About Course
This subject focuses on developing students’ proficiency in English language skills, including grammar, comprehension, vocabulary, writing, and speech work. It begins with structural lessons on the possessive apostrophe, punctuation marks, sentence types, pronouns, and phrasal verbs, helping students refine their understanding of language mechanics. Speech work covers diphthongs, rhyme schemes, and consonant sounds, enhancing pronunciation and oral communication. Vocabulary development introduces words related to the press, environment, nation-building, technology, and cultural entertainment, broadening students’ language use in different contexts.
Students will also engage in comprehension and summary writing, focusing on reading for main ideas, critical evaluation, and implied meanings, as well as techniques for answering summary questions. Essay writing lessons include narratives, formal and informal letters, complaint letters, and article writing, equipping students with practical writing skills. The course also explores active and passive structures, making uncountable nouns countable, and handling model summary passages to strengthen students’ ability to analyze and convey information effectively. This comprehensive curriculum enhances students’ overall command of the English language
Course Content
Introduction
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Scheme of Work
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WEEK 1: Structure – Use of Possessive Apostrophe Comprehension (Reading to Grasp. Main Points); Stock Exchange Writing – Narrative – A Place of Interest I Visited
WEEK 2: Structure – Punctuation Marks; Comma, Semicolon, Question Mark and Colon. Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Press. Comprehension (Reading to Grasp Sentence Paragraph Transition); An Absurdist Dramas
WEEK 3: Essay Writing (Formal Letters); Letters of Complaints Sentence Types According to Function Speech Work: Diphthongs. Summary – How to Answer Summary Question; African Mud Sculpture
Continuous Assessment 1
WEEK 4: 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.
WEEK 5: Speech Work – Rhyme Scheme Structure: Pronoun Types Summary – Identifying the Topic Sentence of a Passage
WEEK 6: Comprehension – Reading for Critical Evaluation; Structure – Introduction to Sequence of Tenses Speech Work – Diphthongs /Iə/, /eә/and /Ʊə/ Vocabulary Development – Words Associated with Nation Building.
Continuous Assessment 2
WEEK 7: Structure – More about Phrasal Verbs. Summary – Advancement in Technology Speech Work – /ʧ/ and /∫/, /ʤ/ and /ʒ/ Vocabulary Development – Technology.
WEEK 8: Essay Writing – Articles Structure – Active and Passive Structures. Vocabulary Development – Words Associated with Cultural Entertainment
WEEK 9: Structure – Making Uncountable Nouns Countable. Summary – Writing Answers to Model Summary Passage – Food and Nutrition in Practice by J. Anazonwu – Bello Vocabulary Development – Words Commonly Misspelt Writing – Semi-formal Letter
Continuous Assessment 3
Revision and Closing Remarks
Examination
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