• Ages

    6-11

  • Duration

    60 min 

  • MONDAY 

    17:00

    Yoruba Language

    The course is a structured 40-week Yoruba language programmed for ages 6 to 21, designed for complete beginners. It builds progressively from basic communication, pronunciation, listening through to vocabulary and simple sentences . Learners start with greetings, everyday vocabulary, and tone recognition, moving towards conversation, sentence structure, and reading and story telling. Progress is tracked through internal verbal assessments and a final verbal assessment.
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    Live Lesson

    Recorder live lessons for students to catch up on.

    Course Material

    Clear and collaborative workbooks and homework

    Class Discussion

    The last 15min of each class is opened for discussion with students

    Live Quiz

    Our live quiz helps boost confidence of students

    Course summary

    Audience and stage: Complete beginners, ages 6 to 21, with weekly sessions across three school terms.
    • Structure: 40 weeks across three terms, incorporating half-term breaks, three internal verbal assessments at the close of each term, and a final verbal assessment at the end of the year.
    • Early weeks (1–7): Focus on Yoruba letters and sounds, basic greetings matched to time of day, self-introduction, counting 1 to 50, naming family members and community helpers, classroom vocabulary, and identifying colors.
    • Middle weeks (8–14):  Cover days of the week and months, common foods, body parts, expressing emotions, action verbs, polite expressions, and forming simple subject-verb sentences. Internal verbal assessment at end of term.
    • Second Term weeks (15–26): Introduce telling time, weather and seasons, names of common places, giving directions, transport, describing clothing, hobbies, parts of the home, naming animals, forming basic questions (who/what), verb tenses, and using adjectives to describe people and places. Internal verbal assessment at end of term.
    • Final phase (27–37):  Cover occupations, Yoruba proverbs and idioms, reading simple passages, counting 51 to 100, forming complex sentences, antonyms, cultural greetings and social etiquette, English to Yoruba translation, reading longer texts for fluency, songs and poems for pronunciation, and storytelling. Internal verbal assessment at end of term, followed by a final verbal assessment in week 40.

    Key achievements (intended outcomes)

    By the end of the scheme, pupils should be able to:
    • Learners progress from recognizing Yoruba letters and sounds to reading full passages and retelling stories with confidence.
    • Core vocabulary is built systematically across practical topics including numbers (1-100), family, food, directions, occupations, and everyday objects.
    • Grammar skills develop from simple subject-verb sentences through to complex sentences using tenses and descriptive language.
    • Cultural competence is embedded throughout, covering greetings for different social contexts, proverbs, idioms, and songs that reflect Yoruba values and social etiquette.
    • By the end of the course, learners can hold basic conversations, translate between English and Yoruba, and engage with written and spoken Yoruba with growing fluency
    Meet the instructor

    Ms Folarin

    Tutoring subjects: Yoruba Language

    Qualification: B. Ed Childhood Education/Yoruba Language
    Years of Experience: 7 years 

    Quote: "When you learn in Yoruba, you dont just learn words, you inherit a history, a rhythm and a way of seeing the world:
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