ENGLISH LANGUAGE FORM 5 & 6
Pillars of Leadership By Charles Mloka ~ The Wonderful Surgeon and Other Poems
Be committed to your people,
Take all responsibilities,
With all efforts you can,
To your people save,
Heydays and in difficulties.
Cowardice avoid,
Or shame to be,
Or rearing somebody, simply...
The Wonderful Surgeon By Charles Mloka ~ The Wonderful Surgeon and Other Poems
They call him in streets,
The hero of butterflies,
or the kingfish.
Those are nicknames,
given to the surgeon,
wonderful the most,
I ever saw.
A cool man by character,
The most...
AN ABANDONED BUNDLE By Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali ~ Selected Poems
The morning mist
and chimney smoke
of White City Jabavu
flowed thick yellow
as pus oozing
from a gigantic sore.
It smothered our little houses
like fish caught in a net.
Scavenging...
THE DYING CHILD Freeman Peter Lwamba ~ Selected Poems
Thin and red,
Skinny and bald,
The boy groans on the ground.
Swollen stomach
Full of waste,
Thin legs,
Thin arms,
Twitch
As the boy
Fights with flies
Over the empty plate.
Ten years old,
He...
APPRECIATION OF POETRY
APPRECIATION OF POETRY
Poetry is a literary genre in which ideas and feelings are expressed in imaginative and musical language. Poems are meant to be recited...
BUILDING THE NATION By Christopher H. M. Barlow ~ Selected Poems
Today I did my share
In building the nation.
I drove the permanent secretary
To an important urgent function
In fact to a luncheon at the Vic.
The menu...
WORD FORMATION PROCESSES
WORD FORMATION PROCESSES
The processes of forming words can be grouped into two;
Major word formation processes
Minor word formation processes
MAJOR WORD FORMATION PROCESSES
Major word...
TOPIC 2: MORPHOLOGY (WORD FORMATION)
MORPHOLOGY (WORD FORMATION)
Morphology is the study of the structure of the words. It is the study of how words are formed out of smaller...
FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE
Here we answer the question “what is the language used for?”
The following are among the common functions of language;
Communication function
Language is used to facilitate...
THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE AND A LANGUAGE
Linguistically language refers to a conventional system of arbitrary vocal symbols used by human beings for communication.
So here the word language...
