ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHEME OF WORK FOR JSS2FIRST TERMWEEK TOPIC CONTENT

1 ComprehensionVocabulary Development

How we spent the HolidayHealth and Medicine

2 StructureEssay

NegationDescriptive Essay

3 Speech Work

Literature

Vowel Contrast/i:/, /i/ and /a:/

4 Punctuation

Structure

Use of comma, full stop, question mark and inverted commaQuestion Tags

5 Speech workStructure

DiphthongsWH- Questions

6 LiteratureVocabulary Development Administration

7 StructureSpeech Work Nasals

8 Continuous WritingStructure

Narrative EssayRequest

9 ComprehensionVocabulary Development

One Pendulum to AnotherPolitics

10 Revision Revision of topics for the term

Week one Grammar

NegationNegation means to state that something is

not true and the most common way of doing this is by using the word “not”

Examples

• He is leaving tomorrow • He is not leaving tomorrow• They have returned from school • They have not returned from school

Examples of Negators

• Not, n’t , no, nothing, nowhere, no one, etc• The commonest way of making a negative

statement is by introducing the word “not” immediately after the auxilliary verb in the sentence. Where there are two or more auxilliaries . It is introduced after the first one e.g He will be leaving tomorrow

• He will not be leaving tomorrow

Auxilliary verbs are helping verbs e.gCan, may, will, shall, should,have,had

When it is only the main verb, “not” is introduced after the auxilliary “Do “

He comes regularly He does not come regularly He came that day He did not come regularly

It is also used after the verbs am, is are was, were.

• E.g He could not find her bag• We can also form negative sentence with• (a) the determiner “no”• There is a table in the room• There is no table in the room• (b) the pronoun ‘ nothing’• He brought something • He brought nothing

(c) The adverb “nowhere’ ‘never’ ‘hardly ‘ scarcely’ ‘rarely’ seldom’It is somewhere now – it is nowhere nowHe is always drunk_ he is never drunk

CLASSWORKGive the negative of each of these sentences (1)We go to church on Sundays(2)My father has built a house (3)I have done my homework

DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY

• A descriptive essay is one written to give the reader a mental picture of a person, place or an object in his or her mind

• A good essay has three parts• (a) the introduction- This tells us generally what the es• say is all about. This is the first paragraph.• (b) Body – This tells us all about the topic, the opinion

or argument of the writer or the story. It is written in paragraphs

• (c) The conclusion: This is the brief summary of the introduction and the body of the essay ; it is the last paragraph.

HINTS ON WRITING A GOOD ESSAY

• 1. Understand every topic before you start to write it.

• 2. plan the essay points before you write on them

• 3. Begin the introduction with a paragraph • 4. write the body of the essay in paragraph• 5.Think very well before you write • 6. Punctuate your writing well

QUALITIES OF A GOOD DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY

• Like any other piece of writing, a descriptive essay must possess the following

• clarity• Orderliness• Vividness• Being interesting