Author: Msomi Bora

TOPIC 14: WRITING A PERSONAL LETTER Friendly or personal letters are means of communication through letter. We normally write letters to loved ones, including mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers, lovers, wives, husbands, teachers, friends, etc. We normally use statements such as ‘Dear mother’, ‘Dear father’, ‘Dear sister’, ‘Dear friend’, ‘hi daddy’,’ hi mummy’, ‘hi aunt’. in the greeting (introduction part). We use expressions such as ‘your loving daughter’, ‘your loving son’, ‘your loving………’, ‘missing you……..’in the closing remarks. Components of a Friendly Letter 1.…

TOPIC 13: ANALYSING INFORMATION FROM MEDIA Facts from Media Facts are pieces of information regarded as truth beyond reasonable doubt that can be proved or verified. Activity 1 Read the article below extracted from a newspaper and identify factual information from it: It is a shame that many girls do not know how to say no to boys who make sexual advances on them. Some girls say no yet still use non verbal actions that suggest a ‘yes.’ What do you think the boy will believe? ‘Boys assume that ‘no’ is a half hearted yes’, said the minister for social…

TOPIC 12: INTERPRETING LITERARY WORKS This involves comprehension and summary while reading a class reader (books) its chapters, the following activities should be done. 1. Understanding the writing and pictures on the front cover, usually they summarize or give a piece of information of what is in the class reader (book) 2. Title of the class reader (book) – A name or topic which is discussed in the chapters 3. Author: A person writes a book must be memorized. 4. Main or chief character(s) he/ she is the main actor 5. Minor character persons or animals in the story 6.…

TOPIC 11: READING A VARIETY OF TEXTS (INTENSIVE READING) Intensive Reading refers to slow and careful reading in details which specific learning aims and tasks. Intensive reading involves reading for composition. Read the following composition then answer the question. “A Foolish Customer” One day Mr. Juha seat in a hotel drinking some coffee. A boy come to him that he was selling afternoon papers. “Which papers do you have? Juha asked. “I have the Daily news and The Guardian”, the boy said. “Well, give me both. How much do they cost?” Mr. Juha asked. “One thousand two hundred for both. The Guardian…

TOPIC 10: EXPRESSING FUTURE PLANS AND ACTIVITIES This topic enables students to express and talk about future plans or activities at school, home, street, market, shop, hospital etc situations. Talking about future plans/activities is normally done using words and expressions such as ‘will’, ‘shall’, ‘next’, ‘tomorrow’, ‘are going’ to’, ‘about to’, and infinitives such as can, may, could, should, would, might, etc. EXPRESS FUTURE PLANS There are four common ways to talk about future activities: 1. Future simple tense (I will do) 2. Future progressive (I’ll be doing) 3. Present continuous tense (I…

TOPIC 9: TALKING ABOUT PAST EVENTS/ ACTIVITIES This give a particular form of verb endings it is sometimes called Past Tense Note: common adverb like Last week, yesterday etc. Example: My brother got married last Friday Last week they closed the school EXPRESSING PAST ACTIVITIES Narrating One’s Character We closed school for the holidays and I was both excited and nervous. I was anxious to see my father and mother so I called my mother to tell her that I would be leaving for home Friday morning. The journey home went well and I saw beautiful landscapes like Mount Usambara.…

TOPIC 8: EXPRESSING OPINIONS AND FEELINGS What is your opinion? Do you like city life or rural life? There are some people who want to go to live in towns. They think that life is cheap and simple there. They think they can buy cars, houses, good clothes etc. Giving opinions can be easily expressed during debates Example: Motions 1. Boarding schools provide better education than day school 2. Co- education school are better than single sex school 3. Special ability schools are not special in rolling students 4. Students failure in examination is due to poor teaching. Look at…

TOPIC 7: TALKING ABOUT ONES FAMILY EXPRESSING FAMILY RELATIONS A family is smallest social unit. The family consists of father, mother, children and relatives. This kind of a family is called Extended family Expressing Kinship My name is Birungi; my mother’s name is Makrita and my father’s name is Juma. My uncle from my mother’s side is called John and another uncle on my father’s side is called Jamal. My grandfather lives in Ihanga village with his three sons; Bahari, Jamali and Bakari. I have five brothers; Atanas, Mussa, Geoffrey, David and Chris. My uncle has two sisters, who…

TOPIC 6: EXPRESSING LIKES AND DISLIKES The word like means to be sound as or pleased with from the verb we get the word like and dislike opposite or antonym. Grammatically likes/dislike are not nouns but only used in everyday talks (spoken English) whether like or dislike the force behind them are human feeling, taste experience traditions. Usually like and dislike are expressed in non-verbal forms of communication such as gesturers, social expressions movement nodding. Non- verbal – communication is also called body language EXPRESSING LIKES: I like … I love… I adore… I’m crazy about… I’m mad about… …

TOPIC 5: EXPRESSING ONGOING ACTIVITIES This activity can be done by individual or somebody else. They refer to what is going on at a time of observation guessing, talking and so on. This is Present Continuous Tense or Progressive Aspect The verbs end with …ing 1. Martha and Consolata are sweeping the floor 2. It is looking at you 3. They are eating rice 4. You are playing nicely When you go to school in the morning there are a lot of activities going on, you will see: 1. Some students sweeping the compound 2. Some students watering the flowers…