This is the Grade 4 Sepedi First Additional Language (FAL) Annual Teaching Plan for 2023/24, written in Sepedi. It plans each term in two-week blocks across listening and speaking, reading and viewing, writing and presenting, and language structures, with daily reading for enjoyment of at least 30 minutes.
Each term is laid out in two-week cycles (weeks 1-2, 3-4 and so on up to 9-10) under four skill areas: Listening and Speaking (oral), Reading and Viewing, Writing and Presenting, and Language Structures and Conventions. Baseline activities are done in the first three days of Term 1.
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What the Sepedi FAL Grade 4 ATP covers
Term 1
- Information texts: posters, charts, mind maps
- Writing a summary
- Novel extract and describing a character
- Reading and writing a simple poem or song
- Reading and writing instructions (making tea)
- Designing a poster to advertise an event
- Nouns, adjectives, verbs and simple sentences
Formal assessment: Task 1: Oral, reading aloud (20), started in Term 1 and recorded in Term 2. Task 2: Writing, narrative or descriptive essay of 3 paragraphs (20). Task 3: Response to texts (40), comprehension (15), visual text (10), language (15).
Term 2
- Listening to and reading a short story
- Writing a story from own experience
- Weather reports and summaries
- Reading a drama, writing an interview
- Book review of a novel
- Writing instructions (making a sandwich)
- Tenses, direct speech, idioms and punctuation
Formal assessment: Task 1: Reading aloud (20) completed. Task 4: Transactional texts (10), before the mid-year test. Task 5: Test (40), comprehension (15), visual text (10), summary (5), language (10).
Term 3
- Listening to and reading folktales
- Retelling a story in the past tense
- Research project on a literary text
- Reading and writing a rhyming poem
- Figures of speech, rhyme and rhythm
- Radio or TV advertisements, writing an advert
- Conjunctions, adverbs, idioms and punctuation
Formal assessment: Task 6: Writing project (40), research (10) and writing (30), based on a poem, folktale, drama or short story. Task 7: Oral presentation of the project (20), started in Term 3 and completed in Term 4.
Term 4
- Listening to and reading a short story
- Writing a diary entry
- Reading a drama, writing a dialogue
- Newspaper article and writing a summary
- Prepared speech skills
- Tenses, subject and verb agreement, punctuation
Formal assessment: Task 7: Oral presentation (20) completed. Task 8: Transactional text (10), before the final test. Task 9: Response to texts (40), comprehension (15), visual text (10), summary (5), language (10).
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.