This is the Grade 4 Setswana 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, drama, folktales, a creative writing project, advertisements and newspaper articles.
Each term has 10 weeks planned in two-week cycles across the four skill areas, with 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 Setswana FAL Grade 4 ATP covers
Term 1
- Baseline assessment in week 1
- Information texts: posters, charts, mind maps
- Writing a summary
- Novel extract, sketch of the main character
- Short story and writing about own experience
- Instructions: how to make a cup of tea
- Designing a poster for an event
- Language structures and the writing process
Formal assessment: Task 1: Oral, reading aloud (20 marks). 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, song or limerick
- Writing a simple poem, song or limerick
- Weather reports and summarising
- Listening to a drama, reading a dialogue
- Writing an interview
- Writing a book review
- Following instructions
- Essay on why instructions matter
Formal assessment: Task 1: Reading aloud completed and recorded (20 marks). Task 4: Transactional text (10 marks) before the controlled test. Task 5: Test (40 marks): comprehension, visual text, summary, language structures.
Term 3
- Folktales: listening, reading, retelling
- Writing a folktale with a writing frame
- Creative writing project: research
- Project writing using the writing process
- Poems and writing rhyming sentences
- Radio or TV advertisements
- Writing an advertisement
Formal assessment: Task 6: Creative writing project (40 marks): research (10) and writing (30). Task 7: Oral presentation of the project (20 marks).
Term 4
- Listening to and reading a short story
- Writing a short story
- Listening to and reading a drama
- Writing a dialogue
- Newspaper articles and current issues
- Summarising a newspaper article
- Formal oral assessment
Formal assessment: Task 7: Oral (20 marks). Task 8: Transactional text, two short or one long (10 marks). Task 9: School-based 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.