ENGLISH LANGUAGE JSS1 SECOND TERM

IN THIS TERM, LEARNERS SHOULD LOOK OUT FOR THE FOLLOWING IN DETAIL:

WEEK 1:

Theme 1 - Other types of questions – conclusion, projection 

Theme 2 - Letter Writing - Types: Formal, Informal letters 

Theme 3 - Conjunction 

Theme 4 - Consonant Cluster

WEEK 2: 

Theme 1 - Passage on contemporary issues highlighting knowledge and interpretation level questions. 

Theme 2 - Elements of composition: introduction, body & conclusion. Stages of writing and editing.

Theme 3 – Preposition: selected passages for highlighting prepositions. 

Theme 4 - Differences between two types – prose and poetry.

WEEK 3: 

Theme 1 - Selected passages for developing retention of what the passages are talking about or the salient points. 

Theme 2 - Importance of writing composition: communicate, inform, record keeping, entertainment. 

Theme 3 - Selected passages for highlighting adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions. 

Theme 4 - Diphthongs /ei/ as in (Mary), gate, day, pain, rain. 

Theme 5 - Reading and analysis of Treasured Icons: plot, setting, characters, themes/moral lessons.

WEEK 4: 

Theme 1 - Reading to understand the author’s mood. E.g.: anger, happiness, doubt. 

Theme 2 - Arrangement of ideas in logical sequence. 

Theme 3 - Selected passage for highlighting adverbs, conjunctions and 

     prepositions. 

Theme 4 - Diphthongs as in: 

• /ei/ - eight, kate
• /əu/ - old, so
• /iə/ - here, mere
• /eə/ - chair, stare 

WEEK 5: 

Theme 1 - Reading to understand the author’s mood. E.g.: doubts, disappointment. 

Theme 2 - Adjectives: Identifying adjectives in a given passage and stating their functions. 

Theme 3 - Diphthongs: 

• /ɔɪ/ as in oil, boil, foil
• /uə/ as in tour, sure, poor
• /ai/ as in sky, rite, high
• /au/ as in town, gown, how 

WEEK 6:

Theme 1 - Reading to understand the author’s mood. E.g.: suspicions, excitements. 

Theme 2 - Descriptive Composition. 

Theme 3 - Identifying features of adverbials from passage on peace and dialogue. 

Theme 4 - Weak forms e.g.: after, often, listen, sister, above, away, later, alone, abound, about.

WEEK 7:

Theme 1 - Reading strategies preview questions and review for retaining and recalling what has been read. 

Theme 2 - Formats for writing informal letters 

Theme 3 - Identifying features of adverbials from passage on human rights.

WEEK 8:

Theme 1 - Identify vocabularies from a passage on market. 

Theme 2 - Argumentative Composition 

Theme 3 - Identifying features of adverbials from passage on value orientation. 

Theme 4 - Listening for main ideas from a selected passage on drug abuse.

WEEK 9:

Theme 1 - Writing an outline

Theme 2 - Highlighting the long and short vowel sounds.

Theme 3 - Types of prose  

• descriptive 
• features 
• plot.  

Theme 4. Parts of speech noun verbs and adjectives.