Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Senior Secondary School 1

SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE  

CLASS:  SS1

DATE:

TERM: 3RD TERM

WEEK FOUR

TOPIC

• Speech Work: Rhymes
• Essay Writing: More on formal Letter 
• Vocabulary Development: Words associated with Government and Politics 

1. RHYMES 

Content

• Definition 
• Rhyme pairs 

Rhyme is two letters that have the same ending sound. Rhyme is also used in poetry to refer to a pair of lines that ends with the same sequence of sounds.

Rhymes Pairs

1.   Should                    Would 
2.   Food                        Sued
3.   Bird                         Word
4.   Laugh                       Calf 
5.   Ride                          Site 
6.   Buy                          Sky 
7.   Head                        Said 
8.   Fail                           Sail
9.   Hair                          Bear
10. Breeze                       Please 
11. Know                        Hoe
12. Crave                        Grave 
13. Shock                       Rock 
14. ball                          call
15. dove                         love

EVALUATION  

From the words lettered A-D, chosen the word has the same VOWEL sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined.

READING ASSIGNMENT

More on Rhyme Standard Speech 10 page 32

1. ESSAY WRITING: More on Formal Letter 

Content 

• Definition 
• Features

Another name for formal letters is official letters. They are letters we write to people in official positions. 

Features 

1. Writer’s Address 

This should be written at the top right hand corner of the page like this: 

199, Airport Road,

Kano,

Nigeria.

15th July, 2010.

2. Receiver’s Address: This is written on the line following the date on the left hand side of the page.

e.g. 

The Director,

Fola Associated Enterprises,

P.M.B.  10016,

Akure.

3. Salutation 

The salutation is the greeting, which comes after the receiver’s address.

 “Dear Sir” or “Dear Madam”. The “S” or “M” must be in capital as in the following.

Dear Madam,

Dear Sir, 

There is also a compulsory comma after the salutation. 

4. Heading or Topic or Title 

This comes directly after the salutation but not on the same line. It is only official letter that has a heading and it is normally short e.g. 

1. Invitation to a religious seminar 
2. Complaints about the lack of facilities in my area.

The heading should either be written in capital letter all through or underlined when the first word of every lexical item is in capital letter 

5. Body of the Letter 

No room for exchange of pleasantries matters. Slang and contracted forms like won’t, can’t. Use polite and formal words 

6. Subscript (Complementary close) 

Formal letters end mostly with 

“Yours faithfully,

     signature 

Kingsley Effiong,

EVALUATION 

Write a letter to the Commissioner for Education in your state, informing him of your council’s plan and how the council intends to implements its aid programme to school.

READING ASSIGNMENT 

Countdown in English page 54-57

• VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT 

Content 

• Definition 
• Relevant words 

Definition 

Government: It is a form of system of government or the act or process of governing 

Politics: It is an idea and activities that are concerned with the gaining and using of power in a country, city e.t.c.

EVALUATION 

Choose five vocabularies of government and politics and use them in sentences.

Use them in sentences 

READING ASSIGNMENT 

Countdown in English by Evans 147-148

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT 

Fill in the blanks in the following passage with one of the words in the brackets (democracy, executive, despot, legislature, voting, ballet, electoral, booth, party, vote, constituency, candidate, nominate, election)

In a ___________ system of government an ________ president can very easily become a _________ unless his __________ refused to _______ him for another term. Usually, ___________is by ___________ . Each is usually nominated in his _________by his party. 

THEORY 

Write a letter to your father who is in another country telling him about the political situation of your country.