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SUMMARY WRITING AT THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL
At the Senior High School level, candidates are given a passage ranging between four hundred (400) and five hundred (500) words and asked to summarise some part of the passage in five (5) or six (6) sentences.
To write a good summary, one must:
An auxiliary verb is used to add functional or grammatical content to the information expressed by another verb, considered to be the main verb. Auxiliary verbs are also called helping verbs
OVERVIEW OF LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODS
The organisational rule of all languages has been organised into five components but sub grouped into three categories (Hausser et al, 2002) as explained in the following sections.
1. Language Rule Systems (Form)
i. Phonology: This language system is concerned with the sound system of a language and the rules that govern the sound combinations. For instance, tone (rising and falling of voice), length or duration of the sounds. The sound elements in the English language are called phonemes. Only the initial phoneme prevents the words “pear” and “bear” from being identical.
Reading comprehension is the process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language (Snow, 2002). It is an active, constructive, meaning-making process (Kintsch, 2018; Singer & Alexander, 2017) in which the reader, the text, the activity and the sociocultural context all play central roles. These four aspects are all inter-related and changes in any one of them affect the meaning the reader constructs (Snow, 2002). Reading and learning to read always takes place in a particular context situated within a broader sociocultural context
What are Phrasal Verbs?
A phrasal verb is a combination of words (a verb + a preposition or verb + adverb) that when used together, usually take on a different meaning to that of the original verb.
In the department of——, but it is better not to mention the department. The touchiest things in the world are departments, regiments, courts of justice, in a word, all branches of public service. Each individual nowadays thinks all society insulted in his person. Quite recently, a complaint was received from a district chief of police in which he plainly demonstrated that all the imperial institutions were going to the dogs, and that the Czar's sacred name was being taken in vain; and in proof he appended to the complaint a romance, in which the district chief of police is made to appear about once in every ten pages, and sometimes in a downright drunken condition. Therefore, in order to avoid all unpleasantness, it will be better to designate the department in question, as a certain department.
Phrasal Verbs
A phrasal verb is a verb made up of more than one word (usually two words). It consists of a main verb and another word (either a preposition or a particle). The meaning of the phrasal verb is usually different from that of the main verb.
Examples:
Break in: A burglar will often break a window to break in. (Meaning: to enter illegally)
Drop back: If you drop the baton, the team will drop back to last place. (Meaning: to fall behind)
