LEARNING OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson, students should be able to

1. Speech work: Syllables: Words of two, three, four syllables.
2. Grammar- Active and Passive voice.
3. Reading and Comprehension- (Identification of keywords)
4. Literature-in-English- Prose ( Recommended text)

KEY VOCABULARY WORDS:

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS: Wall charts, Pictures, Related Online Video, Flash Cards

CONTENT:

CONTENT:  Syllables: Words of two, three and four syllables

Two-syllable Words

LINgerreMAIN

LONdoniDEAL

NUMberexCEED

MAdamconTAIN

Three – syllable Words

RefuGEE

TRAgedy

Bachelor

draMAtic

Holiday

Four – syllable Words

imPOssible

DEmarcated

capTIvity

ecoNOmic

EVALUATION:  Give five words each on the following syllables and show the necessary stress: two, three and four.

TOPIC:  Activities on Active and Passive Voice

CONTENT: Fill in the blank spaces with the correct form of the verbs in the bracket

1. Use the given verb in either active or passive form in a suitable tense.
2. At the present time, the oldest house in town —- (restore) by the Historical Society. When the restoration is finished, the house is sure to be a popular tourist attraction.
3. A: What a beautiful old wooden chest!

B: It —- (build) by my grandfather over fifty years ago.

3. At one time, the entire world —- (rule) by dinosaurs. Some dinosaurs —- (walk) on their hind legs and —- (stand) as tall as palm trees.
4. Disneyland is a world famous amusement park in Southern California. It —- (visit) by more than ten million people every year.
5. Many of us take water for granted in our daily lives, but people who live in the desert —- (not use) water carelessly. To them, each drop is precious.
6. I —- (not agree) with people who say space exploration is a waste of money.
7. Do you really think that we —- (invade) by creatures from outer space in the near future?
8. Most insects —- (live) for less than a year. The common housefly —- (live) from 19 to 30 days.
9. —- (you, accept, already) by this university when you heard about the other scholarship?

10.I got into a taxi quickly because I —- (follow) by two strange men. As soon as I got into the taxi, I —- (feel) a little safer.

Change the following active sentences into passive voice.

1. I did not beat her.
2. I will never forget this experience.
3. Mother made a cake yesterday.
4. The boy teased the girl.
5. Did she do her duty?
6. The tiger was chasing the deer.
7. She has written a novel.
8. She has learned her lessons.
9. Have you finished the report?
10. The police have caught the thief.
11. My brother has completed the work.
12. Somebody stole my pen yesterday.
13. Our team may win the matchx.
14. Nurses look after patients.

Topic: Reading to identify key points in a passage

During scanning as well, you can mark keywords in the question as your tendency to match them with similar words in the passage. Since the passages are long and complex, finding out keywords will help you read more efficiently.
1. Find keywords in reading passage
An important part of skimming the passage is underlining keywords. While you are reading the passage, you can identify important keywords in the paragraphs that will also help you to better understand the given information.

At this time, you should underline keywords to understand the paragraph by abstracting important information from it.

You can definitely underline some keywords such as names, locations, facts, figures etc.

For example:

Names (Names of scientists, people etc. involved in the story)

Locations (Town, city, country etc.)

Years or dates (1978, 12th Oct 1982 etc.)

Figures (1.2 million, 20000 etc.)

You may mark any word or phrase which is capitalized e.g. titles of books, event names etc.

The reason behind highlighting these keywords is finding easy reference from the passage. If you have a question referring to the year 1978, it would be easy for you to locate it in the passage if you had already underlined it while reading the passage. Otherwise, you would need to read the whole passage to find where 1978 is mentioned and hence, it would consume your time.

2. Find keywords in reading questions

In the process of scanning i.e. locating answer of the question, you will first need to read the question carefully to find important keywords you can mark and at the same time, to understand meaning of the question.

Keywords you underline are usually nouns, group of nouns, verbs etc. except articles (a, an, the), prepositions (for, in, at etc.) and others.

An extremely important strategy of underlining keyword is to identify the focus of the question, especially in MCQs (Multiple Choice Questions). Focus or stem of the question is a word in the question that will help you to choose the right option. For example, focus or stem is highlighted in the following question:

Which of the following is most at fault for the Titanic disaster?

1. The ship
   B. Captain and crew
   C. Titanic’s owners and builders
   D. Standard operating procedure

TOPIC: LITERATURE

CONTENT: Use of the recommended prose text and poetry

EVALUATION: Study the recommended prose text and poetry

Words of the week: Soliloquy, fascinate, auxiliary, conscience, necessary, restaurant, acquaintance, grammar, interruption, paralleled