Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Junior Secondary School 3

SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE   

CLASS:  JSS3

DATE:

TERM: 3RD TERM

WEEK THREE

Topic:    Reading from children’s Britannica, vol. 11p. 135, 1981 edn page 233

Content:   

The passage gives a brief description of the Island of Mauritius. The Island is located 

in the Indian Ocean about 885 kilometres east of Madagascar. It is named after a Dutch Prince,

Maurice of Nassau. The country is an independent state and a member of the Commonwealth of

Nations.  Mauritius is an egg shaped Island, surrounded by coral reefs. The climate is very hot

from November to April but cool and fairly dry for the rest of the year. 

Evaluation: Question 1-10 on pages 233 and 234

Reading Assignment: Effective English for JSS3, pg233

Reference: Effective English for JSS 3.

Topic:    Structure: Active and Passive Voices (Revision)

Content:

Study the examples below:

Active structure:   I kick a ball.

Passive structure: A ball is kicked by me.

Active structure: He writes two letters

Passive structure: Two letters are written by him.

Active structure: I kicked a ball.

Passive Structure: A ball was kicked by me.

Active structure:  I was kicking a ball

Passive structure: A ball was being kicked by me

Active structure: I had kicked the ball before he arrived.

Passive structure: The ball had been kicked by me before he arrived.

Active structure: He will do the work

Passive structure: The work will be done by him

Active structure: She would sing a song

Passive structure: A song would be sung by her.

Evaluation:    Change the following sentences to passive structures:

1. We read many novels every month.
2. They are sending a message.

iii.    He has written two letters.

1. I read some novels last year.
2. The boy had written two letters when the rain started. 

Change the following sentences to active structures:

1. The assignment will have been finished by them.
2. Two letters are being written by us.

iii.    The sentences have been changed by us

1. The food was eaten by her.
2. The students are flogged by the teacher.

Reading Assignment: English Grammar for JSS 3, pages 51 and 52

Reference: English Grammar for JSS3.

Topic:    Speech work: Revision of Consonant Sounds.

Content:

    Consonants are sounds that are produced with some obstruction in the speech passage. In their production, two organs of speech normally come together to close the speech passage totally or partly. In English, we have twenty-four consonants. Some of these sounds are represented by symbols which generally correspond with the letters of the English alphabet, while others are not.

Below are the consonant sounds of English with examples of words that contain them.

           / p/

    ‘p’    -    pain, promise, nap, improve

    ‘pp’    -    pepper, apple, supply

           / b /   

            ‘b’    -    baby, break, disturb

    ‘bb’    -    babble, robber, rubble

iii.    / k /   

    ‘c’    -    cat, record, conflict

    ‘ck’    -    crack, rack, black

    ‘ch’    -    chemical, chaos, Christ

    ‘k’    -    king, keg, key

    ‘q’    -    queue, cheque

    ‘cc’    -    account, occupy, occasion

1. / g /

    ‘g’    -    goat, gun, bag

    ‘gg’    -    haggle, baggage, biaer

    ‘gh’    -    ghost, ghastly

1. / t / 

    ‘t’    -    two, active, study

    ‘tt’    -    attack, matter, bottle

    ‘d’    -    kicked, missed, slapped

    ‘th’    -    Thomas, thyme, Thames

1. /d/

    ‘d’    -    do, den, duty, bed

    ‘dd’    -    daddy, muddy, paddle

1. /s /

    ‘s’    -    so, send, saviour

     ‘ss’    -    miss, glass, cross

    ‘ce’    -    rice, glance, slice

    ‘zz’    -    pizza   

    ‘x’    -    axe, tax, pixels

    ‘sc’    -    science, sceptre, scent

vii.    / z /   

    ‘z’    -    zero, zip, dozen

    ‘zz’    -    buzz, dazzle, muzzle

    ‘s’    -    rise, says, does

    ‘ss’    -    possess, scissors

‘x’    -    example, exit, exult

viii.    / l /    

    ‘I’    -    lip, listen, below

    ‘ll’    -    wall, silly, yellow

1. / m /

    ‘m’    -    many, came, member

    ‘mm’    -    stammer, mummy

    ‘mb’    -    lamb, bomb, climb

    ‘mn’    -    condemn, damn, hymn

1. / n /

    ‘n’    -    no, snob, bend

    ‘nn’    -    banner, manner, annual

    ‘pn’    -    pneumonia, pneumatic

    ‘kn’    -    know, knock, knee

    ‘gn’    -    gnat, gnash, sign

1. / w /

    ‘w’    -    wear, watch, woman

    ‘wh’    -    why, while, wheel 

xii.    / h /

    ‘h’    -    hope, house, mishap

    ‘wh’    -    whole, whore

xiii.    / ŋ /   

    ‘ng’    -    sing, young, long

    ‘nk’    -    sink, bank, ink

    ‘nc’    -    anchor, uncle, zinc

    ‘nx’    -    anxious

xiv    / j / 

    ‘y’    -    yam, year, you

    ‘u’    -    use, unity, utensil

    ‘eu’    -    Europe, eunuch, Eunice

    ‘l’    -    onion, opinion

1. / ʃ /

    ‘s’    -    sure, sugar, explosion

    ‘sch’    -    schedule, schwa

    ‘sh’    -    shabby, relish, shrub

    ‘ss’    -    mission, pressure, possession

    ‘ch’    -    machine, chef, champagne

    ‘ci’    -    precious, vicious, spacious

    ‘t’    -    nation, promotion

xvi.    / r / 

    ‘r’    -    rain, story, scream

    ‘rr’    -    hurry, carrot, worry

    ‘rh’    -    rhetoric, rhyme, Rhoda 

xvii.    / f /

    ‘f’    -    farm, proof, soft

    ‘ff’    -    cliff, Clifford, stuff

    ‘gh’    -    rough, laugh, enough

    ‘ph’    -    physics, Philips, chlorophyll

xviii.    / v /

    ‘v’    -    vigour, revoke, Victor 

    ‘ph’    -    Stephen 

xix.    / θ / 

    ‘th’    -    think, thank, wealth, faith, oath, author, path, breath

1. / ð /

‘th’    -    than, that, those, they, gather, breathe, smooth

xxi.    / ʒ /

    ‘s’    -    measure, treasure, pleasure, explosive

    ‘sion’    -    confusion, decision, explosion, conclusion 

    ‘ge’    -    garage, mirage, camouflage

xxii.    / tʃ /

    ‘ch’    -    church, choose, search

    ‘tu’    -    future, fracture

xxiii.    / dʒ /

    ‘j’    -    jug, jacket, Jesus

    ‘g’    -    George, badge, germ, ginger, gibe, gin

Evaluation:    Write three words that contain each of the sounds below:

/d3/

/g/

/j/

/t/

/k/

/m/

/b

Reading Assignment:  Read Exam Focus for Jss3.

References:    Countdown English by Ogunsanwo, Diction in English BK 10.

Topic:     Informal, Semi-Formal and Formal Letters (Revision).

Content:

    The teacher reminds the students that:   

1. Informal letters are private or personal letters. They are letters we write to people who are very familiar to us such as our parents, friends, classmates etc.

FEATURES OF AN INFORMAL LETTER

1. Writer’s address and date
2. Salutation e.g. Dear Efe,
3. Introduction
4. Body of the letter
5. Conclusion
6. Subscript, Yours friend,
7. Semi-formal letters are letters we write to people who are not totally strange to us but are not close enough to us to deserve personal letters. E.g our teachers, family doctor, priest etc. The semi-formal letter is more related to the informal letter than to the formal letter.

FEATURES OF A SEMI-FORMAL LETTER

1. Writer’s address and date
2. Salutation e.g. Dear Mr. Eze, Dear Mrs Jones,
3. Introduction
4. Body of the letter
5. Conclusion
6. Subscript, e.g. Yours sincerely,
7. Formal letters are also called official or business letters. They are written to people in their official positions. They are people we do not know personally, e.g. Local government chairmen, commissioners, etc.

FEATURES OF A FORMAL LETTER

1. Writer’s address and date
2. Receiver’s address 
3. Salutation e.g. Dear Sir, Dear Madam
4. Heading or topic or title e.g. Application for the Post of a Teacher; Invitation to a Religious Seminar etc
5. Body of the letter
6. Conclusion (usually very short)
7. Subscript e.g. Yours faithfully,

                  (Signature)

                      Writer’s full name.

Evaluation: 

1. Write a letter to your elder brother who is schooling at home, telling him your problems in school and asking him to help contact your parents.
2. Write a letter to the director of your school, telling him why you cannot resume with your mates on your resumption day.

Reading Assignment: Read more on the topic from Exam Focus.

References:    Countdown English Language by Ogunsanwo; 120 Graded Essays for Junior Secondary School by Omoju  

Weekend Assignment: Effective English for JSS 3 page 239 – 240, questions 6