This is the Annual Teaching Plan for Grade 7 Setswana Home Language (Setswana Puo ya Gae). It covers listening and speaking, reading and viewing, writing and presenting, and language structures and conventions, using short stories, poems, novels, drama, cartoons, media texts and a research project.
The plan is organised in two-week blocks under four skill areas: listening and speaking, reading and viewing, writing and presenting, and language structures and conventions. Each term ends with a summary of the formal assessment tasks.
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What the Setswana HL Grade 7 ATP covers
Term 1
- Listening to a short story
- Writing a short story review
- Reading a poem and writing own poem
- Cartoons and comic strips
- Novel extract and reading aloud
- Narrative or descriptive essay
- Writing a summary and a formal letter
- Nouns, tenses and punctuation
Formal assessment: Task 1: oral reading aloud, 20 marks (started in Term 1, recorded in Term 2). Task 2: narrative or descriptive essay, 30 marks. Task 3: response to texts, 60 marks.
Term 2
- Advert, poster or TV news report
- Reading and writing instructions
- Reading a poem
- Novel extract and book review
- Filling in forms and questionnaires
- Writing a summary
- Direct and indirect speech
- Idioms, proverbs and adverbs
Formal assessment: Task 1: oral reading aloud, 20 marks. Task 4: transactional writing, 10 marks. Task 5: mid-year school-based test (response to texts), 60 marks.
Term 3
- Discussing youth or radio drama
- Writing a dialogue or interview
- Reading a poem
- Reading a folktale or drama
- Research project on a chosen topic
- Oral presentation of the project
- Narrative or descriptive essay
- Word roots, tenses and punctuation
Formal assessment: Task 6: research project, 50 marks (research 20, writing 30). Task 7: oral presentation of the project, 20 marks. Task 8: response to literature, 30 marks (poetry, novel or drama, short stories or folktales).
Term 4
- Giving and following directions
- Reading a map
- Reading a poem
- Notice, agenda and minutes
- Email, diary or pamphlet
- Reading graphs and information posters
- Writing a summary
- Revision for the examination
Formal assessment: Task 7: oral project presentation, 20 marks. Task 9: transactional writing, 10 marks. Task 10: end-of-year examination (response to texts), 60 marks.
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.