Comprehension-YVONNE AND YVETTE, vocabulary Development- Printing/Mass Media

COMPREHENSION-YVONNE AND YVETTE– UNIT 8- Pages 139-145
This passage is centered on Yvonne and Yvette who were born connected head to head and the doctor’s prediction on their future/chance of survival. The passage also focuses on the lifestyle of each of the twin sisters and how they both managed to live above their challenges in life.
ACTIVITY- Read the passage carefully and answer all the questions on it.

Relevant Words
Editorial: This is an article giving the opinion of its editors on a given topic or current.
Book pirate: This is a person who reproduces another person’s work without permission.
Copyright: This is the exclusive right to sell or control a book.
Royalty: This is the percentage of money paid to an owner of a copyright or book.
Imprint: The printer or publisher’s name, with the date and place of publication.
Cartoon: This is a sketch or drawing that shows events or people in an amusing way.
Column: This is an arrow division of a page reading from top to bottom, kept separate by lines or blank spaces. This is also a recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece by an author.
Obituary: A brief notice of a person’s death, as published in the newspaper
Corrigendum: This is an error that is to be corrected in a printed work after publication. It is a list of errors in a printed work as a separate page of corrected, known as an errata page. The plural form of corrigendum is corrigenda
Marketing department:
Broadcast: This is a transmission of a radio or television programme aired to be received by anyone with a receiver. This is the transmission of message or signal via radio waves or electronic means
Signal: [Of radio, TV, telephone, internet etc] an electromagnetic action, normally a voltage that is a function of time that conveys the information of the radio or of the communication with another party.
Broadcasters: This is a person whose job is to broadcast
Freelance journalist/broadcaster: This is broadcaster or journalist who sells his services to employer without a long term contract.
Reportage: This is a reported of news. This is also news or information of general interest which has been reported.
Slander: This is a false, malicious statement [spoken or published], especially one which is injurious to a person’s reputation. This is synonymous to defamationofcharacter.
Libel: This is a pictorial or a written statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone’s reputation. The difference between libel and slander is that libel is written while slander is spoken. However, both have are the same meaning.
Mast head: The title which is [normally in a large and distinctive font] of a newspaper at the top of the front page
Dateline: This is a line at the beginning of a newspaper stating the date and place of origin.
Manuscript: This is a book, composition or any other document written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for [copy-editing and] reproductive publication.
Editor: This is a person who edits or makes changes to documents. An editor edits stories and news items and he decides which stories/articles/news to publish.
Correspondent: This is a journalist who sends reports to his newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.
Caricature: This a pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are distorted or exaggerated for comic effects. This is to represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.
Cartoonist: This is a person who creates cartoon or strip cartoons.
Advertorial: This is an advertisement written in form of an objective editorial, presented in a printed publication, and usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news/article.
Plagiarism: This is an act of copying another person’s work, ideas, text or other creative work, and presenting it as one’s own, especially without permission.
Proof read: This is to check a written text for errors in spelling and grammar.
Offset: Printing method in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.

Evaluation: Look up the meanings of the following words- piracy, vendor, royalty, sub editor, column, byline, articles, headlines, parody, printing plate, headlines, censorship, NUJ, editor-in-chief, mass communication, print media, electronic media, periodicals, communiqué, journalism, press release, news recap.

B: Structure: Auxiliary ‘can’ /’could’
Content: Aux. ‘can’
Aux. ‘could’
‘Can’ is used to:
Express permission: e.g. Awa can go if he likes. (Permission in the present and future)
Express possibility: e.g. That River can be bridged.
Express ability or capacity: John can lift that weight easily.

‘Could’- Awa could go if he likes. (Polite in the present and future)
Awa could go out whenever he liked, (permission in the past)
‘Could’ can be use to express ability or capacity: John could run fast when he was young.

Evaluation: Use ‘can’ and could in SIX sentences specifying their usage.
Reading Assignment: Countdown by Evans page 193.

C: Spelling: Words Commonly Misspelt
Our focus would be on the following:

Words with Silent Letters.
Words with Silent First and last Letters
Homophones
Words of foreign origin
Some British and American spelling
Analysis of sixty eight (68) words commonly misspelt.

Words with silent letters
(i) Scene, scissors, debt, doubt, bridge, budget, handkerchief, solemn, castle,

Words with silent first letters.
Psychology , knight, knee, kneel, knickers, gnash, wrestle, write, psychiatric, psyche, psalm.
Word ending: lamb, bomb, tomb, chalet, ballet, beret,comb, womb,
Homophones: Words that have exactly the same sound but different spelling and different meanings. E.g…
Maze Maize

Mare Mayor
Boy Buoy
Flare Flair
Pause Paws
Pail Pale

British and American spelling
British American
Defense(verb) Defence(verb)
Programme Program
Kilogramme Kilogram
Colour Color
Cancelled Canceled
Labelled Labeled
Enrolment Enrollment
Manoeuvre Maneuver
Encylopaedia Encyclopedia

Analysis of words commonly mispelt
Correct Misspell
Accommodation Accomadation
Acquiant Caquaint
A lot A lot
Anoint Annoint
Athletics Atheletics
Enmity Enimity
Grateful Greatful
Fulfil Fulfill
Maintenance Maintainance

Evaluation: Write two examples for each of the following words where ‘c’, ‘b’,‘d’,‘t’ is silent.
(ii) Write five pairs of homophones

Reading assignment: Page39-48 of Complete English Course for Senior Secondary Schools by UhamakaChiomaIbe

Weekend assignment: Passage c Page 365 of Countdown.