This is the Annual Teaching Plan for Grade 5 Setswana First Additional Language. The year covers listening and speaking, reading and viewing, writing and presenting, and language structures and conventions, using text types such as a novel, folktales, poems, drama, newspaper articles, reports, advertisements and instructions.
Each term has 10 weeks, planned in two-week cycles across four skill areas: Listening and speaking, Reading and viewing, Writing and presenting, and Language structures and conventions. Learners also read for enjoyment for 30 minutes a day and keep a personal dictionary.
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What the Setswana FAL Grade 5 ATP covers
Term 1
- Baseline assessment in week 1
- Reading and writing an information text
- Sms, email and social media texts
- Listening to and reading a novel extract
- Writing a book review or summary
- Reading and writing a story (narrative or descriptive)
- Reading and writing a newspaper article
- Giving and writing instructions
Formal assessment: Task 1: oral, reading aloud (20), started in Term 1 and completed in Term 2. Task 2: essay, narrative or descriptive (20). Task 3: response to texts (40): comprehension (15), visual text (10), language (15).
Term 2
- Listening to, reading and writing a poem
- Reading and writing a weather report
- Reading a drama and writing a dialogue
- Reading a report with charts, graphs and tables
- Writing a report
- Simple and compound sentences, tenses
- Direct and indirect speech
Formal assessment: Task 1: reading aloud (20), completed. Task 4: transactional text (10), written before the test. Task 5: mid-year test, response to texts (40): comprehension (15), visual text (10), summary (5), language (10).
Term 3
- Listening to and reading a folktale (naane)
- Writing descriptive paragraphs about characters
- Creative writing project, research stage
- Project writing stage
- Reading and writing an advertisement
- Listening to and reading a poem
- Figurative language, idioms and proverbs
Formal assessment: Task 6: creative writing project based on one text studied, research (10) and writing (30), total 40. Task 7: oral presentation of the project (20), started in Term 3 and completed in Term 4.
Term 4
- Listening to, reading and writing a folktale
- Describing a character
- Listening to and writing a report, e.g. news
- Reading and writing an information text
- Adjectives, verbs and conjunctions
- Revision for the examination
Formal assessment: Task 7: oral presentation (20), completed. Task 8: transactional text (10). Task 9: end-of-year examination, 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.