Vocabulary Development - Junior Secondary 3 - Negative words and sentences

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STEPS

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY

LEARNERS ACTIVITY

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Week 3

The teacher revises the previous lesson and introduces the new topic by explaining what negatives words and sentences are and giving examples

Negative sentences have the opposite meaning to positive sentences.

Examples

Positive: I am used to reading all night

Negative: I am not used to reading all night

Positive: Abubakar sometimes drives his father’s car

Negative: Abubakar never drives his father’s car

The most important negative word is not. The word not makes a whole clause negative. Its short form is n’t

Examples

Do not – don’t

Has not- hasn’t

Have not – haven’t

Cannot- can’t

Will not – won’t

Was not- wasn’t

Would not – wouldn’t

Did not – didn’t

Other negative words include

Neither  no one  neither….nor  none  never  nor  no  nothing  nobody  nowhere

Sentence examples

1.   Neither skirt looks good on you

2.   I would never do anything to hurt my sister

3.   No one was allowed into the theatre

4.   None of us wanted to wait for dinner

5.   There is nothing more dangerous than drug addiction

Other words with negative meaning

In addition to the words mentioned above, these words have a negative meaning

Few  hardly  little  scarcely  rarely  barely  seldom

Sentence examples

1.   Unfortunately, the hospital has few doctors

2.   My father remembers little about the incident

3.   I have seldom seen a more skillful performance by the team

4.   Hardly a day passes without a quarrel in my class

5.   Yinus had barely sat down before his sister started complaining

Learners observe, learn and participate

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Week 4

The teacher guides the learners to carry out the exercise on antonyms on page 101-102 of the New Concept English for Junior Secondary School 3

Learners observe, learn and participate

3

EVALUATION

The Learners are asked to

1.   Define negative words and sentences

2.   Give examples of negative words

3.   Give examples of negative sentences

- Learners observe, learn and participate

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CLASS-WORK

Learners are asked to answer the exercise on page 117 1-5 of the New Concept English for Junior Secondary School 3

Learners observe, learn and participate

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ASSIGNMENT

Learners are asked to answer the exercise on page 117 6-9 of the New Concept English for Junior Secondary School 3

Learners participate

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CONCLUSION

The teacher marks their books, corrects it and commends the Learners