English Language Lesson notes for primary 4 Third Term
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THIRD TERM E NOTES
SUBJECT: ENGLISH GRAMMER
CLASS: BASIC FOUR
WEEK TOPIC
1. SENTENCE BUILDING: QUESTION TAGS
2. QUSTION TAGS CONT.
3. QUESTION TAGS
4. SENTENCE FORMATION
5. PAST AND PAST CONTINOUS TENSES
6. MODALS
7. ANTONYMS
8. ADVERBS
9. ADVERBS CONT.
10. REVISION
WEEK ONE AND TWO
QUESTION TAGS
Read these sentences aloud. Think about the two parts.
|
Statement |
Question |
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I ate beans, She bought two oranges, They swept the room, Carol sang a song, He killed the snake, He has gone, |
Didn’t i? Didn’t she? Didbt they? Didn’t she? Didn’t he? Hasn’t he? |
|
Ade could not buy a pen, She is not your enemy, You don’t tell lies, Our teacher was not wicked, |
Could he? Is she? Do you? Was he? |
Note
A sentence with a question tag has two parts. If the body (that is, the first part) is positive, the question tag will be negative and if the body is negative, the tag will be positive.
EXERCISE
Supply the questions of the following sentences. Follow the example in exercise one.
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Statement |
Question |
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i. We ate all the food, ii. We paid the fees, iii. He bought the car, iv. She cooked the food, v. I left the room, vi. Biola ate the apple, vii. Wale wrote a letter, viii. Eze carried the basket, ix. Fatima sold oranges, x. We came to school, |
|
WEEK THREE
QUESTION TAGS
Read these sentences aloud
i. Ngozi was ther, wasn’t she?
Yes, she was
ii. They were not busy, were they?
No, they weren’t
iii. My sister did not buy sugar, did she?
No, she didn’t
iv. You are a small boy, aren’t you?
Yes, I am
v. Men don’t surrender easily, do they?
No, they don’t
vi. We agreed to meet here, didn’t we?
vii. Yes, we did
EVALUATION
Study the table below and make twenty correct sentences from it:
|
My mother Mrs. Sulaiman The lady |
borrowed bought sold |
a car, |
didn’t she? |
|
He The man your father |
Was
|
lazy, kind, handsome, |
wasn’t he? |
|
They |
Are |
busy, brilliant, generous, miserly, |
aren’t they? |
WEEK FOUR
SENTENCE FORMATION
A. Read these snentences. Use the underlined words in sentences of your own.
1. Put away all the toys
2. Some children are very playful
3. Give me any of the colours
4. Each book costs $300
5. None of the boys is in school
B. Make eight sentences from this table
|
Each All None Some |
of us |
Must bring Can carry Buy |
A desk A bag A bell |
C. Make ten meaningful sentence from this table:
|
Everybody Nobody
All of you Some of us Most of them |
Is
Are |
In that home At the nack of the room
In front of Titi In class IV A. Over there. In the library |
WEEK FIVE
PAST AND PAST CONTINOUS TENSE
1. Read these sentences:
i. He came in at a point in time
ii. I was eating then
iii. He came in when I was eating
iv. When I was eating, he came in.
Now, write down the sentences below like sentence (iii) above.
(a) I saw him when he was going out
(b) We got there when they were fighting
(c) Dada left home, when his father was dying
(d) We felt bad when we were coming
(e) My eacher told me when he was leaving.
2. Study the table below and write six sentences from it
|
My father Your sister Your friend Tayo |
Was |
Dancing Talking Sleeping Eating writing |
When |
I woke up They bought the car My mother came back
|
3. Complete the gaps in the sentence by using the appropriate form of verb in each of the brackets:
i. I broke the cu when I was ______ (run).
ii. The man came when we were ________ (read)
iii. When tthey were praying, miracles ________ (happen)
iv. When he was running away, we _____ (laugh)
v. I read the book when they were ______ (sleeping)
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