Grade 12 Sesotho Second Additional Language Annual Teaching Plan: A Comprehensive Teacher’s Guide

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Grade 12 Sesotho SAL ATP 2026 is built to help you plan, teach, assess, and remediate with confidence across the whole year. This guide is based on the 2023/24 Moralo wa Naha wa ho Ruta wa Selemo: Sesotho Puo ya Tlatsetso ya Bobedi: Kereiti ya 12 and is aligned to CAPS expectations for Grade 12 Sesotho Second Additional Language Annual Teaching Plan 2026.

The structure below keeps your core classroom work, SBA tasks, and exam preparation in one place so that teaching and assessment stay aligned from Term 1 to Term 4.

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Core CAPS Skills (SLKT) for Sesotho SAL 2026

Throughout Grade 12 Sesotho SAL ATP 2026, teaching and assessment must always develop these four language skills together:

  1. Ho mamela le ho bua – Listening and speaking
  2. Ho bala le ho boha – Reading and viewing
  3. Dibopeho le melao ya tshebediso ya puo – Language structures and conventions
  4. Ho ngola le ho nehelana – Writing and presenting

Every term in the Sesotho Second Additional Language Annual Teaching Plan must show how these skills are taught, practised, and assessed.

Term 1: Foundations, Narrative Writing, and Literary Introduction (2026)

Term 1 (Weeks 1–11) builds the base for the year. You strengthen Kereiti ya 11 work, introduce the main literary text, and guide learners through the process of writing descriptive and narrative essays using Process writing.

Key Focus for Term 1

  • Consolidation of Grade 11 content
  • Baseline assessment
  • Introduction of ONE literary genre
  • Narrative and descriptive essay writing using Process writing
  • Summary writing
  • Contextual literature test
  • Shorter transactional texts like SMS and karete ya memo

Term 1: Concepts and SBA Structure

Weeks 1–3
Core Focus Areas: Ho mamela le ho bua; Dingolwa

  • Matlafatso ya mosebetsi wa Kereiti ya 11
  • Tekanyetso ya motheo (Baseline assessment)
  • Introduction of ONE literary genre: Pale / terama / pale kgutshwe / dithothokiso

SBA:

  • MOSEBETSI WA 1 (25 points): Molomo: Ho mamela
    • Listening task, 45 metsotso

Weeks 4–6
Core Focus Areas: Ho ngola le ho nehelana; Ho bala le ho boha

  • Moqoqo wa tlhaloso / phetelo (Descriptive or narrative essay)
  • Process writing steps:
    • Ho rala
    • Mokgwaritso
    • Ho lekola hape
    • Ho hlaola diphoso
    • Ho nehelana
  • Kgutsufatso (Summary writing)
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SBA:

  • MOSEBETSI WA 2 (40 points): Ho ngola – Moqoqo (Narrative/Descriptive Essay)
    • 1 hora

Weeks 7–9
Core Focus Areas: Ho bala le ho boha; Dibopeho le melao ya puo

  • Tema e bontshang maikutlo / mohopolo
  • Hlalosa maikutlo/mohopolo wa mongodi
  • Sentence structure: moetsi – ketso – moetsuwa
  • Shorter transactional texts: SMS and karete ya memo

SBA:

  • Mosebetsi 3 (40 points): Teko ya dingolwa (Literature test)
    • Dipotso tse kgutshwane (Contextual questions)

Weeks 10–11
Core Focus Areas: Ho ngola le ho nehelana; Dingolwa

  • Poeletso (Revision) of the literary text
  • Tema ya kgokahano e kgutshwane: Folayara / phousetara (flyer/poster)
  • Completion of remaining Term 1 assessment and informal tasks

Remediation and Prior Knowledge in Term 1

Learners need:

  • Bokgoni ba ho kgutsufatsa (summary skills)
  • Knowledge of melao le popeho ya puo (rules and structures of the language)
  • Ability to analyse literary texts

Helpful informal activities:

  • Ho ngola kgutsufatso
  • Poeletso ya melao le popeho ya puo
  • Ho ngola raporoto (short report)

Term 2: Formal Texts and Mid-Year Examinations (2026)

Term 2 (Weeks 1–11) moves into formal communication: instructions, directions, speeches, formal letters, and visual texts. It ends with the Mid-Year Examination, which forms a key part of the Grade 12 Sesotho SAL ATP 2026 assessment structure.

Key Focus for Term 2

  • Instructions and directions
  • Prepared speech
  • Long transactional text: speech
  • Advertisement and email
  • Visual analysis: cartoons and comic media
  • Prepared reading aloud
  • Formal letter and diary writing
  • Critical language awareness
  • Mid-Year Examination: Pampiri ya 1, 2, le 3

Term 2: Concepts and SBA Structure

Weeks 1–3
Core Focus Areas: Ho mamela le ho bua; Ho ngola le ho nehelana

  • Ho fana ka ditaelo kapa ditshupiso
  • Writing ditaelo kapa ditshupiso
  • Revision of Makopanyi (Conjunctions)

SBA:

  • MOSEBETSI WA 4 (25 points): Puo e hlophisitsweng (Prepared speech)
    • 1–2 metsotso moithuti ka mong

Weeks 4–7
Core Focus Areas: Ho mamela le ho bua; Ho ngola le ho nehelana

  • Ho bua ho hlophisitsweng (Formal speaking)
  • Tema e telele ya kgokahano: Ngola puo (long transactional speech text)
  • Short transactional texts: Ngola papatso / imeili
  • Visual analysis of dikhathunu, dikhomiki, dividio tsa dikhomiki
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SBA:

  • MOSEBETSI WA 5 (25 points): Puisano (Conversation)
    • 10–30 metsotso sehlotshwana kapa phapusi

Weeks 8–9
Core Focus Areas: Ho ngola le ho nehelana; Ho mamela le ho bua

  • Ho balla hodimo ka maikemisetso (Prepared reading aloud)
  • Tema ya kgokahano e telele: Ngola lengolo la semmuso
  • Write bukatsatsi (diary) or formal letter based on literary texts
  • Temoho e hlokolosi ya tshebediso ya puo (Critical language awareness)

Formal Examination:

  • Hlahlobo ya bohareng ba selemo (Mid-Year Exam)
    • Pampiri ya 1: Puo jwalokaha e sebediswa (80 points)
    • Pampiri ya 2: Dingolwa (40 points)
    • Pampiri ya 3: Ho ngola (80 points)

Weeks 10–11

  • Poeletso of language structures and conventions
  • Examination period and feedback after scripts return

Resources and Strategies for Term 2

Useful tools:

  • Dictionary
  • Magazines
  • Newspapers
  • Audio-visual player

Remediation activities:

  • Writing papatso / imeili
  • Writing and practising speeches
  • Ho balla hodimo regularly in class

Term 3: Consolidation and Trial Examinations (2026)

Term 3 (Weeks 1–11) is your high-stakes preparation block. You focus on Tjhebobotjha (Review), deep revision of writing formats and grammar, and then the HLAHLOBO YA SEKA MAKGAOLAKGANG (Trial Examination).

Key Focus for Term 3

  • Long transactional text: Tjhebobotjha (review)
  • Summary writing with full sentences and point form
  • Grammar revision: tenses, singular and plural, questions, negation
  • Listening to radio drama or recorded speech
  • Prepared reading aloud
  • Full Trial Examination using external-style papers

Term 3: Concepts and SBA Structure

Weeks 1–4
Core Focus Areas: Ho ngola le ho nehelana; Ho bala le ho boha

  • Tema e telele ya kgokahano: Tjhebobotjha (book or film review)
  • Process writing for the review
  • Ho ngola kgutsufatso in full sentences and as point-form notes
  • Revision of Makgathe (Tenses)

SBA:

  • MOSEBETSI WA 7 (25 points): Molomo – Ho balla hodimo ho hlophisitsweng
    • 1–2 metsotso moithuti ka mong

Weeks 5–8
Core Focus Areas: Ho mamela le ho bua; Ho ngola le ho nehelana

  • Ho mamela terama seyalemoyeng / puo e hatisetsweng
  • Revision of moqoqo wa phetelo / o hlalosang
  • Revision of shorter transactional texts such as karete ya memo
  • Grammar revision:
    • Bonngwe le bongata
    • Dipotso
    • Tatolano
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Informal tasks include:

  • Ho ngola tekolobotjha (review)
  • Poeletso ya popeho le melao ya puo

Weeks 9–11
Core Focus Areas: Exam Practice

  • POELETSO Boitlwaetso ba tlhahlobo
  • Use dipampiri tsa dihlahlobo tse fetileng to revise:
    • Text study
    • Reading strategies
    • Writing under exam conditions

SBA:

  • MOSEBETSI WA 8 (200 points): HLAHLOBO YA SEKA MAKGAOLAKGANG (Trial Examination)
    • Pampiri ya 1, 2, 3

Essential Resources for Term 3

  • Bukana ya mawa a dihlahlobo (Examination technique booklet)
  • Mawa a ho atleha dihlahlobong
  • Dipampiri tsa dihlahlobo tse fetileng

These are central for Grade 12 Sesotho SAL ATP 2026 preparation before the final term.

Term 4: Final Consolidation and Year-End Examinations (2026)

Term 4 (Weeks 1–10) is fully dedicated to Poeletso le matlafatso for the Hlahlobo ya makgaolakgang. The focus is to refine exam technique and close language gaps.

Key Focus for Term 4

  • Full revision of all CAPS skills
  • Past paper practice
  • Literature revision and reading strategies
  • Writing formats and summary revision
  • Final external examinations

Term 4: Concepts and Final Assessment

Weeks 1–4
Core Focus Areas: All CAPS skills

  • Intensive revision with dipampiri tsa dihlahlobo tse fetileng
  • Revision of ho ithuta dingolwa tsa semmuso
  • Mawa a ho ithuta ho bala (reading strategies)
  • Makgetha a ho ngola (writing formats)
  • Kgutsufatso revision
  • Continued Process writing

Informal tasks:

  • Poeletso ya kgutsufatso
  • Poeletso ya mefuta ya ho ngola

Weeks 7–10
Final Assessment: Hlahlobo ya makgaolakgang

Final Examination (300 marks total):

  • Pampiri ya 1: Puo tshebetsong
    • 80 marks, 2 hours
  • Pampiri ya 2: Dingolwa
    • 40 marks, 1.5 hours
  • Pampiri ya 3: Ho ngola
    • 80 marks, 2.5 hours
  • Pampiri ya 4: Molomo
    • 100 marks

Resource Requirement for Term 4

The main resource for Grade 12 Sesotho Second Additional Language Annual Teaching Plan 2026 in Term 4 is:

  • Dipampiri tsa dihlahlobo tsa dilemo tse fetileng

Learners must show:

  • Bokgoni ba ho balla kutlwisiso
  • Solid command of popeho le melao ya puo
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