SS2 First Term English Language Lesson Note – Syllabic Consonants

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WEEK 10

Speech Work: Syllabic Consonants (little, often, nestle, etc); Vocabulary Development: Words associated with Power Production; Reading Comprehension: Reading for critical evaluation: ‘Deforestation of the Tropical Forests’ (NOSEC, 64 – 65)’   Structure: conditional Clauses; Writing Skills: Article Writing (Introduction) “Procrastination and lack of ambition”; Summary: (Use any WAEC/NECO summary question).

ASPECT: SPEECH WORK                            Date __________

TOPIC: Syllabic Consonants (little, often, nestle, etc

The great majority of syllables in all languages have a vowel at their centre, and may have one or more consonants preceding and following the vowel (though languages differ greatly in the possible occurrences of consonants in syllables). However, in a few cases we find syllables which contain nothing that could conventionally be classed as a vowel. Sometimes this is a normal state of affairs in a particular language; in some other languages syllabic consonants appear to arise as a consequence of a weak vowel becoming lost. In English some syllabic consonants appear to have become practically obligatory in present-day speech: words such as ‘bottle’ and ‘button’ would not sound acceptable in BBC pronunciation if pronounced bɒtəl, bᴧtən (though these are normal in some other English accents), and are instead pronounced bɒtl- , bᴧtn- . In many other cases in English it appears to be possible either to pronounce m, n, ŋ, l, r as syllabic consonants or to pronounce them with a preceding vowel, as in ‘open’ əυpn- or əυpən,‘orderly’ɔ:dl- i or ɔ:dəli, ‘history’ histr- i or histəri. The matter is more confusing because of the fact that speakers do not agree in their intuitions about whether a consonant (particularly l) is syllabic or not: while most would agree that, for example, ‘cuddle’ and ‘cycle’ are disyllabic (i.e. contain two syllables), ‘cuddly’ and ‘cycling’ are disyllabic for some people (and therefore do not contain a syllabic consonant) while for others they are trisyllabic.

ACTIVITY: Mention five words that have syllabic consonants.

ASPECT: VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT                             Date__________

TOPIC: Words associated with Power Production

Consult any past WAEC/NECO questions on this

ASPECT: READING COMPREHENSION Date_____________

TOPIC:  Reading for critical evaluation: ‘Deforestation of the Tropical Forests’ (NOSEC, 64 – 65)

ACTIVITY: Underline the unfamiliar words in the passage and look up their meanings and usage in the dictionary.

EXERCISE: Read the given passage carefully and answer questions on it.

ASPECT: STRUCTURE                                          Date ________________

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