ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHEME OF WORK FOR JSS2 FIRST TERM WEEK TOPIC CONTENT 1 Comprehension Vocabulary Development How we spent the Holiday Health and Medicine 2 Structure Essay Negation Descriptive Essay 3 Speech Work Literature Vowel Contrast /i:/, /i/ and /a:/ 4 Punctuation Use of comma, full stop, question mark and inverted comma Question Tags 5 Speech work Diphthongs WH- Questions 6 Administration 7 Nasals

8 Continuous Writing Structure Narrative Essay Request 9 Comprehension Vocabulary Development One Pendulum to Another Politics 10 Revision Revision of topics for the term

Week one Grammar

Negation Negation means to state that something is not true and the most common way of doing this is by using the word “not”

Examples He is leaving tomorrow He is not leaving tomorrow They have returned from school They have not returned from school

Examples of Negators Not, n’t , no, nothing, nowhere, no one, etc The commonest way of making a negative statement is by introducing the word “not” immediately after the auxilliary verb in the sentence. Where there are two or more auxilliaries . It is introduced after the first one e.g He will be leaving tomorrow He will not be leaving tomorrow

Auxilliary verbs are helping verbs e Auxilliary verbs are helping verbs e.g Can, may, will, shall, should,have,had When it is only the main verb, “not” is introduced after the auxilliary “Do “ He comes regularly He does not come regularly He came that day He did not come regularly

It is also used after the verbs am, is are was, were. E.g He could not find her bag We can also form negative sentence with (a) the determiner “no” There is a table in the room There is no table in the room (b) the pronoun ‘ nothing’ He brought something He brought nothing

(c) The adverb “nowhere’ ‘never’ ‘hardly ‘ scarcely’ ‘rarely’ seldom’ It is somewhere now – it is nowhere now He is always drunk_ he is never drunk CLASSWORK Give the negative of each of these sentences We go to church on Sundays My father has built a house I have done my homework

DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY A descriptive essay is one written to give the reader a mental picture of a person, place or an object in his or her mind A good essay has three parts (a) the introduction- This tells us generally what the es say is all about. This is the first paragraph. (b) Body – This tells us all about the topic, the opinion or argument of the writer or the story. It is written in paragraphs (c) The conclusion: This is the brief summary of the introduction and the body of the essay ; it is the last paragraph.

HINTS ON WRITING A GOOD ESSAY 1. Understand every topic before you start to write it. 2. plan the essay points before you write on them 3. Begin the introduction with a paragraph 4. write the body of the essay in paragraph 5.Think very well before you write 6. Punctuate your writing well

QUALITIES OF A GOOD DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY Like any other piece of writing, a descriptive essay must possess the following clarity Orderliness Vividness Being interesting