2023/24 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE: GRADE 8

2023/24 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE: GRADE 8 (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 about Read a brochure Transactional texts Reinforcement of language structures and
visual/ multimedia texts • Key features of text: Format, target Write/ design a brochure conventions covered in previous weeks
Read Aloud of an article on a brochure audience, layout, language usage, • Features of the text Word level work
• Organise information coherently purpose, visual elements • Language use
Nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs of place
• Identify correct vocabulary and language Informative paper document • Register and style
and manner
structures May be folded into a template, pamphlet or • Visual elements
• Respond to text Sentence level work
leaflet • Introduction and conclusion
Class discussion based on a brochure Is usually folded Simple sentences, simple present tense,
Focus on process writing
• Features of the visual text Only includes summary information that is simple past tense, adjectives and adverbs,
• Planning
• Conventions and structure of the text promotional in nature bias, prejudice, stereotypes
• Drafting
(format of a brochure) Reading process • Revision Word meaning
• Diction • Pre-reading (Introduce text) • Editing Proverbs, contextual, literal, denotative and
• Discuss the way visual elements integrate • During reading (Features of text) • Proofreading connotative meaning
with the visual text • Post-reading (Answer questions, • Presenting Punctuation
• Register and style compare, contrast, evaluate) Comma, full stop, quotation marks,
1-2 Write/ design a brochure based on visual
stimuli exclamation mark, apostrophe, ellipsis, poetic
Reading strategies devices
Skimming, scanning, fact and opinion, main
and supportive ideas, inferences and Vocabulary in context
conclusions Remedial of grammar from learners’
AND writing
Poetry
Key features of a poem
• Internal structure of a poem:
Figures of speech/ imagery, rhyme, rhythm
• External structure of a poem:
Lines, stanzas, typography
• Figurative meaning
• Mood
• Theme and message

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TERM 1
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Listening and speaking strategies Reading/ viewing of written/ visual text for Transactional texts Reinforcement of language structures and
Listen to/ view and have a conversation on comprehension, e.g. an email Write an email conventions covered in previous weeks
a visual, audio-visual/ multimedia text, e.g. • Skimming • Requirements for format, style and point of Word level work
video/ pre-recording on how to write an • Scanning view Adverbs of manner and time, definite and
email or create an email account • Intensive reading • Target audience, purpose and context indefinite articles, infinite verbs, gerunds,
• Activate background knowledge • Purpose and target group • Features of the text
• Determine purpose of the text • Impact of use of font types and sizes, adjectives: comparative and superlative
• Language use and word choice (critical
• Listen for meaning headings and caption on meaning language awareness) Sentence level work
• Understand text • Introduction and conclusion Sentence structure, adjectival and adverbial
• Take notes AND Focus on process writing clauses and phrases, negation, statements
• Understand message • Planning Word meaning
• Tone and register Literary text: Folklore • Drafting Synonyms, antonyms, literal and figurative
• Targeted audience Key features of literature text such as • Revision meaning
3-4 character, characterisation, plot, conflict, • Editing
Listening comprehension background, setting, narrator, theme Punctuation
• Proofreading
(Sound only) • Presenting Full stop, comma
• Record main and supporting ideas by Reading process Write an email based on visual Vocabulary in context
making notes, checklists, summaries, • Pre-reading (Introduce text) stimuli Remedial of grammar from learners’
paraphrasing and retelling • During reading (Features of text) writing
• Post-reading (Answer questions, compare,
contrast, evaluate)

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.

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TERM 1
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Listening and speaking strategies: Literary text like a youth novel Write an essay: Narrative/reflective Reinforcement of language structures and
Group discussion (led by teacher) • General discussion on the key essay conventions covered in previous weeks
Brainstorming features like character, characterisation, plot, • Word choice Word level work
Select relevant ideas conflict, background, setting, narrator and • Personal voice and style
Pronouns: personal, relative, reflexive and
Sequence main ideas on novel theme • Vivid description
possessive
Reading strategies • Tone
Listening comprehension in preparation Pre-reading strategies • Main and supporting ideas Sentence level work
for summary writing Introduce learners to: • Mind maps to organise coherent ideas Subject and predicate, subject-verb
• Record main and supporting ideas by • Text features: Title, headings, captions, • Present essay for assessment agreement, main clause, dependent clause
making notes illustrations Focus on process writing
• Share ideas and experiences • Parts of a book: Title page, table of contents, • Planning Word meaning
Show understanding of concepts chapters, glossary, index, appendix, • Drafting Synonyms, antonyms, literal and figurative
• Identify persuasive/manipulative techniques footnotes, etc. • Revision meaning
• Answer questions Reading process • Editing
• Pre-reading (Introduce text) • Proofreading
• During reading (Features of text) • Presenting Punctuation
• Post-reading (Answer questions, compare, Write an essay, following the process Full stop, comma, question mark, quotation
5-6 contrast, evaluate). approach to writing marks, exclamation mark
Teacher teaches summary writing skills by Vocabulary in context
exposing learners to the basic principles of Remedial of grammar from learners’
summarizing
writing

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TERM 1
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Listening and speaking strategies Reading/ viewing for information Use texts Transactional text, e.g. newspaper article/ Reinforcement of language structures and
Oral: Newspaper article/ investigative such as newspaper articles/ investigative investigative conventions covered in previous weeks
report/ editorial reports/ editorials report/ editorial Word level work
• Research topic • Key features • Purpose, target group and
Regular and irregular verbs, main and
• Organise material • Format format
auxiliary verbs
coherently • Language use • Paragraph conventions
• Support with examples • Conjunctions for cohesion Sentence level work
Reading process
• Identify and choose the • Pre-reading (Introduce text) • Use a variety of sentence Statements, sentence structure, present and
correct vocabulary, • During reading (Features of text) types, lengths and structures past tenses, bias, prejudice and stereotypes
language and conventions • Post-reading (Answer questions, compare, • Formal style Word meaning
• Prepare effective introduction and contrast, evaluate) Focus on process writing Synonyms, antonyms, contextual, denotative
conclusion Reading strategies • Planning and connotative meaning, vocabulary in
Listening comprehension • Skimming • Drafting context
• Recording main and • Scanning • Revision Punctuation
supporting ideas by • Intensive reading • Editing
7-8 making notes, • Proofreading Comma, full stop, quotation marks,
• Summarising exclamation mark, apostrophe, ellipsis
• Sharing ideas and • Purpose and target group • Presenting
experiences and show • Inferring meaning and conclusions Write a magazine article/ investigative Remedial of grammar from learners’
understanding of concepts • Identifying manipulative language report/ editorial writing
• Identify • Influence of selection and omission on the
persuasive/ manipulative meaning of text
techniques • How language and images reflect and shape
• Answer questions values and attitudes
• Impact of use of font types and sizes,
headings and caption on meaning
Write a comprehension test

FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 3: RESPONSE TO TEXTS (50 MARKS)

• Literary/ non-literary text (20 marks)
• Visual text (10 marks)
• Summary (10 marks)
• Language structures and conventions (20 marks)

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TERM 1
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Listening and Speaking strategies Read/ view a written/ visual text for Write own speech Reinforcement of language structures and
Listen to a prepared speech by a former comprehension, Purpose, target group and format conventions covered in previous weeks
president/ influential member of society e.g. a speech • Infer meaning and conclusions Word level work
• Discuss features of prepared speech • Identify and discuss key features • Use manipulative language
Nouns: compound, gerund, diminutives and
• Identify and explain language use • Analyse language use • Influence of selection and omission on the
augmentatives
• Identify and discuss features in the speech • Identify and discuss emotive use of meaning of text
• How language and images reflect and shape Verbs: finite and non-finite verbs,
language
Discussion of the folktale values and attitudes prepositions, adjectives: comparative,
• Analyse introduction and conclusion
Retell sections of the story • Paragraph conventions superlative
• Infer meaning and conclusions
Share ideas, opinions and viewpoints with • Identify manipulative language • Conjunctions for cohesion Sentence level work
individual groups • Influence of selection and omission on the • Use a variety of sentence types, lengths and Verb phrase, verb clause, supporting
• Initiate and sustain conversations meaning of text structures sentences, topic sentence, noun phrase,
• Turn-taking conventions • How language and images reflect and shape • Formal style noun, adjectival and adverbial clauses,
values and attitudes Focus on process writing conjunctions, emotive and manipulative
• Defend a position
Literary text like folklore • Planning language
• Negotiate
Plot, subplot, exposition, rising action, conflict, • Drafting Word meaning
• Fill in gaps and encourage the speaker climax, falling action/ anti-climax, • Revision Synonyms, antonyms, homophones and
• Share ideas and experiences denouement/ resolution, foreshadowing and homonyms
9-10 • Editing
• Show understanding of concepts flashback Punctuation
• Proofreading
• Role of narrator Exclamation mark, question mark, comma, full
• Messages and themes • Presenting
stop, abbreviations: initialism, acronym,
• Mood Write own speech
clipped, truncation, aphesis, portmanteau
• Ironic twist/ ending
• Suspense and surprise Vocabulary in context
Reading process Remedial of grammar from learners’
• Pre-reading (Introduce text) writing
• During reading (Features of text)
• Post-reading (Answer questions, compare,
contrast, evaluate)
Reading strategies
• Skimming
• Scanning
• Intensive reading
Summarising
• Purpose and target group
• Inferring meaning and conclusions

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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES

(Assessment for Learning - ongoing process
Listening and Speaking Reading and Viewing activities Writing and Presenting activities Language Structures and Conventions
• Read aloud • Reading process • Writing process activities
• Class discussions • Reading aloud activities • Paragraphing • Variety of Language Structures and
• Listening comprehension • Reading comprehension activities • Transactional texts Conventions activities
• Group discussions • Literature activities based on the three • Essay
• Research prescribed genres for the semester • Creative writing
• Listen to a prepared speech

CAPS: FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASKS: HOME LANGUAGES (HL): GRADE 8

TERM 1
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 1: ORAL FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 2: WRITING FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 3
• Reading Aloud (20 marks) • Essay (30 marks) RESPONSE TO TEXTS (60 MARKS)
Commence with this task in Term 1 and conclude in Term 2 Narrative/ reflective • Literary/ non-literary (20 marks)
when the mark will be recorded. During the term • Visual text (10 marks)
• Summary (10 marks)
• Language structures and conventions (20 marks)

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2023/24 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE: GRADE 8 (TERM 2)
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING
Listening and Speaking strategies
Listening comprehension from the novel
• Listening process
• Writing response
Read aloud/ view an extract from a novel
• Teach features and conventions
• Choose style, register and vocabulary
• Use textual context (e.g. in-sentence
definitions), cues (e.g. commas, quotes)
and graphic cues (e.g. bold face) to
determine the meaning of unfamiliar words
1-2 • Take turns
• Use persuasion
techniques
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.
TERM 2
READING AND VIEWING
Literary text like a novel
• Key features of literature text such as
character, action, dialogue, plot, conflict,
background, setting, narrator, theme
Reading process
• Pre-reading (Introduce text)
• During reading (Features of text)
• Post-reading (Answer questions, compare,
contrast, evaluate)
• Theme and message
Reading strategies for comprehension
• Purpose and target group
• Making inferences
• Give own opinion
• Distinguish between facts and opinions
• Direct and implied meaning
Write a summary based on one chapter
WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Descriptive essay based on a novel Word level work
• Correct format and features Adverbs of place and frequency, adjectives:
• Organise content (mind map) comparative and superlative, common and
• Main and supporting ideas proper nouns, pronouns: personal, relative,
reflexive and possessive, conjunctions
• Paragraph conventions
Sentence level work
• Logical progression of paragraphs to ensure
coherence Correct word order, question forms,
euphemisms, sentence structures, supporting
• Conjunctions for cohesion
sentences, topic sentence, simple and
• Language conventions compound sentences, main and supporting
Focus on process writing statements, mood, voice, tenses
• Planning Word meaning
• Drafting Figurative, literal and contextual meaning,
• Revision pun, synonyms, antonyms
• Editing Punctuation and spelling
• Proofreading Abbreviations, question mark, exclamation
• Presenting and presenting marks, full stop, comma
Write a descriptive essay
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TERM 2
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Listening and Speaking strategies Literary text, e.g. a recorded speech on Write a dialogue based on a social issue Word level work
Listen to a dialogue based on a social television/ radio based on a social issue • Format Finite verbs
issue • Key features of the text • Introductory sentences Sentence level work
• Listen to a dialogue • Language use • Order and cohesion Simple present tense, simple past tense,
• Take notes • Format • Word choice and punctuation emotive and manipulative use, sentence
-- Language and power • Role players • Language conventions structure, negation, question form and
-- Tone Reading process answering techniques, direct and indirect
Focus on process writing
speech
-- Mood • Pre-reading (Introduce text) • Planning
Word meaning
-- Introduction and conclusion • During reading (Features of text) • Drafting
Literal and figurative meaning, synonyms,
• Answer questions • Post-reading (Answer questions, compare, • Revision antonyms, homophones, homonyms
Dialogue contrast, evaluate) • Editing Punctuation and spelling
• Indicate roles Poetry • Proofreading Spelling
• Speakers take turns Key features of a poem • Presenting rules and conventions
• Explain point of view and reach consensus • Internal structure of a poem: Write a dialogue
• Use appropriate language, style and register Figures of speech/ imagery, rhyme, rhythm
3-4 • Present • External structure of a poem: Lines, words,
stanzas, typography
• Figurative meaning
• Mood
• Theme and message

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TERM 2
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Listening and speaking strategies Non-fictional text, e.g. a newspaper article Write a review based on a newspaper Word level work
Listening comprehension of a non- for comprehension article Prefixes and suffixes, adverbs of place and
fictional text, e.g. a newspaper article Reading process • Format of the text frequency
• Listen for comprehension/ information • Pre-reading (Introduce text) • Paragraph conventions Sentence level work
• Take notes • During reading (Features of text) • Style, tone and register Sentence structure, sentence types, tenses,
• Answer questions • Post-reading (Answer questions, compare, • Audience statements, euphemism, proverbs, correct
Group/ panel discussion contrast, evaluate) • Adherence to topic word order, mood, voice
• Explain the point of view of the author Reading strategies for comprehension Focus on process writing Word meaning
• Use appropriate language, style and register • Purpose and target group • Planning Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, paronyms
• Identify key features of a magazine article • Making inferences • Drafting Punctuation and spelling
• Take turns • Give own opinion • Revision Acronyms, abbreviations, question mark,
• Distinguish between facts and opinions exclamation mark, full stop, comma
• Editing
• Direct and implied meaning • Proofreading
5-6 • Summarising • Presenting
Folktales Write a review
• Plot, subplot, exposition, rising action,
conflict, climax, falling action/ anti-climax,
denouement/ resolution, foreshadowing and
flashback
• Characters
• Characterisation
• Role of narrator
• Messages and themes
• Background, setting and relation to
character and theme
• Mood
• Ironic twist/ ending
• Suspense and surprise
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 4: WRITING
• Transactional writing: 2 short or 1 long (20 marks)
Written before the June controlled test

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TERM 2
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Speaking and Listening strategies Reading/ viewing for comprehension of a Transactional texts Reinforcement of language structures and
Discussion: Listen to/ watch an visual text/ multimedia text such as Advertisement/ poster conventions covered in previous weeks
advertisement advertisement/ poster • Correct format/ layout Word level work
• Tone • Intensive reading • Purpose Adjectives and adverbs, idioms, descriptive
• Pacing • Make inferences • Text features language use, use of manipulative language
• Emotive and manipulative language use • Infer meaning of unfamiliar words by word to persuade
• Language use
• Font size attack skills Sentence level work
• Register
• Body language • Emotive language Sentence structure, nouns, adjectives,
• Use of visuals/ colour
• Use of visual to strengthen the message pronouns, concord, simple tenses
• AIDA principles Focus on process writing
• Use of punctuation and font Punctuation
Listening comprehension • Planning
Reading process Spelling and spelling patterns, abbreviations
Oral presentation on the advertisement • Drafting
7-8 • Pre-reading (Introduce text) Vocabulary in context
• Record main and support ideas by making • Revision
notes • During reading (Features of text) Remedial of grammar from learners’
• Editing writing
• Share ideas and experiences • Post-reading (Answer questions, compare,
• Proofreading
Show understanding of concepts contrast, evaluate)
• Presenting
• Identify persuasive/ manipulative techniques Reading strategies
Design and create an advertisement/
• Answer questions • Skimming poster
• Scanning
• Intensive reading
• Visualising
• Inferring meaning and
conclusions
9-10 FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 5
JUNE CONTROLLED TEST
RESPONSE TO TEXTS (60 MARKS)
• Question 1: Literary/ non-literary text (20 marks)
• Question 2: Visual text (10 marks)
• Question 3: Summary (10 marks)
• Question 4: Language structures and conventions (20 marks)

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Listening and Speaking activities
• Listen to an oral presentation
• Listening comprehension
• Group/ panel discussion
• Dialogue
• Reading aloud
• Listening to a novel
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 1: ORAL:
• Reading aloud (20 marks)
Task started in Term 1 and continued in Term 2
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES
(Assessment for Learning - ongoing process)
Reading and Viewing activities Writing and Presenting activities Language Structures and Conventions
• 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: HOME LANGUAGES (HL): GRADE 8
TERM 2
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 4: FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 5
• Transactional writing: 2 short or 1 long (10 marks) JUNE CONTROLLED TEST
Written before the June controlled test RESPONSE TO TEXTS (60 MARKS)
• Question 1: Literary/ non-literary text (20 marks)
• Question 2: Visual text (10 marks)
• Question 3: Summary (10 marks)
• Question 4: Language structures and conventions (20
marks)
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2023/24 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE: GRADE 8 (TERM 3)

TERM 3
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Listening and speaking strategies Literary text such as short story Write a literary text: Short story Reinforcement of language structures and
Listening for information Key features of literature text such as • Correct format conventions covered in previous weeks
• Listen to an informative text character, action, dialogue, plot, conflict, • Purpose Word level work
• Listen to presentation, language use, tempo background, setting, narrator, theme • Main and supporting ideas Common and proper nouns, prepositions with
and voice projection Reading process • Logical order of sentences a variety of phrasal verbs
• Listen to story line • Pre-reading (Introduce text) • Use conjunctions to ensure cohesion Sentence level work
• Discuss with partner • During reading (Features of text) • Use a variety of sentence types, lengths Tenses, sentences, proverbs and idiomatic
• Storytelling • Post-reading (Answer questions, compare, expressions, adjectival and adverbial clauses
and structures
• Choose a story contrast, evaluate) Word meaning
Focus on process writing
• Do planning and research Poetry Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms
• Planning
• Choose style, register and vocabulary Key features of a poem Punctuation and spelling
• Drafting
• Present a story • Internal structure of a poem: Figures of Spelling patterns, ellipsis, punctuation of
• Revision
speech/ imagery, rhyme, rhythm abbreviations and contractions
Prepared reading aloud sections of the • Editing
short story • External structure of a poem: Lines, words, Vocabulary in context
• Proofreading
1-2 • Read fluently according to purpose stanzas, typography Remedial grammar from learners’ writing
• Presenting
• Voice projection • Figurative meaning
Write own story, following the writing
• Enunciation • Mood
process
• Eye contact, tone, pace and posture • Theme and message
Reading comprehension
Text from prescribed literature
• Skimming
• Scanning
• Visualisation
• Intensive reading
• Making inference
• Meaning of words
• Writer’s point of view
• Fact and opinion
• Implied meaning

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TERM 3
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Listening and speaking strategies Literary text like drama/ play Use different types of graphic organisers Reinforcement of language structures
Listen to and participate in a discussion Key features of drama/ play such as to organise the research section of the and conventions covered in previous
on the project. Topics to be discussed and character, action, dialogue, plot, conflict, project weeks
explained in class background, setting, narrator, theme Different topics require different types of tools Word level work
• Listen to the teacher on how to do proper Reading process Select and create appropriate frames to New words and phrases as required for
research based on the given genre and topic • Pre-reading (Introduce text) support the type of product to be produced different topics
• Listen to and take notes on information • During reading (Features of text) Focus on process Sentence level work
about the project • Select relevant information
• Post-reading (Answer questions, compare, Tenses, sentence types, paragraph types,
- Define research contrast, evaluate) • Write in own words voice, parts of speech
- Create 8-10 questions to assist with • Theme and message • Select the appropriate frame for type of Word meaning
research text to be produced
Read for information based on the topics Literal, figurative, denotative and connotative
• Approach and genres selected • Use correct language structures and meaning, figurative language, critical
- Instructions Select research information to be brought to conventions language usages, colloquial and jargon
- Different stages in the school • Each text will determine the appropriate Punctuation and spelling
- project Reading strategies language to be used for the project Spelling patterns
- Ask and answer • Skimming Create the frame required for the writing Vocabulary in context as required by the
3-4 - questions • Scanning task of the project type of text to be produced
- Share ideas and opinions • Visualisation
- and make selections. • Intensive reading
• Making inferences
• Meaning of new words/ phrases
• Point of view of writer
• Fact and opinion
• Implied meaning
Reading for comprehension and reading
strategies
Visual texts
• Skimming for main ideas
• Scanning for supporting ideas
• Making predictions
• Inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words
and images

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WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 6: CREATIVE WRITING PROJECT
Stage 1: Research (Learners do research on their project)
(20 marks)
5-6 Write-up: Literature project
Group discussion (led by teacher)
Research based on literature project
• Methodology/ the process
• Purpose
• Approach
• Instructions and expectations
TERM 3
READING AND VIEWING
• 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
Keep to the selected topic Organise
information to be used for the written
component
Read for information
• Layout of the different project topics/
items, e.g. a PowerPoint presentation, rap
song, review, etc.
• Key features such as character, action,
dialogue, plot, conflict, background,
setting, narrator, theme
• Revision/ recap of genres and text types
(literary/ non-literary) to which learners
were exposed during Semester 1 (Terms
1 and 2)
Reading process
• Pre-reading (Introduce text)
• During reading (Features of text)
• Post-reading (Answer questions, compare,
contrast, evaluate)
• Theme and message
Reading strategies
• Skimming
• Scanning
WRITING AND PRESENTING
Writing based on selected genre/ project
topic
Write-up of the actual project
• Correct format and features
• Organise content graphic organisers
• Main and supporting ideas
• Paragraph conventions
• Logical progression of paragraphs
to ensure coherence
• Conjunctions for cohesion
• Language conventions
Focus on process writing
• Planning
• Drafting
• Revision
• Editing
• Proofreading
• Presenting
LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Reinforcement of language structures and
conventions covered in previous weeks
Word level work
Common and proper nouns, prepositions with
a variety of phrasal verbs
Sentence level work
Tenses, sentences, adjectival and adverbial
clauses, proverbs and idiomatic expressions
Word meaning
Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms
Punctuation and spelling
Spelling patterns, ellipsis, punctuation of
abbreviations and contractions
Vocabulary in context
Remedial of grammar from learners’
writing

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TERM 3
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
• Visualisation
• Intensive reading
• Making inferences
• Meaning of words
• Point of view of the writer
• Facts and opinions
• Implied meaning
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 6: CREATIVE WRITING PROJECT
Stage 2: Writing (Learners engage in the write-up of their project) (30 marks)
• Planning/ pre-writing of the creative writing project
• Drafting
• Revising
• Editing
• Proofreading
• Presenting
Speaking and Listening strategies Study the project rubrics and understand the Transactional text: Summary/ presentation Reinforcement of language structures and
Oral presentation of the selected topic for assessment requirements notes for the oral component of the project conventions covered in previous weeks
the project Reading/ viewing for comprehension • Requirements of format, style Word level work
The nature of the orals will be dependent on Visual and written texts • Target audience purpose and context As required for the topic selected for the
the school’s context Reading strategies • Word choice, vivid description project
Listen to and discuss current news based • Skimming for main ideas • Sentence structure, lengths and types Sentence level work
on newspapers and magazine articles • Scanning for supporting details • Use conjunction to ensure cohesion As required by the type of topic selected for
• Use of tone, pace and intonation • Intensive reading Focus on producing a presentation linked the project
• Use of manipulative/ emotive/ persuasive • Making predictions to the genre and selected topic Word meaning
7-8 language • Inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words Make additional notes on the side to As indicated by the type of topic selected for
• Use textual context (e.g. in-sentence and images assist with presenting the project to the the project
definitions), cues (e.g. commas, quotes) and • Influence of selections and omissions on the class and teacher Punctuation and spelling
graphic cues (e.g. bold face) to determine the meaning of text Spelling patterns
meaning of unfamiliar words • The effect of figurative and rhetorical Vocabulary in context
• Adherence to conventions devices Remedial of grammar from learners’
• Appropriate body language • The writer’s inferences and conclusions writing
• Attention-grabbing introduction and a strong Summarise the text
conclusion
• Purpose, target group and context

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TERM 3
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Listen to/ view and discuss a visual/ audio- Read a diary entry Write a diary entry on your visual/ audio- Reinforcement of language structures and
visual/ multimedia text • Correct format visual/ multimedia text conventions covered in previous weeks
• Identify main and supporting ideas • Purpose • Correct format Word level work
• Write notes • Main and supporting ideas • Purpose Singular and plural, gender, diminutives
• Share ideas and experiences • Logical order of sentences • Main and supporting ideas Sentence level work
• Show understanding of concepts • Use conjunctions to ensure cohesion • Logical order of sentences Direct and reported speech, question forms,
• Identify persuasive/manipulating techniques • Use a variety of sentence types, lengths and • Use conjunctions to ensure cohesion fact and opinion, sentence structure,
where applicable structures • Use a variety of sentence types, lengths and sentences, ambiguity, voice, gerund
9-10 • Answer questions Read a diary entry structures Word meaning
Oral presentation of the selected topic for Reading strategies Focus on process writing Synonyms, antonyms, euphemism,
the project • Skimming • Planning homonyms, literal and figurative meaning
• Introduction of the topic and research • Scanning • Drafting Punctuation and spelling
• Pronunciation and articulation • Visualisation • Revision Quotation marks, spelling patterns
• Body language • Fact and opinion • Editing Vocabulary in context
• Use of resources, visual cues and a • Making predictions • Proofreading Remedial of grammar from learners’
good presentation • Inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words • Presenting writing
and images Write a diary entry

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES (Assessment for Learning - ongoing process)

Listening and Speaking activities
• Variety of Listening and Speaking activities
related to the Term 3 creative writing project
Reading and Viewing activities
• Incorporate the Term 3 creative writing
project
• Literature activities based on the three
prescribed genres for the semester
Writing and Presenting activities Language Structures and Conventions
• Writing processes activities
• Creative writing project • Variety of Language Structures and
• Literature for the term test Conventions activities

CAPS: FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASKS: HOME LANGUAGES (HL): GRADE 8: TERM 3

FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 6: CREATIVE WRITING FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 7 FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 8
PROJECT CREATIVE WRITING PROJECT RESPONSE TO LITERATURE
• Research and write-up of the project (20 + 30 = 50 • Oral presentation of the project (20 marks) (30 MARKS)
marks) Commence with the oral task in Term 3 and conclude in Term • Poetry (Compulsory) (10 marks)
4 when the mark will be recorded • Drama / novel (10 marks)
• Short stories/ folklore (10 marks)
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2023/24 ANNUAL TEACHING PLANS: ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE: GRADE 8 (TERM 4)
WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING
Listening and speaking strategies
Listening comprehension
• Listen to instructions/ directions
• Take notes
• Answer questions
• Different kinds of oral communication
Giving directions
• Use directions
• Use the imperative form
• Use the second person for interaction
• Refer to specific directions
• Indicate distance
• Provide information about landmarks
1-2
READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Read information text with visuals, e.g. a Transactional text e.g., Directions / Word level work
map, landmark, graph, infographic Instructions Adjectives: comparative and superlative,
• Format • Correct format common and proper nouns, conjunctions
• Language use • Organize content Sentence level work
• Features • Logical progression stages /steps Topic sentences, statements, tenses, main
• Make sense of information • Ensure coherence and supporting statements, simple and
• Synthesise information • Conjunctions for cohesion compound sentences
Reading process • Language conventions Word meaning
• Pre-reading (Introduce text) Focus on process writing Synonyms, antonyms, contextual, subject-
• During reading (Features of text) • Planning specific jargon
• Post-reading (Answer questions, compare, • Drafting Punctuation and spelling
contrast, evaluate) • Revision Spelling patterns, full stop, comma
Reading/ viewing, e.g. maps, landmarks, • Editing
graphs, infographics • Proofreading
• Identify and discuss the purpose and • Presenting
message in visual texts for information
Write an instructional text
• Scan
• Intensive reading
• Make inferences
Read a short story
Key features of literature text such as
character, characterisation, plot, conflict,
background, setting, narrator,
theme
Reading process
• Pre-reading (Introduce text)
• During reading (Features of text)
• Post-reading (Answer questions, compare,
contrast, evaluate)
Prepare the learners to summarise the
story/ section/ chapter
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WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 7: PAPER 1
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
Listen to a panel discussing current news
based on newspapers and magazine
articles
• Use of tone, pace and intonation
• Use of manipulative/ emotive/ persuasive
language
• Use of cues
• Adherence to conventions
• Appropriate body language
• Attention-grabbing introduction and a strong • Direct/implied meaning
conclusion
• Purpose, target group and context
Prepared/ unprepared reading aloud of a
3-4 newspaper article
• Use of tone, pace and intonation
• Observing punctuation marks for good effect conflict, climax, falling action/anti-climax,
• Appropriate body language
READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Reading/ viewing for information Use texts Long/ short transactional texts Newspaper Reinforcement of language structures and
such as newspaper articles/ magazine article conventions covered in previous weeks
articles/ written speeches • Requirements of format, style Word level work
• Skimming for main ideas • Target audience, purpose and context Abstract and concrete nouns, prepositions
• Scanning for supporting details context adjectives: comparative and superlative
• Making predictions • Word choice and language structures Sentence level work Chronological
• Facts and opinions • Use of manipulative/ emotive/ persuasive (sequential) order, order of importance,
• Point of view of author language description paragraph, persuasive and
• Inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words emotive language, bias and prejudice,
• Use of cues for font and commas
and images stereotypes, rhetoric devices
Focus on process writing
• Formal/informal language Word meaning
• Planning
Synonyms, antonyms, literal and figurative
• Figures of speech • Drafting
meaning
Read a drama • Revision
Punctuation: quotation marks, exclamation
The following aspects will enhance the • Editing marks, comma, full stop, question marks,
learners’ understanding of the text: • Proofreading ellipsis
• Plot and sub-plot, exposition, rising action, • Presenting Vocabulary in context
Write a newspaper article Remedial of grammar from learners’
denouement/ resolution, foreshadowing and
writing
flashback
• Characterisation
• Role of narrator/ persona/ point of view
• Background and setting in relation to
character and theme
• Ironic twist/ ending
• Stage directions
• Link between dialogue/monologue/soliloquy
and action
• Dramatic irony
• Timeline
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WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
Listening and speaking strategies Read a questionnaire/ form Transactional text, e.g. questionnaire/ form Reinforcement of language structures and
Oral: Filling out a questionnaire/ form • Key features of report • Purpose, target group and format conventions covered in previous weeks
• Research topic • Format • Paragraph conventions Word level work
• Organise material coherently supported with • Language use • Conjunctions for cohesion Regular and irregular verbs, main and
examples Reading process • Use a variety of sentence types, lengths and auxiliary verbs
• Identify and choose the correct vocabulary, • Pre-reading (Introduce text) structures Sentence level work
language and conventions • During reading (Features of text) • Formal style Statements, sentence structure, present and
Focus on process writing past tenses, bias, prejudice and stereotypes
• Prepare effective introduction and • Post-reading (Answer questions, compare,
conclusion contrast, evaluate) • Planning Word meaning
5-6 Synonyms, antonyms, contextual, denotative
Listening comprehension on a form Poetry • Drafting
and connotative meaning
• Recording main and supporting ideas by Key features of a poem • Revision
Vocabulary in context
making notes • Internal structure of a poem: Figures of • Editing
speech/ imagery, rhyme, rhythm Remedial of grammar from learners’
• Sharing ideas and experiences and show • Proofreading
writing
understanding of concepts • External structure of a poem: Lines, words, • Presenting
• Identify persuasive/ manipulative techniques stanzas, typography Complete a questionnaire/ form
• Answer questions • Figurative meaning
• Mood
• Theme and message
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 9: WRITING – Paper 3
• Transactional writing: 2 short or 1 long (20 marks)
Written before the end-of-the-year-examination

Prepare for examination Prepare for examination Prepare for examination Word level work
Speaking Reading Writing Revision
• Conversation • Reading comprehension • Essays Sentence level work
• Panel discussion • Summary • Long transactional texts Revision
7-8 • Unprepared speech • Visual Literacy • Short transactional texts Word meaning
• Listening comprehension • Poetry Revision
• Short story Punctuation and spelling Revision
• Drama

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WEEK LISTENING AND SPEAKING READING AND VIEWING WRITING AND PRESENTING LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND
CONVENTIONS
END-OF-THE-YEAR EXAMINATION
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 10
RESPONSE TO TEXTS (60 MARKS) – Paper 2
9-10 • Question 1: Literary/ non-literary text (20 marks)
• Question 2: Visual text (10 marks)
• Question 3: Summary (10 marks)
• Question 4: Language structures and conventions (20 marks)

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES

(Assessment for Learning - ongoing process)
Listening and Speaking activities Reading and Viewing activities Writing and Presenting activities Language Structures and Conventions
• Panel discussion • Reading process • Writing process activities
• Prepared/unprepared reading • Reading aloud activities • Paragraphing • Variety of Language Structures and
• Filling out a form • Reading comprehension activities • Transactional texts Conventions activities
• Listening comprehension • Literature activities based on the three • Essay
prescribed genres for the semester • Creative writing
CAPS: FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASKS: HOME LANGUAGES (HL): GRADE 8: TERM 4
END-OF-THE-YEAR EXAMINATION END-OF-THE-YEAR EXAMINATION END-OF-THE-YEAR EXAMINATION
FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 7 (Paper 1) FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 9: WRITING (Paper 3) FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASK 10 (Paper 2)
ORAL (20 marks) • Transactional writing: 2 short or 1 long (10 marks) RESPONSE TO TEXTS (60 MARKS)
• Oral presentation of the project Written before the end-of-the-year examination • Question 1: Literary/ non-literary text (20 marks)
Teachers start to administer this task during Term 3 to • Question 2: Visual text (10 marks)
ensure that all learners are assessed by the end of Term 4. • Question 3: Summary (10 marks)
• Question 4: Language structures and conventions (20
marks)

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CAPS: FORMAL ASSESSMENT TASKS: HOME LANGUAGES (HL): GRADE 8

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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