Grade 9 Afrikaans First Additional Language (FAL) is a crucial year for consolidating vocabulary and grammar rules before entering the FET phase. The curriculum focuses heavily on communicative skills, requiring learners to master various text types ranging from advertisements to formal letters. To ensure you stay on track with your prepared speeches, literature studies, and writing tasks, it is essential to consult the full Grade 9 Annual Teaching Plans (ATPs).
This article outlines the 2026 Afrikaans FAL Grade 9 ATP, breaking down the weekly focus areas for teachers and learners, covering everything from Visual Literacy and The Creative Writing Project to the final End-of-Year Examinations.
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The Annual Teaching Plan is divided into four terms, balancing listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills with a strong emphasis on language structures and conventions.
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Term 1: Advertising and Transactional Writing
Focus: The first term introduces visual literacy through advertisements and focuses on essential transactional writing skills like agendas and reports.
- Listening and Speaking:
- Strategies: Listening to advertisements and identifying tone, tempo, and emotive language.
- Oral: Prepared reading aloud (Voorbereide hardoplees).
- Reading and Viewing:
- Visual Texts: Analyzing advertisements (Advertensies), posters, and comic strips.
- Literature: Introduction to the youth novel, short story, or drama, focusing on plot (intrige), character (karakter), and theme.
- Poetry: Analyzing internal and external structures of poems.
- Writing and Presenting:
- Creative: Narrative, Descriptive, or Reflective Essay (Opstel).
- Transactional: Agenda and Minutes of a meeting (Agenda en Notule), Reports (Verslae).
- Language Structures:
- Plurals (Meervoude), Adjectives (Byvoeglike naamwoorde), Tenses (Tye), and Punctuation.
Term 2: Journalism and Formal Correspondence
Focus: Term 2 shifts to media texts, requiring learners to analyze and produce journalistic content and formal letters.
- Listening and Speaking:
- Comprehension: Listening to news reports or magazine articles.
- Interview: conducting or listening to an interview (Onderhoud).
- Reading and Viewing:
- Media Texts: Reading newspaper reports (Koerantberigte) and magazine articles (Tydskrifartikels).
- Literature: Continued study of the prescribed literary text (Novel/Drama/Short Stories).
- Writing and Presenting:
- Transactional: Formal Letter (Formele brief), Newspaper Report, or Magazine Article.
- Language Structures:
- Direct and Indirect Speech (Direkte en Indirekte rede), Conjunctions (Voegwoorde), and Idioms (Idiome).
- Assessment:
- June Control Test: Comprehension, Visual Text, Summary, and Language Structures.
Term 3: The Creative Writing Project
Focus: Term 3 is dominated by the Creative Writing Project, a major task where learners research and produce a creative response based on the literature studied.
- The Creative Writing Project (Stage 3):
- Research: Reading for information and organizing ideas using mind maps.
- Writing: Producing a creative text (e.g., a dialogue, brochure, or poster) based on the genre studied (Poetry/Novel/Drama).
- Presentation: Oral presentation of the project.
- Listening and Speaking:
- Negotiation: Listening to and engaging in a dialogue or negotiation (Onderhandeling).
- Reading and Viewing:
- Poetry: Analyzing imagery (Beeldspraak), rhyme, and rhythm.
- Writing:
- Transactional: Dialogue (Dialoog) and Email (E-pos).
Term 4: Career Writing and Revision
Focus: The final term prepares learners for the world of work with specific transactional texts and revises all content for the final exams.
- Writing and Presenting:
- Career Texts: CV and Cover Letter (CV en Dekbrief).
- Instructional: Directions and Instructions (Aanwysings en Instruksies).
- Formal: Obituary (Huldeblyk) or Affidavit (Beëdigde verklaring).
- Language Structures:
- Comprehensive revision of all grammar, spelling patterns, and sentence structures.
- Assessment:
- End-of-Year Examination:
- Paper 1: Oral (Completed during the year).
- Paper 2: Response to Texts (Literary/Non-literary, Visual, Summary, Language).
- Paper 3: Writing (Essay and Transactional Texts).
- End-of-Year Examination:
FAQ: Afrikaans FAL Grade 9
Q: What is the Creative Writing Project in Term 3? A: This is a formal assessment task (Task 6) where learners must research and write a creative response based on one of the literature genres studied (Poem, Novel, Drama, or Short Story). It counts 50 marks.
Q: Which literature genres are covered in Grade 9? A: Learners typically study Poems (Gedigte) plus one other genre, which can be a Youth Novel (Jeugroman), Drama, or Short Stories (Kortverhale).
Q: Does the oral mark count towards the final year mark? A: Yes. Formal Assessment Task 1 (Oral/Reading Aloud) and Task 7 (Oral Presentation of Project) contribute significantly to the final mark.