36-Week WAEC Revision Programme — English Studies
September to the May WAEC sitting. SS3 is not a year of new material so much as a year of pressure on material already met, so this is not a course to work through from the beginning — it is a testing programme. Each week you answer cold, work the ones you got wrong, and have the AI explain why you got them wrong. Anything you turn out never to have been taught, you learn there and then, and meet again three weeks later.
A week is one block of the syllabus and the prompts that cover it. You are not meant to do all of them: answer the questions first, and let what you get wrong decide which of the rest you need. Fifteen or twenty minutes a subject is a real week's work — nine subjects do not fit any other way.
Every week, in this order
Start with the questions, not the explanation. The first two steps are in every week; a purpose-written mistake or pitfalls prompt appears in about half of them, and where it does not, your own wrong answers are the material for step three.
- 1. Retrieve — Answer cold, with nothing in front of you. Wrong answers are the point — they show you where the week's work is.
- 2. Drill — Work the ones you missed properly, showing every step, so you and the AI can both see where it went wrong.
- 3. Explain my error — Ask why your answer was wrong, not just what the right one is. Where the week offers a Spot My Mistake or WAEC Pitfalls prompt, use it.
- 4. Teach me — Only if the error turns out to be something you were never taught. Then come back and retrieve it again.
Term 1
↑ Jump to week- Week 1
- Quiz Me: Which paper and which section a described task belongs to
- Grammar drill: a full 80-item WAEC-format Paper 1 under strict examina
- Grammar drill: the structure errors the WAEC Chief Examiners' reports
- Grammar drill: my exact order and pacing strategy for Paper 1 — which
- Grammar drill: the highest-frequency structure item types drilled to s
- Grammar drill: my final structural accuracy audit across the whole yea
- Mechanics check: a personal spelling programme naming a weekly drill for
- Vocabulary drill: the home and its rooms
- Vocabulary drill: agriculture
- Vocabulary drill: building
- Vocabulary drill: law
- Vocabulary drill: government
- Vocabulary drill: all six registers covered so far
- Vocabulary drill: science
- Vocabulary drill: pollution and waste
- Vocabulary drill: motor vehicles
- Spot My Mistake: Writing for the readers of one particular paper
- Mechanics check: mechanical accuracy as the fourth WAEC Paper 2 Section
- Mechanics check: my three commonest error types classified from evidence
- Mechanics check: which punctuation mark fails first in my writing under
- Mechanics check: the examination vocabulary most often misspelt
- Mechanics check: my mechanical accuracy programme against the evidence c
- Mechanics check: homophone and confusable traps
- Mechanics check: mechanical accuracy in formal register writing
- Mechanics check: proofreading a full 450-word script inside five minutes
- Mechanics check: my recent mechanical accuracy audit — the rate
- Mechanics check: a script against the WAEC Mechanical Accuracy descripto
- Mechanics check: one spelling convention
- Mechanics check: the two mechanical faults costing me most marks
- Mechanics check: punctuation accuracy in a fifty-minute script
- Mechanics check: mechanical accuracy across recent scripts compared
- Mechanics check: the mechanical accuracy band on my examination-style sc
- Mechanics check: my personal accuracy programme
- Mechanics check: the mechanics band on a full 450-word examination scrip
- Mechanics check: a full script in five minutes and score what a reduced
- Mechanics check: my mechanical accuracy movement across the term and the
- Mechanics check: the two mechanical faults still open from my recent aud
- Mechanics check: the punctuation mark that fails first when I write at s
- Mechanics check: my full mechanical audit before the mock — error rate
- Mechanics check: the mechanics record from my invigilated mock
- Mechanics check: every mechanical error on my mock scripts
- Mechanics check: my mechanical accuracy band on this examination script
- Mechanics check: the mechanical faults the examiners' reports name most
- Mechanics check: a five-minute proofread rehearsed inside a full paper w
- Mechanics check: my personal spelling list down to the twenty words I st
- Mechanics check: the mechanical accuracy band and proofreading protocol
- Teach Me: Dividing the time across the sections of a paper before writing anything
- Week 2
- Quiz Me: Telling a genuine summary point from a copied sentence
- Comprehension practice: my mock Section B answers against the published ma
- Comprehension practice: Section B sat inside a continuous two-hour mock Pa
- Comprehension practice: Section B in full examination format for the last
- Comprehension practice: my exact question order and time allocation for Se
- Comprehension practice: unseen passages at reduced time — thirty minutes
- Comprehension practice: a full Section B under examination conditions for
- Timed essay: a formal letter meeting Content
- Timed essay: a speech for a stated occasion and audience
- Timed essay: a description of a place or occasion held for the fu
- Timed essay: an argumentative essay or debate speech that names a
- Timed essay: one essay chosen correctly from letter
- Timed essay: a report addressed to a named recipient with a state
- Timed essay: an article for a stated publication and readership t
- Timed essay: an expository essay that explains a process in order
- Timed essay: a creative piece that sustains one voice and ends ra
- Timed essay: a narrative essay from a released past-paper title
- Timed essay: a description from a released past-paper title
- Timed essay: an expository essay from a released past-paper title
- Timed essay: an argumentative essay chosen between two released p
- Timed essay: a formal letter from a released past-paper task
- Timed essay: one Section A essay written inside a complete two-ho
- Timed essay: a speech from a released past-paper title
- Timed essay: an article from a released past-paper title
- Timed essay: a report from a released past-paper title
- Timed essay: a letter or creative piece completing the rotation o
- Timed essay: a fresh essay in whichever single criterion my nine
- Timed essay: a fresh essay in whichever of the nine types scored
- Timed essay: a second essay in a remediated type under full exami
- Timed essay: one Section A essay under invigilated mock condition
- Timed essay: one Section A essay as part of a complete two-hour i
- Timed essay: one Section A essay inside a full Paper 2 sitting
- Timed essay: a fresh timed essay checked line by line against the
- Timed essay: question selection and section timing rehearsed to t
- Timed essay: a planned opening and paragraph plan in each of my t
- Timed essay: my final Section A script under full examination con
- Summary practice: the summary routine — read
- Summary practice: locating the topic sentence of each paragraph
- Summary practice: summarising in an exactly stated number of sentenc
- Summary practice: selecting for one named aspect
- Summary practice: removing repetition and redundancy so no point is
- Summary practice: summary guidelines
- Summary practice: finding the points of an expository passage
- Spot My Mistake: Writing one sentence for one point
- Teach Me: How a summary point differs from a sentence copied out of the passage
- Week 3
- Quiz Me: Naming the examined area a Test of Orals item belongs to
- Test of Orals drill: rhyme and word stress items redrilled by transcr
- Test of Orals drill: all six examined areas retested inside one full
- Test of Orals drill: a full mock Paper 3 under invigilated conditions
- Test of Orals drill: a second full mock Paper 3
- Test of Orals drill: a full sixty-item paper under examination condit
- Test of Orals drill: the production and recognition errors the examin
- Test of Orals drill: Paper 3 pacing and answer-sheet discipline
- Test of Orals drill: final drilling on symbol recognition to speed
- Test of Orals drill: a full Test of Orals marked under examination conditions
- Common Mistakes: Quotation marks in direct speech
- Speaking & Listening: an individual talk of four to five minutes in th
- Speaking & Listening: listening to a spoken text once and extracting t
- Speaking & Listening: a structured discussion with an assigned role
- Speaking & Listening: an interview
- Speaking & Listening: persuading an audience that has already decided against you
- Speaking & Listening: an assessed individual talk followed by a sustai
- Speaking & Listening: a presentation from notes on a technical subject
- Speaking & Listening: a formal debate with direct rebuttal of my oppon
- Speaking & Listening: a spoken analysis of a short text
- Speaking & Listening: an assessed individual talk and conversation on a social issue
- Speaking & Listening: an individual talk of four to five minutes
- Speaking & Listening: listening to a spoken argument once and evaluati
- Speaking & Listening: a structured discussion with an assigned role on a school matter
- Speaking & Listening: persuasive speaking to an audience specifically
- Speaking & Listening: impromptu speaking — one minute to prepare
- Speaking & Listening: an assessed individual talk and the conversation
- Speaking & Listening: a presentation from notes
- Speaking & Listening: a formal debate with rebuttal
- Speaking & Listening: a spoken analysis of a text with every claim sup
- Speaking & Listening: an assessed individual talk and conversation on a personal interest
- Speaking & Listening: an individual talk of four to five minutes reope
- Speaking & Listening: listening to a spoken argument once
- Speaking & Listening: a structured discussion with an assigned role on a national matter
- Speaking & Listening: a presentation from notes with unprepared floor
- Speaking & Listening: a formal debate with rebuttal on an unseen motio
- Speaking & Listening: an assessed individual talk and conversation
- Speaking & Listening: a spoken analysis of a short text with quotation
- Speaking & Listening: impromptu speaking
- Speaking & Listening: an interview with follow-up questions taken
- Speaking & Listening: my final assessed individual talk and conversati
- Literature revision: So the Path Does Not Die by Pede Hollist — the w
- Literature revision: Once Upon a Time by Gabriel Okara — the father's
- Literature revision: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee — Part One
- Literature revision: The theme of prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird
- Literature revision: The Marriage of Anansewa by Efua Sutherland — th
- Teach Me: What each paper of the WAEC English Language examination asks of me
- Week 4
- Quiz Me: Words used with a sense they do not carry
- Three-in-one drill: recasting, pronoun reference and prepositions
- Three-in-one drill: concord, tense and connectives
- Three-in-one drill: naming, function and voice transformation
- Three-in-one drill: phrases, clauses and recasting
- Spot My Mistake: Idioms about trouble and danger
- Mock-exam skill: Guess-or-know self-check
- Mock-exam skill: Distractor analysis on my own wrong answers
- Mock-exam skill: Personal accuracy programme design
- Structure item lab: Confusable word pairs under time pressure
- Structure item lab: Fronting a sentence element for emphasis
- Structure item lab: Negation and double negatives
- Structure item lab: Verb-pattern errors after reporting verbs
- Structure item lab: Auxiliary verb agreement in questions
- Structure item lab: Faulty coordination with and, but and or
- Structure item lab: Redundant words in a sentence
- Structure item lab: Word-class shift across one sentence
- Register builder: family relationships
- Register builder: health and the body
- Register builder: agriculture, fishing and animal husbandry
- Register builder: building, construction and plumbing
- Register builder: law, order and the judiciary
- Register builder: government, administration and politics
- Register builder: science, technology and ICT
- Register builder: conservation and the climate
- Register builder: motor vehicles, travelling and transport
- Register builder: sports, entertainment and the press
- Register builder: the words used at a traditional ceremony
- Register builder: religion
- Register builder: the language devices advertisers use
- Register builder: the words used on a trading floor
- Register builder: illness and bodily function
- Register builder: the words used on a factory floor and in a shop
- Register builder: newspaper production
- Register builder: education
- Register builder: messaging and social media
- Register builder: the trades and crafts
- Idiom clinic: idioms about time and patience
- Idiom clinic: idioms about money and hard work
- Idiom clinic: idioms about speech and silence
- Idiom clinic: idioms about danger and caution
- Idiom clinic: idioms about success and failure
- Idiom clinic II: idioms about family and relationships
- Idiom clinic II: idioms about weather and nature
- Idiom clinic II: idioms about health and the body
- Idiom clinic II: idioms about food and eating
- Teach Me: The wrong preposition after a common verb
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 5
- Quiz Me: Choosing the meaning a word carries in the context it is given
- Collocation drill: verb-noun collocations
- Collocation drill: adjective-noun collocations
- Collocation drill: collocations in commerce and finance
- Collocation drill II: collocations in law and the judiciary
- Collocation drill II: collocations in agriculture
- Collocation drill II: preposition-noun collocations
- Mixed lexis drill: commerce and finance idioms and terms together
- Mixed lexis drill: communication and ICT idioms and terms together
- Mixed lexis drill: politics and government idioms and terms together
- Unseen passage practice: agriculture and rural life
- Unseen passage practice: law and the courts
- Common Mistakes: Silent consonants in English spelling
- Idiom clinic II: idioms about school and learning
- Sense-relations focus: Synonyms versus near-synonyms
- Sense-relations focus: Antonyms in context
- Sense-relations focus: Homonyms and homophones distinguished
- Sense-relations focus: Hyponyms and superordinate terms
- Foreign elements in English: bona fide, status quo and ad hoc
- Foreign elements in English: vice versa, en route and per se
- British vs American spelling: colour/color and organise/organize
- British vs American spelling: programme/program and cheque/check
- British vs American spelling: -ise versus -ize verb endings
- Mechanical accuracy: Homophones that survive a spellchecker
- Mechanical accuracy: Misspelt examination vocabulary
- Mechanical accuracy: Doubling consonants before suffixes
- Mechanical accuracy: The five-minute proofreading protocol
- Mechanical accuracy: The eight-minute proofreading protocol
- Mechanical accuracy: Punctuation under time pressure
- Mechanical accuracy: Capitalisation, abbreviation and numeral conventions
- Mechanical accuracy: Building a personal spelling programme
- Accuracy tracking: Auditing my error rate from marked scripts
- Accuracy tracking: Setting a mechanical accuracy target
- Accuracy tracking: Comparing my accuracy across the term
- Mechanical accuracy II: Spelling exam vocabulary in agriculture and building
- Mechanical accuracy II: Spelling exam vocabulary in law and government
- Mechanical accuracy II: Hyphenating compound modifiers under exam pressure
- Comprehension question type: word and phrase equivalents
- Comprehension question type: factual content questions
- Comprehension question type: inference questions
- Comprehension question type: sentiment, emotion and attitude questions
- Comprehension question type: giving the function of a clause in a sentence questions
- Comprehension question type: literary terms and expressions questions
- Comprehension question type: sentence recasting questions
- Full seven-type comprehension: the professions
- Full seven-type comprehension: broadcasting and the airwaves
- Teach Me: Reading the passage before you read the question
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 6
- Quiz Me: Matching a character, a turning point and a theme to the right set text
- Summary practice: a full Section C summary analysed point by point a
- Common Mistakes: Keeping to the number of sentences stated
- Full seven-type comprehension: the human body and health
- Full seven-type comprehension: culture and ceremony
- Full seven-type comprehension: finance and the stock exchange
- Essay coaching: the formal letter at Section A standard
- Essay coaching: the speech at Section A standard
- Essay coaching: the narrative essay at Section A standard
- Essay coaching: the descriptive essay at Section A standard
- Essay coaching: the argumentative essay at Section A standard
- Essay coaching: the report at Section A standard
- Essay coaching: the newspaper or magazine article at Section A standard
- Essay coaching: the expository essay at Section A standard
- Essay coaching: the creative composition at Section A standard
- Essay redraft clinic: Raising one criterion by one band
- Essay redraft clinic: Turning a retelling essay into an argued one
- Essay redraft clinic: Removing repetition without losing the point
- Essay redraft clinic: Opening an essay that keeps the reader reading
- IGCSE directed writing: Directed writing for a stated audience
- IGCSE directed writing: Matching tone to audience in directed writing
- Exam-day writing strategy: Choosing the right essay type for a title in under three minutes
- Exam-day writing strategy: Building my ranked essay-type choice list
- Exam-day writing strategy: Planning in five minutes before I write
- Letter writing: an application for a job or admission
- Letter writing: a letter of complaint
- Letter writing: a letter of invitation
- Letter writing: a letter to the editor of a newspaper
- Speech writing: a welcome speech for a school event
- Speech writing: a farewell speech to graduating students
- Speech writing: a speech for a school prize-giving occasion
- Report and article writing: an eyewitness report of an event
- Report and article writing: an investigative report on a school issue
- Report and article writing: an opinion article on a social issue
- Report and article writing: a feature article for a school magazine
- Narrative and description writing: a narrative built from a single incident
- Narrative and description writing: a narrative with a twist ending
- Narrative and description writing: a description of a person
- Narrative and description writing: a description of a place
- Summary skill: The read-identify-select-write-check routine
- Summary skill: Locating the topic sentence of a paragraph
- Summary skill: Summarising in an exactly stated number of sentences
- Summary skill: Rejecting material outside the named aspect
- Summary skill: Removing repetition and redundancy from a summary
- Summary skill: Writing an expository summary in your own words
- Summary skill: Summarising an argument without taking a side
- Summary skill: Summarising what a passage of dialogue reveals
- Teach Me: Holding a set text in memory by character, turning point and theme
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 7
- Quiz Me: Finding the answer that is implied but never stated
- Test of Orals drill: sit /sɪt/ and seat /siːt/
- Test of Orals drill: cot /kɒt/ and caught /kɔːt/
- Test of Orals drill: bat /bæt/ and bet /bet/
- Test of Orals drill: think /θɪŋk/ and this /ðɪs/
- Test of Orals drill: ship /ʃɪp/ and measure /ˈmeʒə/
- Test of Orals drill: chair /tʃeə/ and judge /dʒʌdʒ/
- Test of Orals drill: light /laɪt/ and right /raɪt/
- Test of Orals drill: sea /siː/ and she /ʃiː/
- Test of Orals drill: fan /fæn/ and van /væn/
- Test of Orals drill: sin /sɪn/ and sing /sɪŋ/
- Test of Orals drill: bough /baʊ/, cow /kaʊ/ and though /ðəʊ/
- Test of Orals drill: tough /tʌf/, cuff /kʌf/, height /haɪt/ and kite /kaɪt/
- Test of Orals drill: near /nɪə/, fair /feə/ and tour /tʊə/
- Test of Orals drill: prize /praɪz/ and price /praɪs/
- Test of Orals drill: full /fʊl/ and fool /fuːl/
- Consonant cluster drill: texts /teksts/ and scratched /skrætʃt/
- Consonant cluster drill: twelfths /twelfθs/ and sixths /sɪksθs/
- Consonant cluster drill: asked /ɑːskt/ and glimpsed /ɡlɪmpst/
- Word stress drill: maintenance /ˈmeɪntənəns/, determine /dɪˈtɜːmɪn/ and adjournment /əˈdʒɜːnmənt/
- Word stress drill: the noun contrast /ˈkɒntrɑːst/ against the verb contrast /kənˈtrɑːst/
- Word stress drill: litigation /ˌlɪtɪˈɡeɪʃn/ and bottle /ˈbɒtl̩/
- Word stress drill: entrepreneur /ˌɒntrəprəˈnɜː/ and comparable /ˈkɒmpərəbl/
- Word stress drill: algorithm /ˈælɡərɪðəm/ and prototype /prəˈtəʊtaɪp/
- Phonetic symbol drill: reading the phonemic chart in both directions at speed
- Phonetic symbol drill: matching a phonetic symbol to a word within five seconds
- Phonetic symbol drill: identifying vowel symbols like /ɜː/, /ɪə/, /eə/ and /ʊə/ without hesitation
- Spot My Mistake: Concord with a collective noun as subject
- Summary skill: A full-extent summary at WAEC standard
- Summary skill: Self-marking a summary against the points scheme
- Summary diagnostics: Diagnosing whether I lose marks finding points or writing them
- Summary diagnostics: Measuring which phase of forty minutes earns me most points
- Summary skill II: Summarising material spread across two related passages
- Summary skill II: Writing summary points entirely in my own words
- Summary skill II: Avoiding merged summary points
- Speaking & Listening coaching: The IGCSE individual talk
- Speaking & Listening coaching: Sustaining a conversation after my talk
- Speaking & Listening coaching: Speaking on an unseen prompt
- Speaking & Listening coaching: Impromptu speaking with one minute to prepare
- Speaking & Listening coaching: Interview technique as the interviewer
- Speaking & Listening coaching: Interview technique as the respondent
- Speaking & Listening coaching: Holding a stated role for ten minutes without drifting
- Speaking & Listening coaching: Answering the other side's points in a rebuttal
- Speaking & Listening coaching: Answering a hostile question while you are speaking
- Speaking & Listening coaching: Presenting a technical subject from notes
- Speaking & Listening coaching: Listening for main points and detail in one hearing
- Teach Me: Stress in two-syllable words that are both noun and verb
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 8
- Quiz Me: How long each section of a paper should be given
- Final-term exam strategy: Rehearsing timed openings for my chosen essay types
- Composition practice: a formal letter of complaint to a service provider
- Composition practice: a speech accepting an award or leadership position
- Composition practice: an article warning readers about a social problem
- Composition practice: a report following an inspection or investigation
- Composition practice: a narrative told from an unusual point of view
- Composition practice: a description built entirely around sound and smell
- Composition practice: an argumentative essay on a Nigerian social issue
- Common Mistakes: Inference questions on a narrative passage
- Invigilated mock: Full Paper 1 mock under timing
- Invigilated mock: Full Paper 2 mock under timing
- Invigilated mock: Full Paper 3 Test of Orals mock under timing
- Invigilated mock: Full Literature Paper 1 mock under timing
- Invigilated mock: Full Literature Paper 3 mock under timing
- WAEC readiness: Reading my own score charts honestly
- WAEC readiness: Writing my examination accuracy plan
- WAEC readiness: Fixing my mechanical accuracy band before WAEC
- WAEC readiness: Setting numerical targets from mock results
- WAEC readiness: Comparing consistency across two mock papers
- Paper format explainer: What Paper 1's eighty items are actually worth
- Paper format explainer: What Paper 2's three sections are actually worth
- Paper format explainer: What Paper 3's Test of Orals is actually worth
- Paper format explainer: What Literature Paper 3's four sections are actually worth
- IGCSE format explainer: Cambridge IGCSE Component 4 format
- IGCSE format explainer: Cambridge IGCSE Paper 1 Reading assessment objectives
- IGCSE format explainer: Cambridge IGCSE Paper 2 Directed Writing
- Final-term exam strategy: Deciding which essay type to abandon and which to keep
- Final-term exam strategy: Protecting Section C's forty minutes when Section A overruns
- Final-term exam strategy: Building my six-area Test of Orals target
- Final-term exam strategy: Reducing my proofreading pass without losing marks
- Targeted comprehension: word and phrase equivalents on agriculture and rural life
- Targeted comprehension: factual content questions on law and the courts
- Targeted comprehension: inference questions on science and technology
- Targeted comprehension: sentiment, emotion and attitude questions on government and politics
- Targeted comprehension: grammatical naming and function questions on commerce and the stock exchange
- Targeted comprehension: literary terms and expressions questions on the environment
- Targeted comprehension: sentence recasting questions on sports and the press
- Targeted comprehension: word and phrase equivalents on religion and ceremony
- Targeted comprehension: factual content questions on education and schooling
- Targeted comprehension: inference questions on communication and social media
- Targeted comprehension: sentiment, emotion and attitude questions on health and medicine
- Targeted comprehension: grammatical naming and function questions on journalism and advertising
- Targeted comprehension: literary terms and expressions questions on occupations and professions
- Targeted comprehension: sentence recasting questions on culture and tradition
- Targeted comprehension: word and phrase equivalents on building and construction
- Teach Me: What inference means in a comprehension paper
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 9
- Quiz Me: The salutation of a formal letter
- Composition practice: an expository essay explaining a process step by step
- Test of Orals drill II: here /hɪə/ and hair /heə/
- Test of Orals drill II: boy /bɔɪ/ and bay /beɪ/
- Test of Orals drill II: heart /hɑːt/ and hurt /hɜːt/
- Test of Orals drill II: church /tʃɜːtʃ/ and tour /tʊə/
- Exam-day readiness: Simulating exam-day nerves in a timed mock
- Composition practice II: a letter declining an invitation politely
- Composition practice II: a speech marking an anniversary or founder's day
- Common Mistakes: Idioms about speech and gossip
- Idiom clinic III: idioms about work and effort
- Idiom clinic III: idioms about honesty and deception
- Idiom clinic III: idioms about friendship and loyalty
- Register builder II: crime and punishment
- Register builder II: transportation and traffic
- Register builder II: the media and broadcasting
- Speaking & Listening coaching II: Reading a quotation aloud with correct emphasis
- Speaking & Listening coaching II: Giving a talk that opens with a hook
- Speaking & Listening coaching II: Answering follow-up questions without repeating myself
- Cross-text theme II: family expectation and personal duty
- Cross-text theme II: power, corruption and accountability
- Literature technique II: Why Shakespeare context items ask about language, not just plot
- Literature technique II: Comparing an African and a non-African poem on one theme
- Literature technique II: Writing about a novel's narrative method rather than its plot
- Quotation bank II: Once Upon an Elephant
- Quotation bank II: A Man for All Seasons
- Quotation bank II: The theme of forgiveness and reconciliation in Redemption Road
- Exam-day readiness: Building my personal target card for Paper 1
- Exam-day readiness: Reviewing chief examiners' advice on time management
- Exam-day readiness: Deciding my Literature Paper 3 section order
- Exam-day readiness: Confirming my WAEC registration-day checklist
- Targeted comprehension II: word and phrase equivalents on motor vehicles and transport
- Targeted comprehension II: factual content questions on advertising and marketing
- Targeted comprehension II: inference questions on the human body and internal systems
- Targeted comprehension II: sentiment, emotion and attitude questions on finance and the stock exchange
- Targeted comprehension II: grammatical naming and function questions on science and ICT
- Targeted comprehension II: literary terms and expressions questions on government and administration
- Targeted comprehension II: sentence recasting questions on agriculture and fishing
- Targeted comprehension II: factual content questions on environment and conservation
- Targeted comprehension II: inference questions on law, order and the judiciary
- Targeted comprehension II: sentiment, emotion and attitude questions on sports and entertainment
- WAEC structure focus II: Time adverbials and tense consistency
- WAEC structure focus II: Relative pronoun choice: who, whom, which and that
- WAEC structure focus II: Split infinitives and formal register
- WAEC structure focus II: Apposition and its punctuation
- WAEC structure focus II: Faux amis and Nigerian-English departures
- Teach Me: Idioms about money and trade
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 10
- Quiz Me: Idioms taken from food and cooking
- Composition practice II: an argumentative essay defending an unpopular position
- Composition practice II: a report comparing two options for a decision-maker
- Test of Orals drill III: bird /bɜːd/ and word /wɜːd/
- Test of Orals drill III: singer /ˈsɪŋə/ and finger /ˈfɪŋɡə/
- Test of Orals drill III: vision /ˈvɪʒn/ and mission /ˈmɪʃn/
- Composition practice III: a formal letter requesting a reference or recommendation
- Composition practice III: a speech encouraging junior students before their own WAEC exams
- Test of Orals drill IV: laughter /ˈlɑːftə/ and daughter /ˈdɔːtə/
- Test of Orals drill IV: sword /sɔːd/ and board /bɔːd/
- Common Mistakes: The linking words that mark a new argument
- Summary skill III: Summarising a passage about a Nigerian social issue
- Summary skill III: Summarising under a strict word limit
- Speaking & Listening coaching III: Structuring a five-part individual talk
- Speaking & Listening coaching III: Using signposting language while speaking
- Literature exam skill II: Writing a Paper 3 African drama essay from a prepared position
- Literature exam skill II: Writing a Paper 3 non-African drama essay from a prepared position
- Literature exam skill II: Comparing the two African prose texts for shared method
- Literature exam skill II: Comparing the two non-African prose texts for shared method
- Literature exam skill II: Preparing a poetry answer that argues rather than paraphrases
- Idiom clinic IV: idioms about leadership and responsibility
- Idiom clinic IV: idioms about change and progress
- Targeted comprehension III: word and phrase equivalents on occupations and the professions
- Targeted comprehension III: factual content questions on communication and ICT
- Targeted comprehension III: inference questions on culture, institutions and ceremonies
- Targeted comprehension III: sentiment, emotion and attitude questions on journalism and the press
- Targeted comprehension III: grammatical naming and function questions on education and schooling
- Targeted comprehension III: literary terms and expressions questions on advertising
- Targeted comprehension III: sentence recasting questions on commerce and industry
- WAEC structure focus III: Sequencing connectives in a formal letter or report
- WAEC structure focus III: Verb complementation patterns
- Literature technique III: Handling a Shakespeare context item on an unfamiliar extract
- Literature technique III: Writing about setting as more than background
- Literature technique III: Using a poem's title as part of my argument
- Idiom clinic V: idioms about opportunity and risk
- Idiom clinic V: idioms about cooperation and conflict
- Summary skill IV: Summarising a passage with an embedded dialogue
- Exam-day readiness II: Reviewing my full-year mark trend across all three terms
- Exam-day readiness II: Preparing my Paper 2 answer booklet strategy
- Exam-day readiness II: Final quotation memorisation check across every prescribed poem
- WAEC structure focus IV: Zero-conjunction asyndeton in formal writing
- Teach Me: Working out an unfamiliar word from the sentence around it
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 11
- Quiz Me: Concord after a subject followed by a relative clause
- Practice Set: Concord with subjects joined by and
- WAEC Exam-Style: Concord after either ... or and neither ... nor
- Timed Drill: Concord after there is and there are
- Practice Set: Reporting a statement already in the past simple
- WAEC Exam-Style: Reporting a question that expects yes or no
- Timed Drill: Changing time words such as today and tomorrow
- Spot My Mistake: Reporting a wh- question
- Common Mistakes: Reporting a command or a request
- Explain It Back: Concord with subjects joined by or and nor
- Model Answer: Concord with nouns that look plural but are singular
- Career Link: Concord across a long intervening phrase
- Explain It Back: Verbs that do not shift when the fact is still true
- Model Answer: Changing place words such as here and this
- Career Link: Changing the pronouns to suit the reporter
- Teach Me: Making the verb agree with the true subject, not the nearest noun
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 12
- Quiz Me: The words used for offences and punishment
- Practice Set: Idioms that use parts of the body
- WAEC Exam-Style: Idioms about hard work
- Timed Drill: Idioms drawn from Nigerian proverbs
- Practice Set: The words used for the making of laws
- WAEC Exam-Style: The words used for the arms of government
- Timed Drill: The words used in a contract or agreement
- Spot My Mistake: The words used in a police station
- Common Mistakes: The words used in a constitution
- Explain It Back: Idioms about waiting and patience
- Model Answer: Nigerian expressions an examiner will not accept
- Career Link: Placing an idiom correctly inside a sentence
- Explain It Back: The words used for elections
- Model Answer: Telling a legal word from its everyday cousin
- Career Link: Identifying the register from a short passage
- Teach Me: The words used in a court of law
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 13
- Quiz Me: The words used for planting
- Practice Set: The words used for diagnosis
- WAEC Exam-Style: The words used in surgery
- Timed Drill: The words used in maternity care
- Practice Set: The words used for crop care
- WAEC Exam-Style: The words used for animal rearing
- Timed Drill: The words used for irrigation
- Common Mistakes: The words used in a public health campaign
- Spot My Mistake: The words used for pests and diseases
- Common Mistakes: The words used for farm tools and machines
- Explain It Back: The words used for treatment and drugs
- Model Answer: The medical word beside its everyday cousin
- Career Link: Identifying a medical passage from its register
- Explain It Back: The words used for harvesting and storage
- Model Answer: The words used in marketing farm produce
- Career Link: Identifying an agricultural passage from its register
- Teach Me: The words used for preparing the land
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 14
- Quiz Me: The words used inside a bank
- Practice Set: The words used for credit and debt
- WAEC Exam-Style: The words used for insurance
- Timed Drill: The words used in book-keeping
- Practice Set: Writing the heading or subject line
- WAEC Exam-Style: The body paragraphs of a formal letter
- Timed Drill: A letter of application for a post
- Common Mistakes: The words used for taxes and duties
- Spot My Mistake: The closing paragraph and what it asks for
- Common Mistakes: The subscription and the signature
- Explain It Back: The words used for shares and investment
- Model Answer: The commercial word beside its everyday cousin
- Career Link: Identifying a banking passage from its register
- Explain It Back: The opening paragraph that states the purpose
- Model Answer: A letter of complaint to an authority
- Career Link: Holding a formal register from first line to last
- Teach Me: The two addresses and the date
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 15
- Quiz Me: Writing the by-line
- Practice Set: The friendly opening that asks after the reader
- WAEC Exam-Style: The closing that sends greetings
- Timed Drill: A letter telling a friend about an event
- Practice Set: An opening that states the issue
- WAEC Exam-Style: Supporting a point with evidence in an article
- Timed Drill: An article for a school magazine
- Common Mistakes: A letter of advice to a friend
- Common Mistakes: The conclusion that recommends
- Explain It Back: The body of an informal letter
- Model Answer: A letter of sympathy or congratulation
- Career Link: Keeping an informal register without slipping into slang
- Explain It Back: Arranging the argument across the paragraphs
- Model Answer: An article for a national newspaper
- Career Link: Keeping an article within its word limit
- Teach Me: Choosing a title that draws the reader in
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 16
- Quiz Me: Addressing the chairman and the audience
- Practice Set: Stating the occasion in the opening
- WAEC Exam-Style: Rhetorical questions in a speech
- Timed Drill: A speech at a valedictory service
- Practice Set: The opening that states your stand
- WAEC Exam-Style: Supporting an argument with evidence
- Timed Drill: The conclusion that restates your stand
- Spot My Mistake: Repetition and the other devices of emphasis
- Spot My Mistake: Answering the opponent's strongest point
- Explain It Back: Arranging the points of a speech
- Model Answer: A speech at a public debate
- Career Link: Matching a speech to the audience before you
- Explain It Back: One argument to a paragraph
- Model Answer: The register an argument expects
- Career Link: Arguing against a motion you happen to agree with
- Teach Me: Reading the motion and taking a side
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 17
- Quiz Me: Saying who asked for the report and why
- Practice Set: The procedure section
- WAEC Exam-Style: The conclusion of a report
- Timed Drill: A report of a school event
- Practice Set: Finding only the points that answer the question
- WAEC Exam-Style: Putting a point into your own words
- Timed Drill: Avoiding lifting whole phrases from the passage
- Practice Set: Working out a writer's attitude from the words chosen
- WAEC Exam-Style: Drawing a conclusion from two separate details
- Timed Drill: Inference questions on an expository passage
- Spot My Mistake: The recommendations
- Explain It Back: The findings section
- Model Answer: The impersonal register a report expects
- Career Link: Laying out a report with headings
- Explain It Back: Leaving out the examples and the illustrations
- Model Answer: Checking the summary back against the question
- Career Link: The commonest reasons candidates lose summary marks
- Explain It Back: Working out why a character acts as they do
- Model Answer: Checking an inference back against the text
- Career Link: Why a guess is not an inference
- Teach Me: The title and the terms of reference
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 18
- Quiz Me: The two th sounds
- Practice Set: The diphthongs
- WAEC Exam-Style: Minimal pairs on the in cat and the u in cut
- Timed Drill: The vowels Nigerian speakers most often merge
- Practice Set: The sh, zh, ch and j sounds
- WAEC Exam-Style: Consonant clusters at the end of a word
- Timed Drill: The l and r contrast
- Spot My Mistake: Minimal pairs on the o in pot and the aw in port
- Common Mistakes: Minimal pairs on the e in bed and the ay in bay
- Spot My Mistake: The clusters Nigerian speakers tend to break up
- Explain It Back: Minimal pairs on the short and long i
- Model Answer: Choosing the odd word out by its vowel sound
- Career Link: The schwa in unstressed syllables
- Explain It Back: Consonant clusters at the beginning of a word
- Model Answer: The three pronunciations of the -ed ending
- Career Link: The three pronunciations of the -s ending
- Teach Me: The voiced and voiceless consonant pairs
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 19
- Quiz Me: The falling tune of a wh- question
- Practice Set: Stress in words ending in -tion and -sion
- WAEC Exam-Style: Stress in compound nouns
- Timed Drill: Moving the stress to change what a sentence means
- Practice Set: The rising tune of a yes-or-no question
- WAEC Exam-Style: The tune of a question tag that only confirms
- Timed Drill: The tune of a polite request
- Practice Set: The semicolon between two related clauses
- WAEC Exam-Style: The apostrophe for possession
- Timed Drill: The hyphen and the dash distinguished
- Spot My Mistake: The tune of a list
- Common Mistakes: The tune of a command
- Spot My Mistake: The apostrophe for contraction
- Explain It Back: Stress in words ending in -ity and -ical
- Model Answer: Choosing the word that carries the emphatic stress
- Career Link: The stress patterns Nigerian speakers most often miss
- Explain It Back: The tune of a question tag that really asks
- Model Answer: How intonation changes the sense of one sentence
- Career Link: Marking the tune on a written sentence
- Explain It Back: The colon before a list or an explanation
- Model Answer: Capital letters and where they are required
- Career Link: The marks candidates lose for mechanical accuracy
- Teach Me: The falling tune of a statement
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 20
- Quiz Me: Naming the device at work in a short quoted line of verse
- Practice Set: Phrases translated straight from a Nigerian language
- WAEC Exam-Style: Plural endings put on uncountable nouns
- Timed Drill: Concord errors carried over from speech
- Spot My Mistake: The redundant word that adds nothing
- Explain It Back: The article left out or put in wrongly
- Model Answer: Expressions that pass in speech but not in an examination
- Career Link: Correcting a whole paragraph of Nigerian English
- Teach Me: The six areas the Test of Orals examines and how they are set out
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 21
- Quiz Me: Giving the grammatical name and the function of an underlined group of words
- Comprehension practice: stating the function of a named group of words
- Spot My Mistake: The words used in importing and exporting
- Teach Me: The grammatical names and functions the structure paper asks for
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 22
- Quiz Me: Recognising the weaknesses examiners report year after year
- Comprehension practice: the comprehension failures the WAEC examiners' rep
- Common Mistakes: A report of an accident
- Teach Me: Turning an examiners' report into something I do differently
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 23
- Quiz Me: The vocatives when the essay is set as a debate
- Timed essay: a narrative essay shaped so the climax arrives with
- Spot My Mistake: Using dialogue inside a narrative
- Teach Me: Building a Literature essay that argues rather than retells
Revisit from three weeks ago
Term 2
↑ Jump to week- Week 24
- Quiz Me: Stress in three-syllable words
- WAEC essay writing: argumentative essays
- WAEC-style comprehension and summary practice
- Plan and write a timed essay on a prescribed prose text
- Spot My Mistake: The medical words for the parts of the body
- The vocabulary of construction work and its trades
- Vocabulary of law and the judiciary
- The vocabulary of machines and engineering
- Vocabulary of environment and conservation
- The vocabulary of manufacturing and industry
- The vocabulary of printing and circulation
- Vocabulary of the human internal body system
- Scanning a text for the one sentence that answers a question
- Skimming a text for gist before answering questions
- Reading for the function of each paragraph
- Combining two texts into one coherent account
- Words that look alike but do not rhyme
- Identify methods of characterisation in Redemption Road
- Locate the turning point of Redemption Road
- Argue a theme of Redemption Road as a testable claim
- Discuss the setting and narrative stance of Path of Lucas
- Analyse chapter grouping and time handling in Path of Lucas
- Compare characterisation methods in Path of Lucas with Redemption Road
- Locate the turning point of Path of Lucas
- Argue a theme of endurance in Path of Lucas
- Explain the Anansegoro form in The Marriage of Anansewa
- Analyse Ananse's scheme in The Marriage of Anansewa
- Judge the resolution of The Marriage of Anansewa
- Analyse the Common Man as chorus in A Man for All Seasons
- Explain More's use of silence as a legal defence
- Trace Richard Rich's moral collapse in A Man for All Seasons
- Judge the dramatic effect of More's trial and execution
- Establish the setting of Antony and Cleopatra Act 2
- Analyse the collapse of Antony across Act 3 and Act 4
- Explain Enobarbus's desertion and death in Antony and Cleopatra
- Judge Cleopatra's death scene in Act 5
- Read The Fence for its central symbol and voice
- Analyse repetition and address in Still I Rise
- Read Hearty Garlands for occasion and tone
- Analyse how The Telephone Call withholds its point
- Compare The Fence and Still I Rise by shared feature
- Compare Hearty Garlands and The Telephone Call by feature
- Answer a Shakespeare context question under exam conditions
- Recall and deploy accurate quotations for essay writing
- Support a personal response to a text's ending with evidence
- Interpret a poem's purpose through close reading
- Teach Me: What a context question expects beyond retelling the extract
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 25
- Quiz Me: Placing a short extract by its text, its speaker and its moment
- Vocabulary drill: sports
- Vocabulary drill: culture
- Vocabulary drill: the advertising media
- Vocabulary drill: the internal organs
- Vocabulary drill: news gathering
- Vocabulary drill: computers and software
- Vocabulary drill: all sixteen registers met so far
- Vocabulary drill: idioms and collocations across mixed registers
- Vocabulary drill: sense relations — synonyms
- Vocabulary drill: British against American spellings mixed with regi
- Vocabulary drill: matching a passage to one of the sixteen registers
- Vocabulary drill: my three weakest registers from a recent lexis p
- Vocabulary drill: idioms
- Vocabulary drill: a mixed-field paper across all sixteen registers
- Vocabulary drill: the forty lexical items from my mock paper
- Vocabulary drill: the registers and question forms my first mock nam
- Vocabulary drill: all sixteen registers unlabelled
- Vocabulary drill: the lexical errors the WAEC Chief Examiners' repor
- Vocabulary drill: high-frequency lexis items at pace
- Vocabulary drill: high-frequency lexis across all sixteen registers
- Vocabulary drill: the words that give each register away
- Comprehension practice: word and phrase equivalent items
- Comprehension practice: factual content items
- Comprehension practice: inference items
- Comprehension practice: sentiment
- Comprehension practice: Question Types 1 to 5 together on one unseen passa
- Comprehension practice: literary terms and expressions items
- Comprehension practice: recasting items
- Comprehension practice: a full Section B comprehension in the thirty minut
- Comprehension practice: Question Types 1
- Comprehension practice: Question Types 4
- Comprehension practice: a synthesis task — selecting and combining informa
- Comprehension practice: Cambridge IGCSE Paper 1 short-answer and language questions
- Comprehension practice: a full unseen Section B question set
- Comprehension practice: Section B in full examination format — twenty mark
- Comprehension practice: a full past Section B
- Comprehension practice: Section B as part of a continuous two-hour Paper 2
- Comprehension practice: a full unseen set
- Comprehension practice: a full Section B under examination conditions
- Comprehension practice: my two weakest comprehension question types across
- Comprehension practice: the Cambridge IGCSE Paper 1 question types on which my Term
- Comprehension practice: a full seven-type Section B set on an unseen passa
- Spot My Mistake: Answering an inference question in your own words
- Teach Me: Changing the present continuous to the past continuous
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 26
- Quiz Me: The long vowels of English
- Summary practice: finding the arguments in a persuasive passage
- Summary practice: summarising the events of a narrative passage
- Summary practice: a full-extent summary at exact WAEC standard — thi
- Summary practice: a full Section C summary at WAEC extent
- Summary practice: a full Section C summary of an expository past-pap
- Summary practice: a full Section C summary of an argumentative passa
- Summary practice: a full Section C summary with an aspect constraint
- Summary practice: a full Section C summary drawn from two related pa
- Summary practice: Section C completed inside a full two-hour Paper 2
- Summary practice: Section C completed inside the sitting with the fo
- Summary practice: a full-extent summary with the point yield of each
- Summary practice: a final full-extent summary at examination standar
- Summary practice: the exact summary loss my recent record shows — po
- Summary practice: a full-extent summary on the passage type
- Summary practice: the summary loss I attacked in Week 1
- Summary practice: my mock Section C summary analysed point by point
- Summary practice: Section C completed inside a full two-hour invigil
- Summary practice: Section C at full extent inside a full Paper 2 sit
- Summary practice: a full-extent summary checked against the exact fa
- Summary practice: the forty minutes for Section C defended against a
- Summary practice: a full-extent summary against a stated target mark
- Summary practice: my final full-extent summary at examination standa
- Test of Orals drill: pure vowels and diphthongs — /ɪ/ v /iː/ in sit/s
- Test of Orals drill: consonants and consonant clusters — /θ ð/ in thi
- Test of Orals drill: rhymes — bough v cow
- Test of Orals drill: word stress and syllable structure — maintenance
- Test of Orals drill: emphatic stress and intonation — the word that a
- Test of Orals drill: a mixed paper across all five examined areas cov
- Test of Orals drill: phonetic symbols — the full chart read at speed
- Test of Orals drill: a full sixty-item Test of Orals paper in forty-f
- Test of Orals drill: the common candidate errors the WAEC examiner re
- Test of Orals drill: a full Test of Orals under strict examination co
- Test of Orals drill: a mixed half-paper across vowels
- Test of Orals drill: symbol recognition drilled to speed inside a mix
- Test of Orals drill: the common candidate errors from the examiner re
- Test of Orals drill: word stress
- Test of Orals drill: a full sixty-item paper charted for consistency
- Test of Orals drill: a full sixty-item Test of Orals paper under stri
- Test of Orals drill: a full past Paper 3 sat and analysed against the
- Test of Orals drill: two full Test of Orals papers
- Test of Orals drill: the whole of Paper 3 analysed by area
- Test of Orals drill: a full Test of Orals sat under examination conditions
- Test of Orals drill: the two examined areas my recent charts show wea
- Common Mistakes: What emphatic stress is for
- Teach Me: The short vowels of English
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 27
- Quiz Me: Changing the present perfect to the past perfect
- Literature revision: the highest-frequency structure of past question
- Literature exam practice: the format of WAEC Literature Paper 2 Sectio
- Literature exam practice: a Paper 3 Section C poetry essay on Once Upo
- Literature exam practice: twenty Paper 1 context items on Antony and Cleopatra, Act I
- Literature exam practice: twenty Paper 1 context items on Antony and Cleopatra, Act II
- Literature exam practice: one timed Paper 3 Section A essay on The Mar
- Literature exam practice: one timed drama essay under full examination
- Literature exam practice: one full timed drama essay on An Inspector C
- Literature exam practice: twenty Paper 1 context items on Antony and Cleopatra, Act III
- Literature exam practice: one timed Paper 3 Section D poetry essay com
- Literature exam practice: a full timed set combining one prose essay
- Literature exam practice: two past prose essay questions dissected for
- Literature exam practice: a Paper 3 Section C poetry essay on The Fenc
- Literature exam practice: a Paper 3 Section A essay on Once Upon an El
- Literature exam practice: twenty Paper 1 context items on Antony and Cleopatra, Acts IV and V
- Literature exam practice: two poetry essays on The Breast of the Sea a
- Literature exam practice: one timed poetry essay on The Nun's Priest's
- Literature exam practice: a complete Paper 1 to time — twenty general
- Literature exam practice: a complete Paper 2 to time — two essays in 1
- Literature exam practice: a complete Paper 3 to time — four essays
- Common Mistakes: Concord with each, every and none
- Literature revision: Night by Wole Soyinka — the address to night
- Literature revision: An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley — the whol
- Literature revision: The character of Sheila Birling in An Inspector Calls
- Literature revision: Digging by Seamus Heaney — the pen
- Literature revision: the four texts and four poems studied
- Literature revision: Redemption Road by Elma Shaw — the whole novel r
- Literature revision: Path of Lucas: The Journey He Endured by Susanne
- Literature revision: Once Upon an Elephant by Bosede Ademilua-Afolaya
- Literature revision: A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt — the Commo
- Literature revision: The Breast of the Sea by Syl Cheney-Coker and Sh
- Literature revision: The Nun's Priest's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Literature revision: The Telephone Call by Fleur Adcock — how the poe
- Literature revision: So the Path Does Not Die and Redemption Road tog
- Literature revision: The Marriage of Anansewa and Once Upon an Elepha
- Literature revision: the eight poems revised
- Literature revision: The character of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird
- Literature revision: The theme of tradition and change in So the Path Does Not Die
- Literature revision: The theme of civil war and its aftermath in Redemption Road
- Literature revision: all nine prescribed texts and twelve poems — the
- Literature revision: a quotation bank across all nine texts and twelv
- Literature revision: all twelve prescribed poems
- Literature revision: my personal examination plan — which text I will
- Literature revision: a full readiness audit across every mark I have
- Literature revision: Antony and Cleopatra across all five acts
- Teach Me: The full stop and the sentence boundary
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 28
- Quiz Me: Reading the question for its exact demand
- Shakespeare context drill: Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1
- Shakespeare context drill: Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2
- Shakespeare context drill: Antony and Cleopatra, Act 3
- Shakespeare context drill: Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4
- Shakespeare context drill: Antony and Cleopatra, Act 5
- Literature exam skill: Reading the WAEC essay mark scheme
- Common Mistakes: The closing that thanks the audience
- Speaking & Listening coaching: Evaluating a spoken argument while listening
- Speaking & Listening coaching: Spoken analysis of a text with quotation
- Prose text mastery: So the Path Does Not Die (Pede Hollist)
- Prose text mastery: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
- Prose text mastery: Redemption Road (Elma Shaw)
- Prose text mastery: Path of Lucas: The Journey He Endured (Susanne Bellefeuille)
- Drama text mastery: The Marriage of Anansewa (Efua Sutherland)
- Drama text mastery: An Inspector Calls (J. B. Priestley)
- Drama text mastery: Once Upon an Elephant (Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan)
- Drama text mastery: A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt)
- Poetry close reading: Once Upon a Time (Gabriel Okara)
- Poetry close reading: Night (Wole Soyinka)
- Poetry close reading: The Stone (Wilfrid Gibson)
- Poetry close reading: Digging (Seamus Heaney)
- Poetry close reading: The Fence (Elizabeth L. A. Kamara)
- Poetry close reading: Not My Business (Niyi Osundare)
- Poetry close reading: Hearty Garlands (S. O. H. Afriyie-Vidza)
- Poetry close reading: The Breast of the Sea (Syl Cheney-Coker)
- Poetry close reading: She Walks in Beauty (Lord Byron)
- Poetry close reading: The Nun's Priest's Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer, shortened)
- Poetry close reading: Still I Rise (Maya Angelou)
- Poetry close reading: The Telephone Call (Fleur Adcock)
- Cross-text theme: law, justice and the verdict
- Cross-text theme: tradition, women and the right to choose
- Cross-text theme: violence, aftermath and who is permitted to speak
- Literature exam skill: Dissecting a past literature question
- Literature exam skill: Building a quotation bank across texts
- Literature exam skill: Correcting my own literature essay errors
- Literature exam skill: Answering an unseen poem question
- Literature exam skill: Answering an unseen prose extract question
- Literature exam skill: Planning my examination text choices
- Quotation bank: The trial of Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird
- Quotation bank: The Inspector's closing speech in An Inspector Calls
- Quotation bank: The treatment of migration and return in So the Path Does Not Die
- Quotation bank: The Marriage of Anansewa
- Literature technique: Distinguishing narrated event from narrator's later understanding
- Literature technique: Comparing two plays for dramatic method
- Literature technique: What a stage direction is worth as evidence
- Teach Me: The vocatives that open a speech
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 29
- Quiz Me: Choosing between first and third person
- Practice Set: Planning the events before you write
- WAEC Exam-Style: Building towards the climax
- Timed Drill: Handling the passing of time in a narrative
- Common Mistakes: Describing a character within the story
- Explain It Back: An opening that sets the scene
- Model Answer: An ending that satisfies
- Career Link: Narrating an experience that taught you something
- Teach Me: Reading a narrative title for what it demands
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 30
- Quiz Me: Describing a person's appearance
- Practice Set: Describing a person's character
- WAEC Exam-Style: Describing an event as it unfolds
- Timed Drill: Figurative language in a description
- Spot My Mistake: Appealing to more senses than sight
- Common Mistakes: Choosing precise adjectives
- Explain It Back: Describing a place
- Model Answer: Holding one dominant impression throughout
- Career Link: Describing a Nigerian market
- Teach Me: Choosing what to describe and in what order
Revisit from three weeks ago
Term 3 — Mocks & Final Countdown
↑ Jump to week- Week 31
- Quiz Me: The salutation of an informal letter
- Practise unseen prose or poetry appreciation under exam conditions
- WAEC Paper 1 timed structure item drill
- WAEC Paper 1 mixed-field lexis item drill
- WAEC essay bank: descriptive essay questions
- WAEC essay bank: persuasive and expository essay questions
- Cambridge IGCSE Directed Writing task practice
- Cambridge IGCSE Composition task practice
- Practise identifying WAEC comprehension question types before answering
- Timed WAEC structure-item recognition by stem
- Self-mark a WAEC-style composition against the four criteria
- Practise the WAEC-style figure-of-speech two-part answer
- Practise reconciling a summary mark with a second marker
- Answer a WAEC-style vocabulary-in-context item at speed
- Practise the WAEC structure paper's recasting traps
- Full past-paper style practice: WAEC comprehension and summary combined
- IGCSE-style vocabulary and register transformation practice
- Practise WAEC error-identification and correction under time
- WAEC-style question on grammatical naming with justification
- Practise self-marking calibration against model answers
- Word-limit discipline drill for WAEC composition writing
- Practise IGCSE Reading Paper questions on inference
- Mechanical accuracy banding exercise for a full script
- Practise a mixed structure-item paper unlabelled by type
- Timed comprehension at full WAEC length
- WAEC lexis bank: mixed-register vocabulary speed drill
- Spot My Mistake: The subscription of an informal letter
- Compare film and text versions of a studied play or novel
- Discuss how a novel opens and how it establishes its narrator
- Answer a poetry comparison question under time pressure
- Explain a dramatic technique used across a whole play
- Discuss what a novel's ending claims about its central theme
- Read a play script for subtext beneath the dialogue
- Discuss how a novel's structure builds towards its climax
- WAEC Paper 2 Section B unseen comprehension under time
- WAEC Paper 2 Section A composition under time
- WAEC Paper 2 Section C summary under time
- WAEC Paper 3 Test of Orals full mock
- Full WAEC English Language mock exam simulation
- WAEC informal and formal letter question bank
- Cambridge IGCSE Reading Paper 1 mock
- Cambridge IGCSE Reading Paper 2 mock
- Cambridge IGCSE Component 4 Speaking and Listening mock
- Answer WAEC comprehension items allocating time by marks
- Diagnose my weakest Test of Orals area
- Full mock summary at WAEC extent, marked and reconciled
- Teach Me: The writer's address and the date in an informal letter
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 32
- Quiz Me: The words used for symptoms
- Practise an IGCSE-style discursive or argumentative writing task
- Practise answering WAEC Paper 1 items on collocation and idiom
- Practise WAEC-style questions on sentence recasting from a passage
- Practise the IGCSE summary writing task within its word limit
- WAEC structure bank: mixed item-type timed drill
- Practise answering a WAEC essay question under full exam timing
- Practise timed proofreading before submitting a WAEC script
- Practise the Cambridge IGCSE Paper 2 question 1 letter-writing task
- WAEC-style paragraph organisation and thesis placement drill
- Practise answering a full IGCSE Component 4 conversation set
- WAEC-style dependent-preposition item bank
- Practise a WAEC-style unseen appreciation of prose or poetry
- Answer a WAEC-style question set testing all seven comprehension types at once
- Practise IGCSE-style questions comparing two linked texts
- Full timed WAEC Paper 2 simulation across all three sections
- Practise error diagnosis from my own past scripts
- Practise WAEC oral English items on phonetic symbols recognition
- Grammar drill: concord and agreement items
- Grammar drill: tense and sequence-of-tenses items
- Grammar drill: pronoun-antecedent matching items
- Grammar drill: preposition items by fixed pairing
- Grammar drill: conjunction and connective items by naming the logical
- Grammar drill: a mixed structure paper covering concord
- Grammar drill: phrases and clauses
- Grammar drill: active-to-passive and passive-to-active voice transform
- Grammar drill: sentence recasting items that begin with a stated word
- Grammar drill: naming a group of words in a sentence
- Grammar drill: a combined half-paper of concord and tense past questio
- Grammar drill: a half-paper mixing lexical and structural past questio
- Grammar drill: errors on two of my own marked scripts
- Grammar drill: a half-paper mixing recasting
- Grammar drill: a mixed half-paper testing whether my personal accuracy
- Grammar drill: a full WAEC-format Paper 1 — eighty items in one hour
- Grammar drill: a full past Paper 1
- Grammar drill: structural accuracy measured inside a full-length exami
- Grammar drill: the two structure item types my own term charts show we
- Grammar drill: my full term accuracy audit and help me write the accur
- Grammar drill: the two structure item types my recent scripts show wea
- Grammar drill: sentence recasting and grammatical naming items redrill
- Grammar drill: every structure type I have remediated so far this year
- Grammar drill: a full mock Paper 1 under strict invigilated timing — e
- Grammar drill: structural accuracy inside my full-length mock scripts
- Spot My Mistake: Explaining an idiom used in a passage
- Answer a full range of question types on one unseen passage
- Answer a WAEC Literature Paper context question set
- Teach Me: The words used in buying and selling
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 33
- Quiz Me: The comma in a list and after an opening clause
- Literature exam practice: one prose essay
- Literature exam practice: a cross-text essay on law
- Literature exam practice: a cross-text essay on tradition
- Literature exam practice: a cross-text essay on violence
- Literature exam practice: a full invigilated mock of Paper 1 and Paper
- Literature exam practice: a full invigilated mock of Paper 2
- Literature exam practice: a mid-term paper in full examination format
- Literature exam practice: a script rewritten to remove the two errors
- Literature exam practice: a full timed paper testing my quotation bank
- Literature exam practice: a final full-length timed paper across all t
- Literature exam practice: my final readiness assessment across Papers
- Half-paper drill: concord and tense
- Half-paper drill: pronoun reference and prepositions
- Half-paper drill: connectives and phrases/clauses
- Half-paper drill: voice transformation and recasting
- Half-paper drill: naming the part of speech of a word in context
- Half-paper drill: tense sequence and pronoun reference
- Half-paper drill: prepositions and connectives
- Half-paper drill: phrases/clauses and voice
- Common Mistakes: Tense errors in narration
- Examiners' report clinic: concord after collective nouns and quantifiers
- Examiners' report clinic: changing the present simple to the past simple in reported speech
- Examiners' report clinic: pronoun reference left ambiguous between two nouns
- Examiners' report clinic: preposition choice after verbs and adjectives
- Examiners' report clinic: connective punctuation with although, however and nevertheless
- Examiners' report clinic: confusing a phrase for a clause
- Examiners' report clinic: voice transformation losing the original tense
- Examiners' report clinic: sentence recasting that changes the original meaning
- Examiners' report clinic: misnaming a grammatical structure the examiner names differently
- WAEC structure focus: Reported speech beyond the basics
- WAEC structure focus: Modal verbs in structure items
- WAEC structure focus: Conditional sentence types
- WAEC structure focus: Gerunds and infinitives after verbs
- WAEC structure focus: Correlative conjunctions
- WAEC structure focus: Comparative and superlative errors
- WAEC structure focus: Dangling and misplaced modifiers
- WAEC structure focus: Parallel structure in coordinated elements
- WAEC structure focus: Cleft sentences for emphasis
- WAEC structure focus: Countable and uncountable noun agreement
- WAEC structure focus: Articles: a, an, the and zero article
- WAEC structure focus: Question tags and their concord
- WAEC structure focus: Direct and indirect object order
- WAEC structure focus: Ellipsis in coordinated clauses
- WAEC structure focus: Subjunctive mood in formal English
- Mock-exam skill: Paper 1 pacing strategy
- Teach Me: The words used on a hospital ward
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 34
- Quiz Me: Phrasal verbs built on take
- Practice Set: Phrasal verbs built on give
- WAEC Exam-Style: Phrasal verbs built on go
- Timed Drill: Phrasal verbs with two particles
- Spot My Mistake: Phrasal verbs built on break
- Common Mistakes: Separable and inseparable phrasal verbs
- Explain It Back: Phrasal verbs built on come
- Model Answer: Phrasal verbs whose meaning cannot be guessed from the parts
- Career Link: Replacing a phrasal verb with a single formal verb
- Teach Me: Phrasal verbs built on put
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 35
- Quiz Me: Explaining a simile in its context
- Practice Set: Explaining personification in its context
- WAEC Exam-Style: Explaining irony in its context
- Timed Drill: Giving the literal meaning behind the figure
- Common Mistakes: Explaining a symbol in a passage
- Explain It Back: Explaining hyperbole in its context
- Model Answer: Saying what the figure adds to the passage
- Career Link: How the marks on a figurative question are split
- Teach Me: Explaining a metaphor in its context
Revisit from three weeks ago - Week 36
- Quiz Me: Naming the comprehension question type from its stem alone
- Comprehension practice: all seven WAEC comprehension question types on one
- Spot My Mistake: Stress in phrasal verbs
- Teach Me: Reading a comprehension question stem to see which type it is
Revisit from three weeks ago