This is the Annual Teaching Plan for Grade 12 isiXhosa First Additional Language. The year covers listening and speaking, reading literature and other texts, writing essays and transactional texts, and language structures, ending with the NSC final examination.
The plan is organised around four skill areas: Listening and speaking, Reading and viewing, Writing and presenting, and Language structures and conventions. Each term is set out over about 10 to 11 weeks.
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What the isiXhosa FAL Grade 12 ATP covers
Term 1
- Baseline assessment and Grade 11 review
- Group discussions and listening comprehension
- Reading newspaper and magazine articles
- Reading poems, short stories, novel and drama
- Reading cartoons
- Writing a letter to the editor
- Writing narrative and other essays
- Summary writing and respect language (isihlonipho)
Formal assessment: Task 1: oral listening comprehension (10). Task 2: longer transactional text (30). Task 3: essay (50). Task 4: test 1, comprehension with summary or language (40).
Term 2
- Listening to a job interview
- Role-play of a job interview
- Formal speech, introducing a speaker, vote of thanks
- Reading adverts and film study
- Literature study
- Writing a CV and covering letter
- Writing a film review, directions and email
- Writing a debate and argumentative essay
Formal assessment: Task 5: oral prepared speech (20). Task 6: oral prepared reading, unprepared speech or group speech (20). Task 7: literature assignment (35). Mid-year examination: Paper 1 (80) and Paper 2 (70), or controlled test 2 (55).
Term 3
- Reading for summary
- Reading a political speech
- Writing a letter to the editor
- Writing a formal letter of apology
- Writing instructions and an advert
- Writing an essay and a debate
- Formal style and language in context
- Literature revision with past papers
Formal assessment: Task 8: preparatory examination (250): Paper 1 language (80), Paper 2 literature (70), Paper 3 writing (100).
Term 4
- Revision of reading and language with past papers
- Revision of literature
- Revision of essay and transactional writing
- NSC final examination
Formal assessment: NSC final end-of-year examination (250 marks).
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.