GAUTENG DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TEACHING PLAN - Grade 8 English Home Term 1 - 2014 GENERAL CONTENT Date Listening and Speaking Reading and viewing Writing and presenting Language structures and conventions COMMENTS Week 1 and 2 5 % 5% Group discussion Brainstorming Relevant and main ideas Listening comprehension General discussion on key features Task 2 Narrative/reflective essay Words: Adverbs: place and degree Pronouns: personal, relative ,reflexive ,possessive Sentences Subject and predicate, subject-verb agreement, sentence structure, phrases and clauses, parts of speech Spelling & punctuation Full stop, comma, question, quotation and exclamation mark Word meaning: Synonyms, antonyms, literal and figurative Week 3 and 4 5 % 10% Listen to prepared speech (by President or influential member) Prepared speech (appropriate topic) Read a speech Reading/viewing of written/visual text Write a speech Words: Nouns, compound, diminutives, augmentatives, verbs, finite, non-finite, prepositions ,adjectives: comparative, superlative Word meaning: Synonyms, antonyms, literal, figurative Punctuation: exclamation, question marks, comma, full stop, abbreviations, initialism, acronyms, clipped, truncation, aphesis, portmanteau Sentences: Verb phrase, verb clause, supporting sentences, topic sentences, noun phrase, nouns, adjectival and adverbial clause, conjunctions, emotive and manipulative language Week 5 and 6 5 % 15% Task 1 Group discussion: Visual/audio/multi-media text Listening comprehension (sound only) reconstruct scenes Novel/short story/drama Key features Poetry Key features OR Reading/viewing for comprehension Friendly or informal letter Words: adverbs of manner, time, definite and indefinite articles, infinite verbs, gerunds, adjectives, comparatives and superlatives Sentences: Sentence structure, adverbial and adjectival clauses, phrases, negation, statements Word meaning: synonyms, antonyms, literal, figurative Punctuation: Full stop, comma
Week 7 and 8 5 % 20% Task 1 Unprepared speech on Newspaper or magazine article Forum/group discussion on newspaper/magazine article Read newspaper/magazine article Poetry Key features and poetic devices Task 2 Report/magazine article based on visual stimulants Words: ideophones, iterjectives Sentences: Simple sentences, simple present and past tense, adverbs and adjectives, bias, prejudice, stereotypes Word meaning: proverbs, contextual, literal, donatives, connotative Punctuation: Comma, full stop, quotation, exclamation marks, apostrophe, ellipses Week 9 and 10 5 % 25% Task 1 discussion Listening comprehension Read investigative report Poetry Key features Poetic devices Investigative report Words: regular-, irregular verbs, main verbs, auxiliary verbs Sentences: statement, sentence structure, present and past tense, bias, prejudice and stereotypes Word meaning: synonyms, antonyms, contextual, denotative and connotative Task 3: Test 1 Language and Comprehension
GAUTENG DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TEACHING PLAN - Grade 8 ENGLISH Home Language Date Weight ing Listening and Speaking Reading and Viewing Writing and Presenting Language structures and Conventions Comments Week 1 and 2 5 % 30% Task 1 Listening comprehension Giving directions Read information text with visuals (maps, landmark, scales) Directions/instructions Task 2 Write an instruction text Words: adjectives: comparative and superlative, nous: common and proper, pronouns: personal, relative, reflexive, possessive conjunctions Sentences: Supporting sentences, topic sentences, statements, tenses, main and supporting statements, simple and compound sentences Word meaning: Synonyms, antonyms, contextual Punctuation: Spelling patterns, full stop, comma Week 3 and 4 5 % 35% Task 1 Forum/ panel discussion Debate Recorded TV/radio/simulation forum Poetry Key features Poetic devices Reading/viewing for comprehension (cartoon/strip) Dialogue Words: finite verbs Word meaning: Literal, synonyms, antonyms, homophones and homonyms Punctuation: Spelling rules and conventions Sentence level: Simple present and past tense, emotive and manipulate use, sentence structure, negation, question form, direct and indirect speech Week 5 and 6 5 % 40% Listening comprehension: Interview Literary text: Drama/play Key features Poetry Key features Poetic devices Reading comprehension: Interview Written interview Words: adverbs of place and sequence Sentences: Word order, question form, euphemism, Sentence structure, mood, voice Word meaning: figurative, literal, contextual, pun Punctuation: abbreviations, questions and exclamation mark, full stop, comma Week 7 and 8 5 % 45% Listening comprehension- non fictional e.g newspaper article Group discussion Youth novel/short story Key features Poetry Key features Poetic devices Reading for comprehension Write a review of the story/novel Structure, features and conventions Words: prefixes and suffixes Sentence level: subject and predicate, subject-verb agreement, sentence structure, sentence types, tenses, statements, euphemism, proverbs Word meaning: synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, paronyms Punctuation: acronyms Week 9 and 10 5 % 50% Task 1: Oral Listening comprehension/giving directions/forum/panel discussion/debate Task 2: Interview/instructions text/ story review Task 3: Mid-year examinations Paper 1: Oral Paper 2: Comprehension, language use and literature Paper 3: Writing: One essay and one transactional text. Term 2 - 2014
Week 9 and 10 5 % 75% Listen to a text from a short story Task 1 Tell a story Prepared reading Short story/novel Key features Poetry Key features Poetic devices Reading and viewing for comprehension Of written/visual text Task 2 Argumentative/ descriptive essay Words: nouns: common and complex Prepositions (variety of phrasal verbs) Sentence level: paragraph: introductory, definition, concluding, sentence structure and type. Word meaning: synonyms, antonyms and homonyms Punctuation: spelling patterns and various punctuation marks Task 3: Test 2 Comprehension and language use
Week 9 and 10 5 % 100% Task 1: Oral Debate/conversation/group discussion/dialogue Task 2: End of the year examination Paper1: Oral Paper 2: Comprehension, language and literature Paper 3: Writing: One essay and one transactional writing