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Introduction ...... 1 Evaluation tools ...... 1
Term 1 Module 1 Back to school ...... 4 Module 2 Making new friends ...... 6 Module 3 Heroes and heroines ...... 8 Module 4 Road safety ...... 11 Module 5 Travelling by air ...... 13 Module 6 Respect ...... 15 Module 7 Crime and corruption ...... 17 Module 8 A cleaner, greener Earth ...... 19 Module 9 Taking responsibility ...... 21 Module 10 Revision ...... 23
Term 2 Module 1 Patriotism for our country ...... 26 Module 2 Sport ...... 28 Module 3 The media ...... 31 Module 4 School subjects ...... 32 Module 5 Consumer rights ...... 33 Module 6 The right to education ...... 35 Module 7 Drugs ...... 37 Module 8 Jobs – providing services ...... 39 Module 9 Film stars ...... 41 Module 10 Revision ...... 43
Term 3 Module 1 Should differences divide us? ...... 46 Module 2 Keeping the peace ...... 48 Module 3 Peer pressure ...... 50 Module 4 People who inspire us ...... 52
Practice Examination 1: Answers ...... 55 Practice Examination 2: Answers ...... 57 INTRODUCTION
English is the official national language and • Engage with their other school subjects more medium of instruction in Nigeria. It is a meaningfully compulsory subject offered at both the Basic • Communicate with people effectively in Education Certificate Examination (BECE) everyday life and the Senior Secondary School Certificate • Understand important national and Examination (SSSCE). It is therefore an international issues extremely important subject, not only in the • Feel proud to be a citizen of Nigeria. school context, but in the wider context of communicating effectively in Nigeria. Evaluation This Excellence in English Junior Secondary Evaluation plays a central role in the teaching and course has been carefully developed by learning of English. Evaluation has two purposes: international and Nigerian educational experts, • It measures the level of each student’s and offers the following components: acquisition of the performance objectives • A Student’s Book written in accessible specified in the NERDC curriculum. language to enable understanding and • It enables the teacher to monitor each learning. The Student’s Book is also student’s development to identify areas of available in digital format. weakness or strength, and to offer extra • A Teacher’s Guide, providing answers support or enrichment where needed. for the activities in the Student’s Book. The Teacher’s Guide is only available in There are two types of evaluation that need to digital format. happen in the school year: • A Workbook with activities to consolidate • Formative evaluation important skills learnt in the Student’s Book. • Summative evaluation
There is also an audio-visual Phonics Formative evaluation Programme that can be accessed free of This happens continuously during class charge from the Cambridge University instruction. It can take the form of teacher, website (www.cambridge.org). It can be used peer- or self-evaluation. to help students recognise and pronounce • Teacher-evaluation: This can be formal English sounds. or informal. –– Informal evaluation can be done The purpose of the English throughout the year by the teacher’s observation of each student’s progress in Studies curriculum classroom situations, for example while The main objectives of the English Studies students are working in pairs and groups. curriculum are to enable students to: A record book can be kept to record • Develop the basic language skills of comments about each student based on speaking, listening, reading, comprehension, these observations. The comments can writing and grammar structure identify both strengths and weaknesses, • Enjoy a wide range of local and international for example: ‘Needs more practice with texts written in English, including fiction, formation of diphthongs; Reading fluency non-fiction and poetry has improved this term’.
Introduction 1 –– Formal evaluation can be done during the • Self-evaluation term as follows: Teachers can evaluate This is similar to peer-evaluation except that oral activities done in the classroom and the student works individually to reflect on take in and mark essays, comprehensions, his or her work. and grammar structure exercises. The Revision module at the end of each term Summative evaluation can be used as a test. This is used at the end of the school year, in • Peer-evaluation the form of an examination. The examination This can be done in the classroom in is essentially marked by the teacher, or another the form of group or pair work. Once an suitably qualified educator. The result of the activity or exercise is completed, the partner summative evaluation decides whether a student or other members of the group can give can be promoted to the next school level. constructive feedback.
2 Introduction TERM 1
Module 1: Back to school Module 6: Respect
Module 2: Making new friends Module PS:7: Crime mindmap-text and corruption
Module 3: Heroes and heroines Module 8: A cleaner, greener Earth
Module 4: Road safety Module 9: Taking responsibility
Module 5: Travelling by air Module 10: Revision
3 T MODULE erm 1 Back to school 1
Listening and speaking e) Olanna feels very disappointed and anxious. f) “I pushed back the tears that began to well Activity 1 (SB p. 2) in my eyes.” a) My cousin plays in a band. /æ/ g) All Olanna’s old friends are to stay together b) Let’s talk later, after school. /ɔː/ in one class, but she has to move to a c) That’s a very funny thing to say about new class. your friend. /ʌ/; /ə/ h) Olanna’s goal to make new friends might d) Look over there! /ʊ/ become easier to achieve, because she has e) I love trees because they provide cool shade. been moved to a class where she knows /iː/; /uː/ very few students. f) I am not going to the movies; are you? /ɒ/ g) Have you heard the latest news? /ɜː/ Summary h) There is mud all over the carpet. /aː/ Activity 6 (SB p. 5) i) Did you spend all your money? /e/ j) Please bring me some lunch. /ɪ/ Olanna was nervous about the new school year. Her father expected her to improve her results. Reading and comprehension As she walked to school, she made a list of goals: to get better marks in Mathematics and Activity 4 (SB p. 4) English, to join the running team and choir, to a) C. From paragraph 1, we know that the keep old friends and make new ones. When she writer feels anxious about the school year. got to school, her friend, Awele, told Olanna b) D. In the simile, “my stomach churned that she was in a different class, without any of like porridge being stirred in a pot”, her friends. This made Olanna anxious and sad. the writer is saying the feeling in her (78 words) stomach could be compared with the motion of stirring porridge. Vocabulary development c) B. In the metaphor, “my father’s comments buzzed in my head”, the writer is Activity 7 (SB p. 6) saying the things that her father said a) irritating – annoying went around and around in her mind, b) approaching – walking towards as bees do around a flower, and kept c) calmer – more relaxed her attention. d) stirred – mixed by moving it around with a spoon Activity 5 (SB p. 5) e) goals – plans to achieve something a) Olanna’s father expects her to get better f) choir – group of singers (collective noun) results at school, especially for Mathematics and English. Grammar b) She loves singing and running. Activity 8 (SB p. 7) c) Her goals are to improve her results in Mathematics and English, join the running a) Adjective: good team and choir, and keep her old friends and b) Preposition: in make new ones. c) Verbs: approached, felt; adverb: calmer d) She feels that the boys are irritating.
4 Term 1 d) Nouns: porridge, stomach Literature e) Pronoun: I f) Verbs: began, beat, ran Activity 13 (SB p. 10) g) Adverb: slowly a) Text 1 is an example of fiction, while Text 2 h) Conjunction: as; preposition: through is an example of non-fiction. i) Pronoun: you; adjectives: different, this b) Text 1 is a story about an elephant, while j) Pronoun: we; adjective: irritating; Text 2 is an article about elephants. conjunction: except c) Text 1 tells a story, while Text 2 gives information. Activity 9 (SB p. 7) a) We walk a long way to school every morning. Activity 14 (SB p. 10) b) I have choir practice on a Tuesday afternoon. Text 1 Text 2 c) I leaned against the wall because I felt tired. d) The notice board is behind the door. fiction non-fiction e) I will meet you at the sports field in story article ten minutes. tells a story gives information f) Our singing teacher comes from Lagos. g) I will finish my homework in half an hour. h) Please wait for me before you go outside. Activity 15 (SB p. 10) i) Her father was proud of her achievements. Characters: Elephant’s Child, Ostrich, Giraffe; j) Olanna sat between two students she had Setting: Africa; Theme: curiosity/being curious never seen before. Activity 16 (SB p. 10) We know that elephants are clever because they have a complicated brain structure and they behave in ways that are similar to humans.
Module 1: Back to school 5 T MODULE erm 2 Making new friends 1
Listening and speaking j) False. They have earned that name because they ‘prey’ on young, innocent people. Activity 1 (SB p. 11) b) tour, mature, poor Activity 8 (SB p. 15) c) glare, fair, dare a) Kwesi Manu is a 15-year-old boy who lives d) play, aim, fame in KIumasi, Ghana. e) toy, boil, joy b) He wants to connect with teenagers in f) eyes, buy, fly different countries. g) owl, noun, frown c) He wants to make friends with people his h) toes, boat, rose own age who share his interests. d) He enjoys hip hop and old American jazz. Activity 2 (SB p. 12) e) He enjoys football. a) Never fear, your friends are here. f) He got this nickname because of his interest b) My biggest aim is to achieve fame. in music. c) Is frown a verb or is it a noun? g) It means that you are not as insignificant d) He held the rose between his toes! as a drop of water, but as important and e) Give a child a toy and bring the child powerful as an ocean. some joy. h) Answers will vary. f) “That’s not fair!” she said with a glare. g) I am too poor to pay for the tour. Summary h) Let’s go and buy a ticket to fly! Activity 9 (SB p. 17) Reading and comprehension b) Before, people corresponded with pen pals by posting letters or postcards, which Activity 5 (SB p. 14) was slow. Nowadays, correspondence via a) False. Snail mail means that letters are sent the Internet is immediate. People create by post. a profile on social media sites, where b) False. A pen pal is a person who lives they meet pen pals. People may use your far away, whom you get to know by personal information for bad reasons. corresponding with them by letter, email or Beware of ‘cyber predators’, only connect other electronic means. with people your age, and only meet up c) False. These days, few people send letters with someone you met on the Internet if by post. you are with a responsible adult. (70 words) d) True e) False. You can find pen pals through the Vocabulary development Internet, on Facebook or other social networking sites. Activity 10 (SB p. 17) f) True a) Social networking sites: websites on the g) False. There is a risk that people will read Internet where people can create a public and use the information to harm you or profile of themselves for others to view and your family. where they can create a list of other users h) True with whom to share information i) True
6 Term 1 b) Snail mail: sending letters through the post Activity 13 (SB p. 20) c) Email: messages that are sent from a I was excited about getting a letter from my pen computer using an Internet connection pal, and I was surprised by her news. She told d) Internet: a system where people can connect me she was embarrassed about her handwriting to information anywhere in the world because it isn’t neat. I told her that I was amused through their computers or mobile phones at her embarrassment. “Don’t be concerned (also called the worldwide web) about your handwriting,” I said. “It’s what you e) Online: to be connected to the Internet write that is important.” She was amused at my response and was pleased about my letter Grammar back to her. I wrote to her many times but was Activity 11 (SB p. 18) alarmed about how slow the postal service is. We are both frustrated by the postal service, so a) I wrote every week to my pen pal. we have decided to correspond by email instead. I will write every week to my pen pal. b) I told him my news and he told me his news. I will tell him my news and he will tell me Writing his news. Activity 17 (SB p. 22) c) Sometimes the news was happy. Students’ own words. Example: When the Sometimes the news will be happy. speaker was eight, she went to a new school. d) Sometimes he had sad news to tell me. Another girl was welcoming, and they were best Sometimes he will have sad news to tell me. friends for three years. This made the speaker e) But always I felt happy to receive a letter. feel happy and secure. Then in Primary 5, they But always I will feel happy to receive were in different classes, and the other girl a letter. stopped being friendly. This made the speaker f) His letters were always interesting. insecure. In JSS1, they were back in the same His letters will always be interesting. class, and became friends again. The speaker did g) I looked forward to hearing about his life. not question her friend about the previous year. I will look forward to hearing about his life. h) I also enjoyed telling him about my life. Activity 18 (SB p. 22) I also will enjoy telling him about my life. a) Simile: The speaker is being compared to a i) We communicated very well. timid, shy mouse. We will communicate very well. b) Simile: The friendship is being compared Activity 12 (SB p. 19) to a fizzy drink that has gone flat. The word ‘like’ makes this comparison a simile. a) Nwanne was angry with Oluchi because she c) Alliteration: The consonant sound that is lied to her. being repeated is /f/. b) Isikwe was anxious for the soccer game to begin. Activity 19 (SB p. 22) c) My father was angry about the news on TV. The line that is repeated is: “... come sit next to d) Ikenna believes in working very hard me!” The poet repeats this line because these to pass. words, spoken by the one girl, bind the two girls e) Sofuchi is scared of spiders. into a friendship. f) Ngozi insisted on carrying the heavy box. g) Nwanne was looking at the beautiful view. h) Are you inspired by the speech your principle gave? i) I will not take part as it goes against my beliefs. j) They divided the chores between them.
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Listening and speaking Activity 1 (SB p. 24)
/v/ /f/ /s/ /z/ /ʃ/ /ʒ/ virtually fast send zero share conclusion vain female simple horizon she usual every often song puzzle shines enclosure never deaf systematically crazy shoe decision average flight street cause fish revision have fund lost reason cash garage paving cuff release realism push confusion
Activity 2 (SB p. 24) c) Student to select any three facts in the text. a) A good argument should have a good d) Students to name three of Maathai’s conclusion. achievements. Maathai founded a b) I hope you have a good reason for being late. movement, she fought for democracy and c) The flight between Nigeria and the United human rights, she earned a doctorate, she States is almost ten hours long. wrote four books, she became chairperson d) Do you know what the average daytime of the Department of Veterinary Anatomy at temperature in summer is? the University of Nairobi. e) You will solve the problem if you think e) It is an opinion; Maathai uses the word systematically. “felt”. She explains her feelings or opinions. f) That crazy idea will get you into trouble! f) Students give their reasoned opinions. g) The sun rises and sets on the horizon. g) Students give their reasoned opinions. h) Someone who is too proud of their looks is h) Students give their reasoned opinions. called vain. i) The cattle are kept in an enclosure to Summary prevent them from being stolen at night. Activity 11 (SB p. 28) j) I am always in a good mood when the sun shines. Students’ own words. Example: The purpose of the writer is to explain the Nobel Prize and to provide examples of two African people Reading and comprehension who have won it. The examples provided are Activity 9 (SB p. 27) of Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian writer, poet and a) It is an important Swedish and Norwegian political activist who received the Nobel Prize prize. It is given to people who have done for Literature in 1986, and Wangari Muta outstanding work in one of five categories Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist and activist (physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine, for women’s rights who received the Nobel literature, peace). Prize for Peace in 2004. (67 words) b) Literature
8 Term 1 Vocabulary development Grammar Activity 12 (SB p. 28) Activity 14 (SB p. 30) a) hero/heroine – a person who is admired a) Wangari Muta Maathai worked hard/steadily for their bravery or some outstanding to achieve success. achievement b) Heroes seldom complain, they just get on b) honour – to show high respect for someone with their work. c) outstanding – excellent c) The Nobel Prize winner was waiting outside d) activist – a person who works actively and in the rain. publicly for change in the world d) He always focuses on trying to change the e) critic – a person who judges, evaluates or world around him and works hard/steadily criticises at his tasks. f) environmentalist – any person who works e) Last month/year, I went on a human rights to protect the air, water, animals, plants march in the city. and other natural resources from being f) If we work towards our goals, soon we will destroyed by human activity achieve them. g) founded – started g) My cousin met Wole Soyinka last month/year h) conserve – save at a conference. i) inspire – make someone feel that they want h) She frequently writes poems. to do or achieve something i) I was extremely honoured to meet the j) dedicate – to state publicly that you want to Nobel Prize winner. honour someone else for something you did j) Thank you for doing the job perfectly; I am happy with the result. Activity 13 (SB p. 28) a) If you want to change problems in the Activity 15 (SB p. 30) world, you have to work hard as an activist. a) A. The boy yawned lazily and went to sleep. b) Wangari Maathai founded a movement to b) C. He loves his wife enormously. plant millions of trees. c) D. My baby sister happily devoured her c) The more people there are in the world, ice‑cream. the more important it becomes to conserve d) E. I ran quickly to get help. plants and animals. e) A. They worked well and soon finished d) Nobel Prize winners, like Soyinka and the task. Maathai, inspire us to achieve our best in life. e) The Nobel Prize is given to people who Activity 16 (SB p. 31) make an outstanding contribution to society. a) My mother bakes every day. She bakes daily. f) It is an enormous honour to receive such b) We eat porridge for breakfast most days. a prize. We often eat porridge for breakfast. g) I respect an environmentalist like Maathai, c) We eat at a restaurant about three times a who did so much for the environment and year. We occasionally eat at a restaurant. for women. d) I walk to school; I don’t take the bus. I h) It is sometimes dangerous to be a critic of always walk to school, I never take the bus. an oppressive government. i) I want to be a writer one day, so my hero is Activity 17 (SB p. 31) Wole Soyinka; who is yours? • ‘yesterday’ modifies the verb ‘watched’ j) One day I will write a book and I will • ‘very’ modifies the adjective ‘exciting’ dedicate it to my grandmother because she • ‘extremely’ modifies the adverb ‘well’ is my role model in life. • ‘loudly’ modifies verb ‘cheered’ • ‘every time’ tells us when they ‘cheered’
Module 3: Heroes and heroines 9 Literature c) A. In the metaphor “Struggling between light and darkness, Light wants to take over Activity 21 (SB. p. 33) from darkness,” the poet is comparing a) A. This poem is about a struggle between the struggle between morning and night light and darkness. to the struggle people have with the light b) B. In the poem, the speaker is hoping that and dark within themselves. the light will shine on him or her, and it will be a good day.
10 Term 1 T MODULE erm 4 Road safety 1
Listening and speaking tyre tread air filters Activity 1 (SB p. 34) a) taught – thought; ship – sip; long – wrong; sheep – cheap; eyes – ice; wrist – list; they – tyre Service brakes and day; choose – shoes; sum – thumb; both – boat rotation checks brake fluid Activity 2 (SB p. 34) wheel a) I’ll wear a suit to the film shoot. alignment b) Very early, at sunrise my mother cooks rice for the evening meal. c) I take off my watch when I wash my hands. Reading and comprehension d) When you see a very big tree on the Activity 9 (SB p. 39) pavement, that is my house, with a number a) Know the rules of the road; be of legal three on the gate. driving age; have a valid driver’s licence e) I want to buy some sheep. Are they cheap at b) Driving when tired; driving when drunk or that farm? on drugs; driving too fast f) Be careful to choose shoes that fit you well! c) B. speeding driver may be punished by g) The twins are very mischievous; one day, having to pay a fine. they will get into trouble. d) Truck drivers may be monitored by h) The teacher thought she had taught us about a satellite tracking system, which minimal pairs, but she hadn’t. uses a satellite to send a message to a i) We both fell out of the boat into the water control centre. and had to swim to the land. e) Traffic congestion slows you down and j) I thought it was a short distance, but it was can make you late for work or other long, and I was wrong. appointments. Activity 5 (SB p. 37) f) Answers will vary. g) Answers will vary. transmission water in h) A car that is regularly serviced and well fluid radiator maintained, with wheels, tyres and brakes in good working condition, is roadworthy.
tyre Regular oil pressure checks
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Module 4: Road safety 11 Summary Activity 14 (SB p. 42) Activity 10 (SB p. 40) Azuka: If you drive so fast you will get a traffic fine. Road safety is very important as accidents kill Isikwe: I won’t listen to you; I will drive as thousands of people. Drivers must obey safety fast as I like. rules. Speeding drivers easily lose control and Azuka: Will you please drive slower? crash. Speed cameras record speeding cars and Isikwe: I won’t! drivers are issued with traffic fines. There are Azuka: I will teach you how to drive properly. other road safety monitoring devices such as Isikwe: I won’t learn anything from you. satellite-tracking systems for trucks. Traffic Azuka: Yes, you will! police also issue fines. Some devices, like traffic counters and Google Maps, help with planning Activity 15 (SB p. 42) road maintenance and traffic flow. (69 words) a) I would not have driven so fast if I knew there was a speed limit. Vocabulary development b) My brother says he will help me clean the car. Activity 11 (SB p. 40) c) We would have attended the meeting but we had another appointment. 1 – Stop d) The naughty girl won’t wash her hands. 2 – No entry e) They wouldn’t allow us in because we did 3 – Pedestrian crossing not have tickets. 4 – Yield f) Her brother says he will pay her back the 5 – One way money he borrowed when he gets paid. 6 – Sharp curve 7 – No right turn 8 – No U-turn 9 – No cyclists 10 – Parking 11 – No parking 12 – Road narrows Grammar Activity 13 (SB p. 41) a) He drives an old blue car. b) He kept four English motorbikes in his garage. c) The large red bus stopped outside the school. d) The new black car has broken down. e) She bought four new tyres for her car. f) The large young traffic officer gave them a fine for speeding. g) The angry old woman complained to her friend.
12 Term 1 T MODULE erm 5 Travelling by air 1
Listening and speaking taken away. She was relieved because the aeroplane took off safely. Activity 2 (SB p. 45) d) Possible answer: The narrator is a nervous a) My friend took the fruit from the freezer. person with a lively imagination. She b) Well done on getting a great grade after worries about flying and about what is such a gruelling exam! going to happen to the luggage. c) I will use glue to stick the glitter on the glass. e) Answers will vary. The freman sprayed water and turned on the d) sprinklers to stop the fire from spreading. Summary e) The blind man fell and was bruised black Activity 7 (SB p. 47) and blue. f) Snakes do not snore or sneeze. • The narrator was both excited and nervous, g) Please play plenty of music at your party. because her family was going to Egypt and it h) The angry woman threw three rolls of was her first time leaving Nigeria and flying cotton thread at the boy, and they all in an aeroplane. unravelled. • They got new passports, organised i) “What a very splendid display,” the old man their luggage, booked their tickets and spluttered in amazement. accommodation and planned what to see. • At the busy airport, they joined the long queue and checked in. Reading and comprehension • They took their boarding passes and went Activity 5 (SB p. 47) through the security check. a) False. She is anxious about flying. • After walking to the boarding gate and b) False. She couldn’t help worrying about it. waiting for it to open, they boarded the c) True aeroplane and settled into their seats. d) False. Her luggage went through a security • When the aeroplane took off safely, the check. narrator was relieved. e) False. She is amazed at how huge and heavy they are. Vocabulary development f) False. The narrator walked. Activity 8 (SB p. 48) g) False. It roared loudly. a) overhead locker – a small storage space h) True above the passenger seats on an aeroplane, Activity 6 (SB p. 47) where passengers store their hand luggage b) trolley – a large heavy frame on wheels a) Tourists visit the pyramids and the sphinx. used for transporting heavy things b) “What if the aeroplane...exploded like c) check-in desk – a place at an airport where you a firecracker?” The aeroplane is being show your ticket and passport so you can be compared with a firecracker. shown where you can check in for the flight c) The narrator was excited because she was d) airline ticket – a ticket or document given going on a trip. She was nervous because by the airline or travel agent to show you she was going to fly for the first time. have bought a seat on a particular aeroplane She was worried because the bags were on a particular day and time
Module 5: Travelling by air 13 e) boarding pass – a ticket given by the airline Literature when a passenger checks in, giving the passenger permission to board the aeroplane Activity 13 (SB p. 51) and showing the passenger’s seat number Simile: An expression comparing one thing f) flight attendants – people employed to with another, always including the words ‘as’ or look after passengers on the aircraft ‘like’: She is as close to me as a sister. g) luggage – suitcases or bags to pack clothes Hyperbole: The use of greatly exaggerated and belongings for travelling descriptions: Her suitcase weighs a ton. h) pilot – person who flies the aircraft Metaphor: A person or object is compared i) conveyor belt – a continuous moving directly to another, unlike person or object band of metal and rubber that transports without using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’: My the luggage holiday was paradise! Assonance: The repetition of a vowel sound: Activity 9 (SB p. 48) Tyger, Tyger, burning bright / in the forest of the a) B. When you get on an aeroplane you need night [William Blake] a boarding pass. Personification: When human characteristics or b) D. On a flight, a flight attendant gives you qualities are given to something that is not human: safety information. The branches of the tree danced in the wind. c) A. You can store your hand luggage in the Onomatopoeia: A word that imitates the sound overhead locker. associated with an object or action: Snap, d) C. You have to hand in your ticket at the crackle and pop check-in desk. Irony: The use of words to convey the opposite of e) D. The person who is responsible for flying their literal meaning: “Goodness, you could win the aeroplane is the pilot. a prize for the tidiest room,” Mom said to Simisola as she looked at her messy room in disgust. Grammar Alliteration: The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginnings of several Activity 10 (SB p. 50) words that are close together: Round the rugged “We were going to see…; We were very busy rocks the ragged rascal ran. preparing…” Activity 15 (SB p. 52) Activity 11 (SB p. 50) a) C. The line “He clasps the crags with a) Azuka is travelling to Cairo today. crooked hands” contains two figures of b) I am excited because my cousin is learning speech. They are personification and to fly an aeroplane. alliteration. c) I will be flying to the Cameroon tomorrow. b) A. The line “Ring’d with the azure world, d) They were waiting at the gate to board their he stands” means the eagle is standing flight, when they heard that it was cancelled. with the blue sky around him. e) We will be landing in London at 8h00 next c) D. The sea in this poem has small waves Wednesday. that move gently. f) He told us that he was waiting to get his d) B. The line “And like a thunderbolt he pilot’s licence. falls” is an example of a simile. g) The flight attendant is serving lunch now. e) D. The line “And like a thunderbolt he h) We were eating our lunch when air falls” is comparing the fast and sudden turbulence shook the aeroplane. movement of the eagle to the movement i) Right now, my mother is completing forms of a thunderbolt. for new passports at the desk. j) We are waiting for our new passports; they should arrive this week.
14 Term 1 T MODULE erm 6 Respect 1
Reading and comprehension Vocabulary development Activity 6 (SB p. 57) Activity 8 (SB p. 58) a) Ugwu calls his employer’s mother ‘Mama’ a) sprinkled – dropped small pieces of as a sign of respect for an elder. something onto a surface b) Mama feels that Ugwu’s ‘madam’ is not b) froth – small white bubbles that form on actually her daughter-in-law as she is not the surface of a liquid married to her son. “She is just a woman c) staggered – walked unevenly as though he who is living with a man who has not paid would fall her bride price.” d) scrubbed – cleaned something by rubbing c) Ugwu does not come from Abba, as it hard with a brush Mama asks him, “Do your people tap wine e) concentrated – thought very carefully well?” This implies that he comes from about something somewhere else. d) D. Amala’s arms and face were wet because Activity 9 (SB p. 58) she was washing up and working hard. a) The floor was very dirty so we scrubbed it e) They respond obediently and hard with a brush. unquestioningly. b) The drunk man staggered to the door, f) Mama is in a position of power in the moving unsteadily and almost falling over. household. c) It’s impossible to count the bubbles that g) Ugwu is suddenly suspicious of make up froth because there are so many, Mama’s motives. and they keep forming and popping. h) He wonders whether Mama is doing d) If something is very concentrated it is made something bad, and the colour black stronger by removing the water from it. symbolises evil. e) For dessert we ate delicious, creamy vanilla i) They are not being honest. Mama is lying ice-cream sprinkled with small bits of about what she is putting into her son’s soup, chocolate. and Ugwu is pretending to agree with her. j) Answers will vary. Grammar Summary Activity 10 (SB p. 59) a) Cut the onions into tiny pieces. Activity 7 (SB p. 58) b) Fry the onions in a pot. In this extract from the novel, Ugwu, Amala and c) Place the chicken pieces into the pot with Mama are in the kitchen, cleaning and preparing the fried onions. food. The purpose of the author is to suggest d) Cover the chicken with water. to the reader that Mama is doing something to e) Add the chili, ehu, uziza and onions to the her son’s food in secret. The author does this pot of soup. through describing the characters’ thoughts, f) Cover the pot and leave the soup to boil for words and actions. 30 minutes. g) Serve the pepper soup with agidi, white rice or boiled yam.
Module 6: Respect 15 Activity 11 (SB p. 60) Kelechi: Please may I borrow your pen? (accept also: can, might, could) Azuka: You didn’t return the last pen I lent you. Please will you give it back, this time? (accept also: would, can, could) Kelechi: Oh, I forgot to give it back. I would like to apologise! Azuka: It’s okay. Maybe, as a favour, you could help me understand this question. Kelechi: I would help you if I could, but I also don’t understand it. Azuka: Do you think we might be allowed to ask the teacher to explain it?
16 Term 1 T MODULE erm 7 Crime and corruption 1
Reading and comprehension Vocabulary development Activity 7 (SB p. 66) Activity 9 (SB p. 68)
1 4 a) B. The traffic officer stopped the driver b w because the driver was driving too fast. r2 n i 1 b) A. The driver was angry because he thought d r i v e r n the traffic officer was charging him too b g d 2 much money. l i c e n c e o s 3 c) B. When the driver said: “I’m sure we can r t s c 3 come to some agreement” he meant that fatality i p r 4 they can negotiate a bribe so that the p a s s e n g e r driver doesn’t have to pay the ticket. t e e 5o f f i c e r d n d) C. The driver gave the traffic officer 6 f i n e ₦11,000 as a bribe not to get a n traffic ticket. g e) B. The radio announcer was warning listeners about speeding causing Grammar fatal accidents. f) C. The radio announcer also told people Activity 10 (SB p. 69) that when traffic police accept bribes, a) The driver wanted to bribe the policeman, people do not obey the rules of the road, but the traffic officer wouldn’t accept so accidents have increased. the bribe. b) The driver paid the fine, so he didn’t go Summary to prison. c) The trafficofficer checked the man’s licence Activity 8 (SB p. 67) and told him it was out of date. A traffic officer pulled over a car for speeding. d) He filled in the forms so he could apply for He checked the driver’s licence and fined him a driver’s licence. ₦35,000. Despite the passenger’s disapproval, e) The woman was a good driver, but her the driver bribed the traffic officer and paid husband was a reckless driver. him ₦11,000. As they drove away, a radio announcement warned that successful bribery Activity 11 (SB p. 70) resulted in more drivers speeding and adding to a) The driver drove away after he had paid the fatal accidents. (53 words) traffic officer. After he had paid the traffic officer, the driver drove away. b) People still commit corruption although they know it is wrong. Although they know it is wrong, people still commit corruption.
Module 7: Crime and corruption 17 c) You can get the fine reduced if you pay Literature on time. If you pay on time, you can get the fine Activity 15 (SB p. 72) reduced. a) B. In Extract 2, we see that Ade has just d) He got a speeding ticket because he was raped Sikira. driving over the speed limit. b) A. In Extract 1, Ade wants to change the Because he was driving over the speed wrongs of the world. In Extract 2, we see limit, he got a speeding ticket. that Ade doesn’t care about other people e) She didn’t have a job before her father used and has become a criminal. his business connections. c) E. In Extract 2, Ade has changed in Before her father used his business character from the person he was in connections, she didn’t have a job. Extract 1. The words that best describe f) They waited at the bus shelter until the the character of Ade in Extract 2 are evil rain stopped. with no compassion. Until the rain stopped, they waited at the d) B. Through the character of Ade, the bus shelter. playwright is showing that young people g) He was a kind man although he was should treat women with respect. involved in corrupt business dealings. Although he was involved in corrupt business dealings, he was a kind man. h) He filled in the forms in order that he could apply for the job. In order that he could apply for the job, he filled in the forms. i) She paid the parking ticket as soon as she got it. As soon as she got the parking ticket, she paid it. j) She filled in the forms while she waited at the office. While she waited at the office, she filled in the forms.
18 Term 1 T MODULE erm 8 A cleaner, greener Earth 1
Listening and speaking g) D. Hydro-electricity is usually generated from large dams. Activity 1 (SB p. 73) h) A. One main disadvantage of hydro-electricity a) fleas – please; bank – bang; fill – pill; pair – is serious damage to the environment. fair; berry – very; vet – wet; wine – vine; i) C. Since 1960, the number of people on boat – vote; pest – best; sink – sing; big – pig Earth has tripled. j) D. An example of a renewable source of Activity 2 (SB p. 73) energy is solar energy. a) Did you ever think such a terrible thing could happen? Summary b) This is a very delicious, sweet, red berry. Activity 6 (SB p. 79) c) The black pig is extremely big because it a) Source Advantages Disadvantages loves to eat. of energy d) Will you please dip the dogs to kill their fleas? e) I vote that we go by boat because it is a Coal Pollutes and much more interesting trip. adds to climate change; limited f) People make wine from grapes, which grow amount of on a vine. coal left. g) These ants are still a pest although I’ve done my best to get rid of them. Wind Does not Looks ugly; pollute. affects h) Please fill this glass with water so that your migrating birds. grandmother can take her pill. i) My sister loves to sing while she washes up Water Causes the least Building dams at the sink. greenhouse destroys gases of environment j) It’s not fair that I must work alone and you all energy and displaces two can work in a pair. sources; dams people. are used for Reading and comprehension irrigation and aquaculture. Activity 5 (SB p. 77) a) C. The main way of making electricity is Vocabulary development from coal. b) B. The main problem of making energy Activity 7 (SB p. 79) from coal is it creates a lot of pollution. a) modern – ancient c) E. Coal turbines make electricity from all b) seldom – usually of the above. c) dirtier – cleaner d) B. Electricity from wind turbines can be fed d) most – least into the power grid and used in cities. e) tiny – big e) A. Some people don’t like wind turbines f) gain – loss because they think wind turbines are ugly. g) constructive – destructive f) B. Wind turbines are considered good for h) unlimited – limited the environment because they make i) smallest – biggest electricity without causing pollution. j) unnaturally – naturally
Module 8: A cleaner, greener Earth 19 Activity 8 (SB p. 79) g) We all should/ought to think about ways to a) pollute – contaminate protect the environment. b) irrigate – water h) Energy from wind turbines can feed into the c) displace – move power grids. d) contribute – give i) We must all help keep our country clean. e) destroy – ruin j) You must never leave the gas on when you f) scare – frighten go out. g) harness – utilise k) We ought to/should reuse old water to water h) drive – power the plants. l) I might cycle rather than go by car. Activity 9 (SB p. 80) m) We can/could all find ways to recycle things we don’t use. make n) We might have a drought if global warming continues. Grammar Activity 10 (SB p. 81) Literature a) Will/Could you please help me turn off the Activity 15 (SB p. 84) tap? It’s leaking. a) E. Mr Femi thinks that the cause of his b) You can/could put solar panels on your son’s problems is lack of discipline, roof, to save electricity. over-pampering and self-pity. c) May I do a course to learn more about b) B. Mr Femi wishes he had never had his son. global warming? c) E. Mr Femi thinks if Ade goes to prison, d) You can/could use the gas cooker if there he will become a criminal for the rest of are power outages. his life. e) Can/Could you help me fix the wind turbine? d) B. Mr and Mrs Femi have very different f) You should/ought to find alternative sources ways of parenting. of electricity to help stop global warming.
20 Term 1 T MODULE erm 9 Taking responsibility 1
Listening and speaking f) B. Kambili runs to the gate because she is scared of her father’s punishment. Activity 1 (SB p. 87) c) “Where is Chinwe Jideze?”; “What would Activity 7 (SB p. 92) Papa do?”; “How many heads does she a) She is unable to explain the following: have?”; “How many heads do you have, 1. she is grateful for Ezinne’s friendship gbo?”; “So why did you let her come first?” 2. the real reason for her father’s visit to d) “Was Papa going to talk to her? Yank at her the school ears for coming first?” These are questions. 3. her father is angry about her loss of first e) Instruction/order/command place in the class f) The characters in the story are Kambili ↗, 4. the real reason why she runs to the gate Jaja ↗, Papa ↗, Mama ↗, Aunty Ifeoma ↗, every day. Papa-Nnukwu ↗ and Father Amadi ↘. b) She hides this information because she is shy, embarrassed and lacks confidence, and Activity 2 (SB p. 88) also because she fears her father. a) Where is your classroom? ↘ c) She stutters because she lacks confidence b) If you ever come second in class again, you and is unsure what to say. will be punished. ↘ d) Fear can affect a person physically (e.g. make c) I am very sorry, Papa. ↗ them stutter). It can make them hide d) I’m not sure, but I think it’s a short distance information and even lie to pretend that to the school, isn’t it? ↗ everything is fine. e) You failed to come first this term, didn’t e) Answers will vary. you? ↘ f) Was Kambili afraid of her father? ↗ Summary g) Did he punish his daughter violently? ↗ Activity 8 (SB p. 92) h) Would her father say something to Chinwe? ↗ i) Did you enjoy your holiday, Kambili? ↗ The author’s purpose is to show how Kambili’s j) Is Chinwe cleverer than Kambili? ↗ fear leads her to withdraw from the other girls k) Adichie is a Nigerian author, isn’t she? ↘ at school, and to hide the truth from her only l) What a strict man! ↘ friend. Ezinne thinks that Kambili has loving, proud parents, and does not understand why Reading and comprehension Kambili doesn’t mix with other girls. Kambili is too afraid of her strict and violent father to Activity 6 (SB p. 91) disobey him even slightly and is also too afraid a) C. grateful to tell Ezinne about this. b) D. The girl whose parents are not rich is Ezinne. Vocabulary development c) D. Ezinne said that her position in class was fifth. Activity 9 (SB p. 92) d) E. Chinwe is popular, confident and a) awkward – uncomfortable friendly to everyone except Kambili. b) confession – acknowledgement e) B. During long breaks, Kambili preferred to c) complexion – skin colour read alone in the library. d) dashed – rushed
Module 9: Taking responsibility 21 e) snob – arrogant person Activity 12 (SB p. 94) f) competitive – ambitious a) unhappy g) appreciated – valued b) discontinue h) stutter – stammer c) imbalance Activity 10 (SB p. 92) d) immoral e) irregular a) Kambili appreciated Ezinne’s friendship f) unfair because the other girls did not speak to her. g) unnecessary b) Kambili was always awkward around the h) impractical other girls. i) misfortune c) They thought she was a snob because j) injustice she kept to herself and didn’t spend time with them. Activity 13 (SB p. 94) d) People often stutter when they are anxious, a) In paragraph 1, Kambili feels something nervous or afraid. heavy around her temples (next to and e) Your complexion will darken if you are behind her eyes). “I looked around, feeling often in the sun. a weight around my temples.” She has this f) The girls in were competitive and tried to feeling because she is anxious and afraid of outdo each other in class. what her father might do. g) A confession is an admission of guilt for a b) In paragraph 2, Kambili feels very scared/ crime or sin. terrified and wishes she could disappear h) Kambili didn’t want to be late for Kevin, so from the scene. “I wanted the ground she dashed to the school gate every day. to open up and swallow the whole compound.” Again, she is afraid of what her Grammar father might do. Activity 11 (SB p. 93) c) She obeys her father, even when what he asks and commands her do not make sense. a) It is illegal to steal money. She promises her father that she will never b) Kambili’s father was often impatient with come second in class again. his family. c) She can see and taste dust. “A light dust c) When Kambili arrived late, her father’s lkuku was blowing, in brown spirals like anger was visible. uncoiling springs, and I could taste the d) Ezinne did not understand why Kambili sand that settled on my lips” The dust is always ran to the gate. unpleasant, like her feelings. Fear can also e) Kambili knew it was unwise to disagree leave a dry taste in your mouth, like dust. with her father. The description of “uncoiling springs” f) Kambili’s father told her she must always sounds like something dangerous and hard be a responsible student. to predict or stop. g) The children of rich parents often have the advantage of being able to travel to interesting places during the holidays.
22 Term 1 T MODULE erm 10 Revision 1
PAPER I: Multiple choice c) C. sm d) B. cl (60 marks) e) A. str Section I: Comprehension f) C. bl (10 marks) 5. a) B. It is a pleasure to meet you. 1. a) A. Repetition is a feature of folktales. b) C. How far is it from here? The repeated action is animals take 6. a) B. ex/cit' /ed turns to get light from the other side b) C. cel/e/bra' /tion of the world. c) E. or' /di/nar/y b) B. Opossum found the sun in a tree. d) D. knowl' /edge/a/ble c) D. Buzzard boasts that he is clever. e) E. grand' /moth/er d) B. They get burnt by the light. e) C. The animal people laugh at Section III: Vocabulary Grandmother Spider because they development (10 marks) don’t believe she can succeed. f) E. Grandmother Spider succeeds 7. a) B. My sister is a responsible driver, because she is young and powerful. and regularly checks that her car is g) A. Appropriate adjectives to describe roadworthy. Grandmother Spider are clever b) C. The driver tried to bribe the traffic and brave. policeman so he wouldn’t be fined h) A. Grandmother Spider is an unlikely for speeding. heroine because she is very old c) D. You cannot get onto the aeroplane and small. without a boarding pass. i) B. The message of the story is an d) A. Luggage is weighed at the check-in unexpected character can be a hero desk at the airport. or heroine. e) C. My father tried to negotiate with the j) D. A suitable title for the story is owner to pay a lower rent. Grandmother Spider steals the sun. f) D. Environmentalists and scientists are trying to find ways to reduce Section II: Spoken English greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to slow down climate change. (20 marks) g) A. Mama sprinkled hot spices in 2. a) B. wonderful the soup. b) A. believe h) C. The drunk man staggered across 3. a) C. /eə/ the street. b) A. /ɔɪ/ i) D. A cure for HIV and AIDS will benefit c) B. /əʊ/ the whole of humanity. d) C. /eɪ/ j) E. Being infected with HIV could e) D. /aɪ/ be a consequence of having 4. a) B. br unprotected sex. b) D. lp
Module 10: Revision 23 Section IV: Grammatical 10. a) D. The animal people lived in darkness. b) A. Grandmother Spider made a pot accuracy (20 marks) from clay. 8. a) C. The story about Grandmother c) E. Grandmother Spider threw the light Spider showed that small creatures into the world. can be heroes. d) B. Grandmother Spider moved along her b) E. You should never put fire on spider web thread. your head. 11. a) C. It was very dark so nobody could see c) B. Would you like to tell this story? where they were going. d) D. Grandmother Spider said she might b) E. Although people of the light had be able to get the light. plenty of light, they were too greedy 9. a) C. Long ago, the animal people were to share it. living in darkness. c) D. Opossum said he would hide the light b) B. The sun is hanging on a tree when until he got home. Opossum arrives. d) C. After Opossum burnt his tail, the c) D. In the story, Opossum was hiding animal people didn’t know what the light under his tail when it to do. burned him. 12. a) A. Nervously is an adverb of manner. d) E. The animal people were laughing b) B. Now is an adverb of time. at Grandmother Spider until they c) C. Enormously is an adverb of degree. realised what she could do. d) A. Far away is an adverb of place. TOTAL MARKS: 60
24 Term 1 TERM 2
Module 1: Patriotism for our country Module 6: The right to education
Module 2: Sport Module 7: Drugs
Module 3: The media Module 8: Jobs – providing services
Module 4: School subjects Module 9: Film stars
Module 5: Consumer rights Module 10: Revision
25 T MODULE erm 1 Patriotism for our country 2
Listening and speaking Summary Activity 3 (SB p. 105) Activity 10 (SB. p. 108) a) Keep your eyes on the road so that you do On 1 October 1960, Nigerians celebrated not veer off it. independence for the first time. They watched b) Nigeria is a vast country, with many people. fireworks, and many people danced and sang c) The robber escaped by vaulting over the gate. through the night. Prime Minister Abubakar d) I waver between wanting to go home and Tafawa Balewa gave a speech. The narrator was wanting to go a movie. a child on that important day. e) The trees here are infested with a disease, so we have to burn them. Vocabulary development f) Please shuffle the cards before we play. Activity 11 (SB p. 108) Activity 5 (SB p. 105) a) celebration – something enjoyable that you b) brother speaker tricycle friend strong do on a special day triangle throat drum nest crash b) freedom – the state of not being imprisoned c) Answers will vary. or enslaved c) independence – the state of being Reading and comprehension independent d) patriotism – having or expressing devotion Activity 9 (SB p. 108) to one’s country a) Nigeria gained independence from British e) occasion – a particular event colonial rule. f) privilege – something you are lucky to have b) He was responsible for lighting the the chance to do fireworks. g) enthusiasm – feeling of interest and c) They hoped that Nigeria would become a excitement strong and successful country. d) They were in the audience, listening to the Activity 12 (SB p. 108) prime minister’s speech. a) For me, freedom exists in a place where it is e) The narrator remembers sitting next to her/ safe to think for myself. his father, who was setting up the fireworks. b) Patriotism means supporting your country. f) There would be many changes in Nigeria as c) Not everyone has the privilege of living in a result of independence. a house, going to school and eating enough g) The right to be in control of their own every day. government. d) Mobo shows a lot of enthusiasm for his h) The responsibility to take part work; he enjoys it a lot. constructively in issues and debates that e) Every day is a celebration of being alive! affect the world. f) Most African countries had to fight hard for independence from colonial rule. g) Family gatherings are always a special occasion in our house.
26 Term 2 Grammar f) We took plates of food to the event. g) Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was our first Activity 13 (SB p. 109) prime minister. a) Mrs Alayo wore her traditional dress to the h) Before colonialism, there were many celebration. ancient and indigenous kingdoms living in b) Please may I be excused from school today? the region. c) There was a choir of a hundred Nigerians i) Over five hundred different languages are singing the national anthem. spoken by the Hausa, Igo and Yoruba. d) There was a party of friends on every street j) We grow plenty of crops, such as beans, corner, celebrating Independence Day. cashew nuts and cassava, and we have e) They took control of the country by fighting many mineral resources. for freedom.
Activity 14 (SB p. 110) Common nouns Proper nouns Abstract nouns Collective nouns dress Mrs Alayo celebration party of friends school Nigerians freedom plates of food street Independence Day colonialism choir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa national anthem Hausa corner Igo country Yoruba event prime minister kingdoms region languages crops beans cashew nuts cassava mineral resources
Activity 15 (SB p. 110) c) All the students will be at school except for a) a bouquet of flowers Kunle, who is sick. b) a class of students d) I like eating cake without the icing on top. c) a wealth of information e) The newspapers have praised the celebratory d) a library of books speech but the people did not like it. e) a galaxy of stars f) We enjoy fireworks displays but the noise is f) a brood of hens very scary. g) a swarm of bees g) Everyone, except for Paul, came. h) a pride of lions h) We all passed the examinations, except i) a cloud of smoke for Ajuma. j) a range of mountains i) The family went on holiday without their dog. Activity 16 (SB p. 111) j) My whole family visited me in hospital apart from my grandmother. a) All my clothes are here except for my shoes. b) The food was very good apart from the soup, which was tasteless.
Module 1: Patriotism for our country 27 T MODULE erm 2 Sport 2
Listening and speaking d) D. In athletics, the participants run, jump and throw objects. Activity 2 (SB p. 113) e) B. At a sports clinic, you receive training a) Let’s sit on the beach by the sea and drink and advice. our tea. b) He was bitten by a tick and he got quite sick. Activity 9 (SB p. 117) c) She tore a muscle and now her leg is very sore. a) Athletes compete on a track (running and d) The man’s foot was badly injured in the jumping) and on a field (throwing and accident; the doctor had to sew his toe back on. jumping). e) The huge pile of sour lemons was like a b) In a relay, they compete in teams (usually tower because it was so tall. of four). One teammate usually runs for f) Don’t tip over my glass before I can even a distance before passing a stick/baton to take a sip of my drink! their teammate. In hurdles, athletes run and g) The old man told us a tale about going to jump over upright frames/raised bars. sail across the ocean many years ago. c) To do well in a sport, an athlete must work h) People play sport, like soccer, on grassy turf hard all the time, and must really want to and they surf on the sea. do well. i) Did I tell you that my parents are going to d) There are many talented athletes who sell our house if they can get a good price? participate in professional sports, so to j) It doesn’t seem that our favourite team is succeed, you have to try even harder than going to win. everybody else. e) They have won the Africa Women Cup of Reading and comprehension Nations title eleven times. f) For both, you have to work hard and keep Activity 8 (SB p. 116) trying hard, because that is the only way to a) E. Nigerians enjoy sport by all of the above. succeed in any sport. b) C. Popular sports in Nigeria are football, g) The question is relevant because an basketball, boxing, athletics. ambitious athlete must be committed or c) B. The name of the most popular sport in dedicated in order to rise above the rest. Nigeria is football. h) Answers will vary.
28 Term 2 Summary Activity 10 (SB p. 117) Who? What? When? Where? Blessing Okagbare silver medal, long jump 2008 Olympics, Beijing Nigerian athletes silver medal, 4X100m relay 2008 Olympics, Beijing Tobi Amusan 100m hurdles 2015 Commonwealth Games, Australia Super Eagles vs Burkina Faso Africa Cup of Nations, football 2013 Johannesburg, South Africa Nigerian men’s football team bronze, football 2016 Olympics, Rio de Janeiro Nigerian men’s football team silver, football 2008 Olympics, Beijing Super Eagles finals, football 2018 FIFA World Cup, Russia Super Falcons Africa Women Cup of Nations, 2018 Accra, Ghana football Nigeria’s national gold, basketball 2011 All Africa Games basketball team Nigeria’s national basketball qualified to compete, 2012 Olympics, London team basketball Duncan Dokiwari bronze, boxing, men’s super- 1996 Olympics, Atlanta heavyweight division
Vocabulary development Activity 13 (SB p. 118) Activity 11 (SB p. 118) a) B. Ahmed Musa is a popular Nigerian football player who performs a) Which sports events will you compete in consistently well on the field. this year? b) A. The Nigerian Ice Blazers are a talented b) The competitor was disappointed about her trio who qualified for the winter poor results. Olympic games in the Bobsled event. c) The competition between rival schools c) C. Aruna Quadri is a committed table tennis was strong. player who won two silver medals at the d) Athletics in Nigeria is a very competitive 2018 Commonwealth Games. sport because there are many good athletes. d) D. Th e formidable wrestling queen, Odunayo Adekuoroye, won gold for Nigeria in the Activity 12 (SB p. 118) 2018 African Wrestling Championships. Word Synonym e) C. Evelyn Akhator’s impressive performance for Nigeria’s D’Tigress a) popular well-liked at the 2018 FIBA Women’s World cup b) various different c) individual lone won her the Basketballer of the Year and d) formidable awesome Sportswoman of the Year awards. d) required needed f) talented gifted g) ultimate final j) committed dedicated i) aspiring hopeful j) humble modest
Module 2: Sport 29 Grammar Activity 16 (SB p. 120) Activity 14 (SB p. 120) a) The team played well, except one player who was red carded. a) Countable b) The athlete eats healthy food most b) Uncountable days, with the exception of Saturdays c) Uncountable; countable and Sundays. d) Uncountable c) The basketball team trains early every day e) Countable; uncountable; countable excluding Sunday. d) The football team had all their good players, Activity 15 (SB p. 120) apart from their injured goal scorer. a) The athletes received a hero’s welcome e) The students study for many hours after when they returned. school, excluding when they play sport. b) We were all filled withjoy when we heard our results in the three races. c) Successful athletes have to show lots of commitment. d) To be successful requires many hours of training and years of skill development. e) Adults and children of all ages enjoy playing different sports.
30 Term 2 T MODULE erm 3 The media 2
Listening and speaking Summary Activity 5 (SB p. 123) Activity 9 (SB p. 127) I thought that I should thank you for the thrilling Social media is the use of the Internet to day. When your father fell off the ladder and network with other people and to share ideas, couldn’t breathe, I was worried. But then opinions, information and media and to we carried him to the den and after a doze, advertise products and services. (29 words) he quickly recovered. I really enjoyed those biscuits your mom baked. I could have eaten Grammar the entire tin! No wonder I am not exactly thin. I would like to live on a farm like you do, and Activity 12 (SB p. 128) breed horses. I loathe the throng of crowds and a) Sometimes people in a family find it hard to noise of the city. I prefer the trilling of birds in coexist because they disagree with each other. the trees. b) Will you untie the boat while I load the boxes? Reading and comprehension c) Please advise your work and correct all the mistakes. Activity 8 (SB p. 125) d) He was determined to outperform his a) Talking → writing → letters → telephone classmates in the test. → social media e) She was using social media until after b) Computer/phone and the Internet midnight and so she overslept. c) Answers will vary. d) Answers will vary. Activity 13 (SB p. 128) e) Social media can result in private details a) What will you specialise in when you being made public and falling into the choose a career? wrong hands. You must be careful what you b) Social media can simplify how we share on social media. communicate with people who live far away. f) Answers will vary. c) Our family is planning our vacation by searching on the Internet. d) A computer shortens the time it takes to do things. e) We should plan the trip properly so that we don’t duplicate what we bring with us.
Module 3: The media 31 T MODULE erm 4 School subjects 2
Reading and comprehension Vocabulary development Activity 4 (SB p. 133) Activity 6 (SB p. 134) a) The narrator had recently moved to Lagos. a) We need to adapt to the new principal’s way b) Answers will vary. of doing things. c) 8 hours b) Please build a strong argument for the debate. d) They learn English every day. (Students’ c) I do not understand the computer words own answers about why it is important – because it is a new subject. e.g. learning to communicate in a second d) If you don’t learn the foundations of language takes time and effort.) mathematics, you will always struggle to e) Answers will vary. complete the tasks. f) You would expect to study what your rights e) Some subjects are required, so we don’t and duties are as a citizen of Nigeria. have any choice g) Sport is given the least amount of time. f) I enjoy doing various subjects and activities Answers will vary. at school. h) They will get impatient if I don’t understand g) If you want to study successfully, you must my new subjects and timetable. get enough sleep and exercise, and eat i) Mathematics, Computer Studies, Basic healthy food. Science and Technology j) Answers will vary. Grammar Summary Activity 7 (SB p. 135) a) Rotimi likes to read, doesn’t she? Activity 5 (SB p. 134) b) Adeola is playing great football, isn’t he? • English Studies: understand and speak English c) This question is confusing, isn’t it? • Mathematics: mathematical terminology and d) They finished the whole cake, didn’t they? functions e) We should make supper now, shouldn’t we? • Basic Science and Technology (BST): basics of Science (biology, chemistry, physics) and Activity 8 (SB p. 135) how things are made and work a) Eniola does not enjoy studying, does she? • Computer Studies: how to use and b) Segun is never late, is he? programme computers c) Nobody remembered their homework, • Social Studies: history, geography and did they? economics d) They won’t come home today, will they? • Religious Knowledge and Civic Education: e) We aren’t in trouble, are we? religious values and citizenship • Business Studies: how to run a business Activity 9 (SB p. 135) • Nigerian Languages: Yoruba a) You are going to a new school next term, • Home Economics and Agricultural Science: aren’t you? cooking, household management, farming, b) You don’t study physics, do you? caring for natural resources, land management c) We have homework to complete, don’t we? • Physical and Health Education: hygiene, d) They aren’t writing a test today, are they? exercise, sport, games e) This is your favourite subject, isn’t it?
32 Term 2 T MODULE erm 5 Consumer rights 2
Listening and speaking Reading and comprehension Activity 2 (SB p. 137) Activity 9 (SB p. 140) a) He used a pebble and a sling to knock the a) The date by when the product must be sold, target over. and the date by when the consumer should b) My mother will use cotton and a needle to have used the product. stitch the hem of my dress. b) Answers will vary. c) There is a big monster under my bed! c) They study the people who are going to buy d) Please bring a new folder for your notes. the product – their interests and what they e) He bought her a diamond ring for their like and don’t like. engagement. d) The information includes nutrients, f) The rumour going around is just a story; additives, kilojoules/energy and it is untrue and nonsense. serving size. e) Answers will vary. Activity 3 (SB p. 137) f) You need to take into account age, gender, a) My mother makes muddy magpie meals. height, weight and how active you are. b) Never nibble NikNaks near November. g) Empty kilojoules are found in foods that have lots of sugar, fat and salt. Students Activity 4 (SB p. 137) provide examples. Examples of onomatopoeia in the poem: ‘ding’, h) Potassium, Vitamins A, C, D, calcium, iron ‘dang’, ‘dong’, ‘bang’, ‘gong’, ‘twang’, ‘zing’ i) The consumer might get dangerously ill or and ‘ting’. even die. j) Answers will vary. Activity 5 (SB p. 137) A. the right to choose from a wide range of Summary products or services B. the right to work in a non-threatening Activity 10 (SB p. 141) environment 1. Read the packaging label. C. the right to have access to basic goods 2. Find the expiry date. or services 3. Study the nutritional information. D. the right to have information and skills to 4. Avoid foods high in sugars, saturated/trans make choices about goods and services fats and salt. E. the right to be informed about products and 5. Check the vitamin and mineral content. services before purchasing or using them 6. Check for allergens. F. the right to be protected from harmful products or services Vocabulary development G. the right to voice an opinion Activity 11 (SB p. 141) Activity 6 (SB p. 138) a) If you consume food that has expired, you a) A consumer is a person who buys products risk getting food poisoning. or services for personal use. b) Packaging for the things we buy has b) Answers will vary. been carefully designed to appeal to the c) Answers will vary. consumer.
Module 5: Consumer rights 33 c) Advertisers work out what their target as she had made enough money from her sewing market is, for example by looking at the age job to buy us each a surprise. When we got and income of the people who might want home, she laid it all out for us to see. The green to buy the product. jacket she gave me was soft and shiny. The d) All beings need the correct nutrients in purple hat suited her, and the orange jersey for order to flourish and grow. my brother fitted him perfectly. My father was e) We measure the units of energy that we eat also lucky – he got a huge box of chocolates. in kilojoules My mother also got a surprise: we all cooked f) People with an allergy to certain substances her a special lunch so that she could rest. must know what is in any food product. g) There are many synonyms for analyse, such Activity 13 (SB p. 143) as examine, study, inspect and investigate. a) The packed lunch she ate was hers. b) The suitcases they took were theirs. Grammar c) The project you did is yours. d) The running shoes he is wearing are his. Activity 12 (SB p. 142) e) The presents I got for my birthday are mine. We were excited to shop at the new supermarket f) The red car parked outside belongs the and it didn’t disappoint us. It had toys for my neighbours; it is theirs. younger brother, games for me and enough food g) We would like to apologise because the for all of us. This was my mother’s happiest day fault was ours.
34 Term 2 T MODULE erm 6 The right to education 2
Listening and speaking 2. Start slowly and build up the time spent studying. Activity 2 (SB p. 146) 3. Plan a study break in each hour. a) Always treasure the knowledge you get 4. Choose a quiet place to study, with no at school. distractions. b) As usual, January is going to be a hot month. 5. Find a study method that works for you. c) The judge made a decision that the man was guilty, and sentenced him to prison. Vocabulary development d) Imagine what would happen if there was a huge explosion and the whole city collapsed? Activity 10 (SB p. 150) e) I would like to apologise for the confusion a) Please go to your room and learn/work! I caused by not giving you the correct b) Our office can be found next to my directions to my home. bedroom. f) I enjoy Fridays because we are all permitted c) At school, we are doing an investigation/ to wear casual clothes to work. enquiry into climate change in Africa. d) Please can you investigate why our house Reading and comprehension keeps getting broken into? e) I have set aside learning/research time for Activity 7 (SB p. 148) every Tuesday evening. a) The ‘voices’ are students’ thoughts and f) My teacher will show us how to learn/ wishes. They want to relax and enjoy analyse effectively. themselves, but they know that they must study, and theses thoughts and wishes pull Activity 11 (SB p. 150) against each other. struggle – fight b) A timetable helps us to organise our time so confident – self-assured that we give enough time to each subject as procrastinate – delay well as to sport and relaxation. exhausted – tired out c) If we take breaks, we will not become too cheat – sidestep tired to continue studying. offence – crime d) It is cheating in examinations and tests. malpractice – wrongdoing e) Students’ answers will vary but must show regret – feel sad about an understanding that being unprepared ideal – perfect for examinations or tests leads to anxiety focused – attentive and panic, which may result in a decision to cheat. Grammar f) Answers will vary. g) Answers will vary. Activity 12 (SB p. 151) a) You will need to help yourself to Summary supper tonight. b) We will behave ourselves at the market Activity 8 (SB p. 150) tomorrow. 1. Make a timetable: Give suitable portions of c) They drove themselves to the event. time to each subject and to relaxation. d) I will do everything myself as I am alone here.
Module 6: The right to education 35 e) She laughed at herself when she saw how h) The examinations that we write at the end silly she had been. of the year are difficult. f) He fixed the broken bicycle himself. i) That girl who is new to the school is g) You should be ashamed of yourself for very clever. teasing that small child. j) The boy to whom you were talking h) The cat cleaned itself as it sat in yesterday is my friend. the doorway. Literature Activity 13 (SB p. 152) a) The village that we are moving to is far away. Activity 15 (SB p. 153) b) They bought a new house, which needs a) scaly – small flat pieces that cover the skin repairing. roams – moves about without a clear idea of c) They will receive help from their family, where you are going who live nearby. lofty – high, tall d) They like their friends, whom they invited lashes – the hairs that surround the eye to supper. b) “eyes like black beads”. The comparison e) The animals that live across the road in the between black beads and eyes gives a park are noisy at night! good picture of the shape and colour of f) We are studying for our examinations, ostrich eyes. which are in a month’s time. c) “ffwa-ffwa”; “tsam-tsam” g) The students who cheated will be punished.
36 Term 2 T MODULE erm 7 Drugs 2
Listening and speaking f) NAFDAC inform people through the radio and printed material. Activity 2 (SB p. 156) g) Answers will vary. / / / / ɒ ɔː Summary copy all was sport Activity 6 (SB p. 159) hot caught Drugs are chemicals that can help and harm us. pocket water Legal medications, used responsibly, are drugs bottle small dog pour that can make us better. Illegal drugs damage pot bought our bodies and brains, change our mood and lot hauled behaviour, and cause addiction. NAFDAC is not short a national agency that controls the quality and tall type of drugs that are manufactured in and that basketball enter and leave Nigeria. It regulates what can taught be sold over the counter, such as medications containing codeine. It educates and informs the Reading and comprehension public about drugs. (80 words) Activity 4 (SB p. 156) Vocabulary development a) C. Drugs are chemical substances. b) A. Medicines are legal drugs taken by Activity 7 (SB p. 159) people who are sick. a) addict (noun) – someone who cannot stop c) E. Illegal drugs can damage a person’s taking a harmful drug reputation. b) addicted (adjective) – unable to stop taking d) D. Drugs can also cause a person to behave a harmful drug irresponsibly. c) addiction (noun) – the problem a person e) E. People who regularly take illegal drugs has when they cannot stop taking a struggle to give up the habit because they harmful drug become drug addicts. d) addictive (adjective) – a drug that has chemicals that make people depend on Activity 5 (SB p. 158) taking the drug a) National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control Activity 8 (SB p. 159) b) 1993 My parents are very worried because my brother c) It protects people’s health by monitoring is addicted to marijuana and now he has stopped what is manufactured, exported, imported, attending to school. Marijuana changes your advertised, sold and used in Nigeria. mood and behaviour and is very addictive for d) Codeine is addictive, so it needs to be used some people. When you have an addiction to a with extra care. drug it is hard to stop taking it. I will make sure e) National Drug Law Enforcement Agency that I never become an addict like him.
Module 7: Drugs 37 Activity 9 (SB p. 159) h) “What time will you be coming home?” a) entering – exiting Zainab asked. b) imported – exported i) “It was a great game of football!” Gafar c) safe – dangerous said loudly. d) legal – illegal Activity 11 (SB p. 161) e) irresponsibly – responsibly f) easy – difficult a) Rashedat said that his favourite dish was g) high-quality – low-quality okra soup. h) sell – buy b) Aliyu told the teacher that she had been i) bad – good injured on the sportsfield. j) enable – stop/prevent c) Saheedat asked her friends whether/if she could go with them. Grammar d) Bashir told Malik that he was a very studious person. Activity 10 (SB p. 160) e) Bashir warned Zeenat that she ate too a) Rashedat said, “I enjoy cooking supper.” much sugar. b) Aliyu asked, “May I miss football practice, f) Zainab asked us whether we would be as I am injured?” very late. c) “I would love to attend the surprise party,” g) Gafar asked me whether I enjoyed watching Saheedat said. the game. d) “I will prepare for my speech when I have h) Raliat told us that it was going to be very finished my other homework,” Malik hot the next/following day. explained. i) Mohammed exclaimed that it was far too e) Roheeb told them, “I am very sad to see my hot to study that day. friend addicted to cocaine.” j) Aminat said that it was interesting watching f) Gafar promised, “I will wait for you the dancers perform. after school.” g) Bashir exclaimed, “Zeenat is addicted to chocolate!”
38 Term 2 T MODULE erm 8 Jobs – providing services 2
Listening and speaking Activity 3 (SB p. 164) Activity 2 (SB p. 163) a) shoe – clue; knew; true; through/threw b) would – stood; good; hood; wood a) Should I come to the market with you? b) He climbed through the hole in the fence. Reading and comprehension c) The music is blaring from the speakers outside the shop. Activity 5 (SB p. 166) d) I prefer to sit on a cushion if I know I will a) False be sitting for a long time! b) There would be very little food for us to eat. e) Please knit me a jersey with red wool. c) Paramedics care for sick and injured people f) Whose bicycle is standing outside our house? in an emergency. g) I don’t know which book to choose; they d) They construct buildings, tunnels, bridges, both look interesting to read. roads, dams, airports, etc. h) You must fix the broken plate withglue. e) Police officers work against crime, enforce i) My big foot would never fit inside that traffic laws, and help people in emergencies. tiny shoe! f)– j) Answers will vary. j) We planted a tiny seed and a big tree grew. Summary Activity 6 (SB p. 166) Teachers Farmers Paramedics Construction Police officers workers 1. Prepare lessons 1. Work long 1. Care for sick 1. Construct 1. Protect people 2. Impart hours and injured buildings, 2. Help during information 2. Work hard people bridges, emergencies 3. Help students 3. Produce food 2. Respond to tunnels, dams, and during/ grasp new 4. Rely on their emergencies roads, airports after natural concepts staff 3. Take people to 2. Use special disasters 4. Guide students 5. Depend on the hospital tools 3. Enforce laws on sporting/ weather 4. Tend to people 3. Operate 4. Investigate social levels on site machines and prevent 5. Keep up to date 5. Save people’s 4. Drive accidents and with technology lives construction crime vehicles 5. Respond to 5. Work in calls for help dangerous places
Module 8: Jobs – providing services 39 Vocabulary development f) If you can be sure that something is going to happen, then it is predictable. Activity 7 (SB p. 167) g) Something that is difficult, demanding, A: farmer dangerous or worrying is stressful. B: car mechanic C: paramedic Grammar D: fruit seller E: police officer Activity 10 (SB p. 169) F: electrical engineer a) Demonstrative adjective G: builder b) Demonstrative pronoun H: bank teller c) Demonstrative adjective I: plumber d) Demonstrative pronoun J: teacher e) Demonstrative pronoun f) Demonstrative adjective Activity 9 (SB p. 168) g) Demonstrative adjective a) If you feel that your work has an important h) Demonstrative pronoun purpose and that you are well suited to it, i) Demonstrative pronoun you have a vocation. j) Demonstrative pronoun b) If you give a lot of time and energy to something, you show your dedication to it. Activity 11 (SB p. 169) c) A concept is an idea. a) This/that is exciting! d) Synonyms for impart are give, b) These/those are tasty! communicate, relate and pass on. c) These/those were mine. e) The word access means to get, obtain or d) These/those have low prices. retrieve something. e) This/that is interesting. f) These/those were expensive.
Activity 12 (SB p. 169) Personal Possessive Reflexive Relative Demonstrative pronouns pronouns pronouns pronouns pronouns her her herself who that she my themselves he their they me
40 Term 2 T MODULE erm 9 Film stars 2
Listening and speaking Reading and comprehension Activity 2 (SB p. 171) Activity 5 (SB p. 174) a) tight a) Nollywood b) bury b) It is an adaptation of the American c) fat “Hollywood” by adding the first letter for d) worry Nigeria (“N”). e) bank c) It got going more than 30 years ago. f) far d) Yes, it is, because it employs many people g) coarse (it is the country’s second largest employer). h) burn e) Many of the film stars began their acting i) heart careers in soap operas. j) bed f) Ramsey Nouah g) False. She appeared in a few movies before she became well-known. h) She was a model. i) Answers will vary. Summary Activity 6 (SB p. 174) Ramsey Nouah Desmond Elliot Genevieve Nnaji Omotola Jalade Ekeinde Date of birth 19 December 1970 4 February 1974 3 May 1979 7 February 1978 Place of birth Lagos Lagos Mbaisa Lagos Original career Music Acted in soap Acted in a soap Modelling operas opera and appeared in commercials Awards Best Actor at Best Actor at Best Actress in Best Actress in an the 2009 African the Nigeria 2001, at the City English-speaking Movie Academy Entertainment People Awards; Best Movie as well as Awards Awards in 2009 Actress in 2005 at Best Actress Overall and 2010 the African Movie at the 1997 African Academy Awards Movie Awards; Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 2005 African Movie Awards
Module 9: Film stars 41 Vocabulary development Activity 7 (SB p. 175) a) pirating – using or making copies of a d) The visitors were taken to the hall by Ngozi. movie or CD, without permission subject: Ngozi; object: visitors; verb: took b) home theatre – entertainment system e) A review of the film was written by Dubem. using a screen and speakers, set up in a subject: Dubem; object: review; verb: wrote person’s house f) A drink was bought by Chidera at the c) subscriber – a person who pays to have restaurant. access to a service subject: Chidera; object: drink; verb: bought d) audition – interview to play a role in a film, or to join a band or choir Activity 9 (SB p. 176) e) soap opera – televison drama serial about a) Obiageli sold the tickets. daily events in the lives of the same group b) Uju reviewed the book. of characters c) Chike manned the food stall. f) stardom – being very famous d) The famous actor, Ifeyinwa, played the part. g) boost – help or encourage e) Amarachi composed the theme tune. h) versatile – able to do many different things f) Boma closed the stage curtain. i) nominate – put forward to win an honour award Literature j) commercial – advertisement Activity 11 (SB p. 176) Grammar a) It costs an arm and a leg. = It is very expensive. Activity 8 (SB p. 176) b) It’s raining cats and dogs. = It is raining a) The new film was watched by Adaobi. very heavily. subject: Adaobi; object: film; verb: watched c) I have a frog in my throat. = My voice is a b) The main character was played by Efe in bit hoarse. the school play. subject: Efe; object: character; verb: played c) The programmes for the play will be handed out by Uche. subject: Uche; object: programmes; verb: hand out
42 Term 2 T MODULE erm 10 Revision 2
PAPER I: Multiple choice o) D. If you have further questions about safety on the plane you should ask (100 marks) one of the flight attendants. Section I: Comprehension (15 marks) Section II: Spoken English 2. a) C. The words in Speech 1 belong to (15 marks) the pilot flying the aeroplane. 3. a) B. could b) A. The purpose of Speech 1 is to b) C. talkative welcome the passengers on board. c) C. word c) D. When the aeroplane lands in Cairo, d) E. not the passengers are likely to feel e) A. bullet quite hot. f) D. handsome d) A. The tone of the speaker in Speech 1 is 4. a) D. We drove very fast. polite and friendly. b) E. I thought that my teacher had taught e) C. The speaker in Speech 1 is fairly certain me how to spell, but I was wrong. about how long the journey will take c) D. The children laughed with joy. and what time the aeroplane will arrive. d) E. What a pretty shell that is! f) E. The purpose of Speech 2 is to explain e) C. I would like to clear up any confusion. the safety features on the aircraft. f) D. Allan is younger than me and he is g) C. The safety demonstration is given by my brother. the flight attendants. g) E. Tell me what is worrying you, to get h) B. It is advisable to keep your seat belt it off your chest. fastened throughout the flight because h) C. The loud bang gave me a fright. the flight might get bumpy. i) A. I should mend the tear in this shirt. i) A. An emergency exit is used when leaving the aircraft quickly in a Section III: Vocabulary dangerous situation. (10 marks) j) C. Passengers need to use an oxygen development mask when there is not enough 5. a) D. The drug addict had to go to hospital oxygen in the cabin of the aircraft. to recover. k) D. You should put on your own mask b) C. It is illegal to export or import drugs. before helping others with theirs c) A. The whole school had a celebration because you will do a better job of after writing examinations. helping someone else if you are able d) E. Patriotism is a feeling of love and to breathe properly. commitment to one’s country. l) B. It is necessary to get into the ‘bracing e) D. Are you going to compete in the races? position’ in an emergency because f) B. I am proud of my sister who is a it is the safest position to be in. gifted actress. m) D. A life vest is something that helps g) C. These days social media makes you to float in water. networking easy. n) B. During the flight, all electronic h) E. It is compulsory to write the English devices should be on flight mode. examination.
Module 10: Revision 43 i) A. You might get ill if you eat day, as that task is c) his. Washing the contaminated food. blackboard is d) ours. e) We have all got our j) D. I would like to attend the audition for own tasks to do. the main role in the play. 13. a) D. themselves b) C. yourself Section IV: Grammatical c) E. myself d) A. himself accuracy (60 marks) e) B. ourselves 6. a) B. Zainab 14. a) B. whom b) C. country b) A. that c) D. swarm c) C. who d) C. misery d) D. which e) A. collective e) E. whose 7. a) C. Apart from the accident scene, the 15. a) B. That film was good. b) A. This b) D. All the actors except for Bimpe were c) D. Those at rehearsal. d) C. These c) B. I enjoy watching TV without my 16. a) E. Bashir asked if we could younger sister. study together. d) A. The celebrity was cast for the main b) C. Zainab told me that she would write female role, but she decided to turn the English test the following day. it down. c) B. Gafar exclaimed that the previous e) D. Although we love late nights, we night he had seen a really hate early mornings. scary movie. 8. a) D. We store our milk in the fridge. d) D. Raliat complained that they were b) E. The fence around the farm going to be late for the party. has broken. 17. a) E. Rashedat said, “I enjoy school.” 9. a) B. disappear b) C. Aliyu asked, “Can I come with you to b) D. submarine the market?” c) E. unicorn c) B. “I love my mother’s cooking!” d) A. enclose exclaimed Malik. e) C. microscope d) C. “Have I passed the examination?” 10. a) A. privacy Mary asked. b) D. refusal 18. a) E. Obiageli directed the show. c) E. chemist b) D. Uju won the race. d) B. trainer c) C. Amarachi built the bridge. e) C. argument d) D. His father signed the letter. 11. a) C. It is hot today, isn’t it? 19. a) C. subject b) A. You aren’t naughty, aren’t you? b) A. object c) D. She makes you sad, doesn’t she? c) B. verb 12. John is responsible for sweeping the d) E. adverb classroom, so ask a) him to do it. b) He should do it immediately after school each
44 Term 2 TERM 3
Module 1: Should differences Module 3: Peer pressure divide us?
PS: mindmap-text Module 2: Keeping the peace Module 4: People who inspire us
45 T MODULE erm 1 Should differences divide us? 3
Listening and speaking e) False. Nwanne’s father was not willing to make any changes. Activity 3 (SB p. 191) f) True buy – bay; pie – pay; lie – lay; sty – stay; g) True high – hey; rye – ray; file – fail; mile – mail; pile – pail; tile – tail; time – tame; line – lane; Activity 9 (SB p. 194) pine – pain; sign – sane; rise – raise; rice – race; a) Answers will vary. fight – fate; light – late; right – rate; height – hate; b) Answers will vary. my – may; die – day; white – wait; pint – paint; c) They became worse. sigh – say d) Answers will vary. Activity 4 (SB p. 191) Summary a) You must pay for your pie before you can eat it! Activity 10 (SB p. 194) b) “This is the day that you will die!” Gafar and Nwanne were planning to marry. threatened the terrifying villain. Gafar and his father went to speak to Nwanne’s c) “I see you have managed to tame the wild father and uncle. They told him he had to horse this time,” remarked the man. provide many gifts, as part of Igbo custom, d) “We will all rise up in protest, unless you give before Nwanne could leave her father’s house. us a raise!” the workers told their employer. Gafar could not afford this, and Nwanne e) It was late and the light was fading fast. believed he did not love her, if he would not f) You may borrow my book, if you would buy the gifts. These differences ended their like to read it. relationship. (65 words) g) Please wait for the white paint to dry before you touch it, otherwise you will Vocabulary development leave dirty marks. h) “The pigs stay in this sty,” the farmer Activity 12 (SB p. 194) explained. In India there are about 10 million weddings i) In India, it is a race to get the rice harvested per year. In the Hindu a) custom the b) culture before the monsoon. is to have a very colourful wedding. It lasts j) “Our fate is to fighteach other to the death,” several days unless the families are poor the one man said dramatically to the other. or c) stingy. The entrance to the bride and d) bridegroom’s new home is sometimes Reading and comprehension decorated with balloons. It is the e) tradition for the couple to hold hands and take seven steps Activity 8 (SB p. 193) around a fire, making a promise to each other a) False. We are often unfamiliar with the at each step. Everyone is f) accustomed to this customs of another ethnic group. ritual, in fact, no Hindu marriage is binding or b) False. Gafar’s fiancé was a member of the complete without it. g) Previously, women were Igbo tribe. married very young, but now the average age is c) True 21 years. d) True
46 Term 3 Grammar i) C. In indirect speech, this is: The women explained that they had fetched the Activity 13 (SB p. 195) boxes the previous day. a) C. It is cold today, isn’t it? j) A. Written in the passive voice, this is: b) B. Rotimi likes playing football, A delicious supper was cooked by doesn’t he? Ifeanyi, for all of us to eat. c) B. ‘Boat’ is an example of a common noun. k) D. Written in the passive voice, this is: d) C. ‘Courage’ is an example of an The children were left behind by abstract noun. the adults. e) D. ‘Milk’ is an example of an l) B. We paid for it ourselves. uncountable noun. m) E. That is your suitcase, you can carry f) A. ‘Nigeria’ is an example of a proper noun. it yourself. g) A. I ate everything on my plate except n) C. The suffix that meas ‘the science or the fish. study of’ is -logy. h) D. In indirect speech, this is: He said that he o) E. -ness was hungry. p) B. dis- q) E. The prefix that means ‘under’ is sub-.
Module 1: Should differences divide us? 47 T MODULE erm 2 Keeping the peace 3
Listening and speaking Reading and comprehension Activity 3 (SB p. 199) Activity 8 (SB p. 203) now – no; how – hoe; thou – though; cowl – coal; a) A. We use the word ‘conflict’ to describe a drown – drone; town – tone; noun – known; situation in which people disagree about loud – load; couch – coach; pouch – poach something or don’t get on with each other. b) D. Conflict becomes more of an issue Activity 4 (SB p. 200) during adolescence. a) If you are unable to swim, you might drown. c) B. Hormones can cause adolescents to b) A drone is a continuous low humming sound. think, feel and behave differently. c) You must write a formal letter in a polite tone. d) C. Trying to ignore conflictcan make the d) My grandmother keeps her money in a situation worse. pouch, which she hides under her clothes. e) D. When facing a confrontation, it is a good e) The old-fashioned word for ‘you’ is ‘thou’. idea to calm down before you say or f) He was new to the town and so not do anything. well known. f) B. While the other person is speaking, it is important to listen attentively. Activity 6 (SB p. 201) g) A. When expressing your point of view, you a) True should speak confidently, but with respect. b) True h) B. When faced with a confrontation, you c) False. If we all take responsibility for should keep a neutral and relaxed face creating peace, we can achieve it. and body. d) True i) C. “Let’s agree to disagree about this e) False. He was nominated for the prize particular issue.” five times. j) D. If you behave assertively it means you f) True are self-confident and firm. Summary Activity 9 (SB p. 204) When faced with conflict, DON’T: When faced with conflict, DO: 1. suppress your anger 1. face up to it 2. exaggerate the problem 2. work out what is causing it 3. blame the other person 3. focus on the problem, not the person 4. do or say something you will regret 4. calm down and cool off 5. interrupt or think of what you are going to say next 5. listen carefully to the other person 6. be loud, rude or mean 6. be assertive but respectful 7. use ‘you’-based statements 7. use ‘I’-based statements 8. show aggression, anger or defensiveness in your 8. keep your expression and body language calm expression and body language 9. refuse to own up to being wrong 9. apologise if you are in the wrong 10. insist that your way is the right way 10. agree to disagree
48 Term 3 Vocabulary development d) If you exaggerate your problems, you make them seem worse than they are. Activity 10 (SB p. 205) e) If you regret something you did in the past, a) apologise – say sorry you will feel sad and sorry, but it may be b) confrontation – fight too late to apologise. c) emotions – feelings f) Some people belittle others by telling them d) suppress – hide that they are not important or good, in order e) trigger – start to feel better about themselves. g) If you react to what someone says Activity 11 (SB p. 205) defensively, you will be too focused on a) Being constructive is a useful and positive defending yourself, and you won’t hear way of behaving. what they are really saying. b) If you have an outburst, you suddenly and h) Talking or moving aggressively usually forcefully show your feelings in words makes people want to leave, or makes them or actions. respond forcefully, which can lead to a fight. c) Hormones, which are chemicals our i) When you are an adolescent, you are neither bodies produce when we are growing and a child nor an adult. developing, can create strong emotions: we j) When your body starts to become like an become sensitive and easily upset by what adult’s body, you are going through puberty. people say or do. Grammar Activity 12 (SB p. 206) Abstract nouns Collective nouns Proper nouns Uncountable countable Common nouns death bouquet Chinasa flour table fear herd Oshogbo water swim (have a swim) flower pencil
Activity 13 (SB p. 207) Activity 14 (SB p. 209) a) D. She has completed her work. a) B. Adedolapo put on her favourite new b) C. Olufemi is angry with himself. yellow jersey because she was cold. c) A. The goat that we are going to roast for b) D. The government bought eight huge the party is very small. Chinese aeroplanes for the air force. d) C. These are much prettier than those. c) A. The kind old Malawian man helped me e) B. You do your work and I’ll do mine. when I was lost in Blantyre. f) C. Boma failed the exam, which was very difficult. Activity 15 (SB p. 209) g) D. Foluke and I did everything ourselves. a) B. anxious h) C. Yewande gave my book back to me. b) A. apologise i) D. Adaora and Uju looked at themselves in c) D. problem the mirror. j) B. Abiodan likes this, but Morakinyo Activity 16 (SB p. 210) prefers that. a) C. generous b) B. modern c) A. polite
Module 2: Keeping the peace 49 T MODULE erm 3 Peer pressure 3
Listening and speaking c) False. Ifemelu is not from America; neither is Ginika. Jessica’s family was from Japan Activity 1 (SB p. 211) and Stephanie’s family is from China. a) bare – bear; pear – pair; air – heir; d) False. They are very conscious of their there – their; where – wear images and dress accordingly. c) dare/dear; bare/bear – beer/beard; rare/rear; e) True spare/spear; chair/cheer; fair/fear; f) True pair/pear – peer; stair/steer; air/heir – ear g) False. She drank orange juice. Activity 2 (SB p. 212) Activity 8 (SB p. 215) c) line 1: two syllables a) Answers will vary. Example: Ginika felt line 2: four syllables pressured by the children at her high school line 3: two syllables to lose weight. Ginika pronounced her line 4: four syllables words with an America accent. All the girls There is a pattern of 2-4-2-4 syllables in with the exception of Ifemelu drink alcohol. each verse. They all laugh at the same things and use d) The last word/syllable of each line is stressed. slang. Stephanie smokes. e) /eə/ hair, stare, wear, rare, unfair, care b) Answers will vary. Example: Smoking /ɪə/ dear, fear, clear, appear, dear, clear and drinking are bad for your health and can lead to poor decision-making. Feeling Activity 4 (SB p. 213) pressured to lose weight and developing a) D. A peer is a person who is about the same a negative self image can result in serious age as you and spends time with you. eating disorders, such as anorexia. b) B. Peer pressure is when someone wants c) Answers will vary. you to do the same as everyone else in d) Answers will vary. the group. e) Answers will vary. c) D. Sometimes teenagers experiment with smoking, drugs and alcohol because Summary their friends are doing it and they want Activity 9 (SB p. 216) to fit in. d) A. Peer pressure is generally a problem for The purpose of the writer is to show how peer teenagers. pressure affects teenagers. They all speak and e) A. The last sentence of the passage means behave in the same way in order to be accepted that we should think about what we are by their friendship group. considering doing before deciding to do it. Vocabulary development Activity 10 (SB p. 216) Reading and comprehension a) anorexia – an emotional disorder where the Activity 7 (SB p. 215) person refuses to eat, in order to lose weight a) True b) wistfully – showing a little sadness b) False. In many regions, being very thin is c) poised – having a calm, confident manner not valued or encouraged. d) animated – full of life or excitement
50 Term 3 e) emblem – symbolic object used as a Grammar distinctive badge f) studs – earrings that pierce the ears and Activity 12 (SB p. 217) have a small decorative head a) C. Adetola was walking in the forest when g) monogram – a design of two or more letters, he saw the gorilla. often interwoven or linked, used as a logo b) B. Would you please help me with my h) gross – slang word used for something that homework? is unattractive c) A. We are waiting for the bus to Ajuba, but i) choreographed – something planned and it is late. controlled d) D. You must finish your food before you j) chant – to say repeatedly in a sing-song voice have pudding. k) offend – cause to feel upset or rejected e) C. Yewande will watch the match on TV tomorrow. Activity 11 (SB p. 216) f) B. My brother was sleeping when we a) The words came easily out of her mouth; arrived at his house. she talked fluently in theAmerican accent. b) Because the girls acted and responded in the Activity 13 (SB p. 218) same way, it looked like they had planned a) E. We walked slowly down the road. their movements. b) B. I feel really sorry about what happened. c) Teresa didn’t want the home-made beer, but c) D. Kunmi and Pekun went outside to she also didn’t want to be different to her continue their argument in private. peers, so she did not ask for a regular beer d) A. Foluso was late for school yesterday. confidently. e) D. She never eats eggs, because she does not like the taste. f) B. My classmates and I will write the school promotion exam next month.
Module 3: Peer pressure 51 T MODULE erm 4 People who inspire us 3
Listening and speaking c) It provided role models for young people to follow. Activity 2 (SB p. 220) d) It encouraged young disabled people to try sport and gave able-bodied spectators a better Words with /ʊə/ sound Words with /ɔɪ/ sound understanding of what disabled people can do. curious point e) The Paralympics is similar to the Olympics during voice in that it has many of the same events and secure boy takes place in the same year. It is different furious royal in that only people who are physically or endure choice tourist employment intellectually challenged take part. punctual noise f) The documentary exposed the problem of jury destroy polio in Nigeria. mature loyal g) It is surprising because there is a ensure enjoy vaccination for polio, which has been successfully used all over the world. Activity 3 (SB p. 221) h) If the virus gets into the blood of children who catch it, it can give them serious health a) My father was furious when my little problems for the rest of their lives. brother tore up his newspaper. i) Answers will vary. b) Please be punctual tomorrow morning and j) Answers will vary. don’t arrive late. c) That very loud noise is hard to endure! d) We have a very curious neighbour who Summary always likes to know what is going on. Activity 7 (SB p. 224) e) People must not destroy the environment. Ade Adepitan: f) I have locked the house so that it is secure. • learnt to play basketball in a wheelchair. g) Look for job advertisements in the newspaper • was employed as TV presenter. to see if you can findemployment. • co-hosted the coverage of the London 2012 h) My friends are loyal and always stand up for Paralympics. me when I am in trouble or need some help. • researched and produced a documentary on i) I think my uncle has arrived; I can hear his polio in Nigeria. voice outside. • is a role model for other people with a disability. j) I am too mature to do such a childish and silly thing. Activity 9 (SB p. 224) Reading and comprehension a) B. Many people have died as a result of ethnic violence and human rights abuses Activity 6 (SB p. 223) in Burundi since 1962. a) He was three years old. b) A. Ninteretse started a youth group, Action b) Sport has given Ade Adepitan more self- for Peace and Development, so that the confidence. It has helped him to lead young population can experience peace. an independent life, despite being in a c) B. The young peacebuilders will share what wheelchair. It has given him many new they learn in APD peace clubs with their experiences and opportunities. friends, families and communities.
52 Term 3 Activity 10 (SB p. 225) Activity 14 (SB p. 226) Many people have died as a result of ethnic a) Ade was right to be proud of himself for his violence and human rights abuses in Burundi achievements. since 1962. Ninteretse started a youth group, b) Sport is good for everyone because it allows Action for Peace and Development, so that the them to express themselves. young population can experience peace. The c) My family and I enjoyed the interview young peacebuilders will share what they learn because it informed us about many issues. in APD peace clubs with their friends, families d) We who live in Nigeria must make sure that and communities. it is a safe country for us all to live in. e) Ade was born in Nigeria and he contracted Vocabulary development polio there, so making the documentary was a personal achievement for him. Activity 12 (SB p. 225) a) Teenagers like to express themselves in the Activity 15 (SB p. 227) way they speak and dress a) Atinuke is angry with Chibuka because he b) I am a strong advocate for protecting the let her down badly. environment. b) Zainab is excited about her uncle’s visit c) When my father contracted tuberculosis, he next week. had to stop working for six months. c) Segun was frightened by the ghost story. d) My mother is a very competent driver as d) I am amazed at his courage. she has never had an accident. e) She found the sugar in the cupboard. e) If we could eradicate violence and greed, f) Bello cut the chicken into small pieces. the world would be a much better place. g) I took the coffee to my father. f) The best thing you can do is to empower h) Please fetch the books from the next other people to be independent. classroom. g) I watched an excellent documentary about i) They chatted as they walked towards the climate change. sports field. h) Ade Adepitan is an inspiration to us all, not j) The dog is hiding under the chair. to be defeated by illness and disability. i) Polio can result in a person becoming Activity 16 (SB p. 227) paralysed. a) Neither Iyabo nor Sayo came to my party. i) The Paralympics is an international sports b) Everyone was there except for Tola. event where people who are faced with c) Although I studied very hard, I failed the physical and intellectual challenges can school promotion examination. participate. d) Dotun loves fish, but Jibade prefers meat. e) It was raining hard, so I took my umbrella Grammar with me. Activity 13 (SB p. 226) f) Eniola sat and listened until her mother had finished speaking. a) he – Ade Adepitan g) Mother packed lots of food in order that we b) you – Ade Adepitan didn’t get hungry during the trip. c) It – sport h) We arrived late, furthermore we had d) that – documentary that Adepitan produced forgotten our tickets at home. e) them – young disabled sportsmen and women i) First chop up the ingredients, then fry them f) who – sports fans in a pan. g) They – sports fans j) My father piled the suitcases into the car h) that – other countries in Africa while my mother was getting us ready to go.
Module 4: People who inspire us 53 Activity 17 (SB p. 228) Activity 19 (SB p. 229) a) B. I am empowered by sport. a) A. Ade said, “Things will never be the b) C. Many doors have been opened up for same again.” Ade by wheelchair basketball. b) C. The interviewer asked, “When did you c) A. Most African countries have contract polio?” eradicated polio. d) D. The 2012 London Paralympics gave young disabled people role models. Activity 18 (SB p. 229) a) D. Ade said that his family had moved to the UK when he was a child. b) B. The interviewer asked Ade what sport meant to him.
54 Term 3 Practice Examination 1: Answers
PAPER 1: Multiple choice Section IV (10 marks) (80 marks) 26. C. optional Section I (15 marks) 27. E. familiar 28. B. dishonest 1. D. during the writer’s first year in Junior 29. A. intentional Secondary School 30. C. proud 2. E. Dara 31. D. public 3. A. in the evening 32. D. harsh 4. B. to assist his brother in paying the 33. A. noisy school fees of his child 34. D. rough 5. A. wanted to save some money out of his 35. B. indolent bus fare 6. A. was curious to know what was happening there Section V (10 marks) 7. B. purchase a handset with it 36. C. tolerate 8. C. knew it contained pieces of paper 37. A. sacked 9. D. organised a team to look for the writer 38. C. understand everywhere 39. B. identify 10. A. personification 40. A. Competent 11. B. that woman’s importance is not 41. A. promoted appreciated 42. E. banned 12. C, D or E 43. A. soft 13. E. go out to work 44. A. set aside 14. B. take care of their families 45. C. frightened 15. E. render essential services in keeping establishments running Section VI (25 marks) 46. E. catches Section II (5 marks) 47. D. have stolen 16. A. plot 48. A. had left 17. B. personification 49. B. has returned 18. C. hyperbole 50. B. has passed 19. A. costumes 51. D. some information 20. A. character 52. A. burst 53. B. “Where is your licence?” Section III (5 marks) 54. B. what he had been doing 55. B. Whose 21. B. manifesto 56. D. since 22. A. electorates 57. D. off 23. E. secretary 58. C. should 24. D. refinery 59. A. am leaving 25. B. radiator 60. D. from 61. B. aren’t I? 62. D. don’t we? 63. D. doesn’t she? 64. C. No, I didn’t
Practice Examination 1: Answers 55 65. A. oughtn’t you Section VII (10 marks) 66. E. because 71. B. pause 67. B. down 72. A. buy 68. E. but 73. A. letter 69. D. against 74. C. ship 70. C. a little 75. B. cat 76. C. chaos 77. C. ghost 78. D. physics 79. A. nature 80. A. social
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PAPER 2: Multiple choice 26. D. miserly 27. A. permanent (60 marks) 28. D. sparsely Section I (15 marks) 29. A. terminated 1. B. once a primary school pupil 30. B. stealthily 2. C. reading 31. B. indifferent 3. C. Mrs Antry often asked the pupils to 32. C. clear read in turns 33. B. mistrust 4. B. memorisation 34. C. lower 5. C. the steel-edged ruler 35. B. rise 6. A. Mrs Antry punished the narrator angrily 36. D. maintain 7. A. She became impatient. 37. A. wane 8. D. he was severely punished 38. B. shows 9. B. Growing up 39. B. incessantly 10. A. Deranti and Bimpe only recently 40. C. quick money got married 11. C. serve the same purposes Section IV (10 marks) 12. C. knew the tooth myth because it was 41. A. intervene actively promoted by the parents 42. C. mindful 13. B. re-growing of teeth depended on 43. C. irritated correct performance of the ritual 44. A. These are 14. D. an experience shared by both husband 45. D. has spread and wife 46. D. has passed 15. A. lose their milk teeth 47. A. is 48. A. is Section II (5 marks) 49. A. are 16. C. hero and heroine 50. B. likes 17. B. metaphor 18. A. simile Section V (10 marks) 19. D. euphemism 51. C. bit 20. A. drama 52. B. church 53. B. hut Section III (20 marks) 54. A. break 21. C. plaintiff 55. A. accept 22. B. step-mother 56. C. snag 23. D. niece or nephew 57. D. choice 24. D. sty 58. C. house 25. B. flock 59. D. yesterday 60. A. amoeba
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