COMPREHENSION 1A

ENGLISH LANGUAGE THIRD JSS ONE TERM

WEEK ONE

THEME: READING

COMPREHENSION

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

Students should be able to;

1. Read a given passage
2. Identify and extract the main ideas from the passage.

CONTENT

Read the poem below and identify the main ideas

EXPELLED

We had traded in the market competitively perfect

till you came in the boat and polished goodwill

approval from high order

all pepper differentials denied flag-bearers

and cut our ribs, dried our cows

the vaccine from the lake

burst the cowshed, the drought you brought

planted on the market place, the tree of memory

I had no safe locket to keep my records

when Sodom burnt and Gomorrah fell

the debtor’s records blared

the creditors tapped my rusty…