SS2 English Language Lesson Note- Third Term

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WEEK ONE

TOPIC: 

• Revision of the Last Term’s Examination Questions, Resumption test,

• Revision of Tenses in Grammar

• Narrative: My Holiday Experience   

• REVISION OF LAST TERM’S EXAMINATION 

• Grammar: Tenses 

Tense is a term which applies to verbs, and it is used to indicate the time of an action: past, present, future tense. These are the basic categories of tenses we have in English. 

The Past Tense – is used to express a past action. This is indicated in most verbs by adding ‘ed’ or ‘d’ to them. This type of verbs are called the regular verbs.

Example of such verbs are: voted, waited, counted, preached, visited, cured, answered, elected, abrogated, punched, perfected etc. verbs which do not take ‘ed’ or ‘d’ to form their past are called irregular verbs e.g. built, threw, said, paid wore, sent, swam, set, cast, ran, wrote etc. 

The Present Tense – is used to express the current time i.e. now. This tense could be singular or plural and it must agree with the subject in a sentence. 

Examples are vote, wait, say, count, preach, elect, answer(v), remove, empower, tolerate, activate etc. 

The Future Tense –This is done by putting an auxiliary before the verb and so on. Examples are as follows. 

1. Will + go e.g. I will go tomorrow. 
2. Shall + visit e.g. I shall visit you next week
3. Be + going e.g. I am travelling next year. 
4. Be + -ing verb e.g. She is coming next month 
5. Be + about to + verb e.g. Theyare about to start the lecture. 

Classwork

Write out the past tense of the following verbs: fly, cast, let, burn, lose, read, swim, call, bathe, lay, lie, sting, tie, fling 

READING ASSIGNMENT

Pg. 232 Countdown English 

• Narrative: My Holiday Experience 

Features 

• As a narrative, use the past tense 
• Arrange your events one after the other 
• Use connectors/transitional expressions 
• Raise suspense 
• Describe people, places and events.
• Use figurative language, proverbs or idioms.

Outline

• Write your title boldly in capital letters (preferably)
• Your introduction should be interesting
• Indicate when the holidays started 
• Describe how you had felt at the prospect of a holiday.
• Mention where and with whom you spent the holiday.
• Disclose what happened and your reactions 
• Mention the interesting parts and annoying ones. 
• Reveal the lessons learnt. 

EVALUATION 

Write the essay outlined above. 

GENERAL EVALUATION QUESTIONS 

Mention the three types of tenses and list the six ways of expressing future tense with examples. 

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT

SECTION A

Choose the word that contains the given phonetic symbol

1. /e/ (a) net (b) they (c) eke (d) wanted
2. /I/ (a) heel (b) sit (c) high (d) bite
3. /I:/ (a) say (b) seize (c) kill (d) ill
4. /Z/ (a) cars (b) loose (c) cease (d) lace
5. /٨/ (a) cough (b) lock (c) clerk (d) tough

SECTION B

Test for Continuous Assessment Effective English 2 (A: 1 – 10), pg 45  

WEEK TWO

TOPICS 

• Conditional Clauses; Complex Sentence  

• Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Publishing 
• Essay Writing: Speech Writing, Meaning and Features 
• (1) Conditional Clauses 

Content: Definition,Types and Examples

A conditional sentence has at least two clauses, one beginning with if (or ‘unless’ which means ‘if …. Not’)

Examples:

If inflation is high, the value of life insurance policies goes down.

Explanation: The ‘if clause’ is the subordinate clause while the result clause is the main clause. The arrangement of the sentence can be altered by positioning the result clause before the if clause e.gThe value of life insurance policies go down if inflation is high.

TYPES OF CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

• Likely or probable conditionals

Sentences in this category fall into two forms:

1. the if clause and the result may be in the present simple tense

e.g If you have a life insurance policy, your family has financial protection.

1. Present simple tense in the if-clause, future tense in the result clause e.g with your policy, the insurance company will pay up, even if you drive into a tree.

• Unlikely or Remote conditional

Past tense (also called the subjunctive) is used in the if-clause, “would” in the result clause.

e.g if you left the keys in the car and if it were stolen, the insurance company would  probably not pay you.

• Unfulfilled or impossible conditional. 

It is used for talking about what did not happen. The past perfect tense is in the if-clause “would have” and a past participle is in the result clause e.g If I had left the keys in the car, the insurance company would not have paid up.

EVALUATION

Identify the following as likely, unlikely or unfulfilled conditions 

1. If you steal, you may be jailed
2. I would have left if you had arrived earlier.
3. If you stole, you would be jailed

READING ASSIGNMENT

Read passage 41,56 Main text.

1. (2) Complex Sentence 

This is a type of sentence structure which consists of one main clause and one or more subordinate clauses, hence it is denoted by (M1, S1 or more ). When writing this type of sentence, any of the clauses could come first, but it is advisable to write the dependent clause first before the main clause so as to achieve sentence vigour. All conditional clauses are complex sentences.

Examples

1. If I were your father, I would punish you.
2. Whenever it rains, I don’t go to work.
3. Since I came to this school, I have never been punished because I always obey the rules
4. I will call you when I’m less busy.
5. The book which you gave me has been stolen.

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EVALUATION 

Write down ten complex sentences using different clauses markers and underlined the subordinate clauses.

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