SS2 Scheme
SS2 Scheme
CLASS SS2
1 – Welcome Test
– Revision
C. SUMMARY
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
i. classify all the 24 consonant sounds in English into voiced and voiceless consonant sounds
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: bombastic, dearth, hiatus, implacable, stingy,
dour, ebullient, ignominious, impinge, tome
B. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT/COMPREHENSION
– A comprehension passage that has numbered gaps including missing words which students must fill in
with the appropriate words
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
iii. analyze consonant clusters with regard to their places of occurrence in words
i. identify words that are associated with the human body system
ii. generate sentences that contain those words
iii. discuss how to control HIV/AIDS or how to manage population explosion in Nigeria
iv. write an expository essay on: How To Control HIV/AIDS in Nigeria OR How To Manage Population
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words : partisan, repose, vivacious, surmise,
malediction, stoic, tangential, mores
3 A. STRUCTURE
– Nouns
– Noun Phrase
B. ORAL: TRANSCRIPTION
– Monosyllabic words
– Bi-/Di-syllabic words
– Polysyllabic words
C. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT/COMPREHENSION
– Words associated with health eg diagnosis, blood bank, contagious, counselling, sickly, etc
– A comprehension passage that has numbered gaps including missing words which students must fill in
with the appropriate words
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
iii. generate copious examples of Monosyllabic, Di-syllabic or polysyllabic words and highlight the main
stress
Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: paradigm, obtuse, sublime, paragon,
reciprocate, solvent, frugal, surrogate, vilify, exonerate
4 A. STRUCTURE
– Types of pronouns
– Personal pronouns
– Possessive pronouns
– Demonstrative pronouns
– Interrogative pronouns
– Reflective pronouns
– Relative pronouns
– Reciprocal pronouns
– Indefinite pronouns
B. SUMMARY: READING TO SUMMARIZE
– A comprehension passage that has numbered gaps indicating missing words which students are
expected must fill in the appropriate words
D. WORS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
i. specify words that are associated with building and building construction
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: parsimony, virtuoso, revoke, surreptitious,
expurgate, vacuous, manifest, incendiary, remiss, querulous
5 A. ORAL: STRESS
– Word stress
– Two-syllable words
– Three-syllable words
– Four-syllable words
– Five-syllable words
– Six-syllable words
B. COMPREHENSION/LISTENING
– Should female circumcision be abolished? OR Military rule is better than civilian rule
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
iii. pronounce any given word appropriately and the right syllable is stressed
girl-friend = girl-friends
passer-by = passers-by
mother-in-law = mothers-in-law
secretary-general = secretary-generals
B. COMPREHENSION
– Summary
C. ORAL: STRESS
– Stress pattern ( rules guiding the placement of stress in two or more syllabic words)
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
i. read any given passage and extract the main points from it
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words : wistful, xenophobia, youngster, upbraid,
distend, ephemeral, hierarchy, inept, pungent, rectitude
7 MID-TERM TESTS
OPEN DAY
MID-TERM HOLIDAY
refute, medley, abducted, choreography, coronation, deffident, derelict, emend, efface, facile
8 A. COMPREHENSION PASSAGE/READING
C. SUMMARY: READING
– Summarize an argument
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
i. read any given argumentative essay and highlight it’s main points
ii. distinguish between the key points and the supporting details of any given argumentative essay
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: pliable, pittance, vapid, sublime, abdicate,
accede, abnegation, apathetic, animated, coalesce
B. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
C. COMPREHENSION: LISTENING
iii. enumerate the functions of adverbs and adverbial phrases in different sentences
i. Specify the adjectives or words that are associated with smell, colour, and taste
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: connive, daunting, promulgate, rancour,
serene, clandestine, prescient, servile, torpid, trite
– Functions
B. ORAL: RHYME
i. Plot
ii. Style
iii. Setting
iv. Theme
– Features of a poem
i. Use of verse
ii. Imageries
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
ii. identify and state the functions of adjectival phrases or adjectival clauses in a given sentence
i. Learners are guided to learn the following words: obfuscate, raze, alleviate, epitomize, hedonist,
innovate, perplex, reconcile, rife, soluble, tedious
B. COMPREHENSION: READING
– Features
– Format
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: despot, forage, plethora, undulate, feral,
polemic, variegated, placid, pacific, berate
C. SUMMARY WRITING
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
i. Learners should be guided to learn the following words: bound, apocryphal, annul, cajole, burnish,
debacle, credulity, crescendo
13 REVISION
14 EXAMINATION
CLASS SS2
WELCOME TEST
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end the lesson, students should be able to:
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: morass, abject, blandish, duplicity, ennui,
maudlin, abscond, alias, dither, emaciated
– Colon (:)
– Semi-colon (;)
– Hyphen (-)
B. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
C. COMPREHENSION: LISTENING
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
ii. explain the following terms: freedom of the press, headline news, press conference, editor, mass
media, correspondent, dispatch, investigation, journalist, press release, reporter, columnist
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: enmity, inept, laudatory, pinnacle, divine,
flabbergasted, extant, laconic, pertinacious, enervate
3 A. ORAL: INTONATION
– Imperative
– Interrogative
– Letter of Complaint
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
ii. recognize and use appropriate intonation patterns associated with surprise or disbelief
ii. write a letter of complaint to the bank manager on order deduction of your savings
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: cherish, capricious, eschew, perusal,
renunciation, rhapsodize, spurious, tenable, catalogue, turgid, antediluvian
B. COMPREHENSION: LISTENING
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
i. monumental, moot, luxuriant, intrude, succinct, wheedle, brochure, herbivore, spasmodic, medley
B. STRUCTURE: PRONOUNS
– Personal
– Relative
C. COMPREHENSION
a) personal pronoun
b) relative pronoun
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: abduct, abrogate, dirge, dilatory, embelish,
entail, novice, nefarious, orthodox, palliate
B. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: paucity, ostracism, acclaim, acerbic, bereft,
nomadic, beguile, munilfcense, pallate, phlegmic
7 MID-TERM TESTS
OPEN DAY
C. COMPREHENSION
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
i. recognize and pronounce the sounds correctly
ii. differentiate between voiced and voiceless sounds with adequate examples
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: propriety, preclusive, canvas, exigent,
requisition, carouse, forestall, tranquil, heterogenous, unctuous
– Verb with more than one particle eg got on with, got through with, got back on, look out for, look
down on, look up to, put in for, put up with
B. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
C. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
B. Foundation
C. Walls
D. Plans
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: culvert, ideograph, mychotophobia, closely,
grunge, unsightly, wishy-washy, asylum, consensus, hospice
C. WRITING: ARTICLES
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
ii. write the active and passive forms of verbs using adequate examples
iii. construct different sentences in the active and passive voice forms
ii. explain the following words: email, Facebook, network, password, satellite, keyboard, innovation,
YouTube, username, virus
B. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
C. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
ii. identify where the stress falls on (either first, second or third syllabus)
iii. recognize the stress pattern that is odd/different from the rest
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: unbridled, wedge, airily, outstanding,
meritorious, indefatigable, articulate, virile, hopelessness, ebb
12 REVISION
13 EXAMINATION
CLASS SS2
1 Welcome Test
A. GRAMMAR: REVISE TENSES
B. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
i. Learners are guided to learn the following words: acronym, troupe, socialism, ardour, professionalism,
behemoth, calumny, compliment, indigent, dissemble
2 A. GRAMMAR: SENTENCES
– Conditional Clause
i. Likely condition
– Welcome Address
– Farewell Address
C. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: balik, complicit, impecurious, encumber,
mollify, frivolous, confection, disrepute, benevolent, generous
3 A. GRAMMAR: AFFIXATION
B. WRITING: SUMMARY
– Summarizing a talk/lecture
C. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: arcane, battery, plenitude, interject, laconic,
primeval, quandary, tranquil, rail, vacillate
B. ORAL: SPELLING
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
iii. use the dictionary to look up the spelling, pronunciation, meaning and classes, illustration, idiomatic
uses, and origins of words
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: arboreal, camaraderie, exalt, gaudy, mawkish,
diffident, forum, idolatrous, ornate, paradigm
B. COMPREHENSION
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
i. define stress
ii. state the rules governing stress placement on two syllable words
ii. explain the key words for poems and dramatic work
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: incendiary, winsome, rapport, sovereign,
vitriolic, quaint, pathology, acrylic, gourmet, abhor
6 A. STRUCTURE: AFFIXATION
– Surfixes
B. WRITING: SUMMARY
C. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: consigned, repentant, sagacity, wrath, patent,
paragon, rancid, sedentary, verdant, councillor
7 MIDTERM TESTS
OPEN DAY
i. Learners should be guided to learn the following words: acupuncture, subjugate, parody, renown,
transient, zealous, yoke, wizened, vocation, vex
C. COMPREHENSION
– Reading for specific structural patterns (Identification of types of sentences in a given passage)
E. WORDS OF THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
i. explain adjuncts
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: seminar, quandary, panah, ruse, quagmire,
ominous, novice, mundane
B. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
C. WRITING: SUMMARY
D. WORDS OF THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
iii. outline the words that are associated with hotel and catering
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: mitigate, vindictive, superfluous, puerile,
restive, saccharine, tedious, wily, maxim, nuance
10 A. STRUCTURE: IDIOMS
B. COMPREHENSION: READING
– Reading for critical evaluation( look for faulty reasoning, misleading statements and inconsistency)
C. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
– /m/, /n/
B. STRUCTURE: CLAUSE
– Adjectival Clauses
C. COMPREHENSION/VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
– Transportation
D. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
i. Learners are to be guided to learn the following words: wallow, submission, vociferous, reservoir,
ribaid, pugnacious, evince, tirade, mandate, yob
12 REVISION
– Essay Writing
– Letter Writing
– Comprehension
– Summary
– Test of Orals
B. WORDS FOR THE WEEK By the end of the lessons, students should be able to:
ii. read a given passage to get the implied meaning, writer’s intention and purpose of writing
iv. produce and recognize same vowel/consonant sounds, stress and rhymes
i. Learners should be guided to learn the following words: rhapsodize, flout, sacrosanct, expiate,
prudence, nurture, morose, lacerate, innate, reprobate
13 EXAMINATION
The recommended English Studies textbooks for SSS2 include but are not limited to the following:
High Standard English for Senior Secondary Schools by Gabriel A. et al. – Spectrum publishers
Daily Mastery of Mathematics and English by Ariyo S.O. & Aremu B. – Joytal Prints
CLASS SS2
SUBJECT MATHEMATICS
– Comparison of characters of logarithm and standard form of numbers By the end of the lesson,
students should be able to:
ii. Compare characteristics of logarithmns with standard form of numbers less than 1
2 LOGARITHM OF NUMBERS
– Solution of simple logarithm equations By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
i. solve questions involving multiplication, division, powers and roots of numbers less than 1
– Approximations and percentage error By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
– Examples of AP
– Calculation of:
c) nth term
– Practical problems involving real life situationsBy the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
ii. apply formulas to solve questions on first term, common difference and nth term of a given AP
5 GEOMETRIC PROGRESSIONS
– Calculation of:
c) nth term
d) geometric progression
f) sum to infinity
g) practical problems involving real life situation By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
ii. apply formulas to solve questions on first term, common ratio and nth term of a given geometric
progression
– Deducing quadratic formulas from deducing the square By the end of the lesson, students
should be able to:
i. find the constant k which makes the quadratic expression a perfect square
iii. solve questions on quadratic equation using the method of completing the square
7 PERIODIC/MID-TERM TEST
OPEN DAY By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
– Word problems leading to quadratic equation By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
ii. form quadratic equation from the given root using the sum and product of the root
– Graphical solution of linear and quadratic equation By the end of the lesson, students should be
able to:
i. solve problems in simultaneous linear equation using elimination, substitution, and graphical methods
– Word problems leading to simultaneous equations By the end of the lesson, students should be
able to:
11 REVISION
12 EXAMINATION
CLASS SS2
SUBJECT MATHEMATICS
– Gradients of a curve
– Drawing of tangents in a curve By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
3 INEQUALITIES
– Revision of linear inequalities in one variable
– Range of values of combined inequalities By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
ii. combine two inequalities to form component inequality and number line
4 CIRCLE THEOREM
– Two tangents to a circle from an external point By the end of the lesson, students should be
able to:
iii. calculate the radius of a circle given tangent from external point and the distance of the external
point from the center of the circle
5 TRIGONOMETRY
– Deviation of cosine rule and application By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
6 ALGEBRAIC FRACTIONS
– Simplification of fractions
i. simplify a given algebraic fraction to its lowest term using the the Lowest Common Factor (L.C.M) of
the denominator of the fractions
ii. solve problems on algebraic fraction involving addition, substraction, division and multiplication
8 FRACTIONS
– Substitution in fractions
– Simultaneous equations involving fractions By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
9 SURD
– Conjugate of binomial surds using the idea of difference of two squares By the end of the
lesson, students should be able to:
ii. state and apply the rules of addition and substraction of surds
iii. state and apply the rules of multiplication and division of surds
– Angles subtended by two equal chords By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
i. apply Pythagoras theorem to solve problems of distance of equal chords
ii. solve problems on angles subtended by two equal chords at the center
11 CIRCLE THEOREM
– Angle properties of a circle ( angle subtended by an arc at the center is twice the one subtended at the
circumference)
– Angle in a semi-circle
– Opposite angles of cyclic quadrilaterals By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
ii. prove that the angle which an arc subtends at the center is twice the angle it subtends at the
circumference
iii. prove that the angle in the same segment of a circle are equal
vi. the exterior angle of a cyclic quadrilateral is equal to the interior angle
12 REVISION/EXAMINATIONS
CLASS SS2
SUBJECT MATHEMATICS
– Introduction to linear programming By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
i. interpret the practical problems of linear inequalities using real life situations
4 BEARINGS
– 3 digit bearing eg: two type: Surveyor’s type, Military type: N75E, S350W
– Practical problems on bearing By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
5 STATISTICS (REVISION)
– Calculation of cumulative frequency By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
– Using graph of cumulative frequencies to estimate median, quartile, percentiles and other relevant
estimates
– Application of Ogive to everyday life By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
7 MID-TERM BREAK
– Random experiments
– Sample space
– Sample points
– Event space
9 PROBABILITY
– Chance Instruments
– The dice
– The coins
– A pack of playing cards
– Theoretical probability
– Sample probable on equprobable sample space By the end of the lesson, students should be
able to:
– Solving sample problems on mutually exclusive, independent and complementary events and
experiments with or without replacement
– Practical application of probability in health, finance, population, etc By the end of the lesson,
students should be able to:
11 REVISION
12 EXAMINATION
New General Mathematics by Mf Macrae. AO Kalejaiye, ZI Chima, GU Garba. Pearson Education Limited
SS 1-3
Extension Modern Mathematics by Frank Yeboah, olusanya osunre et al. Extension Publication