This is the Grade 4 Sesotho 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, folktales, a creative writing project, advertisements, drama and newspaper articles.
Each term has 10 weeks planned in two-week cycles across the four skill areas, with at least 30 minutes of reading for enjoyment each day. Term 1 starts with a baseline assessment in the first three days.
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What the Sesotho FAL Grade 4 ATP covers
Term 1
- Baseline assessment in week 1
- Information texts: posters, charts, mind maps
- Summarising an information text
- Novel extract, sketch of a main character
- Short story from own experience
- Instructions, e.g. a recipe for tea
- Designing a poster for an event
- Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, punctuation
Formal assessment: Task 1: Oral, reading aloud (20 marks), started in Term 1 and recorded in Term 2. Task 2: Essay, narrative or descriptive, 3 paragraphs (20 marks). Task 3: Response to texts (40 marks): comprehension, visual text, language structures.
Term 2
- Listening to and reading a poem or song
- Writing a poem or song
- Weather reports and summarising
- Dialogue and role play from the novel
- Writing an interview
- Book review of the Term 1 novel
- Following and writing instructions
- Tenses, direct speech, punctuation
Formal assessment: Task 1: Reading aloud completed and recorded (20 marks). Task 4: Transactional text (10 marks) before the June test. Task 5: June controlled test (40 marks): comprehension, visual text, summary, language structures.
Term 3
- Folktales: listening, reading, retelling
- Writing a report on a folktale read
- Creative writing project: research
- Project writing using the writing process
- Poems and writing rhyming lines
- Radio or TV advertisements
- Writing an advertisement
- Prefixes, suffixes, stems, complex sentences
Formal assessment: Task 6: Creative writing project (40 marks): research (10) and writing (30). 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
- Drama on radio or TV, reading a drama
- Writing sentences in direct speech
- Newspaper and magazine articles
- Summarising an article
- Formal oral assessment
Formal assessment: Task 7: Oral presentation (20 marks). Task 8: Transactional text (10 marks) before the test. Task 9: End of year controlled test (40 marks): comprehension, 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.