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English Studies Lesson Note for JSS1 (First Term) 2024

English Studies lesson note for JSS1 First Term is now available for free. The State and Federal Ministry of Education has recommended unified lesson notes for all secondary schools in Nigeria, in other words, all private secondary schools in Nigeria must operate with the same lesson notes based on the scheme of work for English Studies.

English Studies lesson note for JSS1  First Term has been provided in detail here on schoolings.org

For prospective school owners, teachers, and assistant teachers, English Studies lesson note is defined as a guideline that defines the contents and structure of English Studies as a subject offered at SS level. The lesson note for English Studies for SS stage maps out in clear terms, how the topics and subtopics for a particular subject, group works and practical, discussions and assessment strategies, tests, and homework ought to be structured in order to fit in perfectly, the approved academic activities for the session.

To further emphasize the importance of this document, the curriculum for English Studies spells out the complete guide on all academic subjects in theory and practical. It is used to ensure that the learning purposes, aims, and objectives of the subject meant for that class are successfully achieved.

English Studies Lesson note for JSS1 carries the same aims and objectives but might be portrayed differently based on how it is written or based on how you structure your lesson note. Check how to write lesson notes as this would help make yours unique.

The JSS1 English Studies lesson note provided here is in line with the current scheme of work hence, would go a long way in not just helping the teachers in carefully breaking down the subject, topics, and subtopics but also, devising more practical ways of achieving the aim and objective of the subject.

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This post is quite a lengthy one as it provides in full detail, the English Studies-approved lesson note for all topics and sub-topics in English Studies as a subject offered in JSS1.

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JSS1  English Studies  Lesson Note ( First Term ) 2024

ENGLISH STUDIES

FIRST TERM SCHEME OF WORK FOR J.SS 1

WEEK 1. INTRODUCTION TO SPEECH, ORGANS OF SPEECH

WEEK 2. GRAMMAR. PARTS OF SPEECH. FUNCTION OF NOUN

WEEK 3. TYPES OF NOUNS AND THEIR USE IN SENTENCES

WEEK 4. ESSAY WRITING, MEANING AND DEFINITION/ TYPES OF ESSAY

WEEK 5. LITERATURE IN ENGLISH, INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE

WEEK 6. PART OF SPEECH, PRONOUNS/TYPES AND FUNCTION

WEEK 7. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT/ MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY, VOCABULARY                       DEVELOPMENT/THE SCHOOL SUBJECTS

WEEK 8. ELEMENTS OF COMPOSITION/ HOW I SPENT MY LAST HOLIDAY

WEEK 9. SPEECH SOUNDS/ LONG AND SHORT VOWELS

WEEK 10. PART OF SPEECH, ADJECTIVES/TYPES AND COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES

WEEK 11. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT/REGISTER ON FARMING

INTRODUCTION TO SPEECH

Speech involves language sounds which are associated with meaningful sounds that come out of the mouth (human mouth) and they are known as speech sounds. What is articulation? Articulation is the movement of the vocal organs to produce speech sounds the vocal organs are then referred to as “articulators”

ORGANS OF SPEECH

DIAGRAM SHOWING THE ORGANS OF SPEECH

PURE VOWEL SOUNDS (MONOPHTHONGS)

There are 44 sound segments in English comprising 20 vowels and 24 consonant. We shall be covering vowel sounds and their classifications are:

The vowels in English are classified into two main groups: pure vowels (also called mono thongs) and diphthongs the pure vowels are sub- classified into short vowels and long vowels. Diphthongs are vowel sounds that are made up of two speech sounds

Close front centre back

Diagram showing the English vowel chart

EVALUATION:

Answer the following questions:

• What is articulation?
• Mention 10 organs or speech

3a. how many vowel sounds do we have?

• how many consonant sounds do we have in English?

ASSIGNMENT:

• How many long vowels do we have?
• How many short vowels do we have?
• What are pure vowels?
• What is a diphthong sound?

MORAL OBJECTIVE(S):

We must learn to speak night and become a good orator like Apostle Paul to defend the gospel of Christ.

CONTENT: Grammar: Parts of speech

All the parts of speech are:

• Noun (2) pronoun (3) verbs (4)adjective

(5) adverb (6) preposition  (7) conjunction

We shall consider each one, under our grammar lesson

• Noun- A noun is a naming word. Nouns are the names of people e.g man, woman, Ali etc. names of animals e.g horse, dog, cat etc. mane of things e.g. house, tree, blackboard etc.

Function of a Noun

• A noun can function as a subject in a sentence

A subject is the doer of an action.

E.g. Wale is in the class

‘Wale’ is a noun and it occupies the subject position of the sentence.

• A noun can also function as object in a sentence

An object is the RECEIVER of an action.

E.g. The teacher slapped Wale

“The action of slapping” is received by Wale hence,

Wale is the object of the sentence.

Types of nouns

We have the following types of nouns:

• Common noun: refers to any examples of class of persons (boy, girl), places (stadium, city)
• Proper noun: refers to the particular person (Wale, Emeka) particular places (Lagos, Ogun). Particular week day (Friday, Sunday), particular title (Balogun, Otunba)
• Abstract noun : These are noun that are cannot see or torch but we can feel them, they also show our emotion e.g. happy, joy, sorrow etc.
• Countable Nouns: these are nouns we can count e.g. table, chair, biro, etc.
• Uncountable nouns : these are nouns that we cannot count e.g. water, oil, rice, beans etc.

From your progressive English by J. Addai  page 59-60

Group the following under proper nouns, common nouns, collective nouns and abstract noun. There are 20 nouns in each group

Conclusion:

Student can now give example of some type of nouns and they can use them in sentence.

Assignment:

Explain the following type of nouns with adequate examples.

• Collective noun
• Abstract noun
• Proper noun
• Common noun

PRONOUNS are words that are used in place of a noun. They are usually used to avoid repetition. Look at these sentences   :

The man  came to our class. The man  looked at every student, the man sat down. Instead of repeating the word “man” we use “He” .He is a pronoun. Other examples of pronouns are: he, she, they, it, you, us, them, e.t.c .

We can read up on pronouns from our NOSEC {Page 44-46}. Other parts of speech will also be discussed in our subsequent lessons.

Moral objectives:

Nouns are member of the open class and even from the beginning when God commanded Adam to give names to the animals and this was brought up till now and man is still identifying and distinguishing many things – hence he is still giving the names of many things and inventions.

                                                Essay-Meaning and Definition

What is an essay? An essay is a written composition of moderate length explaining   a particular issue or subject matter. In writing an essay, we must consider the following types of essays which are: (a) Narrative essay (b) Descriptive essay (c) Argumentative essay (d) Expository essay

• Narrative Essay: this is a type of essay that you are made to tell a story. Especially, it is intended to share an experience of the past. Such experience can be personal, or mutual or it may have happened   to a loved one and lessons are learnt from such.
• Descriptive essay: this is when you say or write about what somebody or something is like-that is describing something or someone.
• Argumentative essay this is a type of essay in which you write out your reason to show that your position or view about a subject matter is correct.
• Expository essay: this is a type of essay in which you are asked to explain or define a process. E.g. How to prepare favourite meal.

Answer only one out of the following

• Narrative essay-my last holiday (how I spent my last holiday).
• (Descriptive essay)-my school my best subject teacher.

  Conclusion:  students have succeeded in identifying the unique differences that are evidence   in all these essay types.

  Assignment:

Explain the following types of essay in your own words

• Narrative essay
• Argumentative essay
• Descriptive essay
• Expository essay.

Moral objective: The oldest and sacred book was written by the Spirit of God and we must appreciate this creative intelligence of our maker in ensuring that our knowing Him through His Word is perfected in Jesus the Written and The Living Word

Introduction to Literature

Literature is the art of composition in prose and verse literature mirrors life and the society. There are three (3) genres of literature which are:

• Drama (b) Prose (c) Poetry.

The purpose of Literature

• Literature seeks to correct the vice in the society
• Literature preserves the culture and tradition of the individual and society.
• Literature seeks to develop the human mind.

Function of literature

• It entertains and informs us
• It educates our mind to know about other people’s culture and tradition.
• It helps in development and enlightenment
• It give us a unique identity
• It makes the economy to grow and develop.
• It enriches our minds.
• It helps in making us creative and inventive with words.

Types of literature

• Oral literature: this is a type of literature that has been handed down by word of mouth-they are now documented and modified for better understanding
• Historic literature: this is a type of literature that deals with the origins and culture of a people or race at a particular point in time
• Dance drama: this is when a play is acted out with musical lyrics for discernment and entertainment of the watching and listening audience
• Mime: this is acting without speech. it is a type of play.

Answer the following questions

• Define Literature
• Explain the three branches or genes of literature that me here.

Student can now give example of the types of literature that we have.

Define the following in your own words

• Mime (III) Oral Literature
• Dance Drama (iv) Historic Literature.

Moral Objectives: Students should able to appreciate   their creative minds with words because God has blessed man with this gift and talent that he uses to express himself in prose, drama and poetry.

Content: Pronouns

A pronoun is a word that is used instead of a noun.

Underline the pronouns in these sentences.

• John is a boy He is in the class
• Nike is a girl She  is at home
• They are brother and sisters
• We know them  very well

Words that stand for males  are masculine gender  so the noun: man, boy, son, king, prince etc. and pronouns he  and him  are masculine gender  word that stand for females  are famine gender. The noun woman, girl, daughter, queen, princess etc. and the pronoun she  and her  are female gender.

Words that stand for things are neater gender .

(Neater means neither masculine nor feminine)

So the nouns book, house, river, tree, city etc. and the pronoun it  are neater gender . It is sometimes used for animals also.

Note : that the pronoun: I, me, you, we, us, can be either masculine  or feminine . The pronouns they  and them  may be masculine, feminine or neater.

Type of pronoun

• Personal Pronoun : these are pronoun that stand for person. We here first person, second person and third person. The first person is the person speaking e.g.

I am the teacher; listen to me

The second person  is the person spoken to e.g.

You  are a pupil

The third person  is the person spoken about.

Wale is looking through the window. The teacher  is pointing at him. They  are pupils; he  teaches them

• Possessive pronoun : these are pronoun that sounds ownership or possession e.g. mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs,
• Interrogative pronoun : these are pronouns that are used to ask question e.g. who, what, which.
• Demonstrative pronoun: these are pronoun that “point out something e.g. this, that, these, those.
• Reflective pronoun: this type of pronoun is used to refer back to the speaker when he or she speaks e.g. myself, himself, herself, themselves, itself, ourselves.

Evaluation:

Attempt the past question exercises in your test book-progressive English by O. Addai

(Page 54) question 1-5

Conclusion : student now understand the features  of a pronoun and how they are used in sentences

Assignment :

Explain the following type of pronoun :

• Possessive pronouns
• Demonstrative pronoun
• Personal pronoun

Moral Objectives:

At the end of this topic, student should be able to understand the expression :let us make man in our own image”, the use of us means that the creation of man involved the combined effort of God the father, God, the son, (Jesus) and God the Holy Ghost.

                                                WEEK 6

Vocabulary Development

Members of the family

• Nephew- A son of your brother or sister
• Niece-A daughter of one’s brother or sister (or brother-in-law, or sister-in-law)
• Cousin-the child of your aunt or uncle, (first cousin, full cousin) (cousin brother (male cousin) female cousin)
• Father-in-law – the father of your spouse
• Mother-in-law –the mother of your spouse
• Spouse- A person’s partner in marriage.

Better half, married person, mate, other half, partner

• Couple-A pair who associate with one another or a pair of people who live together.
• Courtship-A man’s courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)

Your school subjects

• Mathematics (6) Basic Technology (11) Computer
• English (7)Business studies (12) Social-Studies
• French (8) fine Art (13) Yoruba
• R.S (9) Home Economics (14) Civic Education
• Basic Science (10) P.H.E (15)

Other words

(16) Academics-Associated with academia or an academy.

An Academy-is a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge

(17) Rules-A principle or condition that customarily generous behavior –the state

Of being controlled

Evaluation:  find out the meaning of the following words and use them in sentence.

• Cousin (4) Success
• Divorce (5) Punishment
• Miler Family (6) Examination.

All students now have a better understanding of the family and the place of knowledge imputation (i.e. the school).

Cure the prescription of these words.

• Spouse (c) Nephew (e) Rules.
• Courtship (d) Denomination

All students must appreciate our first father and our first mother (Adam and eve). But they must understand that Jesus is our ultimate father that gave everything to save our souls from sin.

                                                                 WEEK 7

Content: Composition

Elements of Composition

Elements of composition are the features or characteristics that make up the composition; they are divided into 3 parts which are: (i) The introduction (ii) The body (iii) The conclusion

• Introduction : is the opening paragraph or the beginning of your composition
• Body : Is the content of your essay. The content will contain what you are writing about
• Conclusion : Is the last paragraph or closing paragraph of your essay or composition

What is a paragraph ? A paragraph is made up of two or more stretches of sentences. While a sentence expresses a complete thought and it must start with a capital letter and ends with a full stop

For example: I had a wonderful time during my last holiday (Sentence)

I had a wonderful time during, my last holiday because my parents travelled. This gave me the opportunity to visit my old friends and relatives they were glad to see me because they really enjoyed my coming (Paragraph)

Outlining the points or the topic

How I Spent My Last Holiday

This is a good example of a narrative essay because it is a recount. One must outline his or her point with the use of past tense and past perfect tense of verb.

Write an essay on how you spent your last holiday (200 words).

Students are now confident to write out their personal interests and they can express their thoughts

Write an essay on “my school” (200 words)

Our student should be able to appreciate and value how the three Sinopec gospel (Mathew, Mark and Luke) give the defuel life and times of Jesus on earth.

                                      SPEECH SOUNDS. LONG AND SHORT VOWELS

/I/ – this sort vowel has various spelling symbols like e, I, u, ay, ey, y, ui, ie, a,ia e.g. market, manage, quick, Frid ay , village, hol y , symbol

/ I: / – This vowel is longer in length than vowel /I/ spelling symbpls-ea, ev,ae. Ie, ei, e, I, ey, ay, ee, etc. e.g. retr ie ve, s ee k, p eo ple, heat, keros e ne, b e , c a lling, am oe ba, pol i ce, s ee , prest i ge

/e/ – the spelling symbols of this vowel are: a,e,ue,ea,e.g. m a ny, b le d, w ea pon, g ue ss, s a ys, a te, e gg, m a nger,

/ae/ – it has two spelling from: ai, and a, e.g. g a p, f a n, pl ai d, pl ai t, m a rch, th a nk, c a t, ch a nnel

/ a: / – it is longer than vowel /ae/ (vpwel4) spelling symbols are: a, ar, er, ear, cul, al e.g. p a ss, f ar mer, b a lm, h ea rt, l au gh, d rau ght, f a st, cle r k, s er geant, au nt, l au gh

Identify the words that has these vowel sound in them

• / a: / – (a) cause (b) hark (c) Calf (d) blue
• / ae / – (a) active (b) fast (c) who (d) dawn
• / e / – (a) paternal (b) campus (c) be (d) many
• / I / – (a) private (b) key (c) seize (d) bell
• / I: / – (a) health (b) toy (c) these (d) pack

Transcribe the following words

• C al f /ka:If/
• A ctive /aektiv/
• M a ny /meni/
• Priv a te /praivit/
• Th es e /aI:s/

Conclusion:  student can now give the pronunciation of these speech sound on their own

Compare and contrast these vowel sounds

/a:/ and /ae/ /I:/ and /I/

Part   pat seal   sit

At the end of the lesson-students must develop their oratory prowess to be able to defend the gospel of Christ like Apostle Paul.

What is an adjective? An Adjective is a word that describes or modifies   a noun or pronoun

Types    of Adjectives.

• We have the following types of adjective :
• Adjective of quality
• Adjective of number
• Adjective of Definite number (cardinal and ordinal)
• Adjective of Definite  number
• Proper adjectives
• Distributive adjectives
• Demonstrative adjectives
• Possessive adjective

Companion of Adjective

Adjective are words that are used to add more intersection to a verb , an adjective and another adverb. Most adverbs ends in “-ly”.

Type of adverbs

• Adverb of manner – tells us how an action is carried out

Sentence: the girls ran quickly  (Adverbs of manner)

• Adverb of time – shows when an action takes place e.g. ago, since, alter, soon, already sentence: they travelled yesterday (adverb of time)
• Adverbs of place – shows where the action is carried out e.g. in, above, inside, here, there, etc. sentence: I am here (Adverb of place)
• Adverbs of frequency – shows how stem or how many times an action is carried out. E.g. once, trice,  sometimes, always etc. sentence: I love eating beans always
• Adverb of Degree – use to show to what extent or limitation an, action is done e.g. quite, very, rather, only, almost, etc. sentence: wale did quite well in the examination (Adverb of degree).

Attempt the questions in progressive English – page 139-140

Eremite 170

Question 1-10

• We went there (adverb of place)
• The widow wept sorrowfully (Adverb of manner)
• He goes to work daily (adverb of frequently).

On adjective

• The girl wore a yellow dress (adjective of color)
• The tall man came here
• He ate ten mangoes.

Conclusion:  Students are now able to identify adverbs and adjectives in sentences

Assignment:  choose the correct form of the adjective in brackets

Page 99 (progressive English) exercise 90

Questions 1-10

All students must appreciate the beanies in the word of God in Psalm 139:14 we are fearfully and wonderfully made,

The manner and how the almighty had created us cannot be compared with anything.

Register are terms or words that are used in any given field of human knowledge or human Endeavour

Register of farm

• Peasant farming or subsistence farming – Agricultural production for the satisfaction of the farmer’s immediate and extended families
• Tilling – making sail to be soft so that the preparation of the ridges and mounds become easier
• Stumps – the remaining of not in the soil after bush burning
• Seedlings – newly-germinated seeds
• Weed – unwanted plant
• Fertilizer – a chemical formulation in power or implore soil fertility

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Composition: A Festival in My Village, Vocabulary Development: Prefixes

Back to: ENGLISH LANGUAGE JSS1

Welcome to class! 

In today’s class, we will be talking about vocabulary development, etc. Enjoy the class!

Guided Composition (Narrative)

A festival in my village.

I was born in Ha Nam, a province in the North of Vietnam. I am always proud of my hometown with hard-working and kind farmers. I feel most proud of my village because of the many traditional festivals that take place every year. One of the most important festivals in my village is “Village Festival”. “Village Festival” takes place every two years to remind people in the village of the god of the village who built the village. People often call the god of the village as “Thanh Hoang Lang”. This festival takes place on the full-moon day of February. There are three parts of the” Village Festival”.

The first part of the festival that children are the most eager is lifting the palaqueen and lion dances. On the day of the Village Festival, children often get up early, wearing beautiful clothes. Then they go to the communal house of the village to wait for the palaqueen. About 7 o’clock, all of the people in the village gather on two sides of the road to see the palaqueen pass. It is believed that children who go under the palaqueen on this day will have good health and will study very well. At 8 a.m., the palaqueen starts being raised from the village to the village.

The palaqueen is raised by eight people. Always the old people in the traditional costume go in front of the palaqueen and they both go and spread things like coins, pink candles. My grandma told me that people who pick the pink candles are very lucky. They often put the candles in front of their children’s bed. It is thought that the light of the pink candle will make their children more intelligent and healthier. Therefore they try to get the pink candles. Lion dances are also followed by the palaqueen. The procession lasts for more than an hour.

After the procession, people in the village: the old, the young and children move to the river in the village quickly to see the next part of the Village Festival called “traditional games”. Traditional games are the most interesting part of the Village Festival, so villagers always wait for this activity. There are a lot of traditional games that take place in this part such as boat race, tug of war and wrestling… One of the most interesting games in the Village Festival is the racing boat. There are five teams which present the fives villages.  It is a very proud thing for any village to win the competition.

Therefore, every village chooses the strongest man to join the boat race competition. In this game, competitors sit on an imperial boat, a boat has the form of a dragon decorated with different colours. The captains who stand at the head of the boat order their team to sail the boat quickly. As soon as the sound of the drum starts, all team begin sailing as fast as they can. Along two sides of the river, viewers are shouting for encouragement for their home team. The louder the sound of yelling and shouting of fans is, the more quickly the competitors sail. People who watch at two sides of the river run after the boat to encourage their team.

The team which sails to the finish the most quickly will be the winner of the game. It is a big pride of the village for the team who gets the first prize. Besides the boat race, the traditional games like tug of war, rice- cooking and wrestling are also seen by most people in the village. The activities of the traditional games finish at about 1 p.m in the afternoon.

The last part of Village Festival is celebrated in the communal house yard after the traditional games.

When the traditional games finish, villagers gather in front of the communal house yard to eat a traditional meal and to see which teams get prizes in traditional games. From early in the morning, the women in the village prepare necessary materials to cook the meal. Often women in the village who are good at cooking will be chosen to cook for the Village festival. About noon all the food is shown carefully and spectacularly on the tables in the communal house yard. On Village festival day the communal house becomes more crowded. This is a special occasion for people in the village to meet and talk together about their work as well as the harvest.

Firstly, the results of the traditional games in the morning are announced by the leader of the village. Most people are waiting to hear which teams win the first prize. It is the pride of the village that wins the first prize. The winners in the traditional games last year will award the prize for the winners this year. Then people sit on their seats eating the meal. They both eat and talk happily. After the meal, people gather to hear the women in the village sing folk songs The Village festival lasts until early in the evening.

Despite the impact of the industrialization, the Village Festival is still celebrated as the cultural and traditional beauty of my village. It reminds the young generation of the tradition and originality.

EVALUATION: Form a group five, study the passage carefully and compare it with the village festival of your villages.

INTRODUCTION TO DIPHTHONGS

CONTENT:  /ᶕu/

Diphthongs : The word ‘diphthong’ is from a Greek word, which means double sound. They are also vowels. The difference is that while a pure vowel contains only one sound, a diphthong contains two sounds with a glide from the first vowel.

• /ei/ as found in rain
• /ᶕu/ as found in spoke
• /ai/ as found in high
• /au/ as found in how
• /ᴐi/ as found in oil
• //iᶕ/ as found in hear
• //eᶕ/ as found in spear
• /uᶕ/ as found in tour

EVALUATION: Diphthongs can be divided into two, namely: centring and closing diphthongs. Classify the diphthongs above into these two.

EVALUATION : Read the first part of the passage and then do practice 2

Activities on Future Tense

CLASS ACTIVITY

• In five sentences, use the modal auxiliary verbs ‘shall’ and ‘will’ to indicate futurity
• In five sentences, use the infinitive form to indicate futurity
• In five sentences, use the present progressive form to indicate futurity

EVALUATION: In a group of five, evaluate the sentences of your teammate.

GENERAL EVALUATION: 

• List five instruments used for home remedy/cure
• Give ten examples of diphthongs.

WEEKEND ASSIGNMENT: 

• Write an expository essay on your village festival

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Learning Objectives

• Understand the function and use of expository essays
• Identify eight types of expository essays
• Apply expository essay structure

What Is an Expository Essay?

An essay that explains a writer’s ideas by defining, explaining, informing, or elaborating on points to allow the reader to clearly understand the concept.

Many of your future academic workplace writing assignments will be expository–explaining your ideas or the significance of a concept or action. An expository essay allows the writer the opportunity to explain his or her ideas about a topic and to provide clarity for the reader by using:

• Explanations
• Definitions

It may also include the writer outlining steps of a procedure in a way that is straightforward for the reader to follow. It is purely informative and often contains elements of summary.

Imagine you need to verbally explain a concept to your classmates, maybe a behavioural theory. What are the key elements on which you would focus? How would you organize the information? You could explain who came up with the theory, the specific area of study to which it is related, its purpose, and the significant details to explain the theory. Telling these four elements to your classmates would give them a complete, yet summarized, picture of the theory, so they could apply the theory in future discussions.

Although you did this verbally, you were still fulfilling the elements of an expository essay by providing definition, details, explanations, and maybe even facts if you have a really good memory. This is the same process that you would use when you write an expository essay. You may actually be doing this all the time; for example, when you are giving someone directions to a place or explaining how to cook something. In the following sections of the chapter, you will practise doing this more in different expository written forms.

The Structure of an Expository Essay

Sections versus paragraphs.

Before looking at the general structure of an expository essay, you first need to know that in your post-secondary education, you should not consider your essay as writing being constructed with five paragraphs as you might have been used to in high school. You should instead think of your essay in terms of sections (there may be five), and each section may have multiple paragraphs.

To understand further why you need to think beyond the five-paragraph essay, imagine you have been asked to submit a six-page paper (approximately 1,500 words). You already know that each paragraph should be roughly 75 to 200 words long. If you divide the required word count by five paragraphs (1,500 by 5), you end with 300 words per paragraph, way above the number you should have in a paragraph. If your paragraphs are too long, they likely have too many ideas and your reader may become confused. Your paragraphs should be two-third of a page at most, and never longer than a page.

Instead, if you think of your essays being divided into sections (with possibly more than one paragraph per section), your writing will likely be more organized and allow your reader to follow your presentation of ideas without creating too much distance between your paragraph’s supporting points and its topic sentence.

As you will see in Section 4.5, some essay forms may require even more than five paragraphs or sections because of how many points are necessary to address. For the rest of this chapter, the term paragraph will also imply section.

Sections of an Expository Essay

An expository essay, regardless of its purpose, should have at least five sections, which are:

• Introduction
• First body section/paragraph
• Second body section/paragraph
• Third body section/paragraph
• Conclusion.

The introduction should state the topic of your paper: your thesis statement as well as brief signposts of what information the rest of the paper will include. That is, you only want to mention the content of the body paragraphs; you do not want to go in to a lot of detail and repeat what will be in the rest of the essay.

The first body section or paragraph should focus on one of your main points and provide evidence to support that point. There should be two to three supporting points: reasons, facts, statistics, quotations, examples, or a mix of these. Both the second and third body sections should follow the same pattern. Providing three body sections with one point each that supports the thesis should provide the reader with enough detail to be convinced of your argument or fully understand the concept you are explaining. However, remember that some sections will require more explanation, and you may need to separate this information into multiple paragraphs.

You can order your sections in the most logical way to explain your ideas. For example, if you are describing a process, you may use chronological order to show the definite time order in which the steps need to happen. You will learn about the different ways to organize your body paragraphs in the next chapter.

The concluding paragraph , or conclusion, can be a little tricky to compose because you need to make sure you give a concise summary of the body paragraphs, but you must be careful not to simply repeat what you have already written. Look back at the main idea of each section/paragraph, and try to summarize the point using words different from those you have already used. Do not include any new points in your concluding paragraph.

Consider Your Audience: How Much Do They Know?

Later in this chapter, you will work on determining and adapting to your audience when writing, but with an expository essay, since you are defining or informing your audience on a certain topic, you need to evaluate how much your audience knows about that topic (aside from having general common knowledge). You want to make sure you are giving thorough, comprehensive, and clear explanations on the topic. Never assume the reader knows everything about your topic (even if it is covered in the reader’s field of study). For example, even though some of your instructors may teach criminology, they may have specialized in different areas from the one about which you are writing; they most likely have a strong understanding of the concepts but may not recall all the small details on the topic. If your instructor specialized in crime mapping and data analysis for example, he or she may not have a strong recollection of specific criminological theories related to other areas of study. Providing enough background information without being too detailed is a fine balance, but you always want to ensure you have no gaps in the information, so your reader will not have to guess your intention. Again, we will practise this more in Section 4.9.

What Comes Next?

In the next eight sections (4.2 through 4.9), we will look at different expository modes, or rhetorical modes, you will often be assigned. These are:

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• Classification
• Process analysis
• Compare and contrast
• Cause and effect

Rhetorical modes refers simply to the ways to communicate effectively through language. As you read about these modes, keep in mind that the rhetorical mode a writer chooses depends on his or her purpose for writing. Sometimes writers incorporate a variety of modes in any one essay. In this chapter, we also emphasize the rhetorical modes as a set of tools that will allow you greater flexibility and effectiveness in communicating with your audience and expressing your ideas.

In a few weeks, you will need to submit your first essay–an expository sample–and you will be given the choice of topic: one from each of the modes. Think about which types of expository essays are easier and which are more challenging for you. As mentioned, as you progress through your studies, you will be exposed to each of these types. You may want to explore a mode you find more challenging than the others in order to ensure you have a full grasp on developing each type. However, it is up to you. As you work through the sections, think about possible topics you may like to cover in your expository essay and start brainstorming as you work through the self-practice exercises.

After we explore each of the individual modes in the eight sections that follow, we will look at outlining and drafting; it is at this point you will want to fine tune and narrow the topic you will write about, so you can focus on that when doing the exercises.

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• Introduction to Folktales
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These lesson notes cover the following topics for JSS1 First, Second and Third Term English Language:

First Term               

•               Speech work : Introduction to speech (organs of speech)

            Grammar : Parts of speech – Nouns

             * Meaning, Identification of Nouns in Sentence

             * Types of Nouns with Examples

            Comprehension : The Family~ Unit 1

Composition : Meaning, Types of Composition (Narrative, Descriptive, Argumentative, Expository)

Literature : What is Literature? The Features of Literature.

            Types of Literature: Oral, Historical, Dance, Miming, Drama…see related text.

• Speech work : Pure Vowel sounds (Monothongs) with examples

           Comprehension: Unit 2, page 31

           Vocabulary development: Your School Subjects

           Grammar/Structure : Pronouns: Meaning, Identification, Types.           

• Comprehension : A Conversation, Page 43

            Grammar/Structure : Verbs: Definition, Identification with examples.

Types of verbs: Transitive, Intransitive, Auxiliary and Lexical, Regular and Irregular (should be given as assignment)

Composition : Outlining the difference between descriptive and narrative essays

Literature :  Introduction to prose and its elements, (plot, style, characterization)

Types of Oral Literature

• Comprehension : Unit 6, page 79. Two good Friends

            Grammar:   Adjectives: Definition, Identification,

            Types of  Adjectives

            Composition : Narrative Essay– “My First day in Secondary School”

Speech Work : Vowels /I/

     Literature : What is Oral Literature, Features of Oral Literature and Types.

• Comprehension : Unit 7(a) page 91 Oduduwa

                      Grammar : Comparision of Adjectives,

                     Absolute Adjectives:  Excellent, Superior, Total

                    Speech work: Vowel  /e /

                            Composition : Paragraph Writing:

                            Arrangement of Ideas in Logical sequence with       Introduction and  Conclusion.

                             Literature : Introduction to Drama, Elements and Types

• Speech work    /ae /

               Grammar : Adverbs : Identification, definition,

                           Types and examples.                                       

                           Composition – Descriptive Essay: A Market Place

                           Comprehension : Unit 7

              Literature – Use Recommended Text. (Prose)

• Speech Work :   / a:/

                           Comprehension : Unit 8, page 103. Every Man and Death

                          Composition : Introduction to Letter Writing and Types

.             Literature – Introduction to for folktale

• Comprehension : Unit 9

             Composition : Features of an Informal Letter with sample model

 Literature : Introduction to Figures of  Speech ( Simile, Metaphor,   Personification, Alliteration, Assonance)

• Speech Work : / /

            Grammar : Introduction to Adverbs ( Features and Functions)

            Comprehension : Unit 9b page 117

            Composition : Informal Letter : Letter to your cousin, telling him about your new school

            Literature : Review of recommended text/ Figures of speech

• Test/ Examination
• Examination

Second Term

• Revision of Last Term’s Examination and Work
• Speech Work: Consonant/k/and/g/Structure Adverbs: Features, Position and Functions of Adverbs. Comprehension/ Vocabulary Dvpt.: Reading Skill (Reading for maximum Retention and Recall) Composition: Letter Writing: Formal/ Features of Formal Letters Literature: Review on the Genres of Literature (Prose, Poetry and Drama); Use  recommended texts)
• Speech Work: Consonants/f/and/v/Structure: Conjunctions: Features, Position and Functions of Conjunctions. Comprehension/Vocabulary Dvpv: Writing Skill – answering questions on given passage. Composition: Letter writing Formal letters (Guided writing) Literature: Prose-Literary terms (use recommended text)
• Speech Work: Vowels/u/and/u:/: Structure: Prepositions: Features, Position and Functions of Prepositions. Comprehension/Vocabulary Dvpt: Reading and writing Skills (Intensive) Reading/Answering questions on given passage. Composition: Letter Writing – Guided writing (emphasis on Arrangement of ideas in logical sequence) Literature: Myths and Legends (African and Non-African tales comprising Myths and Legends)
• Speech Work: Vowel /æ/ and /ℨ:/: Comprehension/Vocabulary Dvpt.: Writing Skill Giving Specific Answers of a Given Passage Structure: Adverbials (making sentences with adverbial) Composition: Argumentative (Introduction)
• Speech Work Consonants/s/and/z/: Structure: More on Adverbials Comprehension/Vocabulary Dvpt.: Reading and Writing Skill contd Composition: Argumentative – Elements of composition Literature: Drama – Drama text, theme, Features; related literary terms
• Speech Work: Vowels – Introduction to Diphthongs (example) Structure: More on Adverbials and Tenses (using each item in sentences) Comprehension/Vocabulary Dvpt.: Reading Skill-Reading to understand the Author’s mood Composition: Argumentative – Arrangement of ideas in logical sequence
• Speech Work: Vowels:/ei/:Structure: Making sentences with adverbs, conjunctions and preposition Comprehension/Vocabulary Dvpt.: Writing Skill Composition: Argumentative (Guided Composition/writing) Literature: Drama: Types, Literary terms, Written text (Costumes, play Director, etc)
• Speech Work: Vowels:/ai/Structure: More on Adverbs, Conjunctions and Prepositions Comprehension/Vocabulary Dvpt.: Reading Skill Composition: Argumentative (Guided writing) Literature: More on Figures of Speech.
• Speech Work: Consonant / Ɵ/ and / ð /Structure: Verbs – Poems of Verbs Comprehension/Vocabulary Dvpt.: Reading and Writing Skills Composition: Speech Writing – Introduction Literature: Prose (use recommended Text)
• Examinations

Speech Work: Diphthong

Grammar: Verb—Introduction

Comprehension: Unit 15, pages 194-195

Vocabulary Development: Air Transport

Composition: Descriptive Essay

Literature: Use of Recommended Text

• Speech Work: /Iᶕ/ and /aI/

Grammar: Tenses of Active and Passive Voice

Comprehension: Page 16

Composition: Elements of Descriptive Essay

Literature: Use of Recommended on Prose: Setting and Plot

• Speech Work: Introduction to Consonant sounds (twelve)

Grammar: The Use of Active and PassiveVoice with examples

Comprehension: Unit 3, Page 54

Composition: Argumentative Essay: Male Child is More Useful than a Female Child

Literature Poetry (Identification in a Poem).

• Speech Work:Two,Three&Four Syllables

Grammar: The Use of Active and Passive Voice with example

Comprehension: Unit 4, Page 54

Composition:Argumentative Essay: AMale Child is More Useful than a Female Child

Literature:Myths and Legend with moral Moral lessons from a legend.

Vocabulary Development:Words Associated with the Sick Bay

• Speech Work: Syllables Continued

Grammar: Exercises on Active andPasive Voice

Comprehension: Refer to Week 7 of 2 nd Term

Composition: Formal Letter

Literature: Analysis of a Poem

Vocabulary Development: WordsAssociated with Cooking Page 156

• Grammar: Statements/ Tag Questionsand Responses

Speech Work: Consonant Clusters

Comprehension: Page 106; Unit 9

Composition: Narrative: An Accident I Witnessed

Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Teaching

Literature: Drama Text

• Speech Work: Contsonanants (contd)

Grammar: Differences between Polar and Tag Questions

Comprehension: Revisit Week 8 0f 2 nd Term

Vocabulary Development:  Spelling Drills

Composition: Expository Essay

Literature: Recommended Text on Prose And Poetry

• Speech Work: /ᶕu/, /ai/ and /ei/

Grammar: Exercises on Verbs

Comprehension: Revisit Week 9 of 2 nd Term

Composition: (Oral) School Rules

Literature:Changing Similes to Metaphors

• Grammar: Revision of Nouns, Pronoun, Verbs and Adjectives

Speech: Diphthongs  (contd) exercise

Comprehension: Activity on Passage

Composition: Review all types of Essays

Literature: Figures of Speech

10           REVISION

11-12      EXAMINATION

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Expository essays discuss topics by using facts rather than opinions, requiring students to evaluate and investigate while setting forth their arguments clearly and concisely. Teachers often include expository essays as part of assessments , especially in college-level courses, so students can help themselves succeed by practicing writing these types of essays. When teachers are integrating writing throughout the curriculum, students can use expository essays to demonstrate what they've learned in other courses.

Sample Expository Essay Topics From Students

Tenth-graders wrote the following general expository essay topics. Students can practice writing these topics or use the list to come up with topics of their own. The important thing to remember is that these expository essays are based on facts rather than the writer's beliefs or feelings.

• Explain why you admire a particular person.
• Explain why someone you know should be regarded as a leader.
• Explain why parents are sometimes strict.
• If you had to be an animal, which would you be and why?
• Explain why you especially enjoy a particular teacher.
• Explain why some cities have curfews for teens.
• Explain why some students are forced to leave school once they are sixteen.
• Explain how moving from place to place affects teens.
• Explain why getting a driver's license is an important event in the lives of many teenagers.
• Describe the major stressors in teens' lives.
• Explain why you like or don't like working in a team.
• Describe some nonmaterial things that make you happy.
• Explain why some teens commit suicide.
• Explain how music affects your life.
• Explain the impact of different music genres on society.
• Explain why students listen to a particular type of music.
• Explain why some teens skip school.
• Explain the likely consequences of skipping school.
• Describe the likely consequences of doing poorly in school.
• Explain why teens do drugs.
• Describe the likely consequences of selling drugs.
• Describe the likely consequences of taking drugs.
• Explain why teens smoke cigarettes .
• Explain the likely consequences of being kicked out of school.
• Explain the likely consequences of skipping classes.
• Explain the likely consequences of brothers and sisters constantly fighting.
• Explain why teens wear makeup.
• Explain the consequences of having alcohol on the school campus.
• Explain the likely consequences of being sexually active without using protection.
• Explain why some teens' parents do not like to be alone with their child's boyfriend or girlfriend.
• Explain the likely consequences of increasing the time between classes from five to 15 minutes.
• Explain why some teens join gangs.
• Explain the difficulties some teens have once they are in gangs.
• Explain how life for a teenager changes once she has a baby.
• Describe what you feel a boy should do if he finds out his girlfriend is pregnant.
• Explain why you should or should not laugh at embarrassing moments.
• Describe the effects of marijuana.
• Explain the likely consequences of teens becoming sexually active.
• Explain why it is helpful to organize your materials and activities.
• Explain why your schoolwork is important.
• Describe the ways you help out at home.
• Explain the likely consequences of abolishing capital punishment.
• Explain the consequences of adopting a pass/fail grading system.
• Explain the likely consequences of enforcing an 11:00 p.m. curfew.
• Explain the likely consequences of ending forced busing.
• Explain why some teenagers dislike saying the pledge to the flag.
• Explain why some schools don't have open lunch policies.
• Explain why most teenagers are materialistic.
• Explain why some teens get jobs.
• Explain the consequences of having a job while in high school.
• Explain the likely consequences of dropping out of school.
• Describe some productive ways students can spend their leisure time.
• Explain why dealing with their parents' divorce can be difficult for many teens.
• Explain why teens love their parents even when family situations are difficult.
• Describe the things that bring you the greatest happiness.
• Describe three things you would like to change the world and explain why you would change them.
• Explain why you prefer living in an apartment (or house).
• Describe the likely consequences of requiring a childbearing license.
• Describe three objects that symbolize our culture and explain why you selected them.
• Explain why you are interested in a particular career.
• Explain the likely consequences of requiring students to wear school uniforms.
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Expository essay.

Expository essay aims at explaining a thing or the truth about a topic. quite a number of topics fall under the category of expository essay.

Students may be asked to write on how a machine or equipment works or how to prepare a meal.it may also be how a certain location in your town or city can be found. The subject of expository essay also includes feature articles in newspapers or magazines which may demand that you go beyond stating facts or describing a thing to include making judgments on the thing.Forinstance, you may be asked to discuss the deterioration and lack of maintenance of the sanitary facilities in your area, and suggest way 0f improving them. This type of expository essay demands that you state some facts and then make your opinions and judgment known on the matter.

Useful Hints on How to Write a Good Expository Essay

Discuss at length the topic you are asked to discuss. In most cases, you are expected to unfold the bad and good consequences of the topic. For example, to satisfy your examineron a question that asks you to discuss the deterioration and lack of maintenance of the sanitary facilities in your area, and suggest ways of improving them,you are expected to discuss at length the poor sanitary conditions in your area, give instances of such poor sanitary conditions and go further to proffer solutions to the problem. You willearn a good mark under content if you do all these.

• Organization:
• There should be an introduction and conclusion .the introduction must briefly explain the main idea of the essay and it must be followed by the body of the essay. Your points or ideas must be fully developed in the body of the essay. The conclusion which must come after the body of the essay should briefly sum up the main idea and make a conclusive statement on the topic.
• You are expected to arrange your points or ideas in a logical sequence.
• Your sentences should be a variety of long and short sentences.
• Make use of phrases or word linkers to link your paragraphs with one another.
• Expression:
• For expository prose, clarity of expression is important. You must make sure that you state your facts, instances and points clearly.
• Your vocabulary should be carefully for effectiveness, especially when you are writing on a topic that has a formal register.
• Your language should be formal; you should avoid slangs, clichés , unidiomatic expressions and meaningless phrase.

Write an essay on how to improve family function through love, co-operation, communication, etc.

STRUCTURE : Identification of type of sentences.

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Identify the following sentences.

• I gave Bukola a book.
• When I received my salary, I went to Lagos where the Zoo was situated.
• The night is dark and I am far from home.
• She is a teacher and a writer.
• My sister sent me a greeting.

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• Revision of last term examinations and work with emphasis on grammar
• Grammar: Adverbials (Frequency and Manner)
• Reading and comprehension:  Asking specific questions that require conclusions to be drawn by students
• Composition:  Letter writing: Formal letter, features of a formal letter, writing a letter of permission to be absent from school to the Principal
• Literature-In-English:   Folktales (Didactic, Entertainment, Magical)
• Literature-in-English: Use of recommended text on Prose
• Grammar:  Tenses:  The simple present tense
• Reading and comprehension:  Asking specific questions that require students to make projections.  Vocabulary Development:  The Library
• Composition:  Formal letter:  a letter to the school authority (Refer to week 2)
• Literature-In-English:  Introduction to poetry:  Definition, Features (Concise, unique).
• Literature-In-English:  Use the recommended text on Prose
• Grammar:  The simple past tense
• Reading and comprehension: Asking specific questions that require maximum recall of ideas and facts.  Vocabulary development:  Marriage related words
• Composition:  Guided composition – The Federal Roads Safety Commission
• Literature-In-English:  poetry: Types (Epic, Lyrics….)
• Literature-In-English:  Differentiate between oral and written poetry
• Grammar:  The present continuous Tense
• Reading and comprehension:  Reading to understand the author’s mood and expression used in the passage e.g. anger, doubt, joy ….
• Composition:  narrative Essay:  The Most Memorable Day of My Life
• Literature –In-English:  Drama:  Features (theme, costumes, audience and so on)
• Literature –In-English:  Identification of the features of drama in a given text
• Grammar:  The past continuous tense
• Reading and comprehension:  reading between the lines to detect the author’s attitude. Vocabulary Development:  Child labour and trafficking
• Composition:  Argumentative:  Road Transportation is Safer than Air Transportation
• Literature-In- English:  Use the recommended text on prose
• Literature-In-English: As in 6.5
• Grammar:  Making sentences with the simple present tense and the past tense
• Reading and comprehension:  Reading to identify the overall impression created by the author’s style of presentation
• Composition:  Expository Essay:  HIV/AIDS
• Literature-In-English:  Myths and Legends:  Comparing myths and legends
• Literature-In-English:  Use the recommended text on Drama
• Grammar:  Future tense:  making sentences with the simple future tense – Will, Shall
• Reading and comprehension:  Reading to interpret diagram maps and sketches accurately.  Vocabulary development – Word Formation – using prefixes
• Composition:  Argumentative (Arranging ideas in logical sequences)
• Literature-In-English:  Myths and Legends:  Features (Magic, Superstition and so on)
• Grammar:  making sentences with the simple past tense
• Reading and comprehension:  Reading to identify how a diagram or map clarifies or complements reading material
• Composition:  Guided composition on A Festival in My Village
• Literature-In-English:  dramatization of some scenes in the recommended text on Drama

Literature-In-English:  a review of the recommended texts

WEEK 11 – 12

Revision and Examination

Second Term JSS2 English Studies NAPPS Scheme of work

• Revision of last term work

Speech work:  revision of diphthongs

• Grammar:  reported speech:  rules guiding the use of reported speech
• Reading and comprehension:  Reading to provide alternative work that can fit into the context to replace the target words
• Composition:  Writing a Report:  Outline and Features
• Literature-In-English:  use the recommended text on prose
• Literature-In-English:  As in 5
• Grammar:  Making sentences with prepositions
• Reading and comprehension:  Reading for speed with emphasis on avoidance of vocalization, regressive reading and reading words instead of phrases.  Vocabulary development – law and justice
• Composition:  Writing a report:  An Accident I Witnessed
• Literature-In-English:  Use the recommended text on prose
• Literature-In-English:  Themes/characterization in the recommended prose text
• Grammar:  Regular and irregular verbs
• Reading and comprehension:  Techniques of speed reading:  surveying, scanning, skimming.  Vocabulary development:  Culture and tourism
• Composition: writing an informal letter continued:  Letter to a friend about your school inter-house sport.
• Literature-In-English:  Use the recommended text on drama
• Literature-In-English:  Themes and plot in the recommended drama text
• Grammar:  Reported commands
• Reading and comprehension:  Dialogue.  Vocabulary development:  ICT
• Composition :  Formal letter:  Write to the Local Government Chairman about the bad roads in your area
• Literature-In-English:  use the recommended text on Drama
• Literature-in-English:  Language: Setting and characterization in the recommended Drama text.
• Grammar:  Reported requests
• Reading and comprehension:  Dialogue continued
• Composition:  Argumentative Essay:  Herbal medicines are more potent than orthodox medicines are
• Literature-In-English:  Identification of some figures of speech in the recommended prose text
• Literature-in-English:  as in 5.5
• Grammar:  Adverbials and the Present tense
• Reading and Comprehension: More on week 2 topic. Vocabulary developments: science and technology.
• Composition: Expository Essay- Entrepreneurship.
• Literature-In-English: Distinguish between Irony, Euphemism and Hyperbole.
• Literature- In-English: Write a short play on the reward of truancy.
• Grammar: Introduction to punctuation marks.
• Reading and Comprehension: Reading to summarize a selected passage.
• Composition:  Narrative Essay- My Last Birthday
• Literature-In-English:  summary  of the recommended Prose text
• Literature-In-English: As in 7.5
• Grammar:  Punctuation marks:  The Full Stop and The Comma
• Reading and comprehension:  Reading to identify the main and supporting ideas in a selected passage.
• Composition:  writing a story:  The Meeting
• Literature-In-English:  summary of the recommended Drama text
• Literature-In-English:  as in 8.5
• Grammar:  Punctuation Marks continued
• Reading and comprehension:  As in week 8
• Composition:  Review the types of Letters and Essays
• Literature-In-English:  Review the literary terms

Literature-In-English:  As in 9.5

WEEK 11 – 12

Second Term JSS3 English Studies NAPPS Scheme of work

• Grammar:  Expressing exception using except, except for, but, apart from
• Reading and comprehension:  Reading for critical evaluation
• Composition:  More on writing to a Pen-pal
• Literature-In-English:  review the features of folktales
• Literature-in-English:  Discuss some folktales
• Grammar:  Prepositions which express relations with people (with, for, against)
• Listening comprehension:  Listening for implied meanings
• Composition:  The School Prize Giving Day
• Literature-In-English:  Poetry – Write a short poem on – The Lonely Child
• Literature-In-English:  write a short story on – How the Tortoise Got the Pattern on his shell
• Speech work:  Contrast consonants /ʃ/ and/ȝ/ (mission/pleasure, vision/measure)
• Grammar:  The simple sentence
• Composition:  At The Bus Stop
• Literature-In-English:  Literacy devices in a selected poem
• Grammar:  The Compound sentence
• Listening comprehension:  Listening to questions in order to answer them
• Composition:  Informal letter – A letter to a friend telling him/her about your best subject
• Literature-in-English:  Use the recommended text on Prose
• Literature-In-English:  Identification of the features of Prose
• Grammar: Punctuation marks:  The uses of the capital letter.
• Listening comprehension:  Listening to interpret ideas in a selected passage
• Composition: Informal letter – A letter to your Grandfather/mother telling them that you are coming to spend your forthcoming holidays with them
• Literature-In-English:  Use the recommended Drama text
• Literature-In-English:  Theme/setting/characterization in the recommended Drama text
• Grammar:  Pronouns – Relative and Relative Pronouns
• Reading and comprehension:  revisit week 5 and 1 st term
• Composition:  Article Writing – The Evils of Youth Unemployment
• Literature-In-English:  Lead students to write a playlet
• Grammar:  Personal Pronouns – Rules guiding the use of personal pronouns
• Reading and comprehension:  Revisit week 2 of 2 nd Term
• Composition:  Expository – Drug Addiction
• Literature-In-English:  Poetry – Language in Poetry
• Literature-in-English:  Construct sentences with irony and hyperbole
• Grammar:  Demonstrative Pronouns
• Reading and comprehension:  Reading to summarize paragraphs
• Composition:  Argumentative Essay – Teachers are better than farmers in a society
• Literature-in-English:  Summarizing the Prose text
• Literature-in-English:  summarizing the prose text
• Grammar:  differentiating between demonstrative pronouns and demonstrative adjectives
• Reading  and comprehension:  revisit week 1 2 nd term
• Composition:  Expository writing – Population Explosion
• Literature-in-English:  Revision of the Drama text

Literature-In-English:  Revision of the Drama text using relevant questions

WEEK 11 AND 12

REVISION AND EXAMINATION

Third Term JSS1 English Studies NAPPS Scheme of work

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Expository Essay - SS2 English Lesson Note

Explanation of style / format of writing expository essay

Introduction: The introduction should introduce the topic of the essay and provide a brief overview of what will be discussed. It should also include a thesis statement, which is a sentence that states the main point of the essay.

Body paragraphs : The body paragraphs should support the thesis statement by providing evidence and examples. Each body paragraph should focus on one main point, and should be organized in a logical way.

Conclusion : The conclusion should restate the thesis statement and summarize the main points of the essay. It should also leave the reader with something to think about.

Here are some additional tips for writing an expository essay:

• Use clear and concise language.
• Avoid using slang or informal language.
• Use evidence to support your points.
• Organize your thoughts in a logical way.
• Proofread your essay carefully before submitting it.

Here are some examples of expository essay topics that an SS2 Nigerian student might write about:

• The importance of education
• The effects of climate change
• The challenges of living in a developing country
• The importance of cultural diversity
• Controlling HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.

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