ORACY SKILLS; INTONATION:FALLING TONE

SS2  ENGLISH

RESUMPTION TEST

Use capital letters to indicate the stressed syllable in the following words.

A )revolutionary

B). internationally

c)  sustainability

d) experimentation

e) inevitability

f)  congregationalism

g) pedagogically

h) dependability

SS 2 ENGLISH

WEEK2 PERIOD 2

TOPIC: ORACY SKILLS; INTONATION:FALLING TONE

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: By the end of today’  lesson, the students should be able to;

1. Explain the term “falling tone”
2. Give three examples of falling tone
3. Recognise and use the appropriate intonation pattern associated with statements, commands , and WH- questions.

 

INTRODUCTION

Intonation is the way the pitch or the levelof the voice goes up and down when we speak. For proper pronunciation of the English words, appropriate intonation must be given to speech. Intonation helps to give some musical rhythmic pattern to what we say. Without intonation, our speech will sound monotonous. Intonation is used to convey the attitudinal meaning of the speaker’sutterance . Intonation is used to locate the centre of information and the exact meaning within each intonation unit by the use of such factors as; extra loudness, reinforced stress, and more emphasis on the selected syllable or word

 

FALLING TONE; This means a fall in human voice when speaking from a high to a low pitch. The falling  tone is usually decisive, authoritative, and final. It is used in the following instance.

 

1. To make complete statement  eg

1. The weather is very hot↘
2. I went to the market yesterday↘

C .MrChike is a lecturer↘

 

2. To give commands

1. Get out of my way↘
2. Drop your gun↘
3. Close that door↘

3.To ask WH-questions (These are questions introduced with interrogative words such as;Why, What, Where, When,How,etc)

Eg a Who are you?↘

B Why is the dog barking?↘

c.Where are you going?↘

 

ASSIGNMENT

Give five sentence examples for each of the following.

1. commands

B statements         C. WH- questions

 

 

WEEK3

SUBJECT:  ENGLISH STUDIES.

CLASS;SS2

 

TOPIC: READING COMPREHENSION; READING TO PARAPHRASE POEMS AND DRAMATIC WORKS.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES; By the end of today’s lesson, the students are expected to;

1. Read a given poem with understanding.
2. Identify the figures of speech in the poem.
3. Paraphrase a given poem.
4. Write a poem.

 

 

INTRODUCTION

A paraphrase is a rewrite of a text, making the meaning clearer. A paraphrase exercise is a test of the student’s language skill at writing a good composition, being able to identify the main ideas in the poem ,and arranging these ideasin his own words correctly .

            A paraphrase, therefore, is your own version of the essential information and ideas that are expressed by someone in poems and dramatic works, You are , in essence, presenting the work of another person in a new form.

Example

Original text: If God be for us, no one can be against us.

Paraphrased text: No one can be against us once God supports us.

Now read the poem and possible paraphrase.

Get off this estate

‘Get off this estate’                       

              ‘what for?’

‘because it’s mine.’

             Where did you get it?                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

‘From my father.’

                                ‘Where did he get it?’

‘From his father;

                                 ‘And where did he get it?’

‘He fought for it’

                    ‘well, I’ll fight you for it!’

                                                          Carl Sandburg

PARAPHRASE:                                                                                                                                                              The poet imagines a dialogue taking place between a landowner and a man. The landowner orders the man to get off his estate. The man questions the landowner’s right to the land, and the landowner replies that he inherited it from his father. Asked where his father obtained it, the landowner says that his father fought for it. Whereupon the man says that he will fight for it too.

      Looking at the above poem and the paraphrase given,you can observe that the most dominant figures of speech used by the poet are dialogue and paradox. The strong simple dialogue makes the logic of overthrowing the status quo very simple. The poet in his use of paradox expresses that if you respect tradition, you must also respect the need for, or the possibility of, change.

 

ASSIGNMENT.

Read the poem  in unit 12, page 136 of your New Concept English textbook and write a suitable paraphrase for it.

 

 

WEEK3  PERIOD II

TOPIC:  GRAMMAR ; PHRASAL VERBS WITH MORE THAN ONE PARTICLE

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: By the end of today’s lesson the students should be able to;

1. State the meaning of phrasal verbs.
2. Identify verbs which take more than one particle’
3. Use such verbs correctly in sentences

 

INTRODUCTION

Phrasal verbs are idiomatic combination of a verb and an adverb or a verb and a preposition or with both adverb and preposition. In other words, an English phrasal verb is a type of a compound that is made up of two or more words, one of which must be a verb, the other an adverb or a preposition or both an adverb and a preposition.

For example;

1. The principal turned down my request.
2. She set about making a new dress.
3. I can no longer put up with her behavior

 

In the first sentence – turned down is made up of a verb +an adverb. The second sentence- set about is made up of a verb + a preposition. Third sentence is a combination of a verb and  two particles- ; the verb (put)

                    The adverb (up)

             The preposition(with).

Study the following examples and their meanings

 

PHRASAL VERBS          MEANING

Ask out                           invite

Cut down                        reduce

Do up                               fasten

Figure out                         to understand

Get away                            escape

 

Examples of phrasal verbs with two particles and their meanings

 

Look in on                    visit someone

Team up with             make a partnership

Go through with        continue to the end

Hit back at                   attack one’s attacker

Stand in for                 replace someone

Look out for              search for something/ someone

 

EXERCISE

Replace the word in the bracket with a phrasal verb taken from the list below.

 

Live up with

Fall back on

Stand up to

Run out of

Getting on for

 

 

1. How old is your elder brother? He is (approaching ) thirty.
2. The supermarket has ( exhausted its stock of) baking powder.
3. That student is a great bully; no student dares to (resist) him.
4. I earn a small salary but I have some savings to ( use also, if the salary proves insufficient)