SPEECH WORK

Topics: 

•             Speechwork: Consonant Contrast /f/ and /v/
•             Grammar: Conjunctions
•             Reading Comprehension: Extracts from ‘Things Fall Apart’
•             Vocabulary Development: Newspaper page 235
•             Writing: Informal Letter
•             Literature: More on Figures of Speech

•    Topic: Consonant

Content: Consonant contrast /f/ and /v/

/f/ /v/

fan van

fat vat

fine vine

fast vast

few view

fault vault

ferry very

safe save

staff starve

belief believe

strife strive

Evaluation: Write ten examples for each sound.

•             Topic: Parts of Speech

Content: Conjunction

A conjunction is a word used to join expressions. Expressions joined together by conjunctions are words, phrases, and clauses. Examples: 

There are three main kinds.

Coordinating, correlative, subordinating conjunctions

   Coordinating conjunctions join groups of similar words and sentences e.g and, but, or

Examples:

They want John and Tina. (two words)

They have finally finished and will soon leave. (two main clauses).

They played their best but they did not win. (two main clauses).

Hussein and Musa are good swimmers. (two words)

        Correlative conjunctions are made up of pairs of words. They join individual words or groups of words. Examples: either—— or, neither—–nor, both——-and, not only——but also hardly——-when, no sooner——-than, etc.

Examples:

Lost in the desert, we had neither food nor water.

The crowd likes both my paintings and my sculpture.

The machine not only picks the peas but also shells them.

Either NgoziorUsman is acceptable.

I had hardly reached home when the phone began ringing.

We had no sooner started for the cinema than our uncle arrived.

        Subordinating conjunctions are used to join clauses of unequal rank. They join subordinate clauses to main clauses. Examples after, before, since, until, when, while, now that, as, where, because, although, even, if, as though, so that, last, so that, except that, unless, etc.

Examples:

After I had finished my work, I took a nap.

I like listening to music while I read.

They were angry because the group lasted without them.

The baby cries although he has just been fed.

He acts as if he owns this company.

Watch out for the step last you trip.

Let me know if you can’t make it to the practice.

Although I was angry, I didn’t show it.

Evaluation: Make sentences with these conjunctions: besides, since, when, therefore, until.

•    Topic: Reading Comprehension

Content: An Extract from ‘Things Fall Apart’

The passage is an extract from Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Okonkwo has just taken part in the killing of Ikemefuna, his adopted son. The oracle of the village has said that the boy must die but one of the elders tells Okonkwo that he ought not to take part in his son’s death.

Evaluation: Practice 2 (1 – 10) Effective English JS 2 page 92. 

•     Topic: Vocabulary Development

Content: Words to do with Newspaper page 235

The press means the newspapers, magazines, and the people who produce them

Proprietor: The owner of a newspaper. He/She employs an editor to run it for him.

An Editor is in charge of the day-to-day work of the paper.

Journalists are people who work in various ways to produce the text of the newspaper. They include reporters who go out to collect stories and items of news and correspondents who specialize in one kind of topic or one area.

Column is the text of a newspaper printed in columns running down the page. Sometimes, a journalist writes a daily or weekly article that appears in roughly the same position in each issue of the paper, this journalist is called a columnist.

Evaluation: Practice 4 (1-7) Effective English JS 2 page 236 

•    Topic: Writing

Content: Informal Letter

In week 5, you are taught an informal letter and its features. Your task in this lesson is to write an informal letter to your daddy. 

Evaluation: Write a letter to your daddy on why you like your new school 

•  Topic: Literary Devices

Content: Figures of Speech

        Onomatopoeia is a word that echoes or imitates the sounds of the things they represent. Examples: cuckoo, crash, squeak, sizzle, shuffling, rustling, squish, creaking, etc.

        Euphemism: This is the presentation of unpleasant things in a pleasant way. 

Examples: The king has joined his ancestors. (died)

The mad woman has been put in the family’s way. (made pregnant).

        Antithesis: This is the choice and arrangement of words to emphasize contrast. Examples:   Man proposes and God disposes

I toil day and night.

        Oxymoron: Words of opposite meanings or suggestions are used together with one serving as a qualifier for the other.

Examples: A wise fool.

A bittersweet experience.

Panting is a sweet sorrow.

Death is a cruel kindness.

Her pregnancy is an open secret.

        Apostrophe: This is essentially an address to an absent person, a dead person, or a non-living thing. Examples: O death! Where is thy sting?

Evaluation: Write out two examples for each figure of speech taught.

General Evaluation (Revision)

Combine the following pairs of  sentences using the conjunctions: and, or, but

1.         I like fish. I love steak.
2.         Mom called the doctor. He recommended rest.
3.         You can go to Lekki. You can stay home.
4.         Just listen to me. Please don’t criticize.
5.         I enjoy sailing. Scuba diving is more fun.