Category: Form 1 English Study Notes

WRITING TEXTS  AT THE BANK COUNTER  DEPOSITION MONEY  Now imaging that you are at the bank counter and you want to keep your money there. This is called depositing.          In the bank you will be giving PAY-IN-SLIP you must fill in the form correctly.    …

TAKING NOTES   Hearing is the natural ability of receiving sound waves/message This is normally involuntary e.g. Noise Sometimes we hear even if we don’t want to since we care not deaf Listening is conscious or international attempt to hoar to receive the message deliberately listening involves some skills which…

Intensive reading: Involves comprehension and summary while reading a class reader (books) its chapters, the following activities should be done. Understanding the writing and pictures on the front cover, usually they summarize or give a piece of information of what is in the class reader (book) Title of the class…

A FOOLISH CUSTOMER  One day Mr. Juha seat in a hotel drinking some coffee. A boy come to him that he was selling afternoon papers. “Which papers do you have? Juha asked. “I have the Daily news and The Guardian”, the boy said. “Well, give me both. How much do…

Future exists in different forms  Intention     –        necessity     –      shall   Probability  –        possibility   –        will  Common adverb  Tomorrow, next  How to form future?  Subject + shall/will + be + main clause    …

This give a particular form of verb endings it is sometimes called PAST TENSE  Note: common adverb Last week, yesterday etc. Example:   My brother got married last Friday Last week they closed the school     Expressing past activities  Tense is expressed by verbs. These verbs in the past…

    What is your opinion?  Do you like city life or rural life? There are some people who want to go to live in towns. They think that life is cheap and simple there. They think they can buy cars, houses, good clothes etc.          …

The word like (v) means to be sound as or pleased with from the verb we get the word like (vi) and dislike (Ti) opposite or antonym. Grammatically likes/ dislike are not nouns but only used in everyday talks (spoken English) whether like or dislike the force behind them are…

This activity can be done by individual or somebody else. They refer to what is going on at a time of observation guessing, talking and so on. This is PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE or PROGRESSIVE ASPECT –      The verbs end with …ing  Martha and Consolata are sweeping the floor…

Graduation day  The morning was full of drumbeats, laughter and everybody was happy. It was a graduation day for standard seven leavers. All students looked very smart including Kadoka who was always dirty. In the morning we were given a time table showing what would happen through the day. The…