First Additional Language: Language
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Reg. No.: 2011/011959/07
English First Additional Language
Study guide: Language
Grade 12
CAPS aligned
T Stolp
Sample
LESSON ELEMENTS
LEARNING AIMS
What the candidate should know at the end of the lesson. Taken from CAPS.
IMPORTANT TERMINOLOGY
New terminology to extend understanding of the subject as part of this lesson.
DEFINE
Definitions of concepts to understand the content.
IMPORTANT
Explain misunderstandings; possible confusion regarding existing knowledge.
TIPS
Any information other than the content, to guide the candidate through the learning process.
FOR THE CURIOUS
Encouragement to do in-depth research about the content. Expand the activity and exercise to such an extent that the candidate is encouraged to explore. For the gifted candidate: expanded exercises. For Candidates with Special Educational Needs (LSEN): explain the need to complete the basic questions to achieve a passing mark.
ACTIVITY
Questions throughout the lesson that must be done in order to test the knowledge of the lesson completed.
EXERCISE
In conclusion of the specific unit. Formative assessment.
CORE CONTENT
Emphasise the core of content; in-depth explanation of a specific section of the lesson; needs to be understood.
STUDY/REVISION
Sample
Time spent to study the content in conclusion of the unit and in preparation for the test or examination.
PREFACE
RECOMMENDED BOOK
HENDRY, O et.al. 2012, X-kit Essential Reference English Pearson Education South Africa, ISBN 978 1 77578 348 0
INTRODUCTION
I am sure you are looking forward to your last year of school. You probably realise that it would need a lot of hard work on your part, but this guide has been especially designed to help you master the subject English.
In this Study Guide you will find:
* Notes on language structures and how to use English effectively
* Advice on how to perform well in your oral exam.
* Tips on writing good essays and successful summaries.
* Examples of the formats of the transactional pieces you will be expected to write.
* Tips on how to interpret visual texts.
* Lots of exercises to practise your exam writing skills.
The aim for this year is the development of the following skills:
* Acquiring the language skills necessary to communicate accurately and appropriately taking into account your audience, purpose and context.
* Using your Additional Language for academic learning across the curriculum.
* Listen, speak, read/view and write/present the language with confidence and enjoyment.
* Express and justify, orally and in writing, your own ideas, views and emotions confidently in order to becoming an independent and analytical thinker.
* To use English and your imagination to find out more about yourself and the world around you enabling you to express your experiences and about the world orally and in writing.
* Use English to access and manage information for learning across the curriculum and in a wide range of other contexts. Information literacy is a vital skill in the “information age” and forms the basis for lifelong learning.
* Use English as a means of critical and creative thinking: for expressing your opinion on ethical issues and values, for interacting critically with a wide range of texts, for challenging the perspectives, values and power relations embedded in texts; and for reading texts for various purposes, such as enjoyment, research, critique.
Unit 7
3 Unit 8
YEAR PLAN
23 Reading comprehension
24 The covering letter, the CV and the letter of application
25 Verbs, adverbs, determiners, prepositions, pronouns, summary
26 Discussing tourist attractions
27 Reading an article
28 Writing a news article, editorial and designing a brochure
29 Conjunctions, abbreviations and using a dictionary
30 Discussing advertisements
31 Reading comprehension
32 Writing: A poster, flyer and advertisement
33 Analysing cartoons; phrases and clauses; simple, compound and complex sentences
Unit 9 34 Discuss your future
35 Reading comprehension
36 Giving directions, instructions and writing an invitation
37 Homophones, homonyms, words often confused, emotive language
Unit 10 38 Discuss preparation for examination
39 Reading comprehension
40 Notice, agenda, minutes of a meeting, memorandum
41 Punctuation
4 Unit 11 42 Examination paper 1 43 Examination paper 3
*Additional notes and updated lesson plans are available online on the Optimi Learning Portal (OLP). Refer to OLP for all other lesson content.
TERM 1
Unit 1: Sport
LEARNING AIMS:
After you have completed this unit, you should be able to:
Listening and speaking:
Express your opinion about sport in this country. Understand the views, opinions, emotions of others. Listen critically and evaluate a speech. Use resources and reference material to find and select information in preparation of the speech.
Practise arguing a point
Practise and present a speech.
Reading and viewing:
Read an article about presenting a speech
Read an article about writing a good essay.
Writing and presenting:
Write your own speech
INTRODUCTION
Analyse the structure, language features and register of essays.
Demonstrate your planning skills for a specific purpose, audience and context.
Evaluate own work for improvement
Language structures and conventions:
Baseline exercise (revision of last year’s language)
Revision of indefinite, continuous and perfect tenses.
SampleThis unit is about sport and the influence that sport has on people. You will think, talk and read about sports. You will also be allowed to express your opinion about it in a speech. In this unit you will also do an exercise which will briefly revise language work done in previous grades before you will do a baseline exercise. Identify with which aspects of this exercise you have a problem and concentrate on doing enough revision exercises regarding this aspect before you write the language test in Week 9.
1.1. Lesson 1: Listening and speaking: Discussing sport
When we feel strongly about something, we can voice our opinions by discussing it with someone. We can then listen to their opinion and comment on it.
Look at the pictures on the left and discuss your own opinion about the following with your facilitator:
1. Do you like to participate or watch sport? (blog.fscheetahs.co.za)
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2. Why do you think sport plays such an important role in South Africa?
3. Do you think that supporters are making fools of themselves when they show their support for their team the way these people in these pictures do?
4. Do you think that sport and the support of sport teams have become too important in people’s lives?
Remember the rules of a discussion. When taking part in a discussion, you must be able to:
* initiate and keep up a conversation
* take turns with the person to whom you are speaking.
* state your opinion without being aggressive
* fill in gaps in the conversation and encourage the reader
* share your ideas and show respect for the other person’s opinion.
1.1.1 Pre-listening
You can also convince people of your opinion by finding more evidence to prove that you have a valuable point. When you have researched the topic and have found credible sources, you can debate the topic with someone. You can also be asked to deliver a speech in which you can try to convince them that you have arguments to make.
1.1.2
Sample
Listening
Listen to the following speech read to you by your facilitator. Listen to it critically so that you can identify which arguments the speaker is trying to make.
1.1.3
Post-listening
Discuss this speech with your facilitator and decide whether you think the speaker has persuaded you of his/her opinion.