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course outline

PAPER 1: (For candidates in The Gambia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Liberia only)
- A. LEXIS
- B. STRUCTURE
LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH
- General Knowledge of Literature
- Unseen prose passage
- Unseen poem
- Shakespearean text (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
- African Prose (Second Class Citizen, Unexpected Joy at Dawn)
- Non-African Prose (Invisible Man, Wuthering Heights)
- African Drama (Let me Die Alone, The Lion and the Jewel)
- Non-African Drama (Look Back in Anger, Fences)
- African Poetry ("Black Woman", "The Leader and the Led", "The Grieved Lands", "The Song of the Women of my Land")
- Non-African Poetry ("Raider of the Treasure Trove", "A Government Driver on his Retirement", "The Good-Morrow", "Caged Bird", "The Journey of the Magi", "Do not Go Gentle into the Good Night", "Binsey Poplars (Felled 1879)", "Bat")
PAPER 1: (For candidates in Ghana only)
- A. LEXIS
- B. STRUCTURE
- C. LITERATURE
PAPER 2: (For all candidates)
- SECTION A: ESSAY WRITING (50 marks)
- SECTION B: COMPREHENSION (20 marks)
- SECTION C: SUMMARY (30 marks)
PAPER 3: ORAL ENGLISH (30 marks)
- Listening Comprehension Test (For candidates in Ghana, The Gambia and Sierra Leone)
- Test Of Orals (For candidates in Nigeria and Liberia)
Other Topics
- Comprehension and grammar
- Stress
- Tense and aspect
- Phonetics and phonology
- Idiomatic expression
- Sentence interpretation
- Antonyms synonyms homonyms
- Oral english
- Vocabulary
- Subject verb agreement
- The sound system
- English grammar

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