SS1 English Exam Questions Topics
First Term
Grammar: Adjectives Composition : Formal letter meaning Orals: Consonant /Ө/ and /ð/Grammar : pronoun IISpeech: OralsOral consonant Consonants /d/ and /ð/Comprehension Comprehension PassageComprehension Passage : Vocabulary Development Orals: Consonants / ∫ / and /t ∫/Grammar Vocabulary Building Composition: Common Errors in Essay Writing. Grammar: Making Uncountable Nouns and Countable NounBest complete sentences Orals: Consonant sounds /t/ and /Ө/Grammar: Noun Phrase (Determiners and Quantifiers)Composition: Essay & Capitalization Comprehension passage Orals: Consonant /∫/ and /3/Grammar: Nouns possessive Orals : Consonant /s/ and /z/Oral : words stressSummary WritingNoun Grammar: SentenceWaec Comprehension Passage Orals: Vowels / i /, /i: /, / ᶺ / and / ↄ / Grammar nomalisation Composition: Essay Writing IIVerbs Composition: Minutes of meetings Composition: letter
Second Term
Composition : Article Writing Grammar : Phrasal Verbs Report writing Composition : Informal Letter Vocabulary Building & Comprehension Pasage Phrases: Types, Adverbial phrase Composition : Debates Grammar: Adjunct of Place , Time Orals: Emphatic Stress and Rhyming Grammar : Figure of Speech Orals : words of four syllablesOral : Consonant Sounds /I/ and /r/ Orals : Stress timing Grammar: Adjunct of manner and reasonGrammar: Adverbial Clause Comprehension passage. (Waec 1989)Orals: Contrasting /Ɵ/and /ᵭ/ \ Ɵ\ and/t/ /d/.Oral: Consonants Sounds clustered with /j/ Continuous Writing Vocabulary Development : Antonyms exactly opposite in meaning. Comprehension Passage Vocabulary building on Islamic Religion Vocabulary Development composition: Record WritingVocabulary document (synonyms as words ) : Speech : Dialogue Grammar : Concord Formal letter Vocabulary Development on AdvertisementDeterminers
Third Term
Orals: IntonationsComposition : Expository Essay Register on culture Orals: The consonant sounds /k/ and /w/.Grammar: identifying grammatical names and functions Expository Essay: Drug Abuses, Elections , Speech: Questions tags Comprehension Passages : past questionVocabulary: words associated with motor vehicle Structure and lexis : verb and verb phrases Composition- Narrative Essay Speech: Rise and fall of tones in English language. Vocabulary – Words associated with road travel.Comprehension/Summary- Identifying topic sentence in paragraphComposition-Descriptive Essay Vowels, vocabulary, comprehension and model auxiliary verb Grammar: Adjectival clause Composition: summarizing in a specified number Oral English: stress and intonation on rising and falling tones. Idiomatic expressions and phrasal verbs.Sentence analysis simple, compound, complex sentences: Speech: Test of rhyming Mineral pairs of homophones: Vocabulary associated with science & techSpeech- word stress two syllable words stressed on the first syllable. Two Consonant dusters Comprehension/Summary- Composition: Continuous writingComprehension Passage / Summary passage: (Waec 2015)Vocabulary – Foreign elements in English, French words,Speech – Words with 3 consonants dusters at the final positionNoun phrase : Functions in a sentence Comprehension Summary Passage of Waec 2010. Vocabulary development: Cont'd on Religious culture, Marriage rites etc