ENGLISH LANGUAGE SS 3 FIRST TERM

last update on: 08/06/2025

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

WEEK 1
Revision of English Consonants 
Words associated with Culture, Institutions and Ceremonies. 
Revision of Nouns and Noun Phrases. 
The Expository Essay. 
WEEK 2
Practice with intonation (WH-question) 
Culture: Students discuss religions and marriage rites, burial, etc. in their culture.
Points to note in summary writing 
Functions of Noun Phrase in Sentences 
WEEK 3
Introduction practice using tag-questions. 
Words associated with motor vehicles.
Verbs and verb phrases.
Narrative Essays.
WEEK 4
Listening to speeches and taking notes. 
Words associated with Road Travel. 
Identifying topic sentence in paragraphs. 
Descriptive essays.
WEEK 5
Speech: More on vowel sounds - monophthongs and diphthongs. 
Vocabulary: Words associated with travelling control  highway patrol, toll gate, vulcanizer, mechanic flat tyre.
Comprehension/Summary: passage on travelling.
Structure: Modal auxiliary verbs - forms and uses, wgfhhb ords like can will, shall, would, could, must, may.
 Continuous Writing: Letters – informal letters and features. 
WEEK 6
Speech: Words with 2 consonant dusters occurring at final position.
Vocabulary: Words associated with government and administration.
Comprehension/summary A passage on government or administration.
Structure: Adjectival clauses.
Continuous: Writing Summarizing in a specified number of sentences
WEEK 7
Listening to oral presentation
Idiom and idiomatic expressions
Reading for implied meaning
Semi - Formal letter 
WEEK 8
Speech: Test of rhyming.
Vocabulary: Words associated with science and  Technology.
Comprehension/summary: Reading to identify the  writers purpose.
Structure: Identify grammatical names and Functions.
Continuous writing: Article writing for newspaper and  magazines.   
Week 9
•Speech: Words with 3 consonants dusters are the final position.
•Vocabulary: Foreign elements in English, French words.
•Comprehension/summary: Reading and listening for main points.
•Continuous writing: Reading and summarizing selected  passage.
•Structure: Grammatical names and functions commands.
WEEK 10
Speech: Word stress.
Vocabulary: Identification of more two syllable  words stressed on the first syllable.
Structures: Subjects + verb agreement.
Continuous writing: Paraphrasing a prose passage.
Comprehension/summary: Reading and answer questions on a given passage.  
WEEK 11
Speech: Sentence stress - emphatic stress.
Vocabulary: Collocations, e.g whims and caprices, hook, line and sinker.
Comprehension/summary: Reading argumentative passage.
WEEK 12
Speech: Word-stress on 3 syllable words on the first 
Syllable.