Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Senior Secondary School 1

SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE  

CLASS:  SS1

DATE:

TERM: 3RD TERM

WEEK SEVEN

CONTENT

• Comprehension and Reading Skills
• Structure: Sentence Structure and Formation
• Spelling:  Dropping ‘e’ and retaining ‘e’.

1. Comprehension: Reading Skill Unit 9: Entertainment 

Content 

Reading for Pleasure

Explanation

The passage is about a renowned Nigerian artiste’Onyeka Onwenu’. She is known for so many things a ‘grande dame’ of Nigerian music, broadcaster, signer, and award winning film actress, also known as a politician.  The article in the passage portrays her qualities and her ability to win over an audience.

EVALUATION

Answer the questions under the passage.

READING ASSIGNMENT 

Effective English pag 147 – 148  (Entertainment Vocabularies )

B: Structure : Sentence Structure and Formation 

Content: Types of Sentences According to Structure

Elements of Sentence  Structure.

The types of sentence according to structure:

(a) Simple sentence:  This contains only one clause e.g

Tope did not attend the party last night.

(b) The compound sentence : This contains two main clauses linked by a co-ordaining conjunction like ‘and’ ‘but’ ‘or.

Obi promised to visit us but he failed to do so

( c) The multiple sentence: This contains more than two main clauses linked by co-ordinating conjunctions. Like:

He may do the work himself or he may ask somebody else to do it for him, but I want the wok to be done.

(d) The complex sentence:  This contains one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses.

We bought the book/ which he recommended. ( one main clause and one subordinate clause)

(e) The Compound Sentence: This contains more than one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses.

Adamu came in the morning/ and told us/ that he was successful in the examination/ but that his scores were low.

The Elements of Sentences 

Structure: 

Apart from dividing a sentence into subject and predicate, a sentence may be said to possess five units or elements: subjects, verb, object, complement and adjunct (adverbial)

Element             Abbreviation

A subject            s

1. verb         v
2. object     o
3. complement     c
4. adjunct(adverbial) A.

Examples.

                       S        v               o                 A

1. The policeman bought a new pistol last week

               s     v        c

1. the girls were speechless

The subject points to the person or things the sentence is about, i.e who or what is being discussed.

1. Predicate:  This is the second basic part of a sentence, which indicates what is said about the person or thing. The predicate includes the verb, auxiliaries, adverbs and adjectives which say something about the subject e.g /P/

    they suffered

C objects

We have direct and indirect object

Direct Object

Children play  games

 I played the piano

Indirect Obejcts

He buys  me  lovely shoes

Sarah gave  her cat  a bath

Me  and her cat  are indirect objects

Shoes  and a  bath  are indirect objects

The indirect objects comes before the direct objects.

1. Complements:  There are two types of complements subjects and object complements.

Subject of subject complement:  the girl is  kind

Ngozi is a teacher

Kind  and a teacher  are subjective complements.

Object or Objective Complement : The students made Samuel  a Coach 

The called Joseph  a mad man 

1. Adjunct (Adverbial ) : This is a word or group of words that acts as an adverb in a sentence. It modifies a verb.  It may be adverbial  phrase, a prepositional phrase or a noun phrase.

The girl is  in the room

The goat is  behind the door

The seven basic simple sentence pattern:

1. The girl laughed S. V
2. Children  play games  SVO
3. Tope is a lawyer SVC
4. I gave Ife the book   SVOO
5. She Considered him a foo   SVOl
6. She is in  the toilet  SVA
7. I  placed the cup on  the table   SVOA.

EVALUATION

Write five sentences and analyse the sentence elements in them.

1. Spelling Dropping  ‘e’ and retaining ‘e’

Content;Words  where ‘e’ drops

Words where ‘e’ is retained

Words where ‘e’ is dropped

1. In adjective ending in le, drop the en and add ‘y’ to form adverbs e.g

    able                ably

    agreeable            agreeably

    ample                amply

    humble                humbly

Words like fulfill and skilful, have a single l in the middle but double the final as in fulfilled and skillfully.

2. In words ending in a silent e,

 (a) drop the ‘e’ before suffixes, beginning with a vowel, but

 (b) retain the ‘e’ before suffixes that begin with a consonant e.g. (a) suffixes beginning a vowel 

  continue            continuous

(ous begins with ‘o’ a – vowel; so ‘e’ is dropped before ‘o’

live        living

shine        shining

write        wiring

e.g. (b0 suffixes beginning with a consonant continue – continued ‘d’ is a consonant; so ‘e’ is kept before ‘d’

    live        lived        move    movement   love    loved.

3. The final ‘e’ is dropped in the following  e.g.

    abridged            abridgment

    acknowledge            acknowledgement 

    argue                argument 

    judge                judgment 

    lodge                lodgment.

Words where ‘e’ is retained 

1. In such words as given below from which adjectives can be formed, the ‘e’ is retained to keep the c and g soft sounds

Notice   noticeable, service  serviceable, trace traceable, change  changeable.

2. Sometimes the final ‘e’ is retained to avoid confusion with a smilar word.

    Age   ageing        syringe   syringing   

3. In words ending in ‘oe; retain the ‘e’. eg. Canoe  canoeing  shoe shoeing
4. In the following cases the final ‘e’ is retained when adding ‘ly’ e.f nice nicely vague vaguely

READING ASSIGNMENT 

Countdown in English by Evans pag 234 – 235 

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT 

Practice 2 & 3 pg 148 – 149.