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  Consonants/l/, /j/, /r/, and /f/ Consonant Sounds are sounds produced from the mouth with an obstruction of air from the lungs. There are 24 consonant sounds in English language. Some of them include: 1. Consonant/j/: This is a voiced consonant and always appear before a vowel. It is mostly spelt with 'y'. E.g young, university, due, yawn, yes, eulogy, view, ewe, new, etc. 2. Consonant/l/ : It is called a lateral consonant and it is a voiced consonant. E.g last, class, glue, allow, collide, etc.  3. Consonant /f/: This is a voiceless consonant  and when pronounced, it is faint. E.g fan, graph, cough, photograph, physics, difficult, different, fat, ferry etc. 4. Consonant /r/: This sound is called the lateral consonant sound. It is a voiced consonant. Its spelling forms are: r- rite, freeze, ram, etc. rr- carry, arrest, ferry, etc. rh-rhyme, rhapsody, rhema, etc. EVALUATION From the words lettered A-D, choose the word that has the same consonant sound as the one represented

  Vocabulary Development on Sea Transportation Sea transportation is made up of transportation in which goods are transported on bodies of water  such as seas, oceans, rivers, lakes, streams, etc. Words associated with sea transport include: People: sailor, crew, steward/stewardess, captain, dock workers, etc Places: wharf, harbour, port, dock, coast, dockyard, berth, etc.   Boats: submarine, steamer, trawler, tanker, ferry, motor boat, etc. Parts of a Ship: stern, bow, sails, mast, hull, anchor, gangway, helm, cabins, deck, etc. Action Words: embark, sail, steel, dock, set, steam, drop, anchor, etc. cargo, ship wreck, light house, life-belt, tide, etc. Evaluation Use the words listed below to fill in the blanks: pilot, captain, cargo boat, harbour, cabin, dock workers, anchor, voyage, stern. We should have had a neatly pleasant -------- but we experienced stormy seas at the very end. The crew needed some ------- to offload. The captain dropped the ------- when he got to the boat. A pe

 Adjectives Adjectives are words that describe nouns and pronouns. Types of Adjectives   1. Qualitative Adjectives : This adjective tells you something about the quality of someone or something. E.g a. He has bought a new car. b. She is a rich  woman. 2. Qualifying Adjectives : This type of adjective tells us the amount of a thing. E.g. a. I have had enough food. b. I ate some loaves of bread. 3. Adjectives of Colour : This type of adjective tells us the colour of a thing. They include: green, blue, yellow, brown, etc. E.g. a. She is wearing a bright yellow dress. b. He is holding a green and white flag. 4. Adjective of Number: This type of adjective tells us exactly the number of persons or things E.g a. I saw only two people. b. She is the first person to arrive. 5. Emphatic Adjectives: This type of adjective is used to emphasis feelings about something. E.g: a. He is a total stranger. b. She made a serious mistake. 6. Interrogative Adjectives: This type of adjective is use

  The Sentence  A sentence can be defined as a group of words that expresses a complete idea or a complete thought. Features of a Sentence  1. It must have a subject and a predicate. The subject tells us the part that does something in the sentence while the predicate tells us something about  the subject. E.g The teacher resides in the school. Subject              Predicate  2. A sentence must contain a finite verb. E.g Our principal comes early to school.                           finite 3. A sentence must contain a complete thought. My mother is a nurse. 4. A sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop. E.g: Our house is very big. The Structure of a Sentence  The structure of a sentence is made up of three components: a. subject  b. verb c. object  a. The Subject can either be a noun, a noun phrase, a noun clause or a pronoun usually the first part of a sentence. For example: The boys washed the car. Subject  b.  The verb is a word that expresses action. E.g T

 VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT ON HEALTH  Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity. It is also the condition of being sound in body, mind or spirit. There are some words associated with health and they include: hospital  ward doctor  emotional disorder  disease  wellness drugs pharmacy  surgeon nurse matron dentist  laboratory attendant pediatrician infection  pills patients  Evaluation  Read the text below and decide which answer from A-D best fits each space: My friend and I visited his father at the medical --1--- of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja. He was receiving --2-- for typhoid --3-- which he --4-- from eating unhygienically prepared food sold on their street. As a --5--, the doctor --6-- an antibiotic for him. When we got to the ward, he was still feeling --7--because he had been given sleeping --8--. The doctor advised him to take a daily --9-- of the antibiotic tablets twic

  WASSCE 2024 Test of Orals From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined. w o men (a) red (b) rid (c) bead (d) cool p ear l (a) curtain (b) fear (c) care (d) sergeant  e dit  (a) many (b) earthly (c) forte (d) meaty pe nal  (a) penalty (b) reality (c) receipt (d) pleasant  pa ssage (a) message (b) package (c) mortar (d) partner c oa rse  (a) coax (b) chore (c) road (d) rod st i pend  (a) still (b) free (c) bear (d) kite d u mb  (a) comb (b) pupil (c) urban (d) month w o lf  (a) golf (b) scold (c) crude (d) wood m a nure  (a) party (b) search (c) again (d) bad h o st  (a) now (b) hoarse (c)  thought (d) known st ea k  (a) stake (b) mead (c) meadow (d) bellow br u te  (a) should (b) stood (c) lose (d) brought s ou th  (a) drought (b) foal (c) southern (d) doughty pl oy  (a) plough (b) law (c) noise (d) sort From the words lettered A to D choose the word that has the same consonant sounds as the one repres