SS1 FIRST TERM SCHEME OF WORK FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE

 SS1 FIRST TERM SCHEME OF WORK FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE

WEEK	TOPIC	SUB-TOPIC
1.	a. Oral: Review b.Structure   c. Reading Comprehension   d Vocabulary development e. Words for the week	v Differentiate between letters of alphabet and English sounds. v Review of word classes: parts of speech, use them in sentences. v Identify the topic sentence and main idea in the passage. v Words associated with home and family. v Meaning of docile, indict, playwright, abase, haughty, millenium, chalet, memento, absolve, synonymous.
2.	a. Oral   b. Structure   c. Comprehension   d. Writing   e.Words for the week	v Monophthongs (pure vowels)   v Nouns, meaning, types, examples and usage   v Contextual meaning, replacement question form.   v Composition on ‘My Family’. v Discreet,gazelle, boycott, enmity, bequeath, hallowed, epitome, apathetic, facade, lynch.
3.	a.  Oral   b. Structure c. Comprehension d. Vocabulary Development e. Words for the week	v Diphthongs   v Countable and uncountable nouns . v Reading to Comprehend supporting details. v Register of Agriculture v Abide, beseech, canvass, rheumatism, yacht, martyr, gazette, demean, hierarchy, awful.
4.	a.  Oral b. Structure   c. Listening Comprehension   d Writing   d. Words for the week	v Triphthongs. v Adjectives and adverbs: meaning, identification, types and usage.  v Summary through identification of signal words. v Narrative essay: ‘A place of interest I visited’.   v Nausea, dialect, rhythm, transfix, seizure, paraphernalia, unprecendented, quizzes, vain, humanitarianism.
5.	a. Oral   b. Structure c. Vocabulary Development   d. Words for the Week	v Consonant sounds /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, /k/, /g/, /f/, /v/, /s/, /z/. v Phrase: Types and functions. v Fishery and Animal husbandry. v Implicit, guile, magnanimous, ingenious, deter, pillage, indigent, encore, exuberance, fallacy.
6.	a. Structure   b. Reading Comprehension   c. Vocabulary Development     d. Writing   e. Words for the week	v Clause: types- main clause, subordinate clause.   v Identify topic sentences in a selected text.   v Confusing words: been/being, lose/loose, cite/site/sight, its/it’s, advise/advice, junction/juncture, whose/who’s, etc. v Descriptive Essay: Farming in my village or town/ How to make a local dish. v Aloof, abate, handkerchief, prairie, weird, miscellaneous, dilemma, destitute, egregious, hypothetical.
7.	Mid- Term Words for the week	v Open Day/Holiday v Perplex, enthral, idiosyncratic, lucid, aggravate, ambiguous, conflagration, concede, barbecue, stealthy.
8.	a. Oral     b. Structure   c. Reading Comprehension d. Writing   e. Words for the week	v Syllable on two/three/four syllable words. Identification of stress on words.   v Sentence types according to structure and according to function. v Answering of questions from a selected passage. v Letter writing: Types of letters, Informal letter, features and formats. v Perplex, analysis, idiosyncratic, foreigner, fetter, conflagration, concede, barbecue, stealthy.
9.	a. Oral   b. Structure c. Comprehension d. Writing  e. Words for the Week	v Syllable and Stress, stress on the first syllable.   v Regular and Irregular Verbs. v Selected passage on ‘summary’ v Formal Letter writing, features and formats. v Litigant, hypocrisy, maestro, limpid, apparatus, commitment, bough, privilege,maintenance, campaign.
10.	a. Structure     b. Reading Comprehension     c. Writing       d. Vocabulary Development   e. Words for the week	v Figures of Speech: Simile, metaphor, irony, personification, hyperbole, synedoche, paradox, pun, etc. v Read a selected passage and answer the questions.   v Definition, characteristics and elements of argumentative essay. Write an argumentative essay on “Women have the same opportunities in life as men. “ v Words associated with library.   v Trafficking, fickle, deleterious, hegemony, likelihood, jubilant, rhythmical, engender, kudos, implicit, condone.
11.	a. Structure b. Vocabulary Development c. Oral   d. Writing   e. Words for the week	v Definite and Indefinite articles v Words associated with journalism v Dialogue on the experience of national/topical issues. v Review of Essay Writing (narrate a story that ends with ‘A patient dog eats the fattest bones’). v Industrious, disgusting, copious, hibernate, publicize, disciplined, overcome, tolerant, subordination, infatuation.
12.	Revision	v Revision
13.	Examination	v Examination
14.	Examination	v Examination