This is the Grade 4 isiZulu First Additional Language Annual Teaching Plan for 2023/24 from the DBE. It sets out the work for each term in listening and speaking, reading and viewing, writing and presenting, and language structures and conventions. Over the year learners work with information texts, a novel, short stories, instructions, poems, weather reports, dialogues, folktales, a creative writing project, advertisements, drama and newspaper reports.
Each term has 10 weeks planned in two-week cycles across the four skill areas, with daily reading for enjoyment. Term 1 starts with a baseline assessment in the first three days.
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What the isiZulu FAL Grade 4 ATP covers
Term 1
- Baseline assessment in week 1
- Reading information texts and posters
- Summarising a text
- Novel extracts
- Listening to, reading and writing a short story
- Instructions: making tea
- Writing a poster for an event
- Building a personal dictionary
Formal assessment: Task 1: Oral, reading aloud (20 marks), started in Term 1 and recorded in Term 2. Writing task: narrative or descriptive, 3 paragraphs (20 marks). Comprehension test (40 marks, 2 hours): reading text, visual text, language structures.
Term 2
- Listening to, reading and writing a poem or song
- Weather reports
- Listening to and describing an object
- Reading a dialogue
- Writing an interview
- Following and giving instructions
- Writing a text with instructions
Formal assessment: Task 1: Reading aloud completed and recorded (20 marks). Task 4: Transactional writing, two short or one long (10 marks) before the mid-year test. Task 5: Mid-year test (40 marks, 2 hours): reading text, visual text, summary, language structures.
Term 3
- Listening to and reading a folktale or legend
- Writing a narrative on a literary text
- Creative writing project: research
- Project frame and creative writing
- Reading a poem with comprehension
- Listening to and reading an advertisement
- Writing an advertisement
Formal assessment: Task 6: Creative writing project (40 marks) based on a poem, short story, drama or folktale. Task 7: Oral presentation of the project (20 marks), started in Term 3 and completed in Term 4.
Term 4
- Listening to and reading a short story
- Writing a short story
- Listening to and reading a drama
- Writing a short play
- Newspaper extracts
- Writing a newspaper report
- Formal oral assessment
Formal assessment: Task 7: Oral (20 marks). Task 8: Transactional text (10 marks) before the final test. Task 9: End of year test (40 marks, 2 hours): reading text, visual text, summary, language structures.
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.