MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

SECONDARY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMME

SEPTEMBER 2020
Week 4
TOPIC: Verb
SUB TOPIC: Intransitive Verb

1. TRANSITIVE
2. INTRANSITIVE
3. INTRANSITIVE
4. INTRANSITIVE
5. TRANSITIVE
6. INTRANSITIVE
7. INTRANSITIVE
8. INTRANSITIVE
9. INTRANSITIVE
10. TRANSITIVE

Sentences with intransitive verbs

-appeared
He appeared out of nowhere
-failed
He failed miserably.
-work
My mom works very hard in the day
-died
My grandmother died recently.
-smiled
The baby smiled brightly.

*must follow the pattern s+v+ no object (use adverbs/ prepositional phrases instead)

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TOPIC: Letter Writing
SUB TOPIC: Social letter/ Personal letter.
*structure of the letter
-sender’s address and date
-salutation
-content/ body
-complimentary close

*content
-reasons for writing the letter
-Give advice and encouragements
-relate emotions towards the friend e.g..I am happy to know that….

*use of correct grammar.

* Spelling and punctuation

TOPIC: Poetry
SUB TOPIC: Figure of Speech- Simile

1. Two similes found in the poem are:

Any of these
a. “like a raisin in the sun: raisin means fruit juice; it dries up when kept in the sun for
long, thus if your dream is delayed there is no excitement after then.

b. fester like a sore- And then run: meaning a pus that is formed in the body due to delay in
treatment. The dream keeps delaying and that causes one to be in pain similar as a sore.

c. stink like rotten meat: meat if kept for long starts giving bad smell or odor. Hence, dream
deferred will become like rotten meat. There would be no freshness and enthusiasm in it
anymore.

d. crust and sugar over- like a syrupy sweet: sweets if kept for long also rot away.

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Thus the poet is trying to convey that like all these things a dream if delayed can also suffer. It
will become too much to bear.

1. If our dreams are deferred, we will become hopeless and suffer.

2. There is a tone of hopelessness.
3. The main idea of the poem is dreams deferred makes one sad and hopeless and causes
him/ her to suffer.

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