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN INTERNAL BODY SYSTEM AND FUNCTION
Kidney, heart, liver, lungs, spleen, stomach, intestine, skeleton, etc
Kidney: This is a pair of reddish bean shaped organs found in the abdomen. The kidneys produce urine and excreta as waste product of metabolism.
Kidney diseases: diuresis, kidney stone, dropsy, oedema, etc.
If a kidney disease is not treated, it can lead to kidney failure. Kidney disease can be treated by dialysis – the use of machine to remove urea. A surgical solution to kidney failure is kidney transplant.
Lungs – This is a pair of pale pink broad organs found in the chest region, mainly for respiration and gaseous exchange.
Spleen – This organ serves as a reservoir for blood in the body.
Heart – This is a muscular structure found in the thoracic (chest) region. It pumps blood through the arteries to other parts of the body.
Brain – The brain is the centre of reasoning and intelligence. It controls the nerves system in the body.
Oesophagus– This is a long tube that connects the mouth to the stomach
EXTRA LESSON ONE | GENERIC NOUN
Generic nouns are nouns that refer to all members of a class or group. They are often used when making generalisations or talking about universal truths. Generic nouns can be singular or plural, and can be used with or without articles. See the following:
i. I don’t have a book to read at the moment.
ii. My book fell in the mud when I got off the bus.
iii. A book is a window into a new world.
iv. The book is the most important human invention.
v. Books are windows into new worlds.
The use of the noun ‘book’ in (i) and (ii) above is not generic but as common noun. Whereas, in sentences (iii), (iv) and (v), the noun ‘book’ is used as a generic noun. Note also that in (iii), noun phrase was made with the indefinite article ‘a’. In sentence (iv) it was made with a definite article ‘the’, and in (v) the noun was in plural form.
Generally, common nouns take the determiners ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’ except in some cases such as ‘chicken pox’, ‘malaria’, ‘influenza’ ‘HIV’, etc. Proper nouns don’t take determiners except in some cases such as The Gambia, The Hague, etc.
EVALUATION:
Exercise F 1-10 on page 9
ANSWER:
(1) a (2) _ (3) _ (4) _ (5) _ (6) the (7) the (8) a (9) _ (10) the
Reading Assignment: read ‘Summary Writing (Introduction)’ on page 7.
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EXTRA LESSON TWO | ANSWERING QUESTIONS ON SUMMARY – A REVIEW
Your ability to read a summary passage efficiently and answer its questions from your understanding without returning endlessly to the passage is essential. This is why you need to asterisk or underline the title statements and keywords with a pencil at your first reading. Make a habit of jotting out the keywords and closing your textbook before constructing your summary sentences, off hand, without re-reading the passage. By doing so, you would free yourself of the temptation to copy strings of words verbatim. You would also be able to bolster your resolve to excluding example, analogy, illustration and repetition, but using only the main points in your sentences.
You should also avoid the use of paragraph linkers such as ‘in addition’, ‘furthermore’, ‘also’, ‘another’, ‘first…second…’, etc. Ensure to indent the first line of your paragraph at about one centimetre (1cm), and end each sentence with a full stop (or the appropriate terminal punctuation). Write a sentence per paragraph. Do not use flowery languages like figures of speech and idioms.
EXTRA LESSON THREE | PUNCTUATION: CAPITAL LETTER (UPPER CASE)
USES:
1. The first letter of the first word in a sentence is written in capital letter.
2. Names of persons start with capital letter, e.g. Donald, Abike, Abubakar, etc.
3. Names of the days of the week and the months of the year start with capital letters. Example: I saw you on the last Friday of September.
4. Names of towns, cities, villages, countries, and languages e.g. Ota, Ekpoma, Onitsha, Kaduna, Ghana, etc. This is Nigeria, the language spoken is the British English, Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo.
5. Name of mountains, oceans, seas, rivers, etc, starts with a capital letter. Example: having seen the Zuma, we sailed through the Niger-Benue confluence in Lokoja to the Atlantic Ocean.
6. The first person singular pronoun “I” is written in capital letter no matter where it appears in a sentence.
EVALUATION
Exercise A-C on page on
ANSWER
a. One Monday morning, Alhaji Musa was travelling from Kaduna to Zaria with his friend Dr Salami. They were going to see Mr Sofowora with whom they had worked i Lagos, Abuja and Enugu.
b. The ‘Oloolu’ traditional festival in Ibadan and the Osun-Oshogbo cultural festival are two of the many traditional festivals among the Yoruba speaking people of Nigeria.
c. The 1996 Atlanta Olympic gold medal in football event was won by the Nigerian contingent. Do you know the name of the technical adviser?
ASSIGNMENT: Exercise D-J on page 11.
ASSIGNMENT: Summary exercise “Oil Palm Industry” on page 25.
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