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SS2 English Language Scheme of Work First Term (Lagos State)

Lesson Note for SS2 · October 27, 2026 · 0 Comment

SS2 English Language Scheme of Work First Term (Lagos State)

The SS2 English Language scheme of work first term below follows the Lagos State curriculum week by week. It lists the topics for every week, together with the Words for the Week.

Week 7 is for mid-term tests, open day and the mid-term holiday, and Weeks 13 and 14 are for examinations. Scroll down for the SS1 and SS3 schemes, and also for a sample SS2 lesson plan.

Week by Week: SS2 English Language Scheme of Work for First Term

Weeks 1 to 3: SS2 English Language Scheme of Work

Week Topics Words for the Week
1
  • Nominalisation of adjectives and verbs (Welcome tests and revision).
  • Consonant sounds (Oral).
  • Summary.
 bombastic, dearth, hiatus, implacable, stingy, dour, ebullient, ignominious, impinge, tome.
2
  • Consonant clusters (clusters of two, three, and four or five consonants) (Oral).
  • Words associated with the human body system and functions (a comprehension passage with numbered gaps indicating missing words that students must fill in) (Vocabulary Development and Comprehension).
  • Expository essay (Controlling HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, or managing population explosion in Nigeria) (Writing).
 partisan, repose, vivacious, surmise, malediction, stoic, tangential, mores.
3
  • Nouns and noun phrases (Structure).
  • Transcription (monosyllabic, disyllabic and polysyllabic words) (Oral).
  • Words associated with health, e.g. diagnosis, blood bank, contagious, counselling, sickly (a comprehension passage with numbered gaps indicating missing words) (Vocabulary Development and Comprehension).
 paradigm, obtuse, sublime, paragon, reciprocate, solvent, frugal, surrogate, vilify, exonerate.

SS2 English Scheme of Work for Weeks 4 to 6

Week Topics Words for the Week
4
  • Pronouns and types of pronouns (personal, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, reflexive, relative, reciprocal and indefinite pronouns) (Structure).
  • Reading to summarise (Summary).
  • Words associated with building and building construction (a comprehension passage with numbered gaps indicating missing words) (Vocabulary Development and Comprehension).
 parsimony, virtuoso, revoke, surreptitiously, expurgate, vacuous, manifest, incendiary, remiss, querulous.
5
  • Word stress (two-, three-, four-, five- and six-syllable words) (Oral).
  • Listening to answer questions on a passage (Listening comprehension).
  • Argumentative essay (Should female circumcision be abolished? or Military rule is better than civilian rule) (Writing).
 serendipity, verdant, scathing, reprieve, pariah, maelstrom.
6
  • Plural forms of nouns (formation of plural nouns and plural compound nouns, e.g. grown-up, grown-ups; girlfriend, girlfriends; passer-by, passers-by; mother-in-law, mothers-in-law; secretary-general, secretaries-general) (Structure).
  • Reading to extract the main points from a passage; summary (Comprehension).
  • Stress patterns (rules guiding the placement of stress in words of two or more syllables) (Oral).
 wistful, xenophobia, youngsters, upbraid, distend, hierarchy, inept, pungent, rectitude.

Topics for Weeks 7 to 9 in SS2 English Language

Week Topics Words for the Week
7
  • Mid-term tests, Open Day and Mid-term holiday.
 refute, medley, abducted, choreography, coronation, diffident, derelict, emend, efface, facile.
8
  • A selected passage that students read and make notes on (Reading comprehension).
  • Emphatic stress (Oral).
  • Summarising an argument (Reading summary).
 pliable, pittance, vapid, sublime, abdicate, accede, abnegation, apathetic, animated, coalesce.
9
  • Adverbs and adverbial phrases, and their types (Structure).
  • Words associated with colour, smell and taste (adjectives) (Vocabulary Development).
  • Identifying tone, purpose and figurative expressions (Listening comprehension).
  • Report writing (scientific report: a report of an experiment carried out by a student, or a laboratory report) (Writing).
 connive, daunting, promulgate, rancor, serene, clandestine, prescient, servile, torpid, trite.

Weeks 10 to 12 of the SS2 English Language Scheme

Week Topics Words for the Week
10
  • Adjectival phrases and clauses, and their functions (Structure).
  • Rhyme (Oral).
  • Creative writing (features of a short play or story: plot, style, setting and theme; features of a poem: use of verse, imagery and concise language) (Writing).
 obfuscate, raze, alleviate, epitomise, hedonist, innovate, perplex, reconcile, rife, soluble, tedious.
11
  • Phrasal verbs with two particles (Structure).
  • Reading to paraphrase poems and dramatic works (Reading comprehension).
  • Informal letter (features and format) (Letter writing).
 despot, forage, plethora, undulate, feral, polemic, variegated, placid, pacific, berate.
12
  • Adverbial clause (Structure).
  • Narrative essay (Writing).
  • Summary writing.
 bound, apocryphal, annul, cajole, brazen, cacophony, banish, debacle, credulity, crescendo.

Examination Weeks 13 and 14 in the SS2 Scheme

Week Topics
13
  • Examination.
14
  • Examination.

English Language Scheme of Work for Other Classes

Teaching more than one class? Open the scheme for each senior secondary level below.

Sample SS2 English Language Lesson Plan

Want to see how this scheme becomes a lesson? Then open the SS2 English Language lesson plan for first term to view a sample week.

Related posts:

  1. SS2 English Language Lesson Plan for First Term (Lagos State)
  2. SS1 English Language Scheme of Work First Term (Lagos state)
  3. SS3 English Language Scheme of Work First Term (Lagos)
  4. Digital Technologies First Term Scheme of Work for JSS1 to SS3
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