Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Senior Secondary School 2

TERM: FIRST TERM

SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE

CLASS: SS 2

REFERENCE

• Montgomery et al: Effective English for SS 2 ( Main Text) Evans Publishers, Ibadan
• Ogunsanya et al: Countdown to SSCE, Evans Publisher, Ibadan.
• Onuigbo S.M: Oral English for Schools and Colleges, Africana Publishers, Enugu.
• Ayo Banjo et al: New Oxford Secondary English Course SS 2. University Press PLC, Ibadan
• FoluAgoi: Towards Effective Use of English. A grammar of Modern English
• Ayo Akano: Maclimillan Mastery English Language for Senior Secondary Schools, Macmillan Nigeria Publishrs limited, Ibadan
• Ken Mebele et al: Goodbye to Failure in English for Senior Schools, Book 2, Treasure Publishers LTD, Lagos.
• Benson O. A Oluikpe et al: Intensive English for Senior Secondary Schools, 2 Africanal Publishers LTD, Onitsha.
• Oxford, Advanced Learners Dictionary.
• WAEC Past Questions.

WEEK TWO

• Topic: Comprehension – Insurance, Effective English, pg 33.

The passage explains that people can insure anything. It also reveals how insurance companies get enough money to pay for any loss incurred by the insured.

EVALUATION

Read the passage again and answer the questions which accompany it.

• Vocabulary Development – Words Associated with Human Body Parts.

Content:  Words, Meanings.

Body Parts.

1. Skin – This is an elastic organ that covers the entire body.
2. Ears – The ears are found on both sides of the head. It is almost a funnel like organ used for perceiving sounds.
3. Eyes – The eyes are spherical organs found in front of the head within the eye sockets.
4. Nose – This is the protruded part of the face which has two nostrils which channel air to the nasal cavity.
5. Mouth – The mouth is the channel to the digestive stem. It constitutes two lips, jaw, teeth and tongue which aid chewing and swallowing of food.
6. Lungs – This is a pair of pale pink broad organs found in the chest region, mainly for respiration and gaseous exchange.
7. Kidney – This is a pair of reddish bean shaped organs found in the abdomen. The kidneys produce urine and excreta waste product of metabolism.
8. Spleen – This organ serves as a reservoir for blood in the body.
9. Heart – This is a muscular structure found in the thoracic (chest) region. It pumps blood through the arteries to other organs of the body.
10. Brain – The brain is the center of reasoning and intelligence and it controls the nerves system in the body.
11. Oesophagus– This is a long tube that connects the mouth to the stomach.

Other parts of the body are the legs, hands etc. all which perform different functions

EVALUATION

1. What are the five sense organs?
2. Make sentence with each.

• Topic: Speech Work: Cluster of Two, Three and Four Consonants.

Content: Definition, Basic Types, Examples.

In English, certain phonemes occur together regularly to form a sequence of sound units called cluster. English consonants are a good examples of this phenomenon. A consonants cluster is the sequence of two or more consonant sounds without any intervening vowel. For example str at the beginning of straight and strain forms a clusters

A cluster of consonants may occur at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of a word. Above all, there may occur a cluster of two three or four consonants.

TWO CONSONANT CLUSTERS

THREE CONSONANT CLUSTERS

FOUR CONSONANT CLUSTERS

The presence of a consonant cluster in some words is however not easy to identify by just looking at written forms of such words. Such words manifest the cluster only when pronounced.

Examples:

Communicate /kemju:nikeɪt/

Queue /kju:/

Music /mju:zɪk/

Duty /dju:tɪ/

Cure / kjuә/

Queen /kwi:n/

Question /kwestәn/

Quark /kwa:k/

(see more examples from Consonants Followed by /j/ and /u/).

Note:The maximum number of cluster of consonants that may occur before a vowel is three while the maximum number of consonants in a cluster that may occur after a vowel is four (CCCVCCCC) according to the syllable structure.

EVALUATION

1. Write five(5) examples of four consonant cluster which occurs at the end.
2. Write the syllabic structure of the following words e.g. class /CCVC/

1. Stand
2. Shrink
3. Tray
4. Loaves.
5. Marks

READING ASSIGNMENT

Read pages 295 – 296, Countdown in English.

• Topic: Writing – Expository

Content: Definition, Features, Sample Question.

Outline

An expository essay is one that requires you to explain a thing or a process. The explanation demands writing a great deal about what distinguishes the subject of the essay from all other things. Such topics explain how a camera works; or how to mend a puncture.

Basic Features

Exposition combines narration, descriptions, with explanation, illustration and argumentation.

1. It must have a heading.
2. It must have an introductory paragraph.
3. Its body should contain at least three well developed paragraphs which serve as the content.
4. It must contain a concluding paragraph.
5. The present tense is usually used in expository essays.

Sample Questions

There has been anexplosion in Nigeria’s population. In an article for publication, identify the major causes of explosion in population and suggest ways to manage the explosion.

Outline

Heading: EXPLOSION IN NIGERIA’S POPULATION

Paragraph (Introduction) 1: Definition of population explosion.

Paragraph 2: Major cause of explosion in population.

Paragraph 3: Other causes of the explosion in population.

Paragraph 4: Effects of explosion in population.

Paragraph 5: Suggestions on how to manage the population.

Paragraph 6: Conclusion.

EVALUATION

Write out a full essay on the sample question using the given outline.

READING ASSIGNMENT

Countdown in English, pages 19-24

GENERAL EVALUATION/ REVISIONAL QUESTIONS

1. What are the features of an expository essay.
2. Make nouns from the following verbs and adjectives.

organize, scarce, clear, strong.

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT 

SECTION A

Choose the most appropriate option

1. We are looking forward to __ the editor A. met B. meet C. meeting D. meets
2. I wonder if you are averse to __ parties A. go B. going C. went D. gone
3. He is insistent __ doing the job alone A. for  B. on C. that D. at
4. Your aptitude __ grammar should have improved by now A. on B. with C. for D. in
5. Moses has shown enough aversion __science A. to B. for C. with D. on

SECTION B

Complete the sentences in practice 2 page 30, Effective English.