Comprehension: Comprehending words meanings in context

Meaning. How to comprehend the meanings of words in context.

Comprehension: means understanding. To comprehend words in context means to understand the meaning of a given word used in the context or passage.

USEFUL HINTS:

Before the meaning of a word can be given, the contextual usage must be considered, this might be quite different from the general meaning of the word.

When replacing a given word in a passage, test your equivalent in the passage to see if the original meaning of the passage or sentence has been retained. The equivalents should be exact equivalents. For example, you should retain the tense of the original verb; E.g. ‘stared’ should be replaced by ‘gazed’. you must also retain the word class I.e if a word is a noun, it equivalent must also be a noun and vice versa. E.gprobity(noun)- honesty, decency, intergity, uprightness,saintliness. All these are nouns.

Vehemently (adverb)-strongly{adverb}, forcefully etc.

Jealous (adjective)-envious(adjective).

The word given must be equivalent to the word in the context.

REFERRED TO Page 104, Passage A- ‘Beauty’- Reading passage about black hair

Evaluation: Give another word to each of the following words as used in comprehension passage on page 34-40

Of your Effective English: consummate, spouse, engaged, faithful and annul.

Reading Assignment: page 80-81 of Countdown WASSCE, SSCE, NECO and JME by Evans.

B: Structure: Auxiliaries ‘will and would’.

CONTENT:

Auxiliary ‘will’

Auxiliary ‘would’

Auxiliary ‘will’: Shows simple futurity in the second person and third person singular and plural.e.g

2^nd person           Singular                                          Plural

You will                       You will

He, she, it, will             They will

‘Will’ shows determination in the first person singular and plural e.g.

First person       singular                       plural

I will                                        We will

Auxiliary ‘would‘ expresses futurity from the stand point of some past time e.g… If I had a car, I would travel very often.

‘Would’ is used to express condition

Evaluation: Answer practice 4 on page 167

Reading assignment: Read the use of English on page 165 of your Effective English

C:Vocabulalary Development: Words associated with Photography

Content:

Meaning

Relevant Words

Photography means writing or drawing with light. Therefore a camera picture is one drawn with rays of light.

Relevant words

Dark room: Room with a dim-colored light cut off from all outside light. It is used for developing photographs

Film:  A medium used to capture images in a camera.

Blur: To make obscure or hazy or dim.

Pose: To take a fixed position for the sake of effect.

Hobby: Favourite pastime

Lens: Curved piece of glass that forms images as light passes through it.

Negative: Piece of plastic which shows the lights and shadows in reverse.

Studio: Work room of a photography

Evaluation: Practice 2 on page 22

Reading Assignment: Effective English SS1 page 19-20

Weekend Assignment: Find out the meanings of the following words and use them in sentences: rewind crank, shutter release button, view finder, color slides cine-camera, developing, printing, negative.