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WEEK 9
Speech Work: Oral Composition; narrative and descriptive, expository and argumentative
Comprehension: Small Pox.
Vocabulary Development: Homophones, Homographs and Homonyms.
Structure: Compound Sentences.
Writing Skills: Continuous Writing – Exposition (Introduction).
ASPECT: Speech Work
TOPIC: Oral Composition (Narrative, Descriptive, Argumentative and Expository Essay)
Subject Matter: A narrative relates mainly a sequence of events. It tells what happened and how it happened. Narratives can be: stories (either real or imaginative), biographies, reports, folk-stories, etc. The students are advised to select their topics of narration on related issues from the examples given above.
Points to note about Narratives
- Narration depends chiefly on time order (chronological sequence of events).
- Narration can take a divers order of events: (A B C; B C A; C B A; C A B C, etc.)
- The narrator has the task of translating a past action, involving or not involving the use of words, into words.
- The choice of vocabulary is very important.
- Narratives employ verbs in the past.
Methods of Oral Narratives
- Be clear about the story you are going to tell.
- Draw an outline of the events as they occurred.
- Decide on the approach to adopt in the narration.
(4)Be conscious of the characters (male, female) in the narration.
Sub-Topic: Oral Composition Skills (Descriptive).
- Subject matter.
- Essentials of description.
- Method of description.
Description means giving all the required detail so that the reader can see, smell, feel, hear, and taste, through vicarious experience through your words. The main purpose of oral description is to produce in the listener a picture (scene) as clear and accurate as that in the mind of the narrator. One can easily describe:-
- An important day in one’s life (event)
- An intimate friend (human)
- The Elephant (animal), etc.
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