Lesson Note on English Language Jss2 Second Term

SCHEME OF WORK

Week One: Revision of last term’s work Speech Work: Revision of Diphthongs, Grammar: Reported Speech and Composition: Writing a report

Week Two: Speech work: Intonation, Grammar: Making sentences with Prepositions, Reading for speed, Vocabulary: Law and Justice and Composition: A report on an accident I have witnessed}

Week Three: Speech work: Intonation, Grammar: Regular and Irregular Verbs, Reading: Techniques of speed, Vocabulary: Culture and Tourism and Composition: informal letter to a friend about your school inter-house sport

Week Four: peech Work: Stress, Grammar: Reported commands, Vocabulary: ICT and Composition: Formal letter to the local government chairman}

Week Five: Grammar: Reported Requests and Composition: Argumentative essay on herbal and orthodox medicines}

Week Six: Speech Work: Review of Stress/Intonation, Grammar: Adverbials and Present Tense, Vocabulary: Science and Technology, Composition: Expository essay on Entrepreneurship and Literature: Figure of Speech}

Week Seven: Speech work: Consonants /s/ and /z/, Grammar: Introduction to Punctuation Marks and Composition: Narrative essay on my last birthday

Week Eight: Speech Work: Consonants /k/ and /g/ And Grammar: The Full Stop and Comma}

Week Nine: Speech Work: Consonant Sounds /m/, /n/ and /Ƞ/ And Grammar: The Question mark, Colon and Semi-colon

Week Ten: Revision

Week Eleven: Examination

English Language Lesson Note For JSS2 (SecondTerm)

Below are the 2022 complete JSS1 Second Term English Language Lesson Note 

 

Week One: Revision of last term’s work Speech Work: Revision of Diphthongs, Grammar: Reported Speech and Composition: Writing a report

INTRODUCTION:

There are two speech forms in English Language. We have Direct Speech and Indirect Speech.

Direct Speech is used when a person makes a statement directly, not quoting anyone. It requires the use of inverted commas, to quote the statement made.

Example: “I want to go to the mall”, Bola said.

To learn more, click here.

Week Two: Speech work: Intonation, Grammar: Making sentences with Prepositions, Reading for speed, Vocabulary: Law and Justice and Composition: A report on an accident I have witnessed}

INTRODUCTION:

Intonation is a variation in the pitch level of one’s voice, when speaking, or during articulation. It refers to how the voice rises, and falls, during a speech, in order to communicate different meanings in expressions of different kinds.

FUNCTIONS OF INTONATION

• It is used to differentiate one statement from another, in terms of its function; be it a command, statement, or command.

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Week Three: Speech work: Intonation, Grammar: Regular and Irregular Verbs, Reading: Techniques of speed, Vocabulary: Culture and Tourism and Composition: informal letter to a friend about your school inter-house sport

INTRODUCTION:

A verb is used to depict action and doing. There are different forms and properties of verbs, such as transitive and intransitive verbs, regular and irregular verbs, finite and non-finite verbs, auxiliary verbs, modal verbs, etc.

In this lesson, we would be examining the regular and irregular verbs.

Regular Verbs: These are verbs that have a consistent pattern, in how they change to their past tense and past participle form. They have different categories, based on what is used to alter them from the base word to the simple past and past participle form. To learn more, click here.

Week Four: Speech Work: Stress, Grammar: Reported commands, Vocabulary: ICT and Composition: Formal letter to the local government chairman}

INTRODUCTION:

Stress is an important aspect of the English language, and it is closely related to Syllable. In the English language, words are divided into syllables and stressed according to the stress patterns that occur in them.

Stress refers to the emphasis that is placed on certain syllables in a word when speaking. It is important, as it affects the meaning that words convey. To learn more, click here.

Week Five: Grammar: Reported Requests and Composition: Argumentative essay on herbal and orthodox medicines}

INTRODUCTION:

Reported speech has to do with reporting in the present, what a person said in the past. It is also known as Indirect Speech.

A request is when a person asks another person to do something; it is usually said politely. Reported requests are part of reported speech.  When reporting requests, verbs like: ask, beg, implore, request, advise, etc. are used. To learn more, click here.

Week Six: Speech Work: Review of Stress/Intonation, Grammar: Adverbials and Present Tense, Vocabulary: Science and Technology, Composition: Expository essay on Entrepreneurship and Literature: Figure of Speech}

INTRODUCTION:

An adverbial is a word, or group of words, that performs the function of an adverb. They are used to modify or describe a sentence and the verb in it. They are closely related to an adverb, as they perform part of its function

Adverbials can appear anywhere in a sentence, whether at the beginning, middle or end. To learn more, click here.

Week Seven: Speech work: Consonants /s/ and /z/, Grammar: Introduction to Punctuation Marks and Composition: Narrative essay on my last birthday

INTRODUCTION:

Consonants are sounds that are articulated with a complete or partial closure of the vocal organs. There are 24 consonant sounds in the English language, and while 8 are voiceless, 16 of them are voiced.

The consonant sounds in the English Language are:

Voiceless Consonant Sounds: /p/, /t/, /k/, /f/, /Ꝋ/, /s/, /ʃ/, /ʧ/

Voiced Consonant Sounds: /b/, /d/, /g/, /v/, /z/, /ʒ/, /ʤ/, /m/, /n/, /Ƞ/, /l/, /r/, /ժ/

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Week Eight: Speech Work: Consonants /k/ and /g/ And Grammar: The Full Stop and Comma}

INTRODUCTION:

The /k/ and /g/ are both velar plosive sounds. While the sound /k/ is voiceless, the sound /g/ is a voiced sound.

The /k/ sound is a voiceless velar plosive sound, that is produced with the back of the tongue, making contact with the back of the mouth, and then air is suddenly released.

Pronounce the following words, with the /k/ sound: like, king, kite, kit, cream, castle, etc. To learn more, click here.

Week Nine: Speech Work: Consonant Sounds /m/, /n/ and /Ƞ/ And Grammar: The Question mark, Colon and Semi-colon

INTRODUCTION:

Consonant sounds are sounds that are produced with an obstruction in the articulatory organs. The /m/, /n/ and /Ƞ/ sounds are nasal sounds, and this means that during pronunciation, the air is expelled through the nose.

The /m/ sound is a voiced nasal bilabial sound.  It is a nasal sound because, when it is pronounced, the air is released through the nose. And it is bilabial because, the lips come together when it is pronounced, and it is voiced because the vocal cords vibrate when it is pronounced. To learn more, click here.

Week Ten: Revision

This week, we would be doing a revision of all that we learned during the term.

Week Eleven: Examination

Afterwards, we would write an examination, which would test our knowledge of what has been taught so far.