Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Junior Secondary School 2

TERM: 2ND TERM

SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE

CLASS: JSS 2

REFERENCES

1. Effective English JSS2 by Evans
2. Exam Focus for JSCE by BolajiAremo
3. The New Students’ Companion by Chris Talbot
4. English Grammar for JSS by P.O Olatunbosun
5. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

WEEK SEVEN

TOPIC:

1. Speech Work: Consonant Contrasts /s/ and /z/, /ð/ and /Ó¨/
2. Grammar: Regular and Irregular Verbs
3. Listening Comprehension: A Talk about Kofi Annan P.144
4. Writing: Topic Sentences P.146

Speech Work:

Content: Practicing sounds /s/, /z/ and /Ó¨/

Listen and say:

/Ó¨/

Theme, thank, thick, thorn, thin, both, sheath, north, forth, bath, through, thief, thought, throw, third, pith, path, oath, earth, cloth, breath, wrath, both, north, moth.

/ð/ this, those, that, breathe, writhe

EVALUATION: Do the minimal pairing of these words.

READING ASSIGNMENT: Effective English P. 145, 149.

Grammar: Regular and Irregular Verbs

Most verbs form their past tense and past participle by adding ‘d’ or ‘ed’ and their present participle by adding ‘ing’.

Examples of Regular verbs:

Irregular verbs form their past tense and past participle differently.

EVALUATION:  Write out the past and past participle forms of the following verbs: ring, run, say, see, sing, stand, swim, take, teach, throw, write, pray, mail, use, lap.

READING ASSIGNMENT: Student’s Companion pg. 84-94

Listening Comprehension

Content: A Talk about Kofi Annan

Listen attentively to the comprehension passage about to be read to you and answer the questions that follow.

EVALUATION: The practice on p. 144. Effective English JSS 2

Writing Skill

Content: To Learn the Use of a Topic Sentence.

The first sentence of a paragraph often tells the reader what the paragraph will be about. This helps the reader. For example, paragraph 5 of the passage on page 141 of Effective English JSS 2 begins with the topic sentence: During his life, MallamAminu Kano held many important positions. The rest of the paragraph mentions some of these positions. Sometimes the first sentence only gives a clue on what the paragraph will be about. For example, paragraph 4 states….

When MallamAminu Kano became a politician, he did not join the Northern People’s Congress (NPC)… Since it tells us what he did not join, we can perhaps guess that the paragraph will tell us what party he did belong to, and so it does.

EVALUATION: Effective English JSS 2 P.146 practice 3 (1-2)

GENERAL EVALUATION/REVISION questions.

Change the tense in the following sentences to the simple past tense.

1. I think I’ll go for a swim.
2. I visit my grandparents thrice a month.
3. The plane takes off at 11:00am.
4. She fetches water daily.
5. Amadu throws the ball to Musa who flings the ball at the goal with all his might.

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT

1.  Effective English JS2, Test for Continuous Assessment pg 165 no 1 (a-h) Effective English
2. Write the correct form of the verb in parentheses.

1. We have (began, begun) to move at last.
2. The canalboat (blew, blown) its whistle when we moved away from the pier.
3. The captain had (chose, chosen) to leave early.
4. He has ( left, leaved) early several times.
5. I wish my sister had (come, came) too.