ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Third term's scheme of work for SSS 1 and 2

Below is third term's scheme of work for SSS 1 and 2. Please, note that SSS 3 don't do third term because of their external exams (WAEC and NECO).

THIRD TERM'S SCHEME OF WORK FOR SSS 1

Week 1

• Intonation patterns
• Words associated with religion (Christianity)
• Reading comprehension
• Types of sentences
• Speech writing

Week 2

• Oral composition
• Words associated with advertising
• Summary writing
• Types of sentences (Continued)

Week 3

• Intonation pattern (Continued)
• Words associated with the stock exchange
• Reading comprehension
• Complex sentence (Continued)
• Oral composition of a descriptive essay.

Week 4

• Emphatic stress
• Synonyms of words
• Reading to summarise
• Clauses (Dependent and Independent)
• Article writing

Week 5

• Simple polite requests; simple greetings
• Antonyms of words
• Comprehension: Listening to tell the meaning of words in sentence context.
• Summary writing (Continued)
• Noun clause

Week 6

• Oral composition for expository essay
• Words associated with investment
• Reading to make note
• Adjectival clause

Week 7

• Speaking to persuade (Argumentative essay)
• More on Adjectival clause
• Reading for speed and summary

Week 8

• Description (Oral presentation)
• Words commonly misspelt
• Reading for meaning in context
• Words associated with photography

Week 9

• Words associated with photography
• Reading to answer questions and to identify the speaker's style.
• Introduction to active and passive verbs.
• Brutish and American spellings of common words.

Week 10 – 11  

• Listening to grasp main points or ideas in a speech.
• Revision on consonants
• Synonyms

Week 12/13

Revision and Examination

THIRD TERM'S SCHEME OF WORK FOR SSS 2

Week 1

• Listening to speakers and other oral presentations for critical evaluation.
• Introduction to clauses
• Words associated with horticulture.

Week 2

• Listening to debates for main points and passing judgement.
• Reading to answer questions on a given passage.
• Words associated with commerce

Week 3

• Noun clause and grammatical functions
• Reading to summarise in specific number of sentences.
• Expository essay

Week 4

• Emphatic stress
• Adjectival clauses and their grammatical functions.
• Reading comprehension for implied meaning
• Article writing

Week 5

• Consonant sounds (plosives): /b/ and /p/, /t/ and /d/, /k/ and /g/.
• Adverbial clauses: Types and functions
• Reading for meaning in context
• More on informal letter

Week 6

• Speaking to persuade
• Auxiliary verbs
• Words associated with plumbing
• Semi formal letter

Week 7

• Consonant sounds (Nasals): /m/, /n/ and /ŋ/
• Concord
• Summarising a given passage
• Formal letter

Week 8

• Reading to answer questions on a given passage.
• Exposition on scientific facts
• Rhymes
• Adjuncts

Week 9

• Consonants: /z/ and /s/, /tʃ/ and /dʒ/
• Tag questions
• Using simple sentences in summary writing
• Argumentative essay

Week 10 – 11

• Reading comprehension
• Sibilants
• Simple, compound and complex sentences (revision).
• Revision on consonants
• Revision of guidelines to answering comprehension questions.
• Idiomatic expressions.

Week 12/13

Revision and Examination