SS2 ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHEME OF WORK

First Term

1. Comprehension: Reading for Main Points, Structure: Revision on Nominalization of Adjectives and Verbs. Speech Work: Review of Consonants Followed by /j/ and /u/ Sounds. Summary: Revision of the Features of Summary.
2. Comprehension – Learning about Main Ideas and Supporting Details, (ii) Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with the Human Body System and Functions. (iii) Speech Work: Cluster of Two, Three, and Four Consonants. (iv) Writing (Expository): Meaning, Features, and Examples.
3. Comprehension: Reading to Follow Writer’s Ideas; (ii) Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Health, e.g., diagnosis, contagious, etc. (iii) Structure: Noun Phrases: Meaning, Identification and Functions.
4. Summary (Reading to Summarise): Vocabulary Development – Words Associated with Building and Building Construction. Writing – (Narrative) Meaning, Features and Examples. Structure – Relative Pronouns
5. Comprehension Reading For Main Points – 2; Speech Work: Unstressed Vowel Sound /ə / Writing (Argumentative) “Corruption Should be fought from the top to the bottom”
6. Comprehension: Reading to Extract the Main Points from a Passage: Structure: Sentence Types; Speech Work: Stress of Syllable Words Writing: Descriptive: “Valedictory Ceremony in My School”
7. Comprehension: Reading to Take Notes; Structure: Adverb – Types (Manner, Place, Time, Frequency, Degree, etc.). Summary: Reading to Summarise an Argument.
8. Structure: Word Modifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs; Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Colours, Smell and Taste, Comprehension (Listening); Uganda’s National Resistance Army, Writing: A Report 
9. Structure: Plural Forms of Nouns, Speech Work: Stress of Five-Syllable Words, Writing – Creative Writing: Features of a Short Story.  Summary Writing – Identifying Topic Sentences: Agriculture; Technical Aid Corps Proposed for Africa. 
10. Comprehension: Reading to Paraphrase a Prose Passage; Structure: Phrasal Verbs. Writing: Features and Format of an Informal Letter. 

Second Term

1. Comprehension: (Reading to Grasp Sentence, Paragraph Transition): Nothing Gets Done. Effective English, page 150, Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with the Press; Structure: Punctuation Marks (Comma, Semicolon, Question Mark, Colon)
2. Essay Writing (Formal Letters) Letter of Complaints; Structure – Sentence Types According to Functions; Speech Work – Diphthongs; Summary – How to Answer Summary Questions
3. Essay Writing: (Informal Letters) Letters to a Friend in Another Town. Speech Work: Diphthongs /ei, ai, au, ᴐi/; Comprehension (Reading for Implied Meaning): – Moral Behaviour, Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Environment.
4. Summary Writing: Wole Soyinka, Effective English, Structure: Kinds of Pronouns; Speech Work: Rhyme Scheme
5. Comprehension: (Reading for Critical Evaluation) Communication; Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Nation Building; Structure: Introduction to Sequence of Tenses, Speech Work: Diphthongs /Iә, eә, әƱ, Ʊә/
6. Structure: More About Phrasal Verbs, Comprehension: Advancement in Technology, Vocabulary Development: Technology Speech Work: Comparison of /tᶘ/ and /ᶘ/, /ʤ/ and /ʒ/
7. Essay Writing: Articles: Structure: Active and Passive Structures, Register: Words Associated with Cultural Entertainment;
8. Structure: Making Uncountable Nouns Countable, Summary: Writing Answers to Model Summary Passage, Vocabulary Development: Noting Words Commonly Misspelt

Third Term

1. Argumentative Essay and Rules of Concord  
2. Word Associate with Publishing and Printing
3. Prefixes and Verb Forms
4. Prepositional Phrases
5. Vocabulary Associated With Hotel and Catering
6. Nominative of Adjectives and Verbs
7. Relative Pronouns and Vocabulary Development
8. Plural Forms of Nouns
9. Word Modifiers
10. Nasal Consonants and Adjectival Clauses