Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Junior Secondary School 2

SUBJECT:  ENGLISH LANGUAGE      

CLASS:  JSS2

DATE:

TERM: 3RD TERM

REFERENCES

• Effective English JSS 2 by Evans
• Exam focus for JSCE by BolajiAremo et al
• The New Student’s Companion by Up et al
• English Grammar for JSS by P.O. Olatunbosun
• College Essays for Basic 8 by C.O. Odetula
• Sunrise Poetry by OlusolaFadiya

WEEK FIVE

TOPIC: Grammar

CONTENT: Antonyms

Antonyms are words of opposite meaning. Examples :

Above- below

Accelerate- retard

Actie- passive

Adult-child

Amateur-professional

Assemble-disperse

Barren-fertile

Benevolent-malevolent

Brother-sister

Cautious-reckless

Coarse-fine

Celestial-terrestial

Dynamic-static

Emigrant-immigrant

Freeze-thaw

EVALUATION

Write the antonyms of these words: immoral, minority, joy, spendthrift, prologue, feeble, intractable, folly, industrious,profane.  

TOPIC: Distinguishing the Consonant

Sounds /w/ and /j/

Listen attentively to the following words and difference between the sounds. 

    /w/            /j/

            Wear                          year

            Woke                         yoke

            Warn                          yarn

            Woo                            you

            Quell                           yell

EVALUATION

Write ten words for each sound. 

TOPIC: Vocabulary Development + Armed force

CONTENT: Registers on the Armed forces.

The armed forces include: The army (for fighting on the land), the navy (for fighting at the sea) the air force (for fighting in the air). The army, navy and air force are sometimes called the services. Let us look up the words on p. 195. Effective English.

Evaluation

Practice 2 p. 196

TOPIC: Letter Writing

CONTENT: Letter to a pen-friend. 

Study the instruction on p. 201, Effective English and do what you are asked to do. Your teacher will tell you more.

TOPIC: Literature Poetry 

CONTENT: Eating Tomorrow’s Yam by NiyiOsundare

The poem is about an argument between a prodigal and the entire community in a rural environment. The poem seeks to pass a moral comment that only the wise people always know the consequence of any action. The subject matter of the poemcentres on what to be done with the only remaining yam for a whole village. 

Evaluation 

Revision Questions: Essays p. 180, Exam Focus. 

GENERAL EVALUATION/REVISION QUESTION

English Grammar Ex 15 pages 68-69.

Reading Assignment 

Student’s Companion p. 22-27.

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT

Student’s Companion p. 27 ex. 7