English Language (JSCE)
English Language (JSCE)
The JSCE (Junior Secondary Certificate Examination) also known as BECE (Basic Education Certificate Examination) test the candidate’s knowledge and skill on English Language.
Here are the topics that should be covered before taking this exam:
READING
Reading for maximum retention and recall
Reading for main and supporting ideas
Reading to answer specific questions
Reading to understand the author’s mood
Reading to interpret diagrams, maps and sketches
Reading to follow directions in written communication
Reading to understand the writer’s purpose
Reading to identify the meaning of words in various contexts
Critical Reading
Reading for Speed
Reading for Summary
Reading for Critical Evaluation
Reading for Speed
Reading for Summary
WRITING
Writing to highlight main and supporting ideas.
Composition Writing : Narrative and Descriptive
Letter writing:Features of informal and formal letter
Writing an outline
Composition writing:Expository and Argumentative
Letter Writing: Informal and Formal
Summary writing
Oral comprehension
Speeches (Intonation, Stress, Rhythm, Question Tags)
LISTENING AND SPEAKING
Production of vowels and consonant sounds in passages
Listening to and producing different speeches with reference to vowel sounds, consonant clusters and diphthongs, word boundaries, compound words and phrases.
Question and question tags
Listening comprehension
Vowels and consonants
Phonemes
Intonation, stress and Rhythm
GRAMMATICAL ACCURACY
Parts of speech -Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverb, Conjunction, Preposition
Adverbials and Tenses
Active and Passive Verbs
Direct and Indirect Speech
Modal Forms
LITERATURE
Introductionto Literature
Introduction to Folktales
Introduction to Myths and Legends
Prose: Types and Features
Drama: Types and Features
Figures of Speech: Similes and Metaphors
Prose: Short stories and Novelettes
Nigerian and African Folktales
Popular Myths/Legends
Poetry
Drama: Kinds and Features
More on Figure of Speech: Irony and hyperbole
Non African Folktales
Wishing you SPEED and ACCURACY!
Course Features
- Lectures 227
- Quizzes 12
- Duration 60 minutes
- Skill level Beginner
- Language English
- Students 52
- Assessments Yes
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JSSCE 2018 ENGLISH PAST QUESTIONS
- This lesson is base on Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) Past Questions
- 2019 JSSCE ENGLISH PAST QUESTIONS
- 2019 JSSCE ENGLISH PAST QUESTIONS PART II
- 2018 JSSCE ENGLISH PAST QUESTIONS
- 2018 JSSCE LITERATURE PAST QUESTIONS
- 2017 JSSCE ENGLISH PAST QUESTIONS PAPER I
- 2017 JSSCE ENGLISH PAST QUESTIONS PART II
- 2016 JSSCE ENGLISH PAST QUESTIONS PART I
- 2016 JSSCE ENGLISH PAST QUESTIONS PART II
- 2015 JSSCE ENGLISH PAST QUESTIONS PART I
- 2015 JSSCE ENGLISH PAST QUESTIONS PART II
- 2014 JSSCE ENGLISH PAST QUESTIONS PART I
- 2014 JSSCE ENGLISH PAST QUESTIONS II
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE LESSON NOTE (SPEECH WORK)
JSS 1
- Introduction to speech (Organs of Speech)
- Vowels- Introduction to Monophthong
- Vowels: Long and short e.g. /ↄ:/,/ɒ/
- Vowels sounds:/ a: /,/ᴂ/
- Vowels / ɒ / and/ʌ/
- Consonants /p/ and /b/
- Consonant sounds: /t/ and/d/
- Consonant sounds /k/ and /g/
- Consonants /f/and/v
- Consonants /s/ and /z/:
- Consonants /ѳ/ and /ð/
- Consonants /∫/ and /Ӡ/
- Consonants/ʧ/ and/ʤ/
- Introduction to Diphthongs: /ei/, /əu/, /iə/ and /eə/;
- Diphthongs /ai/, /au/, /ᴐi/ and /uə/
- Consonants /t/ and /d/
- CONSONANT SOUNDS /l/ and /r/
- /Ə/
- NASAL SOUNDS / m/ / n/ /ŋ/
- STRESS
- STRESS PATTERN
- Stress of Compound word
- Consonant Clusters
- Speech work: /h, j, w/
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE LESSON NOTE (STRUCTURE)
- Parts of speech – Nouns (Features/functions of nouns in a given passage)
- Verbs
- ADVERB
- Adjectives
- Conjunctions
- PREPOSITION
- Intensifiers
- Introduction to Tenses
- Adverbs: Features/ functions of Adverbs in a given passage
- Tenses
- Past Tenses (making sentences with the past tense)
- FUTURE TENSE
- Tenses and Adverbials (making sentences with tenses and adverbial)
- Tenses and Adverbials (making sentences with tenses and adverbial)
- Determiners (Meaning, Types and Functions).
- THE IMPORTANCE OF PUNCTUATION
- VERBS
- VERBS
- PASSIVE VERBS
- PASSIVE VOICE
- Passive Verbs
- QUESTION TAGS
- Pronouns: Forms of Pronouns
- Position and functions of pronoun
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE LESSON NOTE (COMPREHENSION/VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT)
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE LESSON NOTE (COMPOSITION)
- Writing Outline, (Arrangement of outline in a logical sequence)
- Types of Composition
- ELEMENTS OF COMPOSITION
- LETTER WRITING
- LETTER WRITING CONTD
- Narrative Composition
- Descriptive composition
- More on Narrative Composition
- Descriptive
- Letter writing: Format and Features of Formal Letters
- Letter Writing (Guided Writing – Emphasis on Arrangement of Ideas in Logical Sequence)
- Argumentative Essay
- ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY
- Expository Essay
- Speech Writing
- EXPOSITORY (INTRODUCTION)
- EXPOSITORY ESSAY
- EXPOSITORY ESSAY (ARRANGEMENT OF IDEAS IN LOGICAL SEQUENCE).
- EXPOSITORY (GUIDED COMPOSITION)
- INFORMAL LETTERS
- FORMAL LETTERS: WRITING TO SUIT DIFFERENT SITUATIONS
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE LESSON NOTE ( LITERATURE)
- Introduction to Literature (Functions/Purpose)
- Genres of literature
- PROSE
- Categories of Oral and written literature
- Folktales
- Folktales: Features/Themes of folktales
- FIGURE OF SPEECH
- PROSE
- Review on the Genres of Literature (Prose, Poetry and Drama).
- Prose-Literary terms
- Myths and Legends (African and Non-African tales comprising Myths and Legends)
- Myth and Legend
- Drama: Drama text, themes, features related to literary terms
- Drama: Drama text, themes, features related to literary terms
- Figures of Speech
- Poetry
- Poetry: Types of poems
- Figures of Speech and Literary Term Recommended Poems
- Definition of Poetry and Figures of Speech
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JSS 2 SPEECH WORK
SPEECH WORK
- Revision of Sounds- a, e, i, o, u
- CONSONANT / g, k, l, p, s /
- INTONATION, STRESS AND RHYTHM
- CONTRASTING VOWELS /i:/ and /i/; /u:/ and /u/
- Consonant /s/, /z/, /ð/,/Ɵ/
- Monophthong, Diphthong, Triphthong
- Morpheme -Word boundaries-prefix
- Monophthongs
- Consonant Sounds/s/and /z/
- CONTRAST ING/Ø/ and /t/
- THE SOUNDS /ia/ and /ea/
- THE SOUNDS /u/ and /u: /
- STRESSING WORDS
- Consonant sounds
- VOWEL SOUNDS / I: / and / i/
- Consonant sounds /p/ and /b/
- Consonant Clusters
- Diphthongs
- Triphthongs
- Consonants / h/, /w /and /j/
- CONSONANT SOUNDS ( /P/, /b/, / t/, /d/)
- Consonants /k/ and /g/.
- Contrasting /f/ and /v/; /s/ and /z/
- INTONATION PATTERN
- RISING TUNE
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JSS 2 STRUCTURE
STRUCTURE
- Verb-Transitive and Transitive Verb
- Question Tag
- Active and Passive Voice
- The WH Question
- Tenses (Present, Past, and Future)
- Preposition and Prepositional Phrase
- Suffix
- Conjunction (Types and Usage)
- Making Request Using Will, Could, Please
- THE USE OF CONJUNCTION
- USING DESPITE AND IN SPITE OF
- SYNONYMS
- THE USE OF CAUSATIVE VERBS
- ADVERBS OF PLACE
- The use of ‘even though’ and ‘at least’.
- INTENSIFIERS
- ANTONYMS
- Adjectives (Comparative and Superlative)
- TENSES
- Adverbials of Cause, Reason, Purpose, Condition
- Punctuation
- COMMA
- Types of Sentences
- Direct Speech
- Direct /Indirect Speech
- ADVERBIALS
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JSS 2 COMPOSITION
COMPOSITION
- NARRATIVE ESSAY -WRITING AN OUTLINE
- Types and Elements Of Composition
- Types of Features of Formal Letters
- Features and Outline of an Informal Letter
- Stating the Differences between Formal and Informal Letter.
- Formal Letter Invitation (As a Guest Speaker)
- ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY
- THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF GOVERNMENT
- FORMAL LETTERS
- Narrative Essay (A journey I once made).
- Recording a meeting and its Format
- SUMMARY
- Argumentative Essay
- Argumentative Essay
- FORMAL LETTER
- NARRATIVE ESSAY
- Story Writing
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JSS 2 LITERATURE
LITERATURE
- Types of Prose and Features of Prose
- Simile, metaphor, personification, and hyperbole
- Myth and Legend
- Oral Literature
- Figures of Speech(Alliteration and Assonance)
- Irony, Paradox and oxymoron
- Apostrophe, Euphemism, Metonymy
- Synecdoche, Onomatopoeia, Antithesis
- Poetry (Types)
- Language of Poetry
- Introduction to Prose
- Features of Drama
- Elements of Drama
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JSS 3 SPEECH WORK
- VOWEL CONTRASTS
- Long and Short Vowel Contrasts: /u: – Ʊ; Ʒ: – – Ə – e – ɒ – ɔ:/
- Diphthongs /ei/; /ai/; /ɔi/; /ƏƱ/
- Contrast Consonants: /aƱ/; /ƏƱ/; /iƏ/; /eƏ/ and /ƱƏ/
- Diphthongs and Monophthong in Contrast
- Consonants Contrasts /s – z/;/d – ð/; /ʃ – s/; /f – v/;
- Consonant Contrast /p – f/; /Ʒ – ʃ/; /t – /; /l – r/; /s – /; /ʃ – ʧ/
- Intonation Patterns (Statements, Questions and Command
- Consonant Sound /h/.
- Consonant contrast /θ/and/t/
- CONSONANT CONTRAST
- Nasal sounds / m/ / n/ /ŋ/
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JSS 3 STRUCTURE
- Adjectives of Colour and Sound
- Adjectives of Smell, Taste, Shape
- Expressing/describing Emotions (verbs+ preposition) V+ to- infinitive
- PREPOSITIONS
- Antonyms (Words nearly opposite in meaning)
- Describing Emotions (likes and dislikes) verb+ to- infinitive
- Antonyms 2
- Expressing Willingness/Unwillingness USING MODAL VERB+ADVERBIALS
- Expressing Intension and Permission (using intend, aim + to infinitive; can, could, may, might, mind
- Order of Adjectives
- Direct and Indirect Speech
- Word Building Using prefixes
- Expressing obligation and necessity using: must, have to, need, ought to, etc.
- Words Expressing ‘Value’ and ‘Moral Value’
- Expressing Possibility Using: may, can, might, could
- Prefixes (Word Building using Antonyms
- Expressing Ability (using can, be able, to be capable of
- EXPRESSING EXCEPTION USING EXCEPT
- Suffixes-Noun Derivation
- Conjunctions features, position and functions of conjunctions
- Suffixes- Verb Derivations
- ADVERBIAL
- ADJECTIVE DERIVATIONS
- QUESTION TAGS
- Words associated with value of judgment
- Personal and possessive pronouns
- INDEFINITE AND RECIPROCAL PRONOUNS
- HOMOGRAPH
- REFLEXIVE AND RELATIVE PRONOUNS
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JSS 3 COMPOSITION
- Narrative Essay (Writing an outline of an Essay) ‘The Happiest Day of My Life’
- Formal Letter Writing (Introduction, Essential Tips and Difference between Formal and Informal)
- DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY
- SEMI-FORMAL LETTER
- Narrative essay
- REPORT WRITING
- Article writing
- INFORMAL LETTERS
- FORMAL LETTERS
- EXPOSITORY ESSAY
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JSS 3 LITERATURE
