COMPREHEND ORAL AND WRITTEN INFORMATION
English Notes
SUBJECT: ENGLISH
CLASS: STANDARD FIVE
TEACHER’S NAME:
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COMPREHEND ORAL AND WRITTEN INFORMATION
Listen and Comprehend Oral information
ORAL INFORMATION
Oral information is the information presented orally by the speaker for someone to listen.
A. Listen to words presented orally in order to pronounce them.
The following are English words
Try to pronounce them correctly.
Word
Bed
Book
Work
Pen
Good
Church
Gun
Pot
Bird
Sun
Court
Ship
Lip
Man
Hare
Bad
Zoo
B. Listen to recorded materials like radio, TV broadcast, explanations, orally presented
instructions that require demonstrations and interpret important messages.
Recorded materials are devices which contain the sound o voice of other people for learnersto
listen and interpret them. They include TV, radio, cassette, CD
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The following are the importance of listening to recorded materials;
i. We learn how to pronounce English words properly.
ii. We get important information about our country or other countries.
iii. We acquire much vocabulary.
iv. We learn and know weather conditions of different placer
v. We get education that helps us in our daily life.
Diagrams of devices we can listen from
a) Television
b) Computer
c) Tape Recorder
d) Radio
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C. Listen to explanation about the process of making and operating things in order to
describe the processes.
-Below is an example of explanations of how to make and use a clay stove.
Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
How to make and use clay stove.
A clay stove is a kind of stove that is made from clay soil to be used for cooking like any
otherstove.
-The process of making clay stove.
i. First one must prepare the following items: clay soil, a stick, a bucket with water,
firewood, a match box, three big stones or bricks and a mat
ii. Mix clay soil with water,
iii. Start moulding the clay stove using your hands.
iv. After that use a stick to put a hole on the lower part of a stove.
v. Put the stove on a mat and put on the sun to dry.
vi. When it is dry, take firewood, make fire.
vii. Take a stove, place it over the three big stones around the fire to harden it.
After these processes, the clay stove will be ready for use.
QUESTIONS (Exercise 1)
- What do we use clay stove for?
Answer: We use clay stove for cooking food. - Why do we put a hole on the lower part of a clay stove?
Answer: We put a hole in order to make air pass through it. - Why do we put a clay stove on the fire?
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Answer: In order to harden it.
D. Listen to dialogue on common matters and identify main ideas.
A dialogue is the conversation between two or more people on a particular subject matter.
Below is an example of a dialogue between Peter and Amina..
Peter. How are you Amina?
Amina: I am fine, Peter, how are you too?
Peter I am fine too
Where are you taking that bucket of water and a broom?
Amina: I am going to water the flowers and clean our school compound.
Peter: Is it necessary to clean the school compound and water the flowers?
Peter:
Amina: Yes, it is. We water the flowers so that they may row well. We also clean school
environment to make it look clean. It also makes insects like mosquitoes which transmit malaria
to run away.
Peter: Thank you for the good explanation on the importance of cleaning our environment. Let
me join you so that we may clean together school compound
QUESTIONS (Exercise 2) - What was Amına carrying?
Answer; Amina was carrying a bucket of water and a broon. - With whom did she meet?
Answer: She met with Peter. - According to the story did Peter know the importance of cleanliness.
Answer; According to the story Peter did not the importance: of cleanliness. - Why do we water our flowers we have grown?
Answer: We do water our flowers we have grown so as to make them grow well.
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From the dialogue we learn that cleanliness is very important for health and safety.
E. Listen to recorded discussion on everyday activities and make comments.
-Below is an example of discussion between Uswege and Pendo on what they do every day
after school hours. This discussion was recorded on the phone.
Uswege: Good evening Pendo
Pendo: Good evening to you. Where are you going at this time?
Pendo: That is very good thing Uswege, Do you exercise every evening?
Uswege: Yes, I do. After school time I change my uniform and go to the ground do exercises.
Pendo: Let me arrünge my time table so that I can join you.
Uswege. That will be very interesting. What do you do evey day after coming back fromschool?
Pendo: AfteT coming back from school, first I take meal After that I help my mother to wash
utensils Then I take baih and study And you Uswege?
Uswege. After school time first, I water the garden, äfter that I take supper then I go to
exercise on the play ground At night I studly with my young brother Aswile.
Pendo: Nice to hear that, Let me go home. See you tomoow.
Uswege: Okay see you.
Activity (Exercise 3):
Let us sort out sentences that show everyday activities in the discussion of Pendo and Uswege. - Uswege changes school uniform after school hours
-2 Uswege goes to the play ground every evening - Uswege does exercises every morning.
Callibri (Boc
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7 - Uswege and Pendo go to school every morning.
- Pendo takes meal after school time.
- Pendo washes utensils every evening.
- Pendo and Uswege study every day.
EXERCISE 4.
Make more sentences that show everyday activities.
F. Listen to recorded conversation in order to learn sentences construction and use in
different contexts.
Below is the recorded conversation of Lillian, Grace and Isaac about their vacation during
June holiday.
-From their dialogue learn sentences construction for your everyday life.
VACATION EXPERIENCE
Lilian: My friends Grace and Isaac, I am so glad to see you once again.
Isaac: We are also happy to see you today. How are you doing by the way?
Lilian: I am fine, I was just worried about you my friends.
Grace, We were also worried about you but thank God we see you today
Lilian. I am also grateful to see you once again.
Lilian: You told me you would be going to Manyara to greet your grandmother
Isaac: Yes Lilian, my sister Grace and I went to Manyara to greet our grandmother. We
enjoyed a lot. Our grandmother used to cook for us food which we don’t eat in town.
Grace: What Isaac says is true. The holiday vacation made us change environment completely
Not only the new food and friends, we had also a chance of going to watch wild animals in
Manyara National Park.
Isaac; You went to Dubai with your family, tell us what did you experience there”
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Lilian: Dabai is so wonderful, It is full of all the luxurious things you can mention big hotels
andrestaurants, fancy, cars, big roads with a lot of fly over. At night the city is full of lights.
Moreover the city is very clean. Ore does not
Isaac: Waooh! That is very wonderful How were you communicating with those people of
Dubai?
Lilian: Many people speak English language there. Dubai s visited by different peopie of
different rades from all over the world. So the language used by most people is English.
Grace: Okay, okay, that is why we learn that English is an international language. By the way,
have you remembered to bring us some presents from the big city get bored moving around
the city dear?
Lillian: Don’t worry about that tomorrow come at our home, you choose the presents you want,
How could I forget you my best friends.
-Isaac: Thank you very much Lillian, we shall come. I see it is time for assembly let us go
Grace/Lillian: Let us go before the teacher on duty finds us here chatting
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