This is the Annual Teaching Plan for Grade 12 isiNdebele Home Language. The year covers listening and speaking, reading literature and visual texts, writing essays and transactional texts, and language in context, ending with the final CAPS examination.
The plan is organised around four skill areas: Listening and speaking, Reading and viewing, Writing and presenting, and Language structures and conventions, taught in an integrated way. Each term is set out over 10 to 11 weeks, with time allocated to each skill area, for example 1 hour for listening and speaking and 5 hours for literature.
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What the isiNdebele HL Grade 12 ATP covers
Term 1
- Baseline assessment and Grade 11 review
- Listening for information
- Unprepared speech
- Poetry, novel or oral literature, and drama
- Reading visual texts: adverts, cartoons
- Writing essays (narrative, descriptive, argumentative)
- Writing letters, CV, email, report, minutes
- Summary writing and language in context
Formal assessment: Task 1: oral listening comprehension (15). Task 2: essay (50). Task 3: transactional text (25). Task 4: oral unprepared speech (15). Task 5: test on comprehension, summary and language (35).
Term 2
- Unprepared reading aloud and prepared speech
- Interviews, debates and panel discussions
- Introducing a speaker and vote of thanks
- Reading adverts and cartoons
- Poetry, novel or oral literature, and drama
- Writing an essay
- Writing letters, CV, review and minutes
- Register, style and sentence structure
Formal assessment: Tasks 6 and 7: oral reading aloud or speech (10 each). Task 8: mid-year examination (150) or test: Paper 1 language (70), Paper 2 literature (80).
Term 3
- Reading adverts and cartoons
- Poetry, novel or oral literature, and drama
- Writing essays
- Writing formal and friendly letters, CV
- Email, report, review and newspaper article
- Summary writing
- Reading for comprehension
Formal assessment: Task 9: literature task (35). Task 10: preparatory examination (250): Paper 1 language (70), Paper 2 literature (80), Paper 3 writing (100).
Term 4
- Revision of comprehension, summary and language (Paper 1)
- Revision of literature (Paper 2)
- Revision of essays and transactional texts (Paper 3)
- Exam practice with past papers
- Final CAPS examination
Formal assessment: Final CAPS examination.
Source: Department of Basic Education, 2023/24 Annual Teaching Plans. DBE Circular S19 of 2025 keeps the 2023/24 ATPs in use, with some exclusions, so check with your school or district for any changes.