Scheme of Work English Language SS2 3rd term

WEEKS

TOPICS/CONTENTS

1.

Resumption test

Revision of 2^nd Term Question Papers and Work

Copying of Scheme of Work

2.

a) Vocabulary Development Prefixes as Word Extension Making for New Markings Prefixes: un-mis-il-in-, etc. e.g.,

1. un-healthy: unhealthy belief unbelief

2. mis-spell: misspell; understand: misunderstanding

3. illegitimate: illegitimate

4. ir-adequate: inadequate: equality: inequality: appropriate: inappropriate.

5. im-poassible: impossible: polite: impolite: mature: immature

b) Oracy Skills-Spoke: English Intonation- Falling Tune

Statemen:

1. There will be a match in the National Stadium tomorrow

2. There will be a class quiz tomorrow evening

Wh-questions:

3. ‘Which terms are playing tonight?’

4. ‘When will there be a match at the National Stadium?’

3.

a) Literacy Skills- Reading for Comprehension: Reading to Paraphrase Poems and Dramatic Works

1. Drama:

(a) theme

(b) Features: i. costumes ii. Props iii. Performance iv. Audience, play director

2. Poetry:

a. Type, e.g. dirge, epic, lyric, dramatic

b. Language: i. concise ii. Unique iii.  High

b) Grammar: Phrasal Verbs with more than One Particle

Verbs with more than one panicle e.g.,

a. go  + or with

   go   + through with

   go   + back on

b. look + out for

   look  + down on

   put  + in for

c. put  + up with

d.  do + away with

keep  + away with

4.

a) Vocabulary Development: Presentative Prefixes

‘Re’ as in

work – rework;

examine – re-examine

affirm – reaffirm, etc.

assure – reassure

consider – reconsider

count – recount

cast – recast

elect – re-elect

form – reform

b) Literacy Skills- Writing for Communication: Creative Writing

1. Features of a short play or a story, e.g., plot characterization, style, setting, theme

2. Features of a poem. E.g. high concise language, use of verse, imagery. Etc.

5.

a) Vocabulary Development: Suffixes

e.g.

- able - age- ariar - cide- ette - ify     

b) Literary Skills- Reading for Comprehension: Reading to Pick out Topic Sentences in Paragraphs and Longer Selections

1. Selected passages from the main text    

2. Selected passages from a magazine on punctuality and regularity                                                                            

3. Passages from the dailies on:

a. devotion to duty

b. co-operation

c. fairness in dealing with others      

6.

a) Oracy Skills- Spoken English: Intonation: - Rising Tune

1. ‘Will you come home tonight?’

2. ‘Can David do that for me?’

3. ‘Help me with this, please’

4. ‘Do this for me. Will you?’

b) Literacy Skills- Writing for Communication: Free Writing

1. A short write-up, such as a story; poem, play on anything of interest or a personal experience

2. Short stories dealing with daily events

3. Features of short stories, plays and poems with particular attention to literacy devices rhyme, rhythm, simile, metaphor etc.

c) Grammar: Adjuncts

1. Meaning (basically adverbials modifying verbs)

2. Types: Adjuncts of place, time, manner, purpose, reason, e.g

a. He was at home (place)

b. He came in the morning (time)

c. He came quickly (manner)

d. He came for me (purpose)

7.

MID-TERM TEST AND BREAK

8.

a) Oracy Skills- Spoken English: Speaking Skills: Argument/Debate

1. ‘Capitalism is better than communism’

2. ‘We need health educators and inspectors, not doctors’

3. ‘University education should be compulsory for all’

b) Oracy Skills – Spoken English: Making a Toast

1. Meaning of toast:

2. Occasions for a toast:

Celebration of birthday, marriage, graduation, chieftaincy title, baptism, child dedication, house warming etc.

c) Vocabulary Development: Spelling of Words (the Use of the Dictionary)

Some words mis-spelt: deliberate, secretary, tomorrow, necessary, suffer, suffered, supplementary, complimentary, popular, population. Etc.

9.

a) Oracy Skills- Spoken English: Speaking to Persuade, Convince and Sway Opinion

1. Selected passages

2. Passages from the main text

3. Passages from magazines that are relevant

4. Passages from dailies, supplementing, etc especially on topics like:

a. cultism    

b. population/family life education,

c. environmental issues

b) Literacy Skills- Reading for Comprehension: Reading for Specific Structural Pattern

1. Selected passages from the main text

2. Magazine on topics such as

a. unemployment and restiveness

b. gender issues

c. deregulation

d. human rights issues

e. religious and ethnic conflicts

10

a) Grammar: Complex Sentence Structure

1. Complex sentences contain at least two clauses

2. Complex sentences are formed with connectors

3. A complex sentence is the combination of an independent clause with a dependent: clause, e.g. ‘When the man was sleeping, the dog ate his meat’

Oracy Skills- Spoken English: Giving Clear Concise and Correct Directions

1. Relevant textbooks

2. Passages that have to do with new locations such as:

a. travelling to a new town, village, market

b. way to cities like Lagos, Abuja

11.

Revision

12-13.

Examination and Closing