English Study Notes LITERATURE FORM 1 – WRITING PERSONAL LETTER msomimaktaba, November 11, 2018February 13, 2019 Friendly letters Use to express your thought and feelings to get something done both the content and the form of a letter say something for you and about you. The content is what you write in a letter, form is how it look There are two… Continue Reading
English Study Notes LITERATURE FORM 1 – INTERPRETING LITERARY WORKS msomimaktaba, November 11, 2018February 13, 2019 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… Continue Reading
English Study Notes LITERATURE FORM 1 – EXPRESSING FUTURE PLANS AND ACTIVITIES msomimaktaba, November 11, 2018February 13, 2019 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 … Continue Reading
English Study Notes LITERATURE FORM 1 – TALKING ABOUT PAST EVENTS/ ACTIVITIES msomimaktaba, November 11, 2018February 13, 2019 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… Continue Reading
English Study Notes LITERATURE FORM 1 – EXPRESSING OPINIONS AND FEELINGS msomimaktaba, November 11, 2018February 13, 2019 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. … Continue Reading
English Study Notes LITERATURE FORM 1 – EXPRESSING LIKES AND DISLIKE msomimaktaba, November 11, 2018February 13, 2019 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… Continue Reading
English Study Notes LITERATURE FORM 1 – EXPRESSING PERSONAL AND GROUP ROUTINE / HABITS msomimaktaba, November 11, 2018February 13, 2019 Every person or group of people who stay together (school) has daily routine or activity. This can be expressed by different works, everyday, often, usually, daily, every month. Usually action is expressed in present simple tense or habitual aspect. The social area/ focus is on the following. … Continue Reading
English Study Notes LITERATURE FORM 1 – LISTENING TO AND UNDERSTANDING SIMPLE TEXTS ABOUT A VARIETY OF EVENTS AND SITUATION msomimaktaba, November 11, 2018February 13, 2019 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… Continue Reading
Basic Mathematics Study Notes MATHEMATICS FORM 1 – UNITS msomimaktaba, November 11, 2018August 17, 2024 UNITS UNITS OF LENGTH Basic unit of length is meter. Other unit are such as :- Unit Symbol Millimeter mm Centimeter cm Decimeter dm Meter m Decameter dam Hectametre hm Kilometer km Km hm dam m dm cm mm 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1… Continue Reading
Basic Mathematics Study Notes MATHEMATICS FORM 1 – RATIO, PROFIT AND LOSS msomimaktaba, November 11, 2018August 17, 2024 RATIO, PROFIT AND LOSS Ratio:- the ratio of number p and q is p:q or p ÷ q or p/q Examples: 1. Joha and Siwenza shared 4,000 shillings between them. It Joha received 15,000 shillings and Siwenza got 25,000 shillings, Find the ratio of the amounts they received: Solution: Joha… Continue Reading
Basic Mathematics Study Notes MATHEMATICS FORM 1 – PERIMETERS AND AREA msomimaktaba, November 11, 2018August 17, 2024 PERIMETERS AND AREA PERIMETER: The perimeter is the length of a closed curve. It is measured in centimeters, meter, kilometer etc To find the perimeter of a shape, add the length of the sides which enclose it. Example: Find the perimeter of rectangle which is 6m by 9m solution Consider… Continue Reading
Basic Mathematics Study Notes MATHEMATICS FORM 1 – COORDINATE GEOMETRY msomimaktaba, November 11, 2018August 17, 2024 COORDINATE GEOMETRY Introduction The position of points on a line found by using a number line, that is When two number lines one vertical and another one horizontal are considered one kept at 90o and intersecting at their zero marks, The result is called xy – plane or… Continue Reading
Basic Mathematics Study Notes MATHEMATICS FORM 1 – ALGEBRA msomimaktaba, November 11, 2018August 17, 2024 ALGEBRA Algebra is a study which deals with situations whereby some values unknown. Normally these unknown are represented by letters. Those letters are also referred to as variables. Algebraic expression An expression – is a mathematical statement which consists of several variables. An expression can only be simplified, that is… Continue Reading
Basic Mathematics Study Notes MATHEMATICS FORM 1 – APPROXIMATIONS msomimaktaba, November 11, 2018August 17, 2024 APPROXIMATIONS Is the process of rounding off a number in the given places in rounding makes numbers easier to deal with but at the same time reduces their accuracy. The methods used for approximation or rounding off numbers are decimal places and significant figures. ROUNDING OFF PROCEDURES i) If the… Continue Reading
Basic Mathematics Study Notes MATHEMATICS FORM 1 – FRACTIONS msomimaktaba, November 11, 2018August 17, 2024 FRACTIONS A fraction is a number that can be written in the form of Where a and b are intergers and b 0 The number which is written on top of fraction is called Numerator and the bottom is called denominator e.g Type of fraction (i) Proper fractions – A… Continue Reading
Basic Mathematics Study Notes MATHEMATICS FORM 1 – NUMBERS msomimaktaba, November 11, 2018August 17, 2024 NUMBERS What is numbers? Numbers are symbols or words which represent quantity of something for example in form 1B there are forty four students. i.e. 44 students The numbers are represented by symbols called numerals. Each symbol in a numeral is called a digit. E.g. In 256 there are three… Continue Reading