Lesson Note on English Language SS3 Second Term

SCHEME OF WORK

Week One: Revision on Structures & Clauses and Summary Writing

Week Two: Revision on Direct and Indirect Speech

Week Three: Revision on finite and non-finite clauses

Week Four: Revision on Pronouns and Determiners and Writing a Play

Week Five:

Week Six: Reviews on Vowels/Consonants, Examination Hints and Clichés

Week Seven: Revision on Intonation, Modal verbs and Examination Hints

 

English Language Lesson Note For SS3 (SecondTerm)

Below are the 2022 complete SS3 Second Term English Language Lesson Note 

 Week One: Revision on Structures & Clauses and Summary Writing

INTRODUCTION:

Grammatical Structure: Revision on Sentences and Clauses

You have learned something about clauses and how they function in sentences and how to build up sentences using different types of clauses. Here are some basic points:

• A clause is a group of words containing a verb and its subject (When he met me yesterday is a clause; five hundred naira is a phrase).

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Week Two: Revision on Direct and Indirect Speech

INTRODUCTION:

Grammatical Structure: Direct and Indirect Speech

The word ‘reported’ is often used for the second type; but the truth is that we can ‘report’ EITHER by using ‘direct speech’ OR by using ‘indirect speech’. The difference is that with direct speech we reproduce the actual words of a speaker; with indirect speech we do this ‘indirectly’. To learn more, click here.

Week Three: Revision on finite and non-finite clauses

INTRODUCTION:

Grammatical Structures: Revision on finite and non-finite clauses

What is the structure of the following sentence?

Deterred by the lack of future job prospects,

many Nigerian secondary school students avoid science subjects.

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Week Four: Revision on Pronouns and Determiners and Writing a Play

INTRODUCTION:

Grammatical Structures: Pronouns and Determiners (Revision)

Pronouns and Determiners are word classes in which we find some of the most common and useful words in English. The difference between them is that a pronoun is used in a place of a noun and a determiner is followed by a noun (or by an adjective, then by a noun). To learn more, click here.

Week Five:

Week Six: Reviews on Vowels/Consonants, Examination Hints and Clichés

INTRODUCTION:

Speech Work: Revision of Vowels and Consonants

Vowels:

/i:/	‘ee’ in greet, ‘ea’ in treat
/i/	‘I’ in simple, cripple
/e/	‘e’ in bet, set, let
/æ/	‘a’ in mat, cat

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Week Seven: Revision on Intonation, Modal verbs and Examination Hints

INTRODUCTION:

Spoken English: Revision on Intonation

There are many different intonation patterns, but the key element in each one is a certain type of tone or change in pitch – falling (↓), rising (↑) or falling-rising (↓↑). An arrow here indicates the tone of the following syllable.To learn more, click here.