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WEEK 1
SPEECH WORK: Revision of Sounds- a, e, i, o, u
GRAMMAR: Revision of Parts of Speech-Noun, Pronoun, Verbs and Adjective
COMPREHENSION/VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT – Reading to understand the writer’s purpose: “How we spent the Holiday”
COMPOSITION: Writing an outline for the Narrative Essay – Topic “How I Spent my Last Holiday”
LITERATURE: Types and Feature of Prose
ASPECT: SPEECH WORK
TOPIC : PURE VOWELS
The vowels in English are classified into two main groups: pure vowels (also called monophthongs) and diphthongs. The pure vowels are sub-classified into short vowels and long vowels. These pure vowels are listed below with examples of words where they occur:
- /i: / long vowels e.g. beat, seat, neat, feet.
- /I/ short vowel e.g. bit, sit nymph, village.
- /e/ short vowel e.g. bed, bread, said, bury.
- /æ/ short vowel e.g. cat, lack, pack, rat.
- /a: / long vowels e.g. car, dart, calm, heart.
- / ɒ / short vowel e.g. pot, what, gone, wash.
- /ᴐ:/ long vowels e.g. war, pork, saw, bought.
- /u/ short vowel e.g. put, foot, book, could.
- /u: / long vowels e.g. pool, blue, screw, shoe.
- /Ʌ/ short vowel e.g. cut, come, blood, country.
- /з: / long vowels e.g. first, purse, earn, bird.
- /Ә/ short vowel e.g. about, baker, sailor, teacher.
EVALUATION
- What is a vowel sound?
- State the classification of pure vowels.
ASSIGNMENT:
Write out five pure vowels with two examples each.
ASPECT: COMPREHENSION/VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
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