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Topics with a public outline Listening Comprehension Test (For candidates in Ghana, The Gambia and Sierra Leone)
Sixty multiple-choice questions testing consonants, consonant clusters, vowels, diphthongs, stress, intonation patterns, dialogues, and narratives. Includes sections on word-final consonants, vowel quality, consonant contrasts, sentence contexts, rhymes, emphatic stress, and comprehension of dialogues and narratives. CD players will be used.
A. LEXIS (For candidates in The Gambia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Liberia)
This section tests vocabulary of everyday usage and general vocabulary associated with various fields of human activity, as well as idioms, structural elements and figurative usage. Emphasis is on the use and understanding of lexis in context, including sense relations like synonyms and antonyms.
Examination Scheme
This module details the structure, content, and requirements for Papers 1, 2, and 3 of the Literature-in-English examination.
SECTION A: ESSAY WRITING (50 marks)
Tests writing ability through various forms such as letter, speech, narration, description, argument, report, article, exposition, and creative writing. Marks are awarded for content, organization, expression, and mechanical accuracy. Minimum length is 450 words.
course outline PREAMBLE Examination Scheme Paper 1: General Knowledge of Literature (20 questions) Paper 1: Unseen Prose Passage (5 questions) Paper 1: Unseen Poem (5 questions) Paper 1: Context Questions on Shakespearean Text (20 questions) Paper 1: Overall - 1 hour, 50 marks Paper 2: African Prose Essays (Answer one question) Paper 2: Non-African Prose Essays (Answer one question) Paper 2: Overall - 1 hour 15 minutes, 50 marks Paper 3: African Drama Essays (Answer one question) Paper 3: Non-African Drama Essays (Answer one question) Paper 3: African Poetry Essays (Answer one question) Paper 3: Non-African Poetry Essays (Answer one question) Paper 3: Overall - 2 hours 30 minutes, 100 marks Note: Unseen Prose Passage Length (120-150 words) Note: Shakespearean Context Questions Scope (Theme, Characterization, Style, Setting) Note: No Essay Question on Shakespearean Text AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This examination sets out to test the different basic skills of communicating in English using the mediums of speech and writing. The examination will test the receptive and productive abilities of candidates. These abilities will be demonstrated in the following forms: reading, comprehension, summary, vocabulary, lexis and structure, listening comprehension and recognition of different aspects of spoken English.
Features to be tested in Listening Comprehension
Detailed breakdown of features including Consonants (single, clusters), Vowels (pure, diphthongs, triphthongs), Stress (word, sentence, emphatic), and Intonation (falling, rising patterns, combined patterns, contrastive stress).
Write about incidents in English that are appropriate to specified audiences and situations
Organize material in paragraphs that are chronologically, spatially and logically coherent
Control sentence structures accurately
Exhibit variety in the use of sentence patterns
Comply with the rules of grammar
Spell and punctuate correctly
Comprehend written and spoken English
Recognize implied meaning, tones and attitudes
Use an acceptable pronunciation that can be comprehended by others
Recognize the physical characteristics of English sounds and the letters that represent them
Pick out and summarize relevant information from set passages Prescribed Texts (2021-2025) African Prose - Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta African Prose - Unexpected Joy at Dawn by Alex Agyei-Agyiri (2018 Edition) Non-African Prose - Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Non-African Prose - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Shakespearean Text - A Midsummer Night's Dream African Drama - Let me Die Alone by John K. Kargbo African Drama - The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka Non-African Drama - Look Back in Anger by John Osborne Non-African Drama - Fences by August Wilson African Poetry - "Black Woman" by Leopold Sedar Senghor African Poetry - "The Leader and the Led" by Niyi Osundare African Poetry - "The Grieved Lands" by Agostinho Neto African Poetry - "The Song of the Women of my Land" by Oumar Farouk Sesay African Poetry - "Raider of the Treasure Trove" by Lade Wosornu African Poetry - "A Government Driver on his Retirement" by Onu Chibuike Non-African Poetry - "The Good-Morrow" by John Donne Non-African Poetry - "Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou Non-African Poetry - "The Journey of the Magi" by T.S. Eliot Non-African Poetry - "Do not Go Gentle into the Good Night" by Dylan Thomas Non-African Poetry - "Binsey Poplars (Felled 1879)" by G.M. Hopkins Non-African Poetry - "Bat" By David H. Lawrence SCHEME OF EXAMINATION Paper 1: Objective/multiple choice (40 marks, 1 hour) Paper 2: Essay, Comprehension, and Summary (100 marks, 2 hours) Paper 3: Oral English (Multiple choice objective) (30 marks, 45 minutes) 
