1. 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

2. 8
Continuous Writing
Structure
Narrative Essay
Request 9
Comprehension
Vocabulary Development
One Pendulum to Another
Politics 10
Revision
Revision of topics for the term

3. Week one
Grammar

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

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. (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

10. 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.

11. 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

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