SS2 1st Term English Language scheme of work

                                                           FIRST TERM E-LEARNING NOTE

SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE                                                                     CLASS: SS 2

SCHEME OF WORK

WEEK           TOPIC

1. Comprehension:Reading for Main Points
2. Structure: Revision on Nominalization of Adjectives and Verbs.
3. Speech Work: Review of Consonants Followed by /j/ and /u/ Sounds. Summary: Revision of the Features of Summary.
4. (i) Comprehension – Learning about Main Ideas and Supporting Details Unit 1:

     Basketball, pg 19

(ii) Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with the Human Body System and Functions

(iii) Speech Work: Cluster of Two, Three and Four Consonants

(iv) Writing (Expository): Meaning, Features and Examples 

• (i) Comprehension: Reading to Follow Writer’s Ideas; Unit 2: Insurance, pg 33

(ii) Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Health e.g. diagnosis, contagious etc.

(iii) Structure: Noun Phrases: Meaning, Identification and Functions

• Summary (Reading to Summarise): NnamdiAzikwe,pg 26

Vocabulary Development – Words Associated with Building and Building

Construction.

Writing – (Narrative) Meaning, Features and Examples.

Structure – Relative Pronouns

• Comprehension Reading For Main Points – 2; Unit 4; Building,pg 66

Speech Work: Unstressed Vowel Sound /ə /

Writing (Argumentative) “Corruption Should be fought from the top to the bottom”

• Comprehension:Reading to Extract the Main Points from a Passage: Unit 6; On the Road pg 90

Structure: Sentence Types

Speech Work: Stress OfFour Syllable Words

Writing: Descriptive: “Valedictory Ceremony in My School”

• (i) Comprehension: Reading to Take Notes; Unit 7; Technology, pg 104

Structure: Adverb – Types (Manner, Place, Time, Frequency, Degree etc.)

Summary: Reading to Summarise an Argument

• Structure: Word Modifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs

Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Colours, Smell and Taste

Comprehension (Listening); Unit 8; Uganda’s National Resistance Army, pg 119

Writing: A Report

• Structure: Plural Forms of Nouns

Speech Work: Stress of Five Syllable Words

Writing – Creative Writing: Features of a Short Story.

Summary Writing – Identifying Topic Sentences: Agriculture; Technical Aid Corps Proposed for Africa.

1. Comprehension: Reading to Paraphrase a Prose Passage; Unit 5; Nazruddin, pg 80

Structure: Phrasal Verbs.

Writing: Features and Format of an Informal Letter.

1. Revision
2. Examination

REFERENCE

• Montgomery et al: Effective English for SS 2 ( Main Text) Evans Publishers, Ibadan
• Ogunsanya et al: Countdown to SSCE, Evans Publisher, Ibadan.
• Onuigbo S.M: Oral English for Schools and Colleges, Africana Publishers, Enugu.
• Ayo Banjo et al: New Oxford Secondary English Course SS 2. University Press PLC, Ibadan
• FoluAgoi: Towards Effective Use of English. A grammar of Modern English
• Ayo Akano: Maclimillan Mastery English Language for Senior Secondary Schools, Macmillan Nigeria Publishrs limited, Ibadan
• Ken Mebele et al: Goodbye to Failure in English for Senior Schools, Book 2, Treasure Publishers LTD, Lagos.
• Benson O. A Oluikpe et al: Intensive English for Senior Secondary Schools, 2 Africanal Publishers LTD, Onitsha.
• Oxford, Advanced Learners Dictionary.
• WAEC Past Questions.