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COMPREHENSION 1H

ClassNotes Team 9 MIN READUPDATED 14 JUN 2026

ENGLISH LANGUAGE JSS ONE THIRD TERM

WEEK NINE

THEME: READING

COMPREHENSION

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

Students should be able to;

  1. Read given passage
  2. Pronounce difficult words
  3. Use new words in making sentences

CONTENT

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow it.

Corruption is rampant in our social and political life. Like cancer, it is eating into the vitals of the society. Self-serving politicians and their agents and power brokers can stoop to any extent to feather their own nest. Nobody is free from the needle of suspicion. Corruption seems to rule the roost everywhere. In government offices, it percolates from the top to the bottom. ‘You pay the piper and call the tune’ or ‘Money makes the mare…