A. Speech Work: Stress pattern B. Structure: Reading a literary

Week: One

Topic: A. Speech Work: Stress pattern B. Structure: Reading a literary

book C. Reading: Teaching of new words – meaning and Comprehension D. Grammar: Identity linking words, and sentences of the paragraph E. Writing: Descriptive/ narrative essay F. Dictation: Words/sentences from the passage Read

Objectives: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to;

1. Identify stress patterns in words

2. Make use of the appropriate linking words.

3. Write a descriptive essay using the teacher’s guild nets

Instructional material/Reference material: Nigeria Primary English Book 4 by F. Ademola-Adeoye, et al.

CONTENT 1

A. Speech Work: Stress pattern

If a word has more than one syllable, you give stress to one of the syllables by making it longer or louder than the other syllable or syllables. So, stress refers to how much force or loudness is used to pronounce part of a word.

Each word has a stress pattern, that is, a pattern of stressed (or strong) and unstressed (or weak) syllables. In the table below, the first column has words with stress on the first syllable. The second column has words with stress on the second syllable, while the third has words with stress on the third syllable. The stressed syllables are those written in capital letters.

Say the words after your teacher.

Stress on 1st syllable	Stress on 2nd syllable	Stress on 3rd syllable
HAPPy	deNY	afternoon
Kerosene	imPORtant	cigaRETTE
PHOtograph	success	introDUCE
ORange	balloon	sevenTEEN

 

Stress on the first syllable

You can also show where the stress is in a word by using a stress mark (ˈ) in front of the stressed part of the word, for example, ‘garden.

mother sister lorry biscuit teacher

clinic pupil cooking playing football

everyone penalty telephone exercise

newspaper

Stress on the second syllable

Listen carefully as your teacher stresses the second syllable in these words, for example, to’day. When your teacher has read all the words, repeat them after him.

a’way a’fraid be’tween o’bey to’day

t’onight be’hind en’joy gi’raffe re’turn

um’brella ki’lometre com’puter re’moving

Summary: The teacher goes over the topic once again to enhance better understanding.

Conclusion: Teacher corrects and marks pupils’ notes.

EVALUATION

1. Make good sentences using ten of the words above that you know. 2. Some of the following phrases have their stress on the first word, and some on the second word. Write stress marks on the words that have stress. The first two have been done as examples.

PERIOD 2

Grammar: Identity linking words, and sentences of the paragraph

Conjunctions

Conjunctions are words that join words, phrases, clauses, or sentences together.

They are also called linking words.

Examples:

1 bread and butter (word)

2 a boy or a girl (phases)

3 I asked him but he didn’t give me. (clauses)

4 The boy failed the test. However, he passed the examination. (sentences)

 

Note the following:

Use ‘and’ to link or join similar things

Examples:

1 Jeje bought a pen. She bought a pencil.

‘but’ to link different things.

Examples:

1 Jeje ate some cakes. She didn’t eat any ice cream.

2 Jeje ate some cakes, but she didn’t eat any ice cream.

Use ‘because’ to explain the reason.

Examples:

1 Jeje chose the cake. She doesn’t like ice cream.

2 Jeje chose the cake because she doesn’t like ice cream.

Use ‘or’, or ‘either…or’ to show that there are two things to choose from, but only one may be chosen.

Examples:

1 Jeje could send the letter by post. Jeje could send the letter by hand.

2 Jeje could send the letter by post or by hand.

3 Jeje will either send the letter by post or by hand.

More examples of conjunctions:

although, after,  when,  if,  unless,  while

so, until, even,  though

EXERCISE

Complete the following sentences with the correct conjunctions.

until, when, because, but

while, so, after.

1 The school was making progress ____________ the new principal

came.

2 We were coming to see you ____________ there was a heavy rain.

3 I was reading my books ____________ I did not see you come in.

4 My mother was going to see the doctor ____________ she was sick.

5 Rotimi was preparing for his examination ____________ Andrew was

drawing pictures.

6 My mother found my lost book ____________ I had left for school.

7 Dede was drawing pictures ____________ The teacher asked him to

stop.

PERIOD 3

Descriptive/narrative essay

My school

My school is in Jos. It is called Victory Nursery and Primary School. It is an international school. We have children from other countries. There are some children from India, Ghana, and Lebanon. There are more Nigerian children in my school than children from other countries.

My school is built with red bricks. It is very clean and beautiful. All around the compound, there are flower beds, with roses, sunflowers, bougainvillea, and many other beautiful plants. We take care of them in our science lessons, but we are not allowed to pick the flowers.

Our classroom is full of pictures on the walls and there are many books. The nature corner is at the back of our classroom. Our teachers are always making bright teaching cards, and they show us how to make many interesting things with cards. We have a library in my school, so we do a lot of reading. There is also a computer room in my school.

 

There are 500 pupils in my school. Our headmistress is Mrs Boyo and my class teacher is Mrs Amu. I am in Primary Four. There are three Primary Four classes named Blue class, Yellow class, and Green class. I am in the Yellow class. There are 20 pupils in my class.

When we celebrate our Founder’s Day at school, we wear our national costumes for different cultural plays and dances. The Lebanese and Indian children always look very pretty in their costumes. We Nigerian children also look beautiful in our different costumes.

I like my school very much. We are the luckiest and happiest children in Jos.

EXERCISE

Read the passage again, then write a similar essay about your own school by answering these questions.

1 In what city is your school?

2 What is the name of your school?