Vocabulary Development – Words Associated with Smell, Taste and Colour

Adjectives of Smell

Adjectives that describe pleasant smells include fragrant, perfumed, scented, sweet, fresh, floral, fruity and those that refer to unpleasant smell include acrid, fetid, putrid, stinking rancid, rotten, pungent, tart etc.

Adjectives of Taste

These include bitter, hot, piquant, salty, sharp, sour, spicy, stale, crispy. garlicky, hot, lemony.

Adjectives of Colour

Includes amber, lilac, black, navy, blue, bronze, olive, red, orange, orchid, pale, peach, charcoal, chocolate, pink, purple, coral, silver, fuchsia, topaz, green, henna, indigo, vermilion, lemon, yellow, white, brown, wine, turquoise, grey.

EVALUATION
Write ten adjectives that have to do with shape.

READING ASSIGNMENT
Countdown in English, page 245

B. Topic: Structure – Word Modifiers; Adjectives and Adverbs.
A modifier is a word or phrase added to another word or phrase to give a clearer picture of the latter. Modifiers are usually adjectives and adverbs.

Adjectival modifiers describe nouns while adverbial modifiers modify verbs. A wide inventory of them is needed to enable precise, valid and effective descriptions, especially in essay writing.

Compare the sentences on the left with the sentences on the right in the box column.
Without modifiers With modifiers

1. The hunter entered the forest. The hunter entered the forbiddenvirgin forest.
2. He shows her love. He showed her true love.
3. She served us chicken. She served us rotten, putrid, frozen chicken.
4. She pays us a visit. She regularly pays us a visit.
5. He surrendered his keys. He reluctantly surrendered his keys.

A varied and apt use of modifiers (adjectives and adverbs) as earlier said, will make your descriptive and narrative essays more interesting to rea D. A few of these are listed below:
Modifiers

Adjective Adverb

a) Sight – slender, amorphous, ugly, colossal, elephant, scruffy, plain, trim etc. a). Movement – jerkily, rapidly, awkwardly, sluggishly, gingerly, cautiously etc.
b) Feeling – airy, soothing, unerring, cooling, refreshing, gentle, intense etc. b). frequency – occasionally, permanently, rarely, bi – monthly etc.
c) Touch – feathery, wooly, tepid, hot, thorny, prickly, ice – cold c). manner of doing things –brazenly, brusquely, fiercely, non-chalantly, rashly, thoughtlessly etc.
d) Of a person’s character – crooked, fickle, flightly, frivolous, quick-witted, richly endowed etc.( see notes on adjectives for more examples).
See notes on adjectives of colour, smell and taste for more examples.

EVALUATION

1. Look up the meaning of the following words from the dictionary.
   stealthily, frivolous, loquacious, tortuous, perennially, pungent
2. Make sentences with them.

READING ASSIGNMENT
Countdown in English, pages 245 – 249

C. Topic: Writing – A Report.

A report means an account of a happening. It is similar to a narrative writing. Indeed the report of a meeting, an event, an activity, an important occasion etc. is another form of narrative writing. It however becomes more than a mere record of events when the writer makes comments criticisms of his own.
For a report to be interesting, it must possess certain qualities in content and style. It requires a straight forward account of the event or incident in a simple and uncomplicated language. The account is also presented in proper sequence, generally in order of time and then grouped into paragraphs according, to the stages in the report. Correct choice of tense must be made, especially use of past tense.

Sample Question
As the prefect in charge of games in your school, you were present when a student sustained a serious injury while playing one of the games. Write a report to your school principal, describing how the incident happened and the necessary measures taken to send the student to the hospital.

Outline

1. Date
2. Opening salutation
3. Title
4. Paragraph (Introduction) 1: Notify the principal of the injury sustained by the student (recording the opening formalities e.g name of the student, class, time of the game, which part on the body got injured etc.)
5. Paragraph 2}
   Paragraph 3} Narrate what happened in the cause of the game, how the casualty was cared for
   Paragraph 4}
   Paragraph 5(Conclusion).
6. Name ( Surname and then first name)
7. Class or Post

EVALUATION
Use the outline above, write a full length report

READING ASSIGNMENT
Effective English, page 101

D. Topic Comprehension – Uganda’s National Resistance Army, Page 119
The passage centers on the account of Uganda’s National Resistance Army (NRA) which was borne as a result of the violence, injustice and the cruelty suffered by the innocent citizens of Uganda during the regimes of Idi Amin and Multi Obote in 1970s and 1980s respectively.

EVALUATION
Answer the questions that follow the passage

READING ASSIGNMENT
Effective English,page, 119

GENERAL EVALUATION/REVISION QUESTIONS
A. From letters A – D, choose the answer nearly opposite in meaning to the bold word(s)

1. Badmus is a very crookedman, I hate relating with him. A. bent B. straightforward C. changing D. steadfast
2. Cigarettes leaves a lingeringodour on the smoker. A. lasting B. an irritating C. an offensive D. a damaging
3. Paul prefers _ girls to amorphous ones A. slender B. garrulous C. pretty D. tall
   B. Convert the following simple sentences into compound and complex sentences.
4. In my sleep last night, I had a pleasant dream.
5. My father gave me a pen, I lost it

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT
SECTION A
Choose the appropriate options.

1. All the grass __ neatly uprooted A. has B. was C. have D. were
2. The whole luggage __ yet to be checked A. has B. is C. are D. have
3. The __ of equipment in the laboratory are over utilized A. few B. much C. more D. most
4. All the company’s employees refused to appear before the __ disciplinary committee A. seven men B. seven men’s C. seven man D. seven man’s
5. Do not worry __ water is on the fire A. some B. all C. a D. any

SECTION B
Do practice 2, page 43, Effective English