THIRD TERM E-LEARNING NOTE

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

WEEKLY TOPICS 

1. Revision of the Last Term’s Examination Questions, Resumption Test,
   • Revision of Tenses in Grammar
   • Narrative: My Holiday Experience   
2. Conditional Clauses; Complex Sentence  
   • Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Publishing 
   • Essay Writing: Speech Writing, Meaning and Features 
3. Speech Work: Stress Patterns
   • Structure: Active and Passive Voice  
   • Vocabulary Development: Prefixes
   • Essay Writing: Article Writing; Explanation and Features
4. Structure: Prepositional Phrase
   • Vocabulary Development: The Use of Dictionary  
   • Grammar: Rules of Concord
   • Comprehension: Bullying (pg 84, Countdown English)
5. Speech Work: Stress Placement on Two or More Syllable Words 
   • Essay writing: Story Writing 
   • Comprehension: Reading for the Writer’s purpose 
   • Vocabulary Development: A Manufacturing Industry
6. Summary writing: Agriculture Technical Aid to Africa p.85
   • Structure: Adjectival Clause 
   • Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Films and TV
7. Speech Work: Vowels /I/ & /I:/
   • Essay Writing: Expository: Raising a Total Child
   • Comprehension: Reading to Identify Sentence Types in a Passage 
   • Structure: Adverbs 
8. Vocabulary Development: Hotel & Catering
   • Summary Writing: Summarising to get Implied Meaning 
   • Structure: Prepositional Phrases 
9. Comprehension: African Plucked Lutes 
   • Structure: Idioms 
   • Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Politics and Government 
   • Writing: Essay Writing; Descriptive Essay: A Festival I Like.
10. Structure: Affixation: Suffixes 
    • Speech Work: Nasal Sounds (/m/ /n/ and /η/)
    • Comprehension/Register: Vocabulary Associated with Transportation
11. Structure: Clauses- Subordinate and Insubordinate   
    • Speech work: Stress on the 5th and 6th syllable 
    • Comprehension: Reading for Implied Meaning and Interpreting Examples
12. Revision
13. Examination 

REFERENCES

1. Montgomery et al: Effective English for S.S 2 (Main                                                   Textbook) Evans PublishersIbadan.
2. Ogunsanwo et al: Countdown to SSCE Evans Publishers Ibadan.
3. Onuigbo S.M: Oral English for Schools and Colleges Africana  Publishers,Enugu. 
4. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary     
5. WAEC Past Questions.