GAUTENG DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TEACHING PLAN - Grade 7 English Home Term 1 - 2014 GENERAL CONTENT Date Weight ing Listening and Speaking Reading and viewing Writing and presenting Language structures and conventions COMMENTS Week 1 and 2 Date: _______ 5 % 5% Listen to short story Task 1 Retell a story Short story - Reading comprehension Narrative paragraph Words: common, proper, countable, uncountable, concrete, abstract Sentences: simple, statements, simple present & past tense Spelling & punctuation: full stop, comma, colon, semi-colon, capital & small letters Week 3 and 4 Date: _______ 5 % 10% Listen & discuss poem Prepared reading Poem (poetic devices) Creative writing: Own poem Words: compound, complex nouns verbs, finite verbs, pronouns: personal & possessive, articles Word meaning: rhymes, borrowed words ,idioms, proverbs, alliteration, similes, metaphors, interjectives / ideophone synonyms, antonyms Punctuation: full stop, comma Week 5 and 6 Date: _______ 5 % 15% Task 1 Conversation about drama Dialogue Drama – key features Poem – key features Task 2 Dialogue Words: common, proper, complex, collective nouns, finite verbs, pronouns & possessive nouns Sentences: simple sentences’ statements, simple present & past tense. Subject & subject verb agreement Week 7 and 8 Date: _______ 5 % 20% Listen to short story/ folktale Listening comprehension Task 1 Group discussion listen to poetry and determine meaning Short story / Folktale Poem (poetic devices) Task 2 Review / Letter Words: singular & plural, adjectives, degrees of comparison (superlatives)
Week 9 and 10 5 % 25% Listening & speaking strategies Listening comprehension Group panel discussion Short story Reading processes Poetry Reading / Viewing for comprehension Task 2 Descriptive / narrative essay Words: prefix, suffix, root, auxiliary & finite verbs Sentences: subject & predicate, subject verb agreement, main clause, dependent clause Word meaning: synonyms & antonyms Punctuation & spelling: dictionary use, spelling patterns & rules Task 3: Test 1 Comprehension and language GAUTENG DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TEACHING PLAN Grade 7 ENGLISH HL Term 2 – 2014 Date Weight ing Listening and Speaking Reading and Viewing Writing and Presenting Language structures and Conventions Comments Week 1 and 2 Date: _______ 5 % 30% Task 1 Listening comprehension Take notes & answer questions Tell a story Youth Novel / Drama (Key features) Reading / Viewing for comprehension (written and/ visual text) Narrative essay (paragraph conventions) Words: complex nouns, predicate & object (dual use of some nouns), finite verbs, adjectives: comparative & superlative Sentences: subject & predicate, subject verb agreement, simple sentences, statements, simple present & past tense Word meaning: synonyms & antonyms, literal, figurative, emotive language Punctuation: full stop, comma, exclamation, question marks Week 3 and 4 Date: _______ 5 % 35% Listening comprehension of written texts / TV presentation Different forms of oral communication: Task 1 (Debate on advertising) Task 2 Youth Novel / Drama Contextual questions (Key features) Reading / Viewing for comprehension (written and/ visual text) Advertisement / Poster Words: proper nouns, gender, plural & singular, adjectives: demonstrative & relative Word meaning: synonyms, antonyms, literal & figurative meaning Punctuation: colon, semi-colon Sentence level: direct & indirect speech, simple & compound sentences Week 5 and 6 Date: _______ 5 % 40% Task 1 Group/ class discussion on how to give instructions / follow procedures Prepared / unprepared speaking Read instructional text like instructional procedures Poem (key features) Instructions Words: adverbs, prepositions of time, place, movement, adjective: numerical Sentences: active & passive Word meaning: idioms & proverbs Punctuation: apostrophe, hyphen
Week 7 and 8 Date: _______ 5 % 45% Role play – Drama Role play - Investigation Youth Novel / Drama (Key features) Drama review Paragraph conventions Words: transitive & intransitive verbs Sentence level: passive, present progressive, direct and reported speech Word meaning: synonyms, antonyms, literal and figurative Punctuation: colon, quotation marks, question marks, comma, full stop Week 9 and 10 5 % 50% Task 2: Test 2 Literature: Contextual questions (Week 3 and 4) Task 3 : Mid-year examinations Paper 2: Comprehension, language and the use of literature Paper 3: Writing: One essay and one transactional writing GAUTENG DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TEACHING PLAN Grade 7 – English Home Language Term 3 - 2014 DATE Weight ing Listening and Speaking Reading and Viewing Writing and Presenting Language structures and Conventions Comments Week 1 and 2 5 % 55% Listening comprehension on how to fill in a form / questionnaire Different forms of oral communication on the use of a questionnaire / form Task 1 Panel discussions Read a text on the importance of a questionnaire end how to fill it in Reading and viewing for comprehension Filling in questionnaires and / forms Words: common & collective nouns Adverbs of manner & time, adjectives Sentences: noun clauses & adjectival and adverbial clauses, compound & complex sentences Word meaning: synonyms & antonyms, homonyms Punctuation: question marks, ellipsis capitalisation, hyphen Abbreviations: initialism, acronyms, clipped & truncation Week 3 and 4 5 % 60% Listen to a drama (dialogue/interview) Different forms of communication Dramatisation - Adapting one genre to another Youth Drama / Radio Drama (Key features) Poem (poetic devises & key features) Dialogue Written Interview Words: proper nouns, plural & singular, adjectives: comparative & superlative Word meaning: roots of words Punctuation: colon, quotation marks, comma, full stop, apostrophe, question marks Sentence level: direct & indirect speech, complex with relative clauses
Week 5 and 6 5 % 65% Task 1 Role play: Meeting procedure Listening comprehension (written text/ TV presentation) Read a text on how to write a notice / agenda & minutes Reading/viewing for comprehension written/visual text/graphs Task 2 Notice / Agenda & Minutes Words: pronouns : personal, demonstrative & possessive Sentences: simple present & past tense, direct & indirect speech, active & passive voice Word meaning: verbal extensions (derivatives) Punctuation: apostrophe, capitalisation, comma, full stop, colon Week 7 and 8 5 % 70% Listen to and discuss current news based on newspapers and magazine articles Use of emotive & persuasive language Task 1 Prepared / unprepared reading of a newspaper article Reading/viewing for information: newspaper article/ magazine article / written speech Write a Comprehension Test Newspaper article Words: abstract & concrete nouns, prepositions, adjectives: comparative & superlative Sentence level: chronological (sequential) order, order of importance, descriptive paragraph, persuasive & emotive language, bias & prejudice, stereotypes, rhetoric devises Word meaning: synonyms, antonyms, literal and figurative Punctuation: question & exclamation marks, comma, full stop, quotation marks, ellipsis Week 9 and 10 5 % 75% Listening comprehension on Directions Task 1 Give Directions Youth Novel / Short story / Drama / Radio drama Poetry Reading for comprehension eg Written & visual text Task 2 Narrative / Descriptive Essay Words: complex nouns, Pronouns: personal, relative, reflexive Articles: definite, indefinite, articleless Adjectives: comparative & superlative Sentence level: subject & predicate, subject verb agreement, evaluation paragraph, simple sentences, statements Task 3: Test 3 Comprehension and Language OR Literature
Week 9 and 10 5 % 100% Task 1: Oral Reading aloud/debate/group discussion/(un)prepared speech Task 2: End of the year examination Paper 1: Oral Paper 2: Comprehension, language and literature Paper 3: Writing: One essay and one transactional writing.