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ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHEME OF WORK FOR JSS2
FIRST TERM
WEEK
TOPIC
CONTENT
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Comprehension
Vocabulary Development
How we spent the Holiday
Health and Medicine
2
Structure
Essay
Negation
Descriptive Essay
3
Speech Work
Vowel Contrast
/i:/, /i/ and /a:/
Literature
4
Structure
Use of comma, full stop, question mark and
inverted comma
Question Tags
5
Speech work
Structure
Diphthongs
WH- Questions
6
Literature
Vocabulary Development
Administration
Structure
Speech Work
Nasals
7
Punctuation
8
Continuous Writing
Structure
Narrative Essay
Request
9
Comprehension
Vocabulary Development
One Pendulum to Another
Politics
10
Revision
Revision of topics for the term
Week one
Grammar
Negation
Negation means to state that something is
not true and the most common way of
doing this is by using the word “not”
Examples
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He is leaving tomorrow
He is not leaving tomorrow
They have returned from school
They have not returned from school
Examples of Negators
• Not, n’t , no, nothing, nowhere, no one, etc
• The commonest way of making a negative
statement is by introducing the word “not”
immediately after the auxilliary verb in the
sentence. Where there are two or more
auxilliaries . It is introduced after the first one
e.g He will be leaving tomorrow
• He will not be leaving tomorrow
Auxilliary verbs are helping verbs e.g
Can, may, will, shall, should,have,had
When it is only the main verb, “not” is
introduced after the auxilliary “Do “
He comes regularly
He does not come regularly
He came that day
He did not come regularly
It is also used after the verbs am, is are
was, were.
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E.g He could not find her bag
We can also form negative sentence with
(a) the determiner “no”
There is a table in the room
There is no table in the room
(b) the pronoun ‘ nothing’
He brought something
He brought nothing
(c) The adverb “nowhere’ ‘never’ ‘hardly ‘ scarcely’ ‘rarely’ seldom’
It is somewhere now – it is nowhere now
He is always drunk_ he is never drunk
CLASSWORK
Give the negative of each of these sentences
(1) We go to church on Sundays
(2) My father has built a house
(3) I have done my homework
DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY
• A descriptive essay is one written to give the reader a
mental picture of a person, place or an object in his or
her mind
• A good essay has three parts
• (a) the introduction- This tells us generally what the es
• say is all about. This is the first paragraph.
• (b) Body – This tells us all about the topic, the opinion
or argument of the writer or the story. It is written in
paragraphs
• (c) The conclusion: This is the brief summary of the
introduction and the body of the essay ; it is the last
paragraph.
HINTS ON WRITING A GOOD ESSAY
• 1. Understand every topic before you start to
write it.
• 2. plan the essay points before you write on
them
• 3. Begin the introduction with a paragraph
• 4. write the body of the essay in paragraph
• 5.Think very well before you write
• 6. Punctuate your writing well
QUALITIES OF A GOOD DESCRIPTIVE
ESSAY
• Like any other piece of writing, a descriptive
essay must possess the following
• clarity
• Orderliness
• Vividness
• Being interesting