Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Junior Secondary School 3

SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE                                     

CLASS: JSS 3

TERM: 2ND TERM

WEEK SIX

TOPIC: Structure: Reflexive and Relative Pronouns.

CONTENT

Reflexive pronouns are pronouns that refer to subjects of sentences. They usually end in “self” in their singular forms and in “selves” in their plural forms. E.g; 

1. The murderer hanged himself  (“himself refers to “The murderer”)
2. The children did the work themselves (“children” refers to “The children)
3. Tola gave herself to the police (“herself” refers to “Tola”)

The table below shows the reflexive pronouns in their singular and plural forms

            Singular                 Plural

First person        myself                    ourselves

Second Person        yourself                yourselves

Third Person        himself    }                themselves

            Herself}

            Itself}

Reflexive pronouns are also used to show emphasis, e.g; I myself did not know the answer

(“myself” emphasizes ‘I’)

She did the work herself (“herself” emphasizes ‘she’)

Relative Pronouns usually introduce relative clauses. Relative pronouns show the relationship between relative clauses and the words that precede them. Relative pronouns are: who, whom, whose, which, that, where, when, and how. Consider the following examples;

1. The girl who won the prize is my cousin
2. The man whom I told you about is dead
3. This is the lady whose car is missing 
4. I saw the boy that killed the python.

EVALUATION

Construct a sentence with each of the following pronouns.

Ourselves, whose, which, itself, yourselves, who and myself.

REFERENCE

Countdown English by Ogunsanwo

READING ASSIGNMENT

Read Exam Focus, page 46 (Reflexive pronouns) and page 45 (Relative pronouns)

TOPIC: Writing: Expository Essay

CONTENT

An expository essay is a type of essay in which students are expected to explain a thing or a process in full. In expository essays, facts about situations, descriptions of things are stated as well as judgments. 

In expository essay, definitions of terms can be given, comparison of things can be done, causes and effects of something can be discussed, illustrations can also be given, etc. 

The dominant tense used in expository essays is simple present tense. Also, every expository essay must have a title.

EVALUATION

Write a good essay on the topic “Why students fail examination”

REFERENCE

Countdown English by Ogunsanwo 

READING ASSIGNMENT

Read more on expository essays from Exam Focus: pages 18&19

TOPIC: Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Moral aAppraisal

CONTENT

By “moral appraisal”, we mean the judgment we place on people’s behaviour whether good or evil. Therefore, words associated with moral appraisal are such words we use to describe people’s behaviour or character. Consider the examples below:

Callous: not caring that other people are suffering.

Generous: being willing to help

Faithful: being loyal

Jealous / envious: being angry because someone has what you wish you had

Stupid / silly: lack of good sense

Rude / impolite / insolent: speaking or behaving in a way that is not polite i.e opposite of generous

Talkative: talking too much

Stingy: synonymous to mean.

EVALUATION

Write five words that are associated with moral appraisal and use them in sentences of your own.

REFERENCE

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

READING ASSIGNMENT

Read page 101-104 of English Grammar by P.O. Olatunbosun

TOPIC: Speech work: Vowels \ ɑː \ and \ ɜː \

CONTENT

Vowel \ ɑː \ is described as a neutral open back vowel and \ ɜː \ as a neutral half-close central vowel. 

Vowel  \ ɑː  \ takes the following forms: 

“a” as in father, pass, vase.

‘ar’ as in car, park, mark.

‘ear’ as in heart 

‘er’ clerk, sergeant

‘al’ palm, calm, half

‘au’ laugh, aunt

\ ɜː \ takes the forms below:

‘er’ as in germ, verve 

‘ear’ as in learn, yearn

‘ir’ as in shirt, skirt

‘ur’ as in burn, turn

‘our’ as in journey, courtesy

EVALUATION

Indicate the sounds underlined in the following words:

Fertile        cart

Pearl        heart

Firm        calf

Burden        arsenal

REFERENCE

Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology by S.A Fatusin

READING ASSIGNMENT

Read “vowels” on page 145-146 of Exam Focus

TOPIC: Poem: Empty Head

CONTENT

The poem is talking about someone who doesn’t know anything as he forgets whatever he learns so soon.

The figures of speech used include:

Alliteration- lines 3 and 4

Repetition- lines 1, 5 and II

Personification- line 9, 10, 12 etc.

EVALUATION

Learn the poem by heart.

REFERENCE

Effective English bk3

READING ASSIGNMENT

Read section c: speech on page 130-131 of Effective English bk3

GENERAL EVALUATION/REVISION QUESTIONS

Choose the word that has the same consonant or vowel sound (s) as the one underlined.

1. those     A. thought     B. this       C. think      D. teeth
2. keep    A. quay    B. kettle    C. kick        D. quick 
3. low    A. loose    B. look        C. louse    D. load
4. change    A. cheat    B. sharp    C. crèche    D. chemist 
5. /a/    A. teacher    B. prove    C. battle    D. spray
6. /^/    A. bat        B. dark        C. blood    D. blow

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT

1. Write 10 words that are associated with moral appraisal and state their meanings.
2. Write a good essay on the topic “Pollution In Our Cities’’