Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Junior Secondary School 3

SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE   

CLASS:  JSS3

DATE:

TERM: 3RD TERM

WEEK ONE                                              

Topic: Comprehension: Story from Aludde’s Wealth

Content:

The passage is an extract from Khiddu Makubuya’s Aludde’s Wealth. The story narrates how Kamula  Aludde made a surprising announcement to his family. He told them how

their wealth was come by – from the soil. By that, Kamula meant that they worked the soil to get their money. 

Evaluation: Do practice 2 on pg 204 of Effective English bk.3. 

Reading Assignment: Read Effective English bk.3 pg 203-204

Reference: Effective English bk.3

Topic: Question Tags (Revision)

Content:

In all types of questions, the verbs in both the question and the answer must be in the same tense, for example, if the verb in the question is in the present tense, the verb in the answer must also be in the present tense.

Question tags / tag questions are mostly used when you want your listener(s) to agree with you on something. There are rules governing tag questions and answers. They are:

1. Positive Statement, Negative Tag, Positive Answer 
2. Negative Statement, Positive Tag, Negative Answer
3. An auxiliary verb repeats itself in the tag, but main verbs use the appropriate forms of  verb “DO”
4. In a complex sentence, the tag is picked from the main clause.
5. Statements containing negators are regarded as negative statements

Now consider the examples below:

Evaluation:    Do practice 2 on pg 93 of Effective English Bk. 3. 

Reading Assignment: English Grammar by P.O Olatunbosun pg 76-79

References:    English Grammar for JSS, pg 76 – 79; Effective English Bk. 3.

Topic:   Narrative Essay (Revision)

Content:

A narrative essay is one that requires you to relate an event or incident just as an eye witness would do. This is the art of story –telling, therefore, a wide experience in the reading of short stories, novels, etc is required.

Note:

    - Your essay must be very interesting and convincing.

    - The narrative should follow the order in which the events took place

    - State the facts as they were

    - The dominant tense used in the narrative essay is past simple tense.

Evaluation:    Write an essay of about 250 words on the topic “My Most Memorable Day”

Reading Assignment: Read more on Narrative Essay from Exam Focus, pg18-19

References:    Countdown English by Ogunsanwo et al, pg 5-7; Exam Focus for JSCE. 

Topic:        Review of Monophthongs

Content:

The English vowel sounds are twenty in number. These vowels consist of twelve monothongs and eight diphthongs. The monothongs can be sub-divided into long and short vowel sounds. Below are the sounds with examples. 

Monophthongs 

The short vowel sounds are seven (7). They are:

/ I / 

‘a’    -    village, adage

‘e’    -    before, women, English

‘u’    -    business, busy, minute

‘ei’    -    foreign

‘ui’    -    build, guilt

‘y’    -    symbol, lynch, myth

‘O’    -    women

‘I’    -    sit, pig, big, pit, kid

/e /

‘a’    -    many, any

‘ou’    -    said

‘ay’    -    says

‘e’    -    bed, peg, egg, net.

‘ea’    -    dead, bread, head

‘ue’    -    guess, guest

‘eo’    -    leopard, jeopardy, Geoffrey

‘ie’    -    friend

‘u’    -    bury

/ æ /   

‘a’    -    pat, hat, track, bag, trap

‘ai’    -    plait

/ ɒ/ 

‘a’    -    watch, want, what

‘ou’    -    cough, trough

‘au’    -    laurel, because, sausage

‘o’    -    cot, cod, pot, hot

‘ow’    -    knowledge

/ ʊ /

‘o’    -    woman, bosom, wolf

‘oo’    -    book, took, wood, wool

‘ou’    -    would, should, could

‘u’    -    pull, bull, put, sugar

The long vowel sounds are five (5). They are:

/ iː /

‘uay’    -    quay

‘ae’    -    Caesar, aesthetic

‘e’    -    mete, procedure, eve,

‘ee’    -    peel, meet, seek,

‘ae’    -    heat, seat, meat

‘ai’    -    machine, prestige

‘ei’    -    receive, deceive

‘ie’    -    relieve, believe

‘oe’    -    foetus, amoeba

‘ui’    -    suite

‘eo’    -    people

/ ɑː / 

‘a’    -    father, pass, vase

‘ar’    -    car, park, mark

‘ear’    -    heart

‘er’    -    clerk, sergeant

‘al’    -    palm, calm, half

‘au’    -    laugh, aunt

/ ɜː/

‘er’    -    germ, verve, fertile,

‘ear’    -    learn, yearn, pearl

‘ir’    -    shirt, skirt, firm

‘ur’    -    burn, turn, curl, burden

‘our’    -    journey, mourners, courtesy.

/ ɔː/

‘a’    -    water, wall, talk

‘aw’    -     hawk, awe, law

‘au’    -    laud, caught, daughter 

‘oa’    -    board, roar, hoard

‘ou’    -    bought, sought, fought

‘or’    -    fork, north, stoke

‘oo’    -    door

‘o’    -    floral, Florence

‘our’    -    count, bourdon

‘ar’    -    warm, war, wharf

/ uː/

‘eu’    -    feudal, leukaemia

‘ew’    -    ewe, stew, blew

‘o’    -    move, tomb, prove

‘oe’    -    shoe

‘ou’    -    soup, coup, youth

‘oo’    -    pool, tooth, school

‘u’    -    tune, rude, prune

‘ue’    -    sue, cue, blue

‘ui’    -    juice, fruit, suit

/ ʌ /

‘o’    -    mother, colour, money

‘oe’    -    does

‘ou’    -    country, tough, double

‘oo’     -          blood, flood,

‘u’    -    cut, hut, but, much   

Schwa sound

/ə/

‘ae’    -    away, above, ago

‘er’    -    daughter, brother

‘or’    -    doctor, monitor

‘our’    -    clamour, colour, favour

Evaluation:    Identify the vowel sounds underlined in the words below:

Perm             /   /     Money / /

Gracious        /   /

Brother         /   /

Nuisance        /   /

Quality            /   /

Psalm            /   /

Crack            /   /

Jeopardy         /   /   

People             /   /

Reading Assignment: Read more on monophthongs from Exam focus for JSCE 

References:    Standard Speech, pg 11-15 ; An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology of English by S.A Fatusin

Weekend Assignment: Do practice exercise 18 on pg 78 of English Grammar by P.O Olatunbosun.