This is the Grade 12 isiXhosa Second Additional Language (SAL) Annual Teaching Plan for 2023/24. It sets out what to teach week by week, covering listening and speaking, reading and viewing, writing and presenting, and language structures, and ends with trial exams in Term 3 and the final exams in Term 4.
Each term is planned week by week (about 11 weeks in Terms 1 to 3, and 4 teaching weeks before exams in Term 4) across four skill areas: Listening and Speaking, Reading and Viewing, Writing and Presenting, and Language Structures and Conventions. Each week also lists informal assessment and the formal SBA tasks.
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What the isiXhosa SAL Grade 12 ATP covers
Term 1
- Introducing a classmate, baseline assessment
- Literature: one genre (novel, drama, short story or poem)
- Summary writing and informational texts
- Narrative or descriptive essay
- Oral report and formal speech
- Friendly letter and short report
- Forms, invitations, posters and SMS
- Adverbs, adjectives, direct and reported speech
Formal assessment: Task 1: Oral, listening comprehension (25). Task 2: Writing, narrative or descriptive essay (40). Task 3: Literature, short questions, 1h30 (40).
Term 2
- Giving instructions and directions
- Prepared speech and conversation
- Advertisement and email
- Diary entry
- Visual texts: cartoons and comic videos
- Formal letters (application, complaint, thanks)
- Reading aloud
- Prefixes, suffixes, verb tenses, dictionary use
Formal assessment: Task 4: Oral, prepared speech (25). Task 5: Oral, conversation (25). Task 6: Mid-year exams, Paper 1 Language in context (80 marks, 2 hours) and Paper 2 Literature (40 marks, 1.5 hours), or a controlled test (Paper 1).
Term 3
- Reading aloud a dialogue
- Writing a review (book or film)
- Narrative and descriptive essay
- Listening to a radio drama, role play
- Formal letter and invitation card
- Short texts: email, poster, flyer, SMS
- Visual texts: adverts, cartoons, comics
- Revision with past exam papers (weeks 8 to 11)
Formal assessment: Task 7: Oral, prepared reading aloud (25). Task 8: Trial exams (200), Paper 1 Language in context (80 marks, 2 hours), Paper 2 Literature (40 marks, 1.5 hours), Paper 3 Writing (80 marks, 2.5 hours).
Term 4
- Comprehension and summary revision
- Literature revision: one genre
- Unprepared class and group discussion
- Revising writing formats
- Language structures revision
- Past exam papers for final exams
- Final exams (weeks 5 to 10)
Formal assessment: Final exams (300), Paper 1 Language in context (80 marks, 2 hours), Paper 2 Literature (40 marks, 1.5 hours), Paper 3 Writing (80 marks, 2.5 hours), Paper 4 Orals (100).
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.