Writing Expository essay

Content:

• Explanation
• Features
• Outline on a Topic.

An expository essay is a type of essay that aims to instruct, inform, explain, criticize or analyse issues. In expository essay, we basically get educated or enlightened on such burning issues.

Features

1. The topic is boldly written in capital letters ( preferably).
2. The points/arguments should be logically presented.
3. Paragraphs should be developed with facts, examples and illustrations, comparison and contrasts, connectives.
4. Proper definition and explanation of vague ideas is vital.
5. The present tense is used.

Outline: The Problem With Nigeria

• You can start by acknowledging the fact of the topic.
• Mention at least three major problems and their causes.
• Discuss how these problems are affecting us as a nation.
• Suggest viable solutions to these problems.
• Use facts and data from daily news.
• Conclusions: recap and buttress your points.

EVALUATION

Write an essay on the outlined topic above.

READING ASSIGNMENT

Page 19 – 21 of Countdown English Language (Revised Edition)

Family Relationship: 

Mother, Father, brother, sister, half-brother etc half brother :C = a boy or man who has the same mother of father as one half (also half sister).

Grandchild – child of one’s son or daughter.

Cousin – child of one’s uncle of aunt

Uncle – brother of one’s mother of father or husband of one’s aunt.

Aunt-  sister of one’s mother or father or wife of one’s uncle

Nephew  ( son of one’s sister or brother

Step Mother –  Woman who maries one’s father (also step father )

Relative – member of the same family or extended family as oneself

Family – group of people consisting of parents and their children

Extended family – group of people consisting of parents and their children and such other peo0ple as one’s aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents.

Distant Relative –  Relative such as one’s cousin’s child).

Nuclear Family – Family consisting only of parents and their children and not including aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.

Words for objects in the Home furniture = “Large movable objects such as tables, chairs, beds, used in a room for sitting, sleeping or putting things on.

Utensils tools or objects for cooking

Wardrobe –  Tall cupboard where one can hang one’s clothes

Grinder – ( device for crushing some things into small piece or making it into a powder’).

Blender –  machine used in the kitchen for mixing liquids and soft food together  into a smooth liquid substance.’.

Fridge – Cooling container for keeping food and other things in so that they stay fresh.

EVALUATION

Complete each of the following sentences with the most appropriate word.

1. The daughter of one’s sister or brother is one’s ……….
2. Janice cannot marry yet because her ………. has not been able to pay the  bride price.
3. There are no cooking ….such as pots and saucepans in the kitchen.
4. Saturday mornings are spent……. The floor with stiff brushes and plenty of water.
5. Out of the following only a …..is not a member of the nuclear family.

  (a) Cousin           (b) Father    ( C)  brother     (d)  Mother    (e) Sister.

READING ASSIGNMENT

Register: pg 112 Exam Focus: English for JSCE.

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT

Choose the word that contains the same sound as the sound represented by the underlined letters in the given word.

1.  Splash  (a) measure      (b) bus   (c) buzz         (d) shoot

2. Choleric (a) chores        (b) chap  (c) cattle       (d) short

3. Yesterday  (a )joyful     (b) union         (c ) please        (d) physics

4.  Toddler. (a) thunder     (b) weather      ( c) cooked      (d) though

5. Tough     (a)phase         (b) ghost          (c ) long           (d) garden        (e) high

THEORY

Write five examples of a noun clause performing different functions.