SS 2 FIRST TERM ENGLISH STUDIES LESSON NOTE SCHEME OF WORK PLAN

FIRST TERM E-LEARNING NOTE

SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASS: SS 2

SCHEME OF WORK

WEEK TOPIC

1. Comprehension: Reading for Main Points
(i) Structure: Revision on Nominalization of Adjectives and Verbs.
(ii) Speech Work: Review of Consonants Followed by /j/ and /u/ Sounds. Summary: Revision of the Features of Summary.

2. (i) Comprehension – Learning about Main Ideas and Supporting Details Unit 1:
Basketball, pg 19
(ii) Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with the Human Body System and Functions
(iii) Speech Work: Cluster of Two, Three and Four Consonants
(iv) Writing (Expository): Meaning, Features and Examples

3. (i) Comprehension: Reading to Follow Writer’s Ideas; Unit 2: Insurance, pg 33
(ii) Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Health e.g. diagnosis, contagious etc.
(iii) Structure: Noun Phrases: Meaning, Identification and Functions

4. Summary (Reading to Summarise): NnamdiAzikwe,pg 26
Vocabulary Development – Words Associated with Building and Building
Construction.
Writing – (Narrative) Meaning, Features and Examples.
Structure – Relative Pronouns

5. Comprehension Reading For Main Points – 2; Unit 4; Building,pg 66
Speech Work: Unstressed Vowel Sound /ə /
Writing (Argumentative) “Corruption Should be fought from the top to the bottom”

6. Comprehension:Reading to Extract the Main Points from a Passage: Unit 6; On the Road pg 90
Structure: Sentence Types
Speech Work: Stress OfFour Syllable Words
Writing: Descriptive: “Valedictory Ceremony in My School”

7. (i) Comprehension: Reading to Take Notes; Unit 7; Technology, pg 104
Structure: Adverb – Types (Manner, Place, Time, Frequency, Degree etc.)
Summary: Reading to Summarise an Argument

8. Structure: Word Modifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs
Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Colours, Smell and Taste
Comprehension (Listening); Unit 8; Uganda’s National Resistance Army, pg 119
Writing: A Report

9. Structure: Plural Forms of Nouns
Speech Work: Stress of Five Syllable Words
Writing – Creative Writing: Features of a Short Story.
Summary Writing – Identifying Topic Sentences: Agriculture; Technical Aid Corps Proposed for Africa.

10. Comprehension: Reading to Paraphrase a Prose Passage; Unit 5; Nazruddin, pg 80
Structure: Phrasal Verbs.
Writing: Features and Format of an Informal Letter.

11. Revision

12. Examination

REFERENCE

● Montgomery et al: Effective English for SS 2 ( Main Text) Evans Publishers, Ibadan
● Ogunsanya et al: Countdown to SSCE, Evans Publisher, Ibadan.
● Onuigbo S.M: Oral English for Schools and Colleges, Africana Publishers, Enugu.
● Ayo Banjo et al: New Oxford Secondary English Course SS 2. University Press PLC, Ibadan
● FoluAgoi: Towards Effective Use of English. A grammar of Modern English
● Ayo Akano: Maclimillan Mastery English Language for Senior Secondary Schools, Macmillan Nigeria Publishrs limited, Ibadan
● Ken Mebele et al: Goodbye to Failure in English for Senior Schools, Book 2, Treasure Publishers LTD, Lagos.
● Benson O. A Oluikpe et al: Intensive English for Senior Secondary Schools, 2 Africanal Publishers LTD, Onitsha.
● Oxford, Advanced Learners Dictionary.
● WAEC Past Questions.