SS Three
English Language
Second Term
2023/2024 Session Secondary School Resumption Dates: Mon 18-09-2023 for 1st Term Mon 08-01-2024 for 2nd Term Mon 29-04-2024 for 3rd Term
SS3 English Language 2nd Term Scheme of Work by Week. Click HERE to jump to ANY WEEK
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Period 1: Welcome test
Period 2: Vocabulary Development – Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions
At the end of the lesson students should be able to identify idioms, state their meaning and use them in speech and writing.
An idiom is a phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative meaning
What is an antonym? An antonym simply refers to contrast in meaning. That is a word of opposite meaning, e.g. hot and cold.
Period 1: Vocabulary Development – Collocations
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to readily make use of words that usually go together
Collocation is a group of two or more words that usually go together. The combined words must sound correct, especially to the native speaker of English.
Period 2: Speech – Revising Consonant Sounds
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to identify the letter that carries the word which has the phonetic symbol
All the phonetic Symbols of Consonant Sounds used to represent the sounds of English.
What is Intonation? Intonation is the melody of our speech. It is the ‘music’ of the language. It defines how our voice goes up and down in pitch. Often, questions can be asked with a rising intonation where the pitch goes up. This might be a genuine question to which you don’t know the answer. ‘John’s still on holiday?’ said with a rising pitch means it’s a question which needs an answer. If it’s said without a rising intonation, it’s information that you already know and you may just need confirmation. Intonation can also show emotions like surprise, etc
Period 1: Vocabulary Development – Collocations (Recap)
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to identify words that go together
Collocation is a group of two or more words that usually go together. The combined words must sound correct, especially to the native speaker of English.
Period 2: Summary – WAEC 2013 Question 8 (Practice)
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to read a given passage and reduce it to few sentences.
Summary is giving a precise information from a lengthy passage.
Period 1: Vocabulary Development – Words of Foreign Origin : Latin
At the end of the lesson, Learners should be able to identify and use Latin words
Use your dictionary to look up the meaning of these Latin words: alumnus, de facto, memoranda, ad infinitum, ego, alter ego, defacto, , pro rata, sub-judice, Semi-, Pro-, intra-.
Period 2: Structure – Revising Compound Sentence
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to
i. identify how sentences are classified according to structure
ii. form a compound sentence and be able to use them In writing Essays
A compound sentence comprises two or more clauses that are of equal importance. They are usually linked together with conjunctions
Period 1: Vocabulary Development / Speech
Words of Foreign Origin : Greek and French
Speech on Consonants /h/, /l/, /r/, /j/,/w/
Period 2: Summary – Reading a passage
Period 3: Structure on Adjectival Phrases and Clauses
Period 1: Vocabulary Development / Speech
Words related to Advertising / Speech on Consonants /m/, /n/, /ŋ/
Period 2: Summary – Summarizing a passage
Period 3: Structure on Noun clause and phrase
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After each of the following sentences, a list of possible interpretations of all or part of the sentence is given. Choose the interpretation that you consider most appropriate for the sentence.
