Category English Language Lesson Notes For All Classes

Making Sentences with Simple Present Tense and Simple Past Tense Present Tense                                         Past Tense She speaks well                                      She spoke well Bimpe works hard                                  Bimpe worked hard Ume works in the farm                           Ume worked in the farm He is a student                                        …

HIV/AIDS HIV is a virus that attacks the immune system, which is our body’s natural defence against illness. The virus destroys a type of white blood cell in the immune system called a T-helper cell, and makes copies of itself…

Introduction to Vowel Contrast /ᴂ/, /a:/ and /ᴅ/, /ᴐ:/ /a:/                                                   /ᴂ/ heart                                                 hat harm                                                ham lark                                                …

AIR TRANSPORTATION IS SAFER THAN ROAD TRANSPORTATION Traveling by air seems unsaved to a fairly large number of people due to what they see, hear or read. News on plane crashes make a big noise in the world, such news…

Sentence 1 It rains.  Present tense It is raining Present continuous tense It  has been raining since yesterday. Present perfect continuous tense It rained.   Past tense It has been raining since yesterday. Past continuous tense It had been raining for…

Life is a sum of memories, events, moments and experiences. Some memories in life is sweet and some are bitter. Everyone has some memorable day in life. I have also a memorable day in my life. It is a part…

Fill in the blank spaces with the correct form of the verbs in the bracket Amadi has never ____ late to service (come) His mother, together with his sisters ____ in the bakery (work) Clement and his friends _____ games…

Long sound /ᴣ:/ as in: bird, heard turn, etc. This is a long vowel sound.  It occurs when the consonant /r/ follows the vowel /i/ or /e/ and the /r/ is followed by another consonant.   Common spelling symbols of …

TYPES OF POEMS Epic :It is a long narrative poem that celebrates real historical events, heroic achievements, civilization, quasi-divine figures and such other subjects. Ballad: This is an anonymous narrative in verse passed from generation to generation by words of…

SIMPLE PAST TENSE Regular verbs form their past tense by adding ‘-ed’ to the simple form of the tense, while irregular verbs form their past tense in different ways. Example:  Dada worked in the farm yesterday.  (regular) The boys talked…

/ᴧ/ Sound Short sound /ᴧ/ as in: cup, love, but, etc. Common spelling symbols of /ᴧ/ sound u — dust, but, must ou – cousin, young, country o – love, Monday, come oo – blood, flood   EVALUATION Sentence for…

Poetry refers in totality to the deployment of certain devices such as figure as figures of speech (emotion), rhyme and rhythm, stanzaic divisions, metre, subject matter in a body of words in order to express an idea.   FEATURES Imagery:…

Tenses occur only in verbs. Although it is usual to talk about the past, present and other tenses, it refers to the change that takes place in the form of the verb to indicate time.   THE SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE…

CONTRAST  /u/, /u:/ A vowel sound is made with a free flow of air through the mouth without any obstruction either by the tongue or the lips. Word Contrast /u/                                                   /u:/ look                 …

SPEECH WORK /u/ A vowel sound is made with a free flow of air through the mouth without any obstruction either by the tongue or the lips e.g /e/ is pronounced freely as in “set” /set/   Common spelling  symbols…

A formal letter is also known as official letter or business letter. It is the kind of letter we write to people we don’t know or are not used to. Here, the language you use must be formal Examples of…

What is an Adverb? An adverb is a word that is used to modify (to tell more about) a verb, an adjective, and another adverb.   TYPES OF ADVERB Adverbs of Manner Adverbs of manner are ones that answer the…

Identify the nouns in the following sentences No one understands why whales sometimes strand themselves. Since 1989, people in a group called Project Jonah have used an inflatable pontoon to rescue stranded whales and other marine mammals. More than two…