This is the Annual Teaching Plan for Grade 12 Siswati Home Language. The year covers listening and speaking, reading literature and visual 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, 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 3 hours for reading.
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What the Siswati HL Grade 12 ATP covers
Term 1
- Baseline assessment and Grade 11 review
- Listening for comprehension
- Unprepared and prepared speeches
- Reading poems, novel or folklore, and drama
- Reading visual texts: adverts, cartoons
- Writing essays (narrative, descriptive, argumentative)
- Writing letters, CV, obituary, minutes
- Summary writing and sentence structure
Formal assessment: Oral: listening comprehension (15). Writing: essay (50). Writing: transactional text (25). Oral: unprepared speech (15). Test: comprehension, summary and language (35).
Term 2
- Prepared and unprepared reading aloud
- Prepared speech
- Reading visual texts
- Poems, novel or folklore, and drama
- Writing an essay
- Writing letters, CV, minutes and email
- Register, style and word choice
- Revision for mid-year examination
Formal assessment: Two oral tasks: reading aloud or prepared speech (10 each). Mid-year examination (150) or test: Paper 1 language (70), Paper 2 literature (80).
Term 3
- Reading for comprehension
- Reading adverts and cartoons
- Summary writing
- Poems, novel or folklore, and drama
- Writing essays
- Writing formal and friendly letters
- Language structures and conventions
Formal assessment: Literature task or project (35). Preparatory examination (250): Paper 1 language (70), Paper 2 literature (80), Paper 3 writing (100).
Term 4
- Moderation of oral tasks
- Revision of comprehension, summary and language (Paper 1)
- Revision of poems, novel and drama (Paper 2)
- Revision of essays and transactional texts (Paper 3)
- NSC final examination
Formal assessment: NSC end-of-year 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.