JSS1 ENGLISH STUDIES FIRST TERM WEEK SIX

CONTENT

1. Speech Work: Consonants /p/ and /b/
2. Structure: Prepositions
3. Composition: Letter Writing (Guided Writing: Informal Letters)
4. Comprehension: Market
5. Literature: Folktales – Features/Themes of Folktales (NOSEC pages 34-35)

ASPECT: Speech Work

TOPIC: Consonants /p/ and /b/

Description of the Consonant /p/

This is a voiceless bilabial plosive sound. It can be realized at the initial, medial and the final positions of words.

Examples: pen, peg, paid, leg, keeper, happy, lip, cheap, ship, etc.

Note that /p/ is silent when it comes before ‘n’ and some other words like: corps, receipt, psalm, psychiatry, pneumatic, pneumonia etc.

Also, ‘ph’ is pronounced as /f/ and /v/ in certain words such as physics, phobia, phase, Stephen, nephew. Yet, only /p/ is pronounced in ‘shepherd’ while ‘h’ is silent is  though both combined in the word.

Description of the Consonant /b/

This consonant, a voiced bilabial plosive, can occur at the initial, medial, and final positions.