Senior Secondary 1 | English Language Arts

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1. List words representing things in the home

2. Mention correct words for relations

3. Identify the words representing activities in the home

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1. List words associated with crops and use them in sentences

2. Mention words associated with farming activities and implements

3. State the importance farming identify other words related to farming activities

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1. Explain the word fishing

2. List words related to fishing

3. Tell the meaning of listed words

4. Make sentences with the words

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1. Explain the meaning of animal husbandry

2. Differentiate between poultry and farming

3. Identify words related with dairy farming

4. Identify words related to animal husbandry

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1. Tell the meaning of traditional religion

2. List words associated with traditional religion

3. Make sentences with list words

4. Explain the meaning of such words in context of passages and stories

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1. Define Christianity

2. List words associated with Christianity

3. Make sentences with listed words

4. Explain the words in context of passages and stories

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1. Explain what Islamic religion stands for

2. List some words associated with Islamic religion and them in sentences

3. Explain the meanings of some of the words in context

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1. Identify other words associated with religion

2. Explain the meanings of those words

3. Make sentences with the words

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1. Explain the meaning of antonyms

2. Read passages featuring words that are opposite in meaning or nearly opposite in meaning

3. List words and their opposites and use them in sentence

4. List words that are nearly opposite is meaning

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1. Explain the meaning of synonyms

2. Read a passage featuring synonyms

3. Pick out the words from the passage read

4. Use the words correctly in sentences to reflect their meanings

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1. Explain the meaning of advertising

2. Read a passage on advertising

3. Identify words associated with advertising in the passage

4. Explain the meanings of the words and use them in sentences

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1. Tell the meaning of the term stock exchange

2. Identify words associated with it

3. Make sentences with the various words identified to exemplify their meanings

4. State the importance of stock exchange

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1. Identify words that are commonly miss spelt

2. Spell the words correctly

3. Use the dictionary to check the spelling of such words

4. Tell the meaning of such words in context

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1. Differentiate between the sounds of these consonants

2. Identify words in which they occur

3. Use such words in sentences

4. List more words in which more words in which they occur

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1. List words with consonants that are followed by /w/and /j/

2. Pronounce the words correctly

3. Make sentences with the words

4. Identify them in words and sentences

5. Pronounce words with syllabic consonant /l/, without deleting it or inserting intrusive vowel sounds

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1. Pronounce words of two syllables which are stressed on the second syllable correctly

2. Pronounce k + w in words

3. Recognize and pronounce distinctly and correctly words with /j/ /u/ consonant sounds

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1. Pronounce words of three syllables with appropriate stress

2. Use the words in sentences to show their meanings and their correct pronunciation

3. Use the dictionary where necessary

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1. Pronounce correctly with the right stress placement, words of four syllables

2. Distinguish between words of varied syllables

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1. Recognize, articulate correctly, stress – timing in sentences

2. Modulate their voices to give appropriate tone-reflection, avoiding monotone in prose reading

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1. Describe, narrate orally, using objects, pictures etc.

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1. Effectively expose points in a given topic, object or event with appropriate words

2. Use words correctly to argue out a point

3. Use words orally to persuade and make a convincing argument

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1. Listen attentively to identify main ideas in a speech

2. Identify main points in a conversation and a lecture

3. Identify key words in a speech, conversation or lecture

4. Identify key sentences from a speech, conversation or lecture

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1. Identify a speaker’s mood from a recorded speech or talk or conversation

2. Identify a speaker’s tone from a speech or a recorded conversation or a poem

3. From the mood and tone, identify a speaker’s purpose

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1. Listening to speeches attentively

2. Identify illustrations of the main points via details

3. Locate words signifying details

4. Explain how such words signify details rather than the main ideas

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1. Listen attentively to a presented material

2. Identify key words that signal main ideas

3. Identify key sentences signaled by the relevant key words

4. Put the sentences together in a summary form

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1. Identify terms that indicate directions

2. Follow directions effectively

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1. Listen to a work of art and identify the writer’s style-exposition, narration, description and argument

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1. Listen attentively to identify the words that indicate main points in a speech, chat, conversation etc.

2. Retain key words or key sentences in a speech, chat, conversation etc.

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1. Listen carefully and attentively to identify the supporting ideas

2. Differentiate between main and supporting ideas in a prose, passage

3. Retain both main and supporting ideas identified

4. Recognize words that signal details/illustrations and examples in a prose passage

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1. Differentiate between contextual and literal meanings

2. Use their dictionary as an aid for finding levels of meanings

3. Use some words in making more sentences to bring out meaning contextual situation

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1. Recognize the various elements signifying purpose and tone in reading passage

2. Differentiate between purpose and tone

3. Recognize the relationship between tone, purpose and meaning in a reading discourse

4. Demonstrate clearly purpose and meaning through tone

5. Recognize and identify the contrast in tone and mood while listening to another reader

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1. Acquire and develop skills that will help them in summarizing passages – skills such as assigning titles or headings to passages

2. Identify topic/ theme or key sentences as well as main and supporting ideas

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1. Read and comprehend the message of the passage by following the story line plot

2. Identify the main, supporting/secondary points

3. Identify key words/ sentences

4. Assign titles and headings to passages

5. Identify the main, supporting points in the individual paragraphs that make up the pas-sage

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1. Express themselves clearly through a narrative composition

2. Express themselves clearly through a descriptive composition

3. Write well punctuated sentences for a narrative composition

4. Select appropriate words and sentences for descriptive composition

5. Select appropriate words for writing narrative composition

6. Write well punctuated sentences for effective communication

7. Generate enough topic sentences for a good narrative composition

8. Generate enough topic sentences to be develop into a full composition

9. Use the appropriate tense form usually the past tense for writing a narrative

10. Use appropriate tense forms for writing descriptive composition

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1. Explain what an informal letter is

2. List types of informal letters

3. Write an informal letter using the appropriate lay out

4. Write a well punctuated informal letter to the appropriate persons

5. Explain what a semi-formal letter is

6. List types of semi-formal letters

7. State the persons to whom a semi-formal letter can be written

8. Write a semi-formal letter using the appropriate lay out

9. Write a well punctuated semi-formal letter

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1. Define records

2. List different kinds of records

3. State the importance of records and record keeping

4. Keep records concisely and accurately for future reference

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1. List the general features of a speech

2. Write a good speech for any occasion as required

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1. List the features of a typical newspaper article

2. Differentiate between the features of a newspaper articles and the features of a speech or a letter

3. Write a good article suitable for the school magazine or newspaper

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1. Identify a noun and a noun phrase

2. Explain what makes for a noun phrase – attaching the definite article

3. Build up noun phrases

4. Explain the exception in the use of ‘the’ as definite article with nouns

5. Identify the two positions of noun phrases in sentences

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1. Identify both countable and uncountable nouns

2. Differentiate between the two

3. Determine them by their characteristics

4. Use them in contextual sentences

5. Recognize and identify nouns that are both countable and uncountable

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1. Define nominalization as a process of changing from one form class to noun

2. Know the form classes (parts of speech) to normalize

3. Use the normalize words in contextual sentences

4. Apply the process to other words other than in class

5. Explain what irregular verb is and why it is so called

6. Recognize and identify forms of irregular verbs

7. Explain the process of forming them

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1. Recognize and use the various complex tense forms in English

2. Identify them wherever they meet them in use

3. Use the dictionary effectively as an aid to resolve problems

4. Use them correctly in sentences

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1. Recognize that verbs enter into structural relationships with adverbial particles

2. Identify in the structure which part is verb and which is adverb, use them in sentences

3. Recognize that the structure got form the combination is usually connotative rather than denotative meaning

4. Recognize the structure as phrasal verbs

5. Use them correctly in sentences

6. Use the dictionary as an aid in this construction

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1. Recognize and use adjuncts in sentences and other writings correctly

2. Identify them in passages

3. Differentiate between their use as adjunct and as adjectives

4. Recognize their classes e.g. time, purpose, reason etc.

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1. Explain what a complex sentence is

2. Identify complex sentences

3. Make complex sentences

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1. Identify a compound sentences within a passage

2. Construct a compound sentence

3. Identify the essential features

4. Differentiate between complex and compound sentences

5. Recognize the coordinating conjunctions