ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Third term's scheme of work for JSS 1 - 3

THIRD TERM'S SCHEME OF WORK FOR JSS 1

Week 1

Resumption test on/Revision of second term's work.

Week 2

• Reading comprehension.
• Writing a story or passage, highlighting main points and supporting ideas.
• Tenses (Future tense).
• Word boundaries.

Week 3

• Reading to interpret maps and sentences accurately.
• Writing: writing appropriate introduction and conclusion (of a given composition).
• Identifying features of adverbials from passages on Peace and Dialogue.
• Compound words.

Week 4

• Reading comprehension.
• Writing formal letters on different topics.
• Adverbs.
• Phrases.

Week 5

• Reading: Identifying how a given diagram or map clarifies or complements written materials.
• Informal letter: One address, opening, salutation, body of the letter and closing.
• Identification of active and passive verbs from passages on "Preventing HIV/AIDS".
• Questions and their tags (Question tags).

Week 6

• Reading comprehension.
• Identification of active and passive verbs from a passage on "War against cultism".
• Listening/speaking: Listening for main ideas from a selected passage on "Cleanliness".

Week 7

• Reading comprehension: Identifying key words in the passage that signals direction.
• Making sentences using active and passive verbs.
• Listening and speaking: Making conversational sentences with question tags and responses to the questions.

Week 8

• Reading comprehension.
• Identification of active and passive verbs from passages on "Dangers of examination malpractice".
• Listening and speaking: Listening for main ideas from a selected passage on Malaria, Polio, Cleanliness etc.

Week 9

• Reading comprehension.
• Identification of active and passive verbs from passages on drug abuse.
• Listening and speaking: Positioning of main ideas in given passages: beginning, middle or end.

Week 10

• Reading comprehension.
• Discussions on choice of words and punctuation of writing perfect letters.
• More practice on identification of conjunctions from a given passage.

Week 11

Revision.

Week 12/13

Examination.

THIRD TERM'S SCHEME OF WORK FOR JSS 2

Week 1

Resumption test on/Revision of second term's work.

Week 2

• Reading comprehension: Identifying topic sentences; identifying key ideas; identifying words/expressions that redirect attention to main points in paragraphs and passages that reflect on issues of national concern, e.g. population explosion, youth management etc.
• Summary writing.
• Adverbial clauses.
• The vowels /æ/ and /a:/

Week 3

• Summary reading techniques
• More on Summary writing.
• Adverbial clause: Forms of expressing condition, e.g. if, unless, provided, as long as etc.
• Intonation: Rising tone.

Week 4

• Reading to identify facts and opinions.
• Writing speeches on "The family", "Discipline in schools", "Our environment", "Examination malpractice" etc.
• Tenses: Present perfect tense and Past perfect tense.
• Intonation: Falling tone.

Week 5

• Reading comprehension.
• Writing speeches on different topics.
• Tenses: Past continuous tense.
• Intonation: Rising and falling tones.

Week 6

• Reading comprehension.
• Writing a composition.
• Tenses: Present continuous tense.
• Question tags.

Week 7

• Reading for the contextual meanings of words.
• Writing a composition on a given topic.
• Conditional statements.
• More on Question tags.

Week 8

• Reading to acquire new words.
• Writing: Organising main ideas correctly into paragraphs.
• Qualifiers: Adjectives.
• The vowel /əʊ/ --- know, go, sow, bone etc. Sentences, paragraphs, passages, poems and plays should form the content for highlighting the sounds indicated.

Week 9

• Reading selected passages to identify facts and opinions.
• Writing a composition on either of the topics: "Why I chose to become a doctor", "Why I chose to become a teacher". Make out an outline for introduction, body and conclusion as regards the these essay topics.
• Turning sentences into questions.
• Oral comprehension: Listen to speech or recorded material on a selected topic.

Week 10

• Reading to acquire new words.
• Writing an essay on the topic, "My school".
• Modifiers: Adverbs.
• Identifying adverbs, making sentences with adverbs and functions of adverbs.

Week 11

• Reading to obtain main substance in selected text.
• Format for writing a formal letter and an informal letter.
• Direct statements and Indirect statements.
• Contrasting the following sounds: /f/ and /p/, /r/ and /l/, /tʃ/ and /ʃ/.

Week 12

Revision.

Week 13

Examination.

THIRD TERM'S SCHEME OF WORK FOR JSS 3

Week 1

Resumption test on/Revision of second term's work.

Week 2

• The consonants /θ/ and /ð/.
• Using modal verbs and other forms to express permission.
• Identifying active and passive verbs.
• Composing a simple poem in a concise, unique but high language.

Week 3

• Consonants and sound usage: The consonants /s/ and /ʃ/ contrasted in words like "save/shave", "suit/shoot", "sleep/ship" etc.
• Reading to grasp meanings in various context.
• Using modal verbs to express obligation or necessity. e.g. ought, might, should etc.
• Writing a descriptive composition on "Ways to describe accurately".

Week 4

• Speaking and listening: The consonants /p/ and /b/ contrasted in word usage, e.g. peace/beat, purse/bus, parch/batch etc.
• Modal verbs for expressing possibility.
• Reading for evaluation.
• Expository composition: Techniques of writing exposition.

Week 5

• Speaking skills: Conversation among students.
• Modal verbs for expressing ability.
• Writing a farewell speech.
• Reading for comprehension.

Week 6

• Listening and speaking: Asking and answering questions.
• Reading comprehension.
• Summary writing.
• Modal verbs for expressing ability.

Week 7

• Intonation: Rising and falling tone.
• Writing skills: Dairy and record keeping.
• Reading skills: Reading for maximum retention and recall.
• Adverbials: Modes of expressing restriction using adverbials.

Week 8

Revision.

Week 9 - 12

Examination.