FIRST TERM SS3 SCHEME OF WORK FOR ENGLISH LANGUGE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC SESSION BY: DINZEI MAUREEN MARRIS

 

SS3 FIRST TERM SCHEME OF WORK FOR 2024/2025

WEEK	TOPIC	SUB-TOPIC
1.	a. Structure   b. Oral   c. Summary Writing d. Words for the week	v  Sequence of Tenses in Phrases and Clauses (Def,types and examples). v  Word Stress, Sentence Stress, number of syllables, prefixes and suffixes. v  Definition, dos’, and don’ts v  Meaning of Dearth, convivial, brusque, acrimony, adamant, emend, effulgent, felicitous, eloquent, forsake,
2.	a. Vocabulary Development   b. Listening Comprehension   c. Summary	v  Words associated with culture, institutions and ceremonies v  Point out the main points and ideas in speeches, lectures or discussions v  Write a good summary without mindless lifting.
3.	a.  Oral   b. Structure c. Composition d. Words for the week	v  Intonation Pattern, rising and falling tone in statements. WH-questions, yes/no questions v  Noun Phrases/ Noun Clauses and their functions. v  Expository Essay on Drug Abuse v  Heinous, immerse, undulate, tortuous, frivolous, accentuate, bulk, calibrate, accolade, collateral.
4.	a.  Vocabulary Development/ Comprehension b. Summary c. Composition   d. Words for the week	v  Words associated with government and administration. v  Answer summary questions by picking out topic sentences. v  Letter Writing- distinguish between formal and informal letters. v  Goad, garish, frenetic, innocuous, utilitarian, inimical, mutinous, venerable, telemetry, meritorious.
5.	a. Oral   b. Structure   c. Words for the Week	v  Consonant Clusters (two and three clusters in initial, medial and final positions). v  Pronouns (types, uses, analyse the uses of personal pronouns in relation to cases, number and gender). v  Buttress, adulation, adroit, duress, dissonance, eclectic, elucidate, fathom, forestall, gourmand.
6.	a. Oral   b. Structure   c. Vocabulary Development/ Comprehension   d. Summary e. Words for the week	v  Consonant Clusters (three and four consonant clusters. Examine letter ‘x’ and sound /j/ in consonant clusters). v  Conjunctions (types: coordinating, subordinating and correlative, uses). v  Words associated with motor vehicles and travelling. v  Differentiate between phrases and sentences; v  Malleable, libertarian, pluralists, travesty, potentate, calumny, boon, amorphous, banal, benign.
7.	Mid- Term Words for the week	v  Open Day/Holiday v  Beseech, emollient, fetid, garrulous, blondish, haughty, penchant, surmise, sycophant, tantamount.
8.	a. Oral       b. Structure c. Composition d. Words for the week	v  The schwa /ꝺ/ as final unstressed syllable (teacher, doctor, daughter, etc. other positions: a in again, away). Other weak syllables ( e in believe, demand, remain, syllabic consonants). v  Modal forms and uses. E.g. must, need, can, dare, ought, used to, etc. v  Report Writing (writing minutes of meeting) v  Ascertain, condolence, dissent, immutable, asylum, noisome, myriad, rectitude.
9.	a. Oral   b. Structure c. Listening Comprehension d. Vocabulary Development e. Words for the Week	v  Dialogue on Drug Abuse, Child Abuse, Discipline, Core values. v  Prepositions, uses, examples. v  Listening to lectures and taking notes. v  Words associated with law and order v  Cupidity, mundane, cadence, censure, partisan, petulance, licentious, fastidious, forbearance, linchpin.
10.	a. Structure b. Summary c. Oral   d. Vocabulary Development e. Words for the week	v  Sentence, types, features v  Read a summary passage and answer the summary questions. v  Exercise on Argumentative or Expository Essay v  Differences between British and American Spellings v  Meddlesome, mediaeval, acquaintance, cabal, saboteur, infuriate, ingenuous, insolent, loophole, overweening.
11.	a. Oral: Reading Comprehension b. Structure c. Composition d. Words for the week	v  Reading to take note of main points. v  Adjuncts: Forms or types, functions v  Review of letter writing v  Usurp, transmute, timorous, non-descript, malevolent, iridescent, cultivate, corrosive, coup, arable.
12.	Revision	v  Revision
13.	Examination	v  Examination
14.	Examination	v  Examination