Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Senior Secondary School 1

SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE  

CLASS:  SS1

DATE:

TERM: 3RD TERM

WEEK TEN

CONTENT

• Comprehension : Speaking Skills
• Speech Work: Contrasting /i/ and /i/ 
• Essay Writing :  Argumentative – Indiscipline is responsible for the poor performances of students in examination 

A: Comprehension : Speaking Skills , Communicable Sequence

Content

Reading page 99 – 100

Dialogue : Effective English.

The passage is about Titi’s parents who want to choose a suitable husband for her.  Titi, however, loves someone else.  In this scene her parents try to persuade her to get rid of ‘cast off’ the man she loves and accept their choice.  If she agrees, she will have an enormous  bride  price ( all my store of coral and gold shall be yours to command for dowry) Tit refused to be offered for sale so, she disobeyed her parents.

EVALUATION

Answer the questions under the passage

READING ASSIGNMENT

Effective English page 101.

B: Speech Work : Contrasting /I/ and /i:/

Content;  Vowels /i:/ and /I/

Contrast

/I/ is a short vowel

The spelling variants and word examples are

‘a’ – adage, village, palace

‘e’ – Peter, between, English

 ‘u’ – busy, minutes

‘ei’  - foreign

 ‘ie’ – chief, thief

‘y’ – busy , myth

 o – women

‘I’  sit, pin, bin.

/i:/ is a long vowel 

The spelling variant and words example are

‘a’ quay

‘ae’ – Caesar, aesthetic

‘e’ – eve, procedure

‘ee’ feed, weed, seed

‘ea’ – neat, peak, real

‘ei’ receive, deceive

‘I’  machine, prestige

‘ie’ relieve,believe

‘oe’ amoeba, oesophagus

‘ui’ suite

‘eo’ people.

Contrast.

/I:/        /i:/

hit        heat

hill        heel

sit        seat

sin        seen

dim        deem

will        wheel

list        least

dip        deep

lip        leap

fill        feel

bitch        beach

EVALUATION

Find your own five words to contrast /i and /I/

Reading Assignment 

Standard Speech 10 bk , diction in English course pg 11: vowel sounds

1. Essay Writing : Argumentative 

Content: Explanation: outline , Writing .

Outline 

1. Write your topic
2. Do not greet because it is not a debate topic

1. Give a clear, intelligent definition of the subject of discussion 
2. Define indiscipline in your introductory paragraph
3. In the second to the fifth paragraph
4. Conclude your argument in the last paragraph.

EVALUATION

Write an argumentative essay on the topic “Indiscipline is responsible for poor performances of students in examination ‘.

READING ASSIGNMENT 

Writing argumentative essays, pg 28 – 30 of the effective English

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT

Pg 166 of the effective English practice 2 and 3.

THEORY

Write an essay setting out your argument, either in favour or against the following topic. “Co-education should be encouraged ins secondary schools’.