About Course
This course covers essential aspects of language development, including comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, essay writing, and speech work.
Students will engage in comprehension exercises, analyzing texts for critical evaluation, implied meanings, and reading skills like skimming and scanning. They will explore topics such as meteors, moral behavior, agriculture, and national resistance movements.
In grammar and structure, students will study noun phrases, noun clauses, verb phrases, adverbs, adverbials, sentence types, direct and indirect speech, clauses, and phrasal verbs. They will also practice word modifiers, focusing on adjectives and adverbs.
Vocabulary development will introduce words related to nation-building, agriculture, the environment, smell, taste, color, and technology. Spelling lessons will address commonly misspelled words.
Essay writing will include narrative, descriptive, formal, and informal letters, with specific emphasis on letters of complaint and letters to friends. Students will also practice report writing and speech writing.
Speech work will focus on diphthongs, contrasting stress, and phonetic sounds, including /ʧ/, /∫/, /ʤ/, and /Ʒ/. The course also covers techniques for summary writing, particularly how to answer summary questions effectively.
Course Content
Introduction
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Scheme of Work
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WEEK 1: Comprehension: Prostration, Noun Phrases And Noun Clauses. Narrative And Descriptive Essays.
WEEK 2: Comprehension – Reading For Critical Evaluation, Structure – Introduction To Sequence Of Tenses, Speech Work – Diphthongs, Vocabulary Development – Words Associated With Nation Building.
WEEK 3: Direct And Indirect Speech, Contrasting Stress, Comprehension: Meteors
Continuous Assessment 1
WEEK 4: Comprehension/ Reading Skills: Skimming And Scanning. Structure: Noun Phrase And Verb Phrase, Vocabulary Development: Agriculture, Spelling: Words Commonly Misspelt.
WEEK 5: Essay Writing (Formal Letters); Letters Of Complaints, Sentence Types According To Function, Speech Work: Diphthongs. Summary – How To Answer Summary Question
WEEK 6: • Essay Writing: (Informal Letters) Letters To A Friend In Another Town. • Speech Work: Diphthongs /Ei, Ai, Au, ᴐi/ • Comprehension (Reading For Implied Meanings): Unit II – Moral Behaviour • Vocabulary Development: Words Associated With Environment.
Continuous Assessment 2
WEEK 7: Formal And Informal Letters, Summary : Novel Extract, Adverbs And Adverbials
WEEK 8: Vocabulary Development – Words Associated With Smell, Taste And Colour. Structure – Word Modifiers; Adjectives And Adverbs. Writing – A Report. Comprehension – Uganda’s National Resistance Army
WEEK 9: Clauses, Speech Writing, Comprehension: Drama
Continuous Assessment 3
WEEK 10: Structure – More About Phrasal Verbs. Speech Work – /ʧ/ And /∫/, /ʤ/ And /Ʒ/, Vocabulary Development – Technology.
Revision and Closing Remarks
Examination
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