First Term English Language Year 10

Table of Contents

• First Term English Language Year 10 Unified Note for 2024/2025
• Topics and pages for each session
• Speech/Comprehension/Structure/Writing/Spelling Drill (pages 3-9)
• Voc./Dev./Summary/Writing/Structure/Spelling Drill (pages 10-14)
• Comprehension/Speech/Voc./Dev./Structure/Spelling Drill (pages 15-18)
• Voc./Dev./Structure/Summary/Speech/Writing (pages 19-24)
• Comprehension/Speech/Voc./Dev./Structure/Spelling Drill (pages 25-29)
• Spelling Drill/Structure/Comprehension/Voc./Dev./Writing (pages 30-33)
• Midterm Break (page 34-36)
• Summary/Speech/Structure/Writing/Spelling Drill (pages 37-40)
• Writing/Voc./Dev./Structure/Comprehension (pages 40-45)
• Revision (page 45)
• Examination (pages 45)

Week 1: Speech Work

• Learning Objectives: Explain what a speech sound is, mention with examples the two major divisions of speech sounds, and identify the 44 English phonemes.
• Speech Sounds: A phoneme is a speech sound; a grapheme represents or stands for the written sound (Letter). There are approximately 44 sounds in English (with some variations based on accents and articulations).
• Consonants and Vowels: Consonant sounds involve partly or completely stopping the airflow, whereas vowel sounds allow unobstructed airflow.
• Voiceless Consonants: Examples include /p/ as in place, /f/ as in fat, /t/ as in tea, /s/ as in see, and /k/ as in car.
• Voiced Consonants: Examples include /b/ as in be, /v/ as in vibe, /d/ as in do, /g/ as in get, /z/ as in zest, and /dʒ/ as in joy.
• Twelve Pure Vowels: Examples include /ɪ/ as in pit, /iː/ as in key, /ɛ/ as in bed, /æ/ as in pat, /ɑː/ as in part, /ʌ/ as in cut, /ɔː/ as in port, /ɜː/ as in bird, /uː/ as in boot, /ʊ/ as in put, /ə/ as in about, and /ɒ/ as in dot.
• Diphthongs: (Eight) These are combinations of two vowel sounds. Examples include /eɪ/ as in day and /aɪ/ as in buy.

Week 2: Words Associated with Home and Family

• Learning Objectives: Explain the meaning of family and home, give examples of words associated with family and home, and make sentences using those words.
• Family: A group of people related by blood or marriage who share a common bond.
• Home: A place where one lives, feels safe, and experiences a sense of belonging.
• Relevant Terms: Kith and kin (friends and family), courtship (a man seeking a woman's affections), wedding (social event of marriage ceremony), monogamy (one spouse), polygamy (more than one spouse) , guardian, pantry, divorce, household, nephew, upholstery, in-laws (relatives by marriage).

Week 3: Vocabulary Development-Register of Agriculture

• Learning Objectives: List words associated with agriculture, say their meanings, and make sentences with those words.
• Agriculture Related Terms: Livestock (animals domesticated for cultivation), grassland, ranches, beef, hoe, bulldozer, net, trough, greenhouse, sprinklers, knab sack, orchard, seedlings, transplant, vaccination, horticulture, and tractors.

Week 4: Speech Work-Triphthongs

• Learning Objectives: Define triphthongs, list types of triphthongs with examples, identify them in given words.
• Triphthongs: A combination of a diphthong and the schwa sound (/ə/).

Week 5: Vocabulary Development- Register of Journalism

• Learning Objectives: Explain what journalism is, list words associated with journalism, make sentences with those words
• Journalism Related Terms: Journalism, photojournalism, newspaper, editorial, news media, magazine, publisher, tabloid, and gazette.

Week 6: Clauses

• Learning Objectives: Explain what a clause is, list the different types of clauses with examples.
• Clauses: A group of words containing a subject and a predicate.
• Types of Clauses: Main and subordinate clauses. Main clauses can stand alone and make sense; subordinate clauses need a main clause to complete their meaning.

Week 7: Comprehension - Answering Questions in Context

• Learning Objectives: Explain what a contextual question is, and list steps in answering context questions
• Contextual Questions: Questions regarding circumstances, words, sentences, and ideas in a passage that help in understanding the passage in relation to the surrounding ideas.
• Steps in Answering Contextual Questions: Circle unfamiliar words, underline key phrases, identify synonyms, give main idea, and guess and prove your guess is right.

Week 8: Comprehension - Stress with Two and Three Syllable words

• Learning Objectives: Explain the meaning of stress, and identify stress in two and three-syllable words.
• Word Stress: Stressing a syllable in a word with more effort or energy.