WEEK SIX

LESSON THREE: SPEECHWOWRK

TOPIC: VOWEL CONTRAST /æ/ AND /Ʒ:/
The /æ/ sound is produced by lowering the front of your tongue from its
resting position. The mouth is slighting open and the jaw lowered. This sound is
therefore described as the front low vowel sound.
This sound is usually spelt ‘a’ as in man, bag, glad, calendar, marriage, cat,
lack, mat and so on.
The /Ʒ:/ sound can be mistaken for the /æ/ sound because they have similar
modes of articulation. The /Ʒ:/ sound is produced by raising the center of our
tongue towards the area between the hard and soft parts of the roof of your
mouth. Your lips are neutrally spread and no firm contact is made between the
sides of your tongue and your upper side teeth. This sound is the longer form of
the schwa sound.
The /Ʒ:/ sound is usually spelt as the following letters.
Er/err as in err, her, serve, perfect.
Ur/urr as in fur, church, burn.
Ir as in shirt, dirt, firm.
Or as in word, worm, worst.
Ear as in earn, learn, heard.
Our as in journey, scourge, courtesy.
Others: myrtle, colonel, amateur, saboteur.
CONTRASTING THE /æ/ AND /Ʒ:/ SOUNDS
/æ/ /Ʒ:/
Bad Bird
Had Heard
Fan Fern
 Lad Learn
And Earn
That Thirst
Camel Colonel

WEEK EIGHT
LESSON ONE
TOPIC: /ɔ/ AND /ɔ:/
These vowel sound have similar productions their major difference is that
while /ɔ/ is a short vowel, /ɔ:/ is a long vowel. To make the /ɔ/sound, the back of
your tongue is slightly raised from its resting position towards the soft part of the
roof of the mouth. It is a back, mid vowel sound. To produce the /ɔ:/ sound, the
back of your tongue is raised halfway towards the soft part of the roof of the
mouth. Like the /ɔ/ sound, it is also a back, mid vowel sound.
SPELLING THE /ɔ/ SOUND
o Log option Shock

a Watch Yacht Want

ou Cough trough Sought

au because sausage Laurels

Ua quarrel squad Quality

SPELLING THE /ɔ:/ SOUND

Ar War swarm Warn

Or Fork porch Orchid

Ore Pore Core Score

Our Court mourn Four

oar Board hoarse Soar

Oor Door Moor Floor

A(l) Salt balk Walk

Aw Crawl jaw Awesome

Au author daughter Flaunt

A Call ball Tall

Ou Ought fought Wrought

CONTRASTING /ɔ/ AND /ɔ:/

/ɔ/ /ɔ:/

Pot Port

Cot Court

For Four

Shot Short

Wrath Wrought

LESSON THREE:GRAMMAR
TOPIC: PERSONAL PRONOUNS
 These pronouns are used in place of persons’ names. One of them (it) is
often used to refer to animals, objects and ideas. They include: I, me, we, us, you,
he, him, she and so on. Personal pronouns can be categories based on person as
in first person, second person and third person and, number as in singular and
plural. Study the table below to get a clearer understanding of their
categorizations.
Subject Subject Object Object
singular plural singular plural
First person I We me Us
Second you You you You
person
Third person He, she, it They Him, her, it them

WEEK NINE
LESSON ONE: GRAMMAR
TOPIC: DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS
We have four demonstrative pronouns, they are: this, that, these and
those. They are called demonstrative pronouns because they are used to point
out directions as well as replace nouns. This and these are used to refer to nouns
which are close to us while that and those are used to refer to objects which
aren’t. However, the words which we have under this category can also be used
as adjectives. When they are followed by a noun, they act as adjectives.
Examples
This is my father.
This man left the building.
Other examples
1. Those are my friends
2. That is the man who teaches us math.
3. Those are my brothers standing across the road.
4. These are my friends
 5. This is her book and that is mine.

LESSON TWO: SPEECH WROK

TOPIC: /U/ AND /U:/
To make the /u/ sound, the part of your tongue nearer the centre than the
back is raised towards the roof of the mouth. As a result, the /u/ sound is
described as a back high back vowel sound. To make the /u:/ sound, the back of
your tongue is raised towards the roof of your mouth. This sound is also described
as a back high vowel sound and it is a long vowel sound.
SPELLING THE /U/ SOUND
U Pull butcher Sugar

oo shook foot Good

o Wolf woman Bosom

ou would bouquet Courier

SPELLING THE /U:/ SOUND

O whom move Two

oe shoe canoe

u june flute Dune

oo cool choose Loo

ou group wound Coup

SOUND CONTRAST
 /U/ /U:/

Full Fool

Should Shooed

Look Luke

Foot food

LESSON FOUR: WRITING

TOPIC: ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY
An argumentative essay or a debate has two sides, you either argue for or against
the proposition or motion. While an argumentative essay is written, a debate is
orally delivered. In this lesson, we shall look at the features of the argumentative
essay and the debate. While they both have almost the same elements, there are
a few differences. There are some features that distinguish the argumentative
essay and the debate from other forms of essays. They are as follows.
CLASS ACTIVITY
Secondary School Students Should be Allowed to Wear Mofti to School.
Outline
Introduction
Body: points to back up your stance
Conclusion
EVALUATION
Write an essay using the outline given in class.