2023-24 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE: GRADE 9

2023-24 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE: GRADE 9 (TERM 1)

TERM 1
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Standardised Baseline Assessment and Orientation to be conducted during the first 3 days of the term in Week 1 – Day 1 to 3. Data is captured so that competency is determined and learning
gaps identified. This information should be used to inform subsequent teaching and learning activities.
Listening and speaking strategies Reading/ viewing for comprehension Transactional texts Reinforcement of language structures and
Oral discussion (teacher-led) Visual text: Advertisement/ poster Advertisement/ poster conventions covered in previous grades
Listen to/ watch an advertisement Reading strategies • Correct format Word level work
• Tone • Skimming • Purpose, target group Singular and plural adjectives, nouns, verbs
• Pacing • Scanning • Text features, visual elements such as Sentence level work
• Emotive and manipulative language use • Intensive reading images, font large and small print Sentence structure, nouns, adjectives,
• Font size • Making inferences • Language use, persuasive language, continuous tenses
• Images • Inferring meaning of unfamiliar words by rhetoric, simile Spelling
• Body language word attack skills • Register Spelling and spelling patterns,
• AIDA principles • Emotive language • Word choice, vivid description
abbreviations
1-2 • Use of punctuation and font Focus on process writing
Vocabulary in context
Reading process • Planning
Remedial grammar from learners' writing
• Pre-reading (Font, images) • Drafting
• During reading (Features of text: slogan, • Revision
logo, language used • Editing
• Post-reading (Answer questions) • Proofreading
• Presenting
Write an advertisement/ poster

Listen to the reading of a literature text Read a literary text, e.g. short story/ novel Write an essay: Reinforcement of language structures and
Identify and discuss: • Key features like character, Narrative/ descriptive/ reflective/ conventions covered in previous weeks
• Use of voice characterisation, plot, conflict, argumentative essay Word level work
• Use of intonation and pace background, setting narrator, theme • Word choice Stems, prefixes and suffixes, complex and
3-4
• Punctuation in reading Reading process • Personal voice and style simplex words
• Opening and closure • Pre-reading (Introduce text/ predict • Vivid description Sentence level work
events) • Tone Pronouns, punctuation, tenses, direct and
• Background/ setting • Main and supporting ideas reported speech, sentence structure, concord
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2023-24 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE: GRADE 9

TERM 1
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Prepared reading aloud (Short story/ • Brainstorm the theme • Mind maps to organise coherent ideas Spelling and punctuation
novel) • During reading (Features of the text) • Present essay for assessment Spelling and spelling patterns,
• Use relevant speaking skills such as • Post-reading (Answer questions, Focus on process writing abbreviations, shortening, acronyms
tone, volume, pace, voice projection, compare, contrast, evaluate) • Planning Critical language use
pronunciation, fluency and posture Reading and viewing visual or multimedia • Drafting Idioms and proverbs, euphemism
Recount the short story or extract of the text: Cartoons/ comic strips • Revision Vocabulary in context
novel Reading strategies • Editing Remedial grammar from learners' writing
• Tone • Skimming • Proofreading
• Volume • Scanning • Presenting
• Pronunciation • Body language Write an essay, following the process
• Fluency • Inferring meaning of unfamiliar words approach to writing
• Punctuation and images (cartoons) by using word
attack skills
• Clarifying
• Predicting
• Visualisation
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 1
ORAL:
• Reading Aloud (20 marks)
Commence with this task in Term 1 and conclude in Term 2 when the mark will be recorded.
Speaking and listening strategies Read a newspaper/ magazine report Transactional texts: magazine report/blog Reinforcement of language structures and
Listen to a newspaper report Reading strategies • Requirements of task and text type conventions covered in previous
• Structure • Intensive reading • Format, style, point of view Weeks
• Features • Text features, e.g. plot, character, • Target audience purpose and context Word level work:
• Language use setting, narrator, mood, theme, • Word choice • Moods -
• Tone narrator’s perspective • Sentence structure, lengths and types • Subjunctive
5-6 • Register • Inferring meaning of unfamiliar words • Paragraph conventions • Imperative
• Introduction and conclusion by word attack skills Focus on process writing • Potential
Oral presentation of report • Direct and implied meaning • Planning • Indicative
• Language use Reading process • Drafting • Conditional
• Register • Pre-reading (Introduce text) • Revision Sentence level work:
• Tone • During reading (Features of text) • Editing • Simple sentences, compound
• Body language • Proof-reading and presenting sentences, Complex sentences,
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TERM 1
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
• Pronunciation • Post-reading (Answer questions, Write a magazine report/blog following the voice, tenses
• Eye contact compare, contrast, evaluate) process approach to writing Word meaning:
Poetry • Idioms and proverbs
Key features of poem Literal, figurative, alliteration,
• Internal structure of a poem: figures of assonance, personification
speech/imagery, rhyme, rhythm Punctuation and spelling:
• External structure of a poem: lines, • spelling patterns,
words, stanzas, quotation marks, apostrophe
typography
Vocabulary in context
• Figurative meaning
Remedial grammar from learners'
• Mood
• Theme and message Writing
Reading/viewing for comprehension
(Use newspaper report)
• Skimming
• Scanning
• Intensive reading
• Making inferences (characters, setting,
milieu, message)
• Inferring meaning of unfamiliar words by
word attack skills
• Emotive language
• Answer questions
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 2: WRITING
• Essay: (During the term)
Descriptive/ narrative/ reflective (40 marks)
Listening for comprehension Reading comprehension Transactional text: Agenda and minutes Reinforcement of language structures
Dialogue Literary text: Short story/ novel • Correct format and conventions covered in previous
• Listen to a dialogue • Key features of literary text such as • Mind map to organise coherent ideas weeks
• Take notes character, action, dialogue, plot, conflict, • Personal voice and style Word level work
7-8
• Language and power background, setting, narrator, • Tone Regular and irregular verbs
• Tone theme • Main and supporting ideas
• Mood Reading process • Language use Sentence level work
• Introduction and conclusion • Pre-reading (Introduce text) • Register
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2023-24 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE: GRADE 9

TERM 1
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
• Answer questions • During reading (Features of text) • Logical order of sentences Main clause, dependent clause
Role-play: Meeting • Post-reading (Answer questions, • Use conjunctions to ensure cohesion Word meaning
• Choose a suitable topic compare, contrast, evaluate) • Use a variety of sentence types, Idioms and proverbs
• Organise information cohesively Write a summary of the short story/ lengths and structures Punctuation and spelling
• Identify correct vocabulary and language extract from the novel Focus on process writing Spelling patterns, acronyms
structure • Correct format • Planning Vocabulary in context
• Target audience, purpose and context • Drafting Remedial grammar from learners'
• Word choice • Revision
writing
• Main and supporting ideas • Editing
• Language use • Proofreading
• Register • Presenting
• Logical order of sentences Write an agenda and minutes, following
• Use conjunctions to ensure cohesion the process approach to writing
• Use a variety of sentence types lengths
and structures
Write a summary
Reading strategies
• Skimming, scanning, visualisation
• Intensive reading
• Making inferences
• Meaning of words
• Viewpoint of writer
• Fact and opinion
• Implied meaning
Poetry
Key features of poem
• Internal structure of a poem:
Figures of
speech/ imagery, rhyme, rhythm
• External structure of a poem: lines,
words, stanzas, typography
• Figurative meaning
• Mood
• Theme and message

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2023-24 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE: GRADE 9

TERM 1
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Listening and speaking strategies Read a contract between a seller and a Transactional text: Write a report on Reinforcement of language structures and
Listen to a telephone conversation or a purchaser findings in a dispute between a seller and conventions covered in previous weeks
dialogue between a call centre agent and • Format a purchaser Word level work
client concerning a dispute • Language use • Correct format Conjunctions
• Tone • Contract-speak • Purpose Sentence level work
• Language use • Importance of signature • Main and supporting ideas Sentence structure, sentence types, question
• Register • Recourse in case of dispute • Language use forms, active and passive voice
• Conventions Poetry • Register Word meaning
Learners retell the telephone conversation Key features of poem • Logical order of sentences
Idioms and proverbs, literal and figurative
Prepared reading aloud • Internal structure of a poem: Figures of • Use conjunctions to ensure cohesion
meaning
speech/ imagery, rhyme, rhythm • Use a variety of sentence types,
• Use relevant speaking skills such as Punctuation and spelling
• External structure of a poem: lines, lengths and structures
tone, volume, pace, voice projection, Spelling patterns, abbreviations: initialism,
pronunciation and fluency words, stanzas, Focus on process writing
acronym, clipped, truncation, aphesis,
• Learners choose their reading text and typography • Planning portmanteau
present it to class • Figurative meaning • Drafting
Vocabulary in context
9-10 • Mood • Revision
• Theme and message The language of contracts and legal
• Editing
documents
Reading strategies • Proofreading
• Skimming, scanning, visualisation • Presenting
• Intensive reading Write a report
• Making inferences
• Meaning of words
• Viewpoint of writer
• Fact and opinion
• Implied meaning
Reading process
• Pre-reading (Introduce text)
• During reading (Features of text)
• Post-reading (Answer questions,
compare, contrast, evaluate)

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2023-24 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE: GRADE 9

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES

(Assessment for Learning - ongoing process
Listening and Speaking activities Reading and Viewing activities Writing and Presenting activities Language Structures and Conventions
• Recount • Reading process • Writing process activities
• Presentation • Reading aloud activities • Paragraphing • Variety of Language Structures and
• Reading aloud • Reading comprehension activities • Transactional texts Conventions activities
• Oral presentation • Literature activities based on the three • Essay
• Role-play prescribed genres for the semester • Creative writing

CAPS: FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASKS: FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES (FAL): GRADE 9

TERM 1
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 1 FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 2: WRITING FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 3: RESPONSE TO TEXT (70
ORAL • Essay (40 marks) MARKS)
• Reading Aloud (20 marks) Descriptive/ narrative/ reflective • Literary/non-literary text (25 marks)
Commence with this task in Term 1 and conclude in Term 2 During the term • Visual text (15 marks)
when the mark will be recorded. • Summary (10 marks)
• Language structures and conventions (20 marks)

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2023-24 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE: GRADE 9 (TERM 2)

TERM 2
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Listening for comprehension Read a literature text, e.g. short story/ Write a transactional text: Formal letter Reinforcement of language structures
Listen to a story novel • Correct format and conventions covered in previous
• Identify main and supportive ideas Reading strategies • Word choice weeks
• Language use • Intensive reading • Purpose, target audience and context Word level work
• Register • Text features, e.g. Plot, character, setting, • Use conjunctions to ensure cohesion Stems, prefixes and suffixes, adjectives,
• Answer questions narrator, mood, theme, narrator’s perspective • Tone prepositions
• Inferring meaning of unfamiliar words • Main and supporting ideas
Retell the story read Sentence level work
and images by word attack skills • Use a variety of sentence types
Prepared speech • Mind maps to organise coherent ideas Definition paragraph, introductory
Learners undertake research or investigation • Language structure and style paragraph, concluding paragraph,
Reading process Focus on process writing
as a preparatory activity tenses, sentence structure, sentence types
• Pre-reading (Introduce text) • Planning
• Presentation conventions Word meaning
• During reading (Features of text) • Drafting
• Body language Idioms and proverbs
1-2 • Revision
• Introduction and conclusion • Post-reading (Answer questions, Punctuation and spelling
compare, contrast, evaluate) • Editing
• Language use Spelling patterns
Briefly summarising the text read • Proofreading
• Presenting Vocabulary in context
Poetry Remedial of grammar from learners'
Key features of poem Write a formal letter, following the process
approach to writing writing
• Internal structure of a poem: figures of
speech/imagery, rhyme, rhythm
• External structure of a poem: lines, words,
stanzas, typography
• Figurative meaning
• Mood
• Theme and message
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 1
ORAL
Task started in Term 1 to be continued
• Reading aloud (20 marks)
Teachers start the process during Term 1 to ensure that all learners are assessed by the end of Term 2.

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WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING
Listening and Speaking strategies
Listening for comprehension
Recording of a speech
• Explain strategies of the listening
process
• Answer questions in writing
Unprepared reading aloud
• Appropriate use of voice, tone and pace
• Punctuation in reading
• Body language
• Contact with audience
3-4
Speaking and Listening strategies
Listen to an oral text such as an
interview/ speech/ storytelling for
comprehension
5-6 • Take notes during listening
• Listen critically
Group/ panel discussion
TERM 2
READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Read a literary text, e.g. short story/ novel Write an essay: Narrative/ descriptive/ Reinforcement of language structures and
• Specific focus on literary text features discursive/ argumentative conventions covered in previous weeks
• Show comprehension of development of • Word choice Word level work
plot and conflict, characterisation, • Personal voice and style Verbs: finite and infinitive
turning point, background, milieu, role, • Vivid description Sentence level work
narrator, theme, conclusion and ending • Tone Complex sentences, generalisations, direct
Reading process • Main and supporting ideas and indirect speech
• Pre-reading (Introduce text) • Mind maps to organise coherent ideas Word meaning
• During reading (Features of text) • Present essay for assessment
Idioms and proverbs
• Post-reading (answer questions, Focus on process writing
Punctuation and spelling
compare, contrast, evaluate) • Planning Quotation marks, spelling patterns,
Read/ view text, e.g. newspaper • Drafting abbreviations
articles/ magazine articles for • Revision
Vocabulary in context
information and comprehension • Editing
Remedial of grammar from learners'
Reading strategies • Proofreading
• Presenting writing
Comprehension passage in textbook
Write an essay, following the process
• Skimming
approach to writing
• Scanning
• Intensive reading
• Purpose and target group
• Inferring meaning and conclusions
• Fact and opinion
• Give own opinion
• Meaning of unfamiliar words
• Identification of manipulative language
Read a literature text, e.g. novel/ short Transactional texts: Report Reinforcement of language structures
story • Requirements of task and text type and conventions covered in previous
• Specific focus on literary text features • Format, style and point of view weeks
• Show comprehension of development of • Target audience, purpose and context Word level work
plot and conflict, characterisation, • Word choice Stems, prefixes and suffixes, adjectives,
turning point, background, milieu, role of • Sentence structure, lengths and types prepositions
narrator, theme, conclusion and ending • Paragraph conventions
Sentence level work
Reading process • Mind maps to organise coherent ideas
• Pre-reading (Introduce text)
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TERM 2
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
• Undertake a discussion based on the • During reading (Features of text) Focus on process writing Definition paragraph, introductory paragraph,
oral text • Post-reading (Answer questions, • Planning concluding paragraph,
• Take turns compare, contrast, evaluate) • Drafting tenses, sentence structure, sentence types
• Discourse markers Poetry • Revision Word meaning
• Conventions Key features of poem • Editing Idioms and proverbs
• Internal structure of a poem: figures of • Proofreading Punctuation and spelling
speech/ imagery, rhyme, rhythm • Presenting Spelling patterns
• External structure of a poem, lines, Write a report, following the process Vocabulary in context
words, stanzas, typography approach to writing Remedial grammar from learners'
• Figurative meaning
writing
• Mood
• Theme and message
Reading/ viewing for comprehension
Use written and/or visual texts such
as cartoon/ comic strips
• Skimming
• Scanning
• Intensive reading
• Making inferences (characters, setting,
milieu, message)
• Inferring meaning of unfamiliar words by
word attack skills
• Emotive language
Revise structure of the summary
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 4: WRITING
• Transactional writing: 2 short or 1 long (20 marks)
Written before the June controlled test
Listening and Speaking strategies Read a newspaper report/ magazine article Long transactional text, e.g. Reinforcement of language structures and
Listen to a newspaper report Reading strategies newspaper report/ magazine article conventions covered in previous weeks
• Structure • Intensive reading • Correct format Word level work
7-8
• Features • Text features, e.g. plot, character, • Purpose Stems, prefixes and suffixes,
• Language use setting, narrator, mood, theme • Main and supporting ideas pronouns
• Tone Reading/ viewing for comprehension • Logical order of sentences Sentence level work

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TERM 2
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
• Register Use a newspaper report • Use conjunctions to ensure cohesion Sentence types, generalisations, direct and
• Introduction and conclusion Reading strategies • Use a variety of sentence types, indirect speech, tenses
Oral presentation of report • Skimming lengths and structures Word meaning
• Language use • Scanning • Mind maps to organise coherent ideas Idioms and proverbs, literal and figurative
• Register • Inferring meaning of unfamiliar words by Focus on process writing meaning
• Tone word attack skills • Planning Punctuation and spelling
• Body language • Direct and implied meaning • Drafting Quotation marks, spelling patterns,
• Introduction and conclusion • Emotive language • Revision abbreviations
• Answer questions • Editing Vocabulary in context
Reading process • Proofreading Remedial of grammar from learners'
• Pre-reading (Introduce text) • Presenting
writing
• During reading (Features of text) Write a newspaper report/ magazine
• Post-reading (Answer questions, article
compare, contrast, evaluate)
Poetry
Key features of poem
• Internal structure of a poem: Figures of
speech/ imagery, rhyme, rhythm
• External structure of a poem: lines,
words, stanzas, typography
• Figurative meaning
• Mood
• Theme and message
9-10 FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 5: JUNE CONTROLLED TEST
RESPONSE TO TEXTS (70 MARKS)
• Question 1: Literary/ non-literary text (25 marks)
• Question 2: Visual text (15 marks)
• Question 3: Summary (10 marks)
• Question 4: Language structures and conventions (20 marks)

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2023-24 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE: GRADE 9

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES

(Assessment for Learning - ongoing process)
Listening and Speaking activities Reading and Viewing activities Writing and Presenting activities Language Structures and Conventions
• Variety of Listening and Speaking activities • Reading process • Writing process activities
• Reading aloud activities • Paragraphing • Variety of Language Structures and
• Reading comprehension activities • Transactional texts Conventions activities
• Literature activities based on the three • Essay
prescribed genres for the semester • Creative writing

CAPS: FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASKS: FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES (FAL): GRADE 9

TERM 2
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 1: ORAL FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 4: WRITING
• Reading aloud (20 marks) • Transactional writing: 2 short or 1 long (20
marks)
Teachers start the process during Term 1 to ensure that all learners Written before the controlled test
are assessed by the end of Term 2. Texts from Term 1 and 2
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 5: JUNE CONTROLLED
TEST
RESPONSE TO TEXTS (70 MARKS)
• Question 1: Literary/ non-literary text (25 marks)
• Question 2: Visual text (15 marks)
• Question 3: Summary (10 marks)
Question 4: Language structures and conventions (20
marks)

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2023-24 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE: GRADE 9 (TERM 3)
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING
Listening and speaking strategies
Listen to a negotiation scene between two
people and discuss (led by teacher)
• Structure and development of ideas
• Using negotiation skills to reach
consensus
• Language style
Conversation
• Appropriate use of voice, tone and pace
• Punctuation in reading
• Body language
1-2
• Contact with audience
Listening and speaking strategies
Listen to and participate in a discussion
on the project
Topics/ driving questions/ hypotheses to
3-4 be discussed (led by teacher)
• Discuss effective research techniques
that supports the topic / driving question
/ hypothesis
TERM 3
READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Read a literature text, e.g. drama Transactional text, e.g. dialogue Reinforcement of language structures and
• Specific focus on literary text features • Word choice conventions covered in previous weeks
• Show comprehension of development of • Personal voice and style Word level work
plot and conflict, characterisation, • Vivid description Concrete and abstract nouns,
turning point, background/ milieu, role of • Tone conjunctions and transition
narrator, theme, conclusion and ending • Main and supporting ideas Sentence level work
Reading process • Mind maps to organise coherent ideas Speech, tenses, sentence types,
• Pre-reading (Introduce text) Focus on process writing paragraph types, voice, clauses and phrases
• During reading (Features of text) • Planning Word meaning:
• Post-reading (Answer questions, • Drafting
compare, contrast, evaluate) Paronyms, polysemes, homonyms,
• Revision
Reading for comprehension: Visual text - homophones
• Editing
Cartoon • Proofreading Punctuation and spelling
• Skimming for main ideas • Presenting Spelling patterns
• Scanning for supporting details Write a dialogue, following the process Vocabulary in context
• Making predictions approach to writing Remedial of grammar from learners'
• Inferring the meaning of unfamiliar writing
words and images
• The influence of selections and
omissions on meaning of text
• The effect of figurative and rhetorical
devices
• Impact of visual techniques
Read for information based on the topics Use different types of graphic organisers, Reinforcement of language structures and
and genres selected e.g. tree maps, storyboards etc. to conventions covered in previous weeks
Select relevant information from research (to structure the research findings of the Word level work
be provided by teacher or brought to school project New words and phrases as needed by
from home) Focus on the process different topics
Reading strategies • Select relevant information Sentence level work
• Skimming • Write it in your own words Tenses, sentence types,
• Scanning paragraph types, voice, parts of speech
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TERM 3
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
• Listens to and take notes on information • Visualisation • Select the appropriate organiser for the Word meaning
about the project. • Intensive reading type of text to be produced Literal and figurative, denotative and
• Asks and answers questions for clarity • Making inference • Use correct language structures and connotative, figurative language, critical
on research to be done conventions language usages, colloquial and jargon
• Meaning of new words/ phrases
• Each text will determine the appropriate Punctuation and spelling
• Viewpoint of writer
language to be used for the project Spelling patterns
• Fact and opinion
Vocabulary in context as required by the
• Implied meaning type of text to be produced
Compile a bibliography of the resources
used
Reading for comprehension and
reading strategies
Visual texts
• Skimming for main ideas
• Scanning for supporting details
• Making predictions
• Inferring the meaning of unfamiliar
words and images
• Reviewing to promote understanding
• The effect of selections and omissions
on meaning
• The effect of figurative and rhetorical
devices
• Impact of visual techniques
• Synthesising of selected information into
a graphic organiser, mind map or
infographic
Reading process
• Pre-reading (Introduce text)
• During reading (Features of text)
• Post-reading (Answer questions, compare,
contrast, evaluate)

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TERM 3
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Listening and Speaking strategies Read a literary text for the project Respond to topic, driving question, Reinforcement of language structures
Discussion on the project • Read and view multiple resources to hypothesis in writing. and conventions covered in previous
• Topic guidance understand the requirements needed for Draft the text by referencing the research weeks
• Driving question the specific topic/driving findings (notes) Word level work:
• Hypothesis question/hypothesis and presentation Focus on the following: As required by the topic selected for the
• Listen to information on the topics required. • Correct format and features project.
• Take notes Reading/viewing for comprehension • Paragraph / visual conventions Sentence level work:
• Ask questions (Visual and written texts) As required by the type of topic selected for
• Logical progression of paragraphs /
• Give answers • Skimming for main ideas the project.
ideas to ensure coherence
• Understand the expected outcomes of
• Scanning for supporting details • Main and supporting ideas Word meaning:
each topic
• Intensive reading • Language conventions as required by As indicated by the type of topic selected for
• Making predictions the selected topics the project.
• Inferring the meaning of unfamiliar • Personal voice and style Punctuation and spelling:
• words and images • Vivid description (either using words or spelling patterns
visuals) Vocabulary in context
• Main and supporting ideas
5-6 • Tone / mood Remedial grammar from learners'
• Influence of selections and omissions on
the meaning of text • Planning to organise ideas writing
• The effect of figurative and rhetorical Please note:
devices Some responses to the topics, driving
• The writer’s inferences and conclusions question or hypothesis may be visual only
Summarising the text (e.g., videos, podcasts etc.)
The below is important to note:
• Planning (research)
• Drafting (adherence to requires
structures)
• Editing
• Presenting of a well-constructed project

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TERM 3
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Listening and Speaking strategies Reading/viewing for comprehension Writes an essay or digitally generated Reinforcement of language structures and
Oral presentation of the selected topic for strategies product based on a literature genre conventions covered in previous weeks
the project: (Visual and written texts) studied Word level work
• Language use • Skimming for main ideas Narrative/ descriptive/ Adjectives: attributive
• Register • Scanning for supporting details reflective/ argumentative essay/ brochure/ Sentence level work
advertisement/ blog Description paragraph, choice
• Tone • Intensive reading
• Correct format and features paragraph, classification paragraph
• Body language • Making predictions
• Organise content Word meaning
• Introduction and conclusion • Inferring the meaning of unfamiliar
• Main and supporting ideas One word for a phrase
words and images
• Paragraph conventions Punctuation and spelling
• Influence of selections and omissions on
the meaning of text • Logical progression of paragraphs to Spelling patterns
ensure coherence Vocabulary in context
• The effect of figurative and rhetorical
devices • Conjunctions for cohesion Remedial of grammar from learners'
• The writer’s inferences and • Language conventions writing
conclusions • Word choice
7-8 Summarising the text • Personal voice and style
Poetry • Tone
Key features of poem • Organise coherent ideas based on
• Internal structure of a poem: Figures of planning
speech/ imagery, rhyme, rhythm • Present essay (product) for assessment
• External structure of a poem, lines Focus on process writing
words, stanzas, typography
• Planning
• Figurative meaning
• Mood • Drafting
• Theme and message • Revision
• Editing
• Proofreading
• Presenting
Write an essay or digitally generate
product based on a literature genre
studied

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WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING
Listening and Speaking strategies
Storytelling
• Pay attention to speaking skills, tone,
pronunciation, tempo, intonation, eye
contact, posture, gestures
• Conventions and features of a story
Prepared reading aloud
Use relevant speaking skills such as tone,
volume, pace, voice projection,
pronunciation, fluency
9-10
TERM 3
READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Read literature text such as drama Transactional texts, e.g. emails Reinforcement of language structures and
• Key features of literature text such as • Correct format conventions covered in previous weeks
character, action, dialogue, plot, conflict, • Purpose Word level work
background, setting, narrator, theme • Main and supporting ideas Verbs, pronouns: interrogative, demonstrative
Reading process • Language use and indefinite
• Pre-reading (Introduce text) • Register Sentence level work
• During reading (Features of text) • Logical order of sentences Procedure, spatial order, order of
• Post-reading (Answer questions, • Use conjunctions to ensure cohesion importance, concluding paragraph
compare, contrast, evaluate) • Use a variety of sentence types, lengths Word meaning
Poetry and structures
One word for a phrase
• Key features of poem Focus on process writing
Punctuation and spelling
• internal structure of a poem, figures of • Planning
Spelling patterns
speech/imagery, rhyme, rhythm • Drafting
• Revision Vocabulary in context
• external structure of a poem, lines,
words, stanzas, typography, figurative • Editing Remedial of grammar from learners'
meaning, mood, theme and message • Proofreading writing
• Presenting
Write an email

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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES

(Assessment for Learning - ongoing process)
Listening and Speaking activities Reading and Viewing activities Writing and Presenting activities Language Structures and Conventions
• Variety of Listening and Speaking activities • Reading process • Writing process activities
o Stage 3: Oral • Reading aloud activities • Paragraphing • Variety of Language Structures and
Requirements of format, style • Reading comprehension activities • Transactional texts Conventions activities
Target audience purpose and context • Literature activities based on the three • Essay
Word choice, vivid description prescribed genres for the semester • Creative writing
Sentence structure, lengths and types o 3 stages
Use conjunction to ensure cohesion o Stage 1: Research
How to create/ write a mind map/
notes/ a bibliography, summarising
information
o Stage 2: Writing
Planning/ brainstorming
First draft
Revising
Editing
Proofreading
Presenting final product

CAPS: FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASKS: FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES (FAL): GRADE 9

TERM 3
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 6: CREATIVE WRITING PROJECT FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 7: CREATIVE WRITING FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 8
• Research & write-up of the project (20 + 30 = 50 marks) PROJECT RESPONSE TO LITERATURE
ORAL (20 marks) (30 MARKS)
Project based on any ONE genre studied: poems/ folklore /short • Oral Presentation of Task 6 FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 8
stories/ drama/ novel RESPONSE TO LITERATURE
(30 marks)
• Question 1 (Compulsory): Poem (10 marks) AND
• Question 2: Novel or Drama (10 marks) or
Question 3: Short story or Folklore (10
marks)

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2023-24 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE: GRADE 9 (TERM 4)

TERM 4
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Listening comprehension Literary text such as folklore/ drama Transactional text, e.g. cover letter and CV Reinforcement of language structures and
• React critically to a variety of texts • Key features of literature text such as Requirements of format, style conventions covered in previous weeks
• Listen for specific information character, action, dialogue, plot, conflict, • Target audience, purpose and context Word level work
• Listen and enjoy fables and titles background, setting, narrator, theme • Word choice, figurative language, Verbs
• Answer questions Reading process symbols, colour, placement Sentence level work
Oral: CV and cover letter purposes • Pre-reading (Introduce text) • Sentence structure, lengths and types Direct and indirect speech,
discussion • During reading (Features of text) • Selection of visual and design
active voice and passive voice
• Purpose • Post-reading (Answer questions, Focus on process writing
Word meaning
• Requirements of format, style compare, contrast, evaluate) • Planning Ambiguity, cliché, redundancy, tautology,
1-2
• Target audience, purpose and context Poetry • Drafting
slang, jargon
• Word choice Key features of poem • Revision
• Editing Punctuation and spelling
• Figurative language • Internal structure of a poem, figures of
• Proofreading Spelling patterns
speech/imagery, rhyme, rhythm
• Presenting Vocabulary in context
• External structure of a poem, lines,
words, stanzas, typography Write a cover letter and CV Remedial of grammar from learners'
• Figurative meaning writing
• Mood
• Theme and message
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 7: PAPER 3
ORAL (20 marks)
• Oral presentation of the project
Teachers start to administer this task during Term 3 to ensure that all learners are assessed by the end of Term 4.
Listening and Speaking strategies Read a literature text, e.g. folklore/ drama Transactional text, e.g. directions/ Reinforcement of language structures and
Listen for comprehension • Key features of literature text such as instructions conventions covered in previous weeks
Use a recorded dialogue character, action, dialogue, plot, conflict, • Correct format Word level work:
• Listen to the dialogue background, setting, narrator, theme • Organise content (mind map) Proper nouns, gerund, complex nouns
3-4 • Take notes on: Reading process • Main and supporting ideas Sentence level work
o Language and power • Pre-reading (Introduce text) • Paragraph conventions Procedure, spatial order, order of
o Tone • During reading (Features of text) • Logical progression of paragraphs to importance, concluding paragraph
o Mood • Post-reading (Answer questions, ensure coherence
o Introduction and conclusion • Conjunctions for cohesion
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TERM 4
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
• Answer questions compare, contrast, evaluate) • Language conventions Word meaning
Oral discussion Reading/ viewing comprehension Focus on process writing Stereotypes, prejudice, bias,
Directions/ instructions (led by teacher) Visual or multimedia text, e.g. graph/ • Planning emotive language
• Correct format cartoon/ advertisement • Drafting Punctuation and spelling
• Main and supporting ideas • Skimming • Revision Spelling patterns, abbreviations: initialism,
• Paragraph conventions • Scanning • Editing acronyms, clipped, truncation, aphesis,
• Logical progression of paragraphs to • Visualisation • Proofreading portmanteau
ensure coherence • Intensive reading • Presenting Vocabulary in context
• Conjunctions for cohesion • Making inferences Write an instruction text Remedial of grammar from learners'
• Language conventions • Meaning of words writing
• Viewpoint of writer
• Fact and opinion
• Implied meaning
Listening and speaking strategies Read a text, e.g. drama/ folklore Transactional text: Obituary/affidavit Reinforcement of language structures
Prepared reading aloud • Specific focus on literary text features • Correct format and conventions covered in previous
• Use relevant speaking skills such as • Show comprehension of development of • Purpose weeks
tone, volume, pace, voice projection, plot and conflict, characterisation, • Main and supporting ideas Word level work
pronunciation, fluency turning point, background, milieu, role of • Language use Verbs, nouns
Conversation narrator, theme, conclusion and ending • Register
Reading process Sentence level work
Obituary or affidavit (led by teacher) • Logical order of sentences
• Pre-reading (Introduce text) Explanation: cause and effect
• Purpose • Use conjunctions to ensure cohesion
• During reading (Features of text) • Use a variety of sentence types, lengths Word meaning
• Language use • Post-reading (Answer questions, Shift of meaning, using language for
and structures
• Register compare, contrast, evaluate)
5-6 Focus on process writing special purpose, one word for a phrase
• Logical order of sentences
Read and view text, e.g. newspaper • Planning Punctuation and spelling
• Use conjunctions to ensure cohesion articles and magazine articles for
• Use a variety of sentence types, • Drafting Spelling patterns
information and comprehension • Revision Vocabulary in context
lengths and structures
Reading strategies • Editing Remedial of grammar from learners'
• Skimming • Proofreading writing
• Scanning • Presenting
• Intensive reading Write an obituary, following the process
• Purpose and target group writing approach
• Inferring meaning and conclusions
• Fact and opinion
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TERM 4
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
• Give own opinion
• Meaning of unfamiliar words
• Identify manipulative language
Summarise the text
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 9: WRITING
• Transactional writing: 2 short or 1 long (20 marks)
Written before the end-of-the-year examination
Listening and Speaking strategies Reading and Viewing strategies Writing Revision
Revision Revision of reading strategies and Revision of writing texts: Word level work
techniques to respond to texts Creative and transactional texts Revision
Sentence level work
7-8
Revision
Word meaning
Revision
Punctuation and spelling Revision
END-OF-THE-YEAR EXAMINATION
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 10: PAPER 2
RESPONSE TO TEXTS (70 MARKS)
9-10 • Question 1: Literary/ non-literary text (25 marks)
• Question 2: Visual text (15 marks)
• Question 3: Summary (10 marks)
• Question 4: Language structures and conventions (20 marks)

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2023-24 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE: GRADE 9

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES

(Assessment for Learning - ongoing process)
Listening and Speaking activities Reading and Viewing activities Writing and Presenting activities Language Structures and Conventions
• Variety of Listening and Speaking activities • Reading process • Writing process activities
• Reading aloud activities • Paragraphing • Variety of Language Structures and
• Reading comprehension activities • Transactional texts Conventions activities
• Literature activities based on the three • Essay
prescribed genres for the semester • Creative writing
CAPS: FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASKS: FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES (FAL): GRADE 9
TERM 4
END-OF-THE-YEAR EXAMINATION END-OF-THE-YEAR EXAMINATION END-OF-THE-YEAR EXAMINATION
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 7 FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 9: WRITING FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 10: PAPER 2
ORAL (20 marks) PAPER 1 • Transactional writing: 2 short or 1 long (20 RESPONSE TO TEXTS (70 MARKS)
• Oral presentation of the project marks) • Question 1: Literary/ non-literary text (25 marks)
Teachers start to administer this task during Term 3 to ensure that all Written before the end-of-the-year examination • Question 2: Visual text (15 marks)
learners are assessed by the end of Term 4. • Question 3: Summary (10 marks)
• Question 4: Language structures and conventions (20
marks)

CAPS: FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASKS: FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES (FAL): GRADE 9

SCHOOL-BASED ASSESSMENT: DURING THE YEAR END-OF-THE-YEAR EXAMINATION PAPERS
SEVEN (7) FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASKS WRITTEN EXAMINATIONS ORAL ASSESSMENT TASK
1 oral task (Reading Aloud across Semester 1) Paper 2: Response to texts Paper 1: Oral presentation on the creative writing
3 writing tasks Paper 3: Transactional writing project
1 response to texts
1 June controlled test
1 literature test

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