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Introducing Nominalisation of adjectives and verbs

Define nominalization as a process of changing from one form class to noun
Know the form classes (parts of speech) to nominalize.
Use the nominalized words in contextual sentences.
Apply the process to other words other than the ones done in class.

Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Students should be able to Identify both countable and uncountable nouns
Differentiate between the two
Determine them by their characteristics.
Use them in contextual sentences.
Recognize and identify nouns that are both countable and uncountable.

Nouns and Noun Phrases with the Definite Articles

Identify a noun and a noun phrase
Explain what makes for a noun phrase-attaching the definite article.
Build up noun phrases.
Explain the exception in the use of ‘the’ as definite article with nouns.]
identify the two positions of noun phrases in sentences
a)as subject
b)as object of the sentence

Popular Articles for Various Reading Audiences

List the features of a typical newspaper article
Differentiate between the features of a newspaper article and a speech or a letter.
Write a good article suitable for the school magazine or newspaper.

Speech Writing

List the general features of a speech
Write a good speech for any occasion as required.

Record Keeping

Define records
List different kinds of records
State the importance of records and record keeping
Keep records concisely and accurately for future reference.

Semi – Formal letters

What a semi-formal letter is
Types of semiformal letters.
Stating the persons to whom a semiformal letter can be written.
Writing a semi-formal letter using the appropriate layout.
Writing a well punctuated semi-formal letter.

Letter Writing – informal letter

Explaining what an informal letter is
Listing types of informal letters
Writing an informal letting using the appropriate layout.
Writing a well punctuated informal letter to the appropriate persons

Continuous writing – descriptive

Expressing one’s self clearly through a descriptive composition.
Selecting appropriate words and sentences for descriptive composition
Write well-punctuated sentences for effective communication.
Generating enough topic sentences to the developed into a full composition
Using appropriate tense forms for writing descriptive composition.

Continuous writing – Narrative

Expressing clearly through a narrative composition.
Writing well-punctuated sentences for a narrative composition.
Selecting appropriate words for writing a narrative composition
Generating enough topic sentences for a good narrative composition.
Using the appropriate tense form usually the past tense for writing a narrative essay.

Register Of Insurance

At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to understand Register Of Insurance

Reading to make notes

Students should be able to read and comprehend the message of the passage by following the story lines plot.
Identify the main, supporting/secondary point
Identify key words/sentences.
Assign tittles and headings to passages.
Identify the main, supporting points in the individual paragraphs that make up the passage

Reading for Summary

Acquire and develop skills that will help them in summarizing passages – skills such as assigning titles or headings to passages.
Identify topic/theme or key sentences as well as main and supporting ideas.

Reading to comprehend word-meanings through context

Students should be able to differentiate between contextual and literal meanings.
Use their dictionary as an aid for finding levels of meanings.
Use some words in making more sentences to bring out meaning contextually.
Recognize when such words are used in other contextual situation.

Reading to comprehend supporting details

Students should be able to listen carefully and attentively to identify the supporting ideas.
Differentiate between main and supporting ideas in a prose passage.
Retain both main and supporting ideas identified
Recognize words that signal details/illustrations and examples in a prose passage.

Reading to comprehend main ideas or story line

Students to listen attentively to identify the words that indicate main points in a speech, chat conversation etc.
Retain key words or key sentences in a speech, chat, conversation etc. discourse.

Comprehension

At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to understand Comprehension