Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Senior Secondary School 2

SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE

CLASS:  SS2

DATE:

TERM: 3RD TERM

REFERENCES

1. Montgomery et al: Effective English for S.S 2 (Main Textbook) Evans PublishersIbadan.
2. Ogunsanwo et al: Countdown to SSCE Evans Publishers Ibadan.
3. Onuigbo S.M: Oral English for Schools and Colleges Africana  Publishers,Enugu. 
4. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary    
5. WAEC Past Questions.

WEEK ONE

TOPIC: 

• Revision of the Last Term’s Examination Questions, Resumption test,

• Revision of Tenses in Grammar

• Narrative: My Holiday Experience  
  

• REVISION OF LAST TERM’S EXAMINATION 

• Grammar: Tenses 

Tense is a term which applies to verbs, and it is used to indicate the time of an action: past, present, future tense. These are the basic categories of tenses we have in English. 

The Past Tense – is used to express a past action. This is indicated in most verbs by adding ‘ed’ or ‘d’ to them. This type of verbs are called the regular verbs.

Example of such verbs are: voted, waited, counted, preached, visited, cured, answered, elected, abrogated, punched, perfected etc. verbs which do not take ‘ed’ or ‘d’ to form their past are called irregular verbs e.g. built, threw, said, paid wore, sent, swam, set, cast, ran, wrote etc. 

The Present Tense – is used to express the current time i.e. now. This tense could be singular or plural and it must agree with the subject in a sentence. 

Examples are vote, wait, say, count, preach, elect, answer(v), remove, empower, tolerate, activate etc. 

The Future Tense –This is done by putting an auxiliary before the verb and so on. Examples are as follows. 

1. Will + go e.g. I will go tomorrow. 
2. Shall + visit e.g. I shall visit you next week
3. Be + going e.g. I am travelling next year. 
4. Be + -ing verb e.g. She is coming next month 
5. Be + about to + verb e.g. Theyare about to start the lecture. 
6. ‘s’ i.e. progressive form of verbs e.g. the bus leaves tonight.

EVALUATION 

Write out the past tense of the following verbs: fly, cast, let, burn, lose, read, swim, call, bathe, lay, lie, sting, tie, fling 

READING ASSIGNMENT

Pg. 232 Countdown English 

• Narrative: My Holiday Experience 

Features 

• As a narrative, use the past tense 
• Arrange your events one after the other 
• Use connectors/transitional expressions 
• Raise suspense 
• Describe people, places and events.
• Use figurative language, proverbs or idioms.

Outline

• Write your title boldly in capital letters (preferably)
• Your introduction should be interesting
• Indicate when the holidays started 
• Describe how you had felt at the prospect of a holiday.
• Mention where and with whom you spent the holiday.
• Disclose what happened and your reactions 
• Mention the interesting parts and annoying ones. 
• Reveal the lessons learnt. 

EVALUATION 

Write the essay outlined above. 

READING ASSIGNMENT

Pg. 87 Effective English 

GENERAL EVALUATION QUESTIONS 

Mention the three types of tenses and list the six ways of expressing future tense with examples. 

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT

SECTION A

Choose the word that contains the given phonetic symbol

1. /e/    (a)    net        (b)    they    (c)    eke    (d)    wanted
2. /I/    (a)    heel        (b)    sit    (c)    high    (d)    bite
3. /I:/    (a)    say        (b)    seize    (c)    kill    (d)    ill
4. /Z/ (a)    cars        (b)    loose    (c)    cease    (d)    lace
5. /Ù¨/ (a)    cough        (b)    lock    (c)    clerk    (d)    tough

SECTION B

Test for Continuous Assessment Effective English 2 (A: 1 – 10), pg 45