ENGLISH LANGUAGE THIRD TERM SCHEME OF WORK FOR JSS2
English Language third term Scheme of work for Nigeria junior secondary school two (JSS2) students.
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 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.