SPEECH WORK: Intonation / Stress 

SUB – TOPIC: Making Statements, giving commands and asking questions, using different intonation patterns. 

INTRODUCTION: Intonation is another feature of speech that affects the understanding of a message. It is the rise and fall of the voice in speech (or the variation in pitch). Intonation explains the attitude or mood of the speaker to his audience. Whichever mode the speaker is in when speaking, intonation changes the level of pitch (how high or low the voice is) which makes speech interesting.

1. Making statement giving Command
2. Close the door at once! (↘)
3. Get out here (↘)
4. Don’t touch the broom! (↘)

COMMANDS

Making Statements 

1. Deborah is a beautiful girl (↘)
2. The students are working hard (↘)
3. The people at the meeting stole the car (↘)

Asking Questions

1. Why did you come here? (↘)
2. Whose book is this? (↘)
3. How did you get there? (↘)
4. What is your name? (↘)
5. Who is your mother? (↘)
6. Is this your book? (↗)

Assignment 

Use statement, command, and question patterns to write five sentences that show a fallen tune.

LESSON TWO: GRAMMAR

TOPIC: Regular and Irregular Verbs

Regular Verbs: are verbs that form their past tense and past participle with ‘ed’. Examples are:

PRESENT TENSE PAST TENSE PAST PARTICIPLE

1. Wed Wedded Wedded
2. Close Closed Closed
3. Hang Hanged  Hanged/hung
4. Play Played Played
5. Call Called Called
6. Bleed Bled Bled
7. Dictate Dictated Dictated

Irregular Verbs: Verbs that do not add ‘ed’ to form their past tense and past participle. Examples:

PRESENT TENSE PAST TENSE PAST PARTICIPLE

1. Am, are, is was, were been
2. Broadcast broadcast broadcast
3. Cut cut cut
4. Grow grew grown
5. Catch caught caught

Assignment

Pick out regular and irregular verbs from the following words using the tabular form

1. Open
2. Take
3. Walk
4. Sit
5. Dance
6. Drive
7. Shut
8. Strike
9. Attack
10. Flow
11. Cut
12. Lie
13. Know
14. Ring
15. Hide
16. Wash
17. Fall
18. Show
19. Climb
20. Kick 

LESSON THREE: READING AND COMPREHENSION 

TOPIC: TECHNIQUES OF SPEED READING

1. Surveying 
2. Scanning
3.  Skimming

1. SURVEYING: This talks about a text, (title, author, date, etc), and skimming and scanning are essential academic reading skills for you and for native English speakers too, who also need to develop these skills.
2. SCANNING: When you scan a text, you are looking through it quickly to find keywords or information. After scanning a text, you should know if it has references to things you want to know about.
3. SKIMMING: This is looking quickly through a text to gain a general impression of what it is about. You can often do this by reading the title and sub-titles of a text, and the first sentence of the reading without using a dictionary.

LESSON FOUR: INFORMAL LETTER (CONTINUED)

TITLE: Letter to a friend about your school Inter-house Sport. 

7, Adesanya Street,

Ile – Epo,

Oke – Odo,

Lagos.

13th May, 2015.

Dear Ade,

It is a pleasure writing to you at this time. How are you and your studies? Hope all is well over there in Abuja. Bola called and suggested that we should all meet during this coming festive period.

The purpose of writing is to inform you about my school’s recent inter-house sport which came up on 12th April 2015 at Oke – Odo school field. It was coloured and eventful. 

At exactly 10:00 am, we all matched to the field accompanied by two big horses and the “Bridgade boys” with their steady inviting musical instruments which attracted the attention of the passers-by.

The program commenced immediately with prayer, and recitation of the national anthem and the school anthem, followed by colourful match passes by different houses with different displays to attract winning in the end.

In addition, students from different houses participate in games such as relay races, 200m races, 1,200k races, high jumps, throwing javelins, etc. 

Some companies sponsored the program such as Milo, Indomie Noodles, Skye Bank plc, Mtn, Nestle Castle, etc. There are other activities that time will not permit me to explain all.

In all, a yellow house came first followed by a Red house, then green, and finally blue. As I have said earlier on, it was great fun and very eventful. I believe you will like to witness the next one. Till the festive time, remain great.

Yours sincerely, 

Moses.

Assignment

Write a letter to your friend telling him/her five good interesting things about your school.

LESSON FIVE: LITERATURE – IN – ENGLISH 

Use of recommended text on Drama (Dangerous Rewards)

(a) Theme

(b) Plot