English Language Scheme of Work for SS3 Federal

Federal Capital Territory, Abuja Scheme of Work. English Language Scheme of Work for SS3 First and Second Term. – Schemeofwork.com

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE SS3 SCHEME FIRST TERM ENGLISH LANGUAGE SS3 SCHEME SECOND TERM

ENGLISH LANGUAGE SS3 SCHEME FIRST TERM

WEEK	TOPIC	CONTENT	ACTIVITIES
1	Speech	More on consonant sounds in sentences	Practice of rising and falling tones
	Vocabulary	Words associated with culture, development institutions and ceremonies	Students mention and describe cultural ceremonies in their places.
	Comprehension summary	Silent reading of material that are topical	Students read articles and passages from their textbooks. They answer questions and summarise the points.
	Structure	Revision of nouns and noun phrases	Teacher revises nouns, and students give examples.
	Continuous writing	Expository composition reflecting current issues	Teacher and students discuss the topics; students develop their essays based on points raised.
2.	Speech	More practice with intonation The WH questions	Rising tone is indicated with an arrow while falling tone is marked.
	Vocabulary	Words associated with culture continued	Students discuss religions and marriages rites, burial etc in their culture.
	Comprehension summary	Points to note in writing summary	Student’s identity main points from a comprehension passage. They phrase them into correct sentences.
	Structure	Functions of noun phrases in sentences – subject of sentences	Students identify noun phrases, using definite articles. Eg. The school, the head boy. Mr. president. The Honourable Minister and their function s as subject sentence.
	Continuous Writing	Exposing essays continued	Students write on electrons, drug abuse, examination malpractice or excursion.
3	Speech	Introduction practice using tag – questions	Students learn how to tag questions in rising and falling tones. Eg. You came late, didn’t you? today is October the 6^th isn’t it?
	Comprehension/Summary	Reading for contextual meaning of words	Students learn to distinguish words in isolation from wods in contextual. Eg. Chair + Man is nor the same as chairman.
	Vocabulary	Words associated with motor vehicles	Teacher leads students to mention and discuss the parts and functions of a motor vehicle.
	Structure	Verbs and verb phrases	Teacher revises verbs and verb phrases with students.
	Continuous writing	Narrative Essays	Students narrate factual or fictional stories in a cohered order.
4	Speech	Listening to speeches and taking notes	Students listen to the teachers and note rising and falling tones.
	Vocabulary	Words associated with road travel	Students relate their travel experience using appropriate words.
	Comprehension/Summary	Identifying topic sentence in paragraph	Students read a paragraph of about 5 paragraphs and identify the topic sentence for summary.
	Continuous Writing	Descriptive essays	Students write on the recent journey they undertook by.
5	Speech	More on vowel sounds – monotony’s and diphthongs	Students practice to contract/ae/ad/a:/; with /a/
	Vocabulary	Words associated with travelling control	Students and teachers discus words related to road travel – highway patrol, toll gate, vulcamser, mechanic flat tyre, etc.
	Comprehension/Summary	Textbook passage on travelling generally	Students read, discus and answer comprehension question.
	Structure	Modal auxiliary verbs forms and uses	Words like can will, shall, would, could, must, may etc are explained by the teacher.
	Continuous writing	Letters – informal letters and features	Address, date, salutation and subscription for informal letters.
6	Speech	Words with 2 consonant dusters occurring or final position	Eg. sports, bags, mops, dolls, tops, etc are practiced aloud.
	Vocabulary	Words associated with government and administration	Students read and pick words from a passage from the textbook on government, or give their own examples of words on administration.
	Comprehension/summary	A passage on government or administration.	Students read and summarize the passage
	Structure	Adjectival clauses	Teacher distinguishes clauses from phrases sentence, etc. student identify main and subordinate clauses, and their functions.
	Continuous writing	Summarizing in a specified number of sentences	Rubrics from examination papers should guide teacher in directing the exercise.
7	Speech	Listening to oral presentation by student on a given topic.	Teacher and students listen and comment on stress and intonation especially rising and falling tones and consonant.
	Vocabulary	Idioma and idiomatic expressions.	Use of phrasal verbs an idiomatic expressions. Eg. take up, take off, take after, take in, etc.
	Comprehension/summary	Reading for implied measuring	Teacher and students read a passage and study the deep meaning.
	Structure	Sentence analysis simple, compound, complex sentences	Students and teachers identify main verbs, finite verbs etc in analysis sentences.
	Continuous writing	Letters-semi-formal letter writing	Address, date, solution and subscription for semi-formal letters.
8	Speech	Test of rhyming	Mineral pairs of homophones, eg. fair/fare/air red/read [pt] maid/made, etcare pronounced alike.
	Vocabulary	Words associated with science and technology	Students mention and discuss current vocabulary cell phone Sms, ping, email browse upload, download, etc.
	Comprehension/summary	Reading to identify the writers purpose	Students read a passage from their text or newspapers, if possible on ICT they summarize the writer’s purpose.
	Structure	Identify grammatical names and functions	Teachers demonstrates with ample examples adverbial clauses and their functions in selected sentence
	Continuous writing	Article writing for newspaper and magazines’	Students are shown samples of articles from newspapers they try to write theirs on any topic their interests them.
9	Speech	Words with 3 consonants dusters are the final position	Eg. aunts, crafts shifts, principles, elephant, eagles etc.
	Vocabulary	Foreign elements in English, French words	A list of loan words from French vis-a-vis, genre, sachet, bouquet, abattoir, chef etc.
	Comprehension/ summary	Reading and listening for main points	Group reading, one group reads the other listens, vice versa.
	Structure	Grammatical names and functions commands	Adverbial clauses underlined in reading passages for identification.
	Continuous writing	Reading and summarizing selected passage	Points in summary writing – paraphrasing, no detrain punctuation etc.
10	Speech	Word stress	Two syllable words stressed on the first syllable, table, comfort, export, import, tailor etc.
	Vocabulary	Identification of more two syllable words stressed on the first syllable	A text book passage for students to read and underline the expected words for oral practice.
	Comprehension/summary	Reading and answer questions on a given passage	Appropriate textbook passage to read and answer questions on.
	Structures	Subjects + verb agreement	Ample examples with present simple tense.
	Continuous writing	Paraphrasing a prose passage	Students paraphrase a textbook passage.
11	Speech	Sentence stress-emphatic stress	Differentiation between normal stress and emphatic stress with ample example.
	Vocabulary	Collocations eg whims and caprices, hook, line and sinker	Teacher lists such collocations as hue and cry, ups and down, pros and cons etc and explains their uses to the students.
	Comprehension/summary	Reading argumentative passage	Students summarize an argumentative passage.
12	Speech	Word-stress on 3 syllable words on the first syllable	Eg Policy, monitor, embassy, argument, interim, analyst, AB domen etc.
	General Revision	Revision	Revision
13	Examination	Examination	Examination

Federal Capital Territory, Abuja Scheme of Work. English Language Scheme of Work for SS3 First and Second Term. – Schemeofwork.com

ENGLISH LANGUAGE SS3 SCHEME SECOND TERM

WEEK	TOPIC	CONTENT	ACTIVITIES
1	Revision	Revision of WAEC, NECO, SSCE general instructions and requirement	Sample or past question papers on English language are reviewed
2.	Speech	Vowels consonant in minimal pairs /i/aw/i:, /ae/aw/a:/	Teacher draws up minimal pairs and drills the students consonant to them eg bit/beat, fit/feet, wick/weak, back/bark, fat/fart, cat/cart.
	Vocabulary	Words associated with law and order	The registers of crime and criminality, law and order are studied, words like accused, suspect, arrest, counsel, prosecutor, defence, lawyer etc.
	Comprehension summary	Reading a passage on law and order	Students read selected passages and answer questions.
	Structure	Revising pronouns and their uses	Subject and object pronouns are consonant and practiced eg I/me, we/us, they/them, he/him, and she/her.
	Continuous writing	Argumentative, Essay, Debates	Features of both forms of writing are treated. Students write according to the form.
3	Speech	Four consonant words occurring at the final position	Ample examples of such words, e.g sixths, glimpsed, prompt, tempts, etc.
	Vocabulary	Register of law and order control	More examples of words from the law – judge, magistrate, bailiff, remand, acquitted, sentence, etc.
	Comprehension/Summary	Guidelines on answering questions on a given passage	Points to note in answering comprehension questions are highlighted. Students summarize the passage.
	Structure	Adjuncts forms and functions	Teacher and students identify and explain the forms and functions of adjuncts in clauses of time, place, manner, comparison, result, etc from sentences.
	Continuous writing	Report writing	Teacher helps to distinguish report from minutes so that students can write each well.
4	Speech	Consonant contrasts	Minimal pairs of the words that high light the different sounds. eg kits/kids, feats/feeds, ferry/very, leaf/leave etc.
	Vocabulary	Registers for ICT	Words such as microchip, data, processing, bytes and software, etc are discussed.
	Comprehension/Summary	Differentiating phrases from clauses	Teacher revises finite and non-infinite verbs, main and subordinate clauses as well as punctuation marks.
	Continuous writing	Writing speeches	Students are guided to write valedictory speeches, welcome address or keynote address.
5	Examination