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Comprehension: Helping Addicts

The passage is adapted from the Evening Standard. It centres on a psychotherapist named Malcolm Scott and his attempt to […]

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COMPREHENSION: LAW AND ORDER

The passage is adapted from the Daily Sketch. It is a report of a court case. The case involved five […]

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Comprehension: Novel Extract

The passage is an extract from the Novel titled ‘A Good Man in Africa’ by William Boyd. A woman, named […]

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Comprehension: Law Enforcement Agreement

The passage centres on the attempts by the Nigeria Government to curb drug trafficking in the country. Nigeria’s geographical position […]

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Comprehension: Irrigation

The passage is adapted from Small Scale Irrigation by Peter Stern. The sprinkler method of irrigation is discussed at length.. […]

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Formal and Informal Letters

A      Formal letters: Formal letters are letters we write to people in their  official  positions. These people are normally those […]

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Monophthongs and Diphthongs

The vowels in English are classified into two main groups pure vowels (monophthongs) and diphthongs A. Monophthongs: The monophthongs are […]

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Comprehension : Business

The passage centres on the establishment of PZ Cussons and its gradual growth in the nineteenth century. It was formerly […]

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Speech Work: Sentence Intonation Patterns

Intonation and stress are very important in spoken English. The meaning of an utterance is affected, not only by stress, […]

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Comprehension: Prostration and narrative and Descriptive essay

The passage centres on the childhood of Wole Soyinka. It is an extract from his book titled ‘Ake’. In this […]