English Language JSS3 First Term - REVISION: The Informal Letter, Vowel Sounds, Comprehension

English Language JSS3 First Term

WEEK 1

English Language JSS3 First Term - REVISION: The Informal Letter, Vowel Sounds, Comprehension

Performance Objectives

1. Students should be able to:
2. Writing: The Informal Letter
3. Speech English: Vowel Sounds - Vowel /i/, / ɪ / , /e/ and /æ/
4. English – Vowel Sounds - Vowel /i/, /i:/, /e/ and /æ/
5. Comprehension: The More You Look
6. English – Vowel Sounds - The More You Look

 

Content

TOPIC1: Writing: The Informal Letter

What is an Informal Letter?

An informal letter is the type of letter you write to someone you know very well. It is the kind of letter you write to your friends, classmates, close relations. An informal letter is friendly so you have to make use of everyday conversational language.

Features of an Informal Letter

An informal letter has the following features.

1. The address of the writer and date
2. Greeting – Dear….. plus first name of the receiver e.g. Dear Chris, Dear Daddy
3. Pleasantries/Introduction (Reflect the Close relationship)
4. Body/Content of the Letter (Breakdown into paragraphs)
5. Conclusion
6. Closing/Subscripts. E.g. Yours sincerely followed by your first name.

Note: Yours affectionately, Your cousin, Yours daughter is not accepted.

Evaluation: Write a letter to your friend in another state, giving him four reasons why your parents want you to relocate to the United Kingdom.

Assignment:

Read: Essential English for Colleges by A.O. Faniran et al.

Reference:

Essay for Colleges by P.O. Olatunbosun

 

TOPIC2: Speech English: Vowel Sounds – Vowel /i/, / ɪ / , /e/ and /æ/

Vowel Sounds:

These are sounds that are produced with no obstruction to the air-flow in the mouth region. Vowel sounds are divided into monophthongs and diphthongs. It may be long or short but the quality is unchanging. Vowels are sound symbols that can be represented by different letters.

Examples are:

/i:/

Some spellings of /i:/ include

e	ea	ee	ei	i	ie
be	reason	bee	deceive	marine	field
Eve	leaf	seen	perceive	suite	relief
legal	sea	canteen	receipt	police	achieve
complete	meal	sheep	receive	prestige	believe
these	meat	seek	seize	fridge	siege
even	beat	bee	deceit	bliss	sieve

Others – quay, people, amoeba, phoenix

/ ɪ / 

Some spellings of /i/ include

i	e	a	u	y
Dip	needed	village	busy	Cynthia
Slip	honest	luggage	business	symmetry
lick	wicked	private		symptom
Fill	pretty	message		typical
Lig	England	sausage		myth
dip				physics
sin				crystal
mill				cymbal
fit				hymn
sick

others – women, build, guilder, biscuit

/e/

The spellings of /e/ include

head	net	prep	said
many	bet	led	pen
bed	set	pet	tech

/æ/

The spellings include:

rap	back	sat	bat
fad	plait	fad	bag
sad	ban	lag	man

Evaluation:

Group the following words into the sound each belongs to:

apt, dith, kill, brass, fell

lack, bam, cat, knit, sick

red, list, bin, wet sell

Reading Assignment

Oral English Without Tears for Schools and colleges Page 1 – 4 by Iroegbu Udoka.

Assessment

1. Choose the option with the different vowel sound

1. meal
2. perceive
3. pet
4. sheep

2. Choose the option with the different vowel sound

1. beat
2. flee
3. bit
4. machine

3. Choose the option with the different vowel sound

1. fix
2. wicked
3. symmetry
4. sheep

4. Choose the option with the different vowel sound

1. women
2. bet
3. message
4. sieve

5. Choose the option with the different vowel sound

1. sad
2. bad
3. bed
4. sat

6. Choose the option with the different vowel sound

1. bed
2. bad
3. ben
4. peck

7. Choose the option with the different vowel sound

1. be
2. pretty
3. people
4. sea

8. Choose the option with the different vowel sound

1. field
2. honest
3. legal
4. beast

9. Choose the option with the different vowel sound

1. sieve
2. siege
3. city
4. system

10. Choose the option with the different vowel sound

1. meal
2. deal
3. head
4. beat

 

TOPIC3: Comprehension: The More You Look

Read the passage carefully and do the exercise on it.

Title: The More You Look

Text: New Oxford English JSS 2 Page 8 – 9 by Ayo Banjo et al.

The More You Look

I remember quite vividly, as if it was yesterday, the time I wronged my father. It was my final year in primary school, being just eleven years old then. As I look back in retrospect, now in my final year in God’s Mercy Junior Secondary School, the memory of that occasion remains green.

It was quite a fine day and the sun was peeping behind the cloud when, having taken my breakfast, Father sent me on an errand to my uncle, Mr. Chukwu, who was living in the other end of the town. I was asked to give him N5,000.00 not to spend more than an hour on the errand as he knew that I could be carried away by my uncle’s hospitality for which he was well known. He told me that he had another assignment for me by noon.

So, I set out quite excitedly. Having trekked some considerable distance, I noticed a crowd of people in a particular open space. I was eager to know what was happening, so I called at the palace. There I saw two men who were inviting people to the centre to double the money they had on them. A group of people was entertaining the bystanders. It was quite a lively scene. Surprisingly enough, adults were stepping forward for this purpose and interestingly, ‘they had their money doubled.’

Unknown to me that it was pre-arranged, I also took my turn, thinking that the N5,000.00 on me would become N10,000.00. I had already calculated that I would purchase a handset with the N5,000.00 extra. After some time, one of the two men handed over to me a neatly packed parcel on top of which was a brand new N500.00 note. I was instructed not to open it until everybody had left. So after the crowd had dispersed, I proudly opened the parcel hoping to see wads of new notes. But what did I find? It was a neatly arranged packet of pieces of paper cut to the size of a N500.00 note. It was indeed a shocker. Within the twinkle of an eye I was sweating profusely, I burst into tears. I looked at my wristwatch, it was 8.15 p.m.

Meanwhile, Father had become agitated having discovered that I didn’t get to his brother’s house. He, therefore, decided to organise a search party comprising Chinyere, Bala, and Biola, my siblings, and some other relations who combed everywhere.

At 8.45 p.m., Chinyere first sighted me from afar off as the street light was on that evening and she shouted, ‘Danladi’. The members of the search party were happy beyond imagination and they carried me home shoulder high.

When I got home, Father asked what had happened and I related the story to him. Contrary to the happy mood of the search party, he gave me a thrashing, the scars of which still remain on my body and which I will show my children.

Assessment

1. Question

According to the writer, the incident in the passage happened ____________

1. when the writer was in the last year in primary school
2. the day before the passage was written
3. when the writer was in God's Mercy Junior Secondary School
4. yesterday
5. when the writer was in junior secondary school

2. Question

The name of the writer is ____________

1. Zorro
2. Danladi
3. Chinyere
4. Chukwu
5. Bala

3. Question

When was the writer sent on the errand?

1. in the evening
2. in the morning
3. in the afternoon
4. at midday
5. when it was sunny

4. Question

Why was the writer sent no the errand? It was because the writer’s father wanted

1. assistance from his brother
2. to assist his brother in paying the school fees of his child
3. the writer to discuss something with his brother
4. to find out about the welfare of his uncle
5. him to visit his uncle

5. Question

How long did the writer’s father expect the errand to take?

1. very short time
2. not long
3. the whole day
4. twelve noon
5. an hour

6. Question

‘The sun was peeping behind the cloud’ The figure of speech used here is ____________

1. personification
2. simile
3. irony
4. metaphor
5. hyperbole

7. Question

Why did the writer join the crowd in the open place? It was because he ___________

1. was sent on an errand
2. wanted to enjoy himself
3. wanted to double the money he had on him
4. was eager to know what was happening in the open space.
5. wanted to share in the entertainment provided

8. Question

What did the writer plan he would spend the money he would realise on? He planned to _____________

1. spend it to enjoy himself
2. give it to his father
3. purchase handset
4. give it to his uncle
5. give it to his cousins

9. Question

Why was the writer asked to open the parcel until all the people had dispersed? It was because the people who gave him the money

1. knew it contained pieces of paper
2. did not want the money to be stolen from him
3. wanted him to give the money to his father
4. didn't want him to rejoice openly
5. didn't want people to know that he had that amount of money

10. Question

what did the writer’s father do when the writer failed to return? He

1. organised a group of people to look for the writer everywhere
2. arranged a party in his honour
3. sent an errand to his brother
4. became agitated
5. telephoned his brother

11. Question

Why was the writer thrashed? It was because he ____________

1. disobeyed his father's instruction
2. went to where the crowd gathered
3. returned late to his father's house
4. spent too much time with his uncle
5. played away the time on the way to his uncle's house