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English HL: 2020 Revised National Teaching Plan
GRADE 7 TERM 2 English HL
SKILLS Listening and Speaking Reading and Viewing Writing and Presenting Language Structures and Conventions
Week 3-4
Listening and Speaking strategies: Listening comprehension – Use a Visual text such as a Poster/ Advertisement / a Television news presentation Follow the listening process Pre-listening introduces learners to the listening situation. During listening – questioning, recognising, matching, note-taking, interpreting Post-listening follows up on the listening experience. Learners ask questions; talk about what the speaker said, etc.
• Summarise the presentation orally
• • Draw conclusions
Reading/Viewing for comprehension: Use a Written and/or Visual text such as an Advertisement
• Skimming
• Scanning
• Intensive reading
• Make inferences (characters, setting, milieu, message)
• Infer meaning of unfamiliar words by word attack skills
• Manipulative language
• Formal/informal language
OR Read a Literary text such as a novel
Focus on the key features of a literary text: such as characterisation, plot, conflict, background, setting, narrator, theme Follow the Reading Process:
• Pre-reading (Introduce text)
• During reading (features of text)
• Post-reading (answer questions,
compare, contrast, evaluate)
Write a Transactional text: Create an Advertisement / Poster (Select one)
• Requirements of format
• Purpose, target group and context
• Word choice and sentences
construction
• Visual elements such as font types and size, headings, symbols, colour
• Manipulating/persuasive language
Follow the Writing Process:
• Planning
• Drafting
• Revision
• Editing
• Proof-reading and presenting
Word level: Proper nouns, gender, plural, singular Adjectives: demonstrative, relative Sentence level: direct and indirect speech, simple and compound sentences Word meaning: synonyms, antonyms, literal and figurative meaning Punctuation and spelling: colon; semi- colon Dictionary use encouraged
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Subject English Home
Language Term 2
Grade 7 Week 3&4
Link to Teaching
and Assessment
Plan
Build on listening skills taught in previous lessons (Lesson 1&2). Apply skills taught to be
able to answer listening comprehension and discuss what they’ve heard in the television news presentation
Drama /Novel and Short Story continuing from Term 1
Writing continuing
Language Structure and Conventions – expanding on terminology from previous
grades
Introduction Learners will gain experience with television news presentations, advertisements and
posters.
Learners will engage with television news presentation and be able to retell their
perceptions to an adult
Learners will engage with an advertisement or poster and answer the questions posed
Learners will engage with the advertisement and be able to make meaning and draw
on that knowledge and his/her own experience to make their own poster or
advertisement
Learners will engage with the language structure notes and apply their knowledge in
the worksheets provided.
Consolidation Learners are challenged with activities to apply their knowledge and skills after each
section.
Paper based resources:
Text
Dictionary
Digital resources:
https://wcedeportal.co.za/curriculum-
supporthttps://wcedeportal.co.za/partners/#103031
TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES
Skills
(WHAT I am
going to
teach/guide/s
upport)
Teaching Methodologies/
(HOW I am going to
teach/guide/support…)
Resources / LTSM
(WHAT I am going to use
to
teach/guide/support…)
Listening &
Speaking:
Read the television news presentation
Let the learners make notes on the
sheet provided
Have the learners make oral
summaries of the topic using their
notes
1. Worksheets
provided
2. https://www.slideshare.n
et/arzoosahni/television-
news-writing
3. https://www.scribd.com/d
oc/50957030/Script-for-
News-report Reading &
Viewing:
Make sure that learners has a firm grasp
on the following concepts and are able
to identify and define them:
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Heading/
question to
grab attention
Bold, clear, text
and images
Persuasive/emo
tive or figurative
language
Real people
using the
product
Information
(facts and “did you know’s)
Eye-catching
design and
colour
Appealing
gimmicks or
special offers
Catchy slogan
or jingle
Specific target
market
(teenagers,
ladies,etc)
4. https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=XIan8Xhp3HA
5. Grade 7 English: The Art
of Persuasion-Advertising
Campaign May-June
2017 – Al Hoda
International School 6. How to Create an
Entertaining
Advertisement for a
School Project |
Synonym 7. https://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=FRwFrsple
5s
8. https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=wdjQjFyDeD0
9. https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=5o1Qg_zTyaw
10. https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=pGOYlbXbN0o
11. https://safetysigns.co.za/d
id-you-wash-your-hands-
sign?gclid=CjwKCAjw_qb3
BRAVEiwAvwq6VhLwNFIB
oIeJYlGBhtJ8y8u51YTGiD0i
DIfptmsaV7hxXpYtPF_lJxo
CQv0QAvD_BwE
12. https://www.google.com/
search?q=literal+and+figur
ative+language&safe=stric
t&rlz=1C1GCEA_enZA844Z
A844&sxsrf=ALeKk01JRI_C
d57rLxrnwBWzRQlVe1riH
Q:1592447616458&sourc
e=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&
ved=2ahUKEwihkoLUqYrq
AhVTqHEKHd9hDZQQ_AU
oAXoECBMQAw&biw=128
0&bih=561#imgrc=LpGtVU
g6br6kQM
Writing &
Presenting:
Write/ Create own
advertisement/poster using applying
the following:
Audience (Who is it aimed at)
Purpose (Why)
Language/text/ word choice/
Sentence construction
(emotive/literal/emotive
language)
Layout
Colour and design
Special offers
Language
Structures &
Conventions:
Explain Key concepts of:
Direct and Indirect Speech
Simple and Compound Sentences
Literal and Figurative Meaning
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PARENT’S
ACTIVITIES
Read the text to your child
Share thoughts
Show that you are also making
connections to the text i.e. relate the text
to your own life experiences.
Offer support and guidance
LEARNER’S
ACTIVITIES
Learner activities:
Activity 1: Listening and Speaking: Television News Report
1. Listen to the news report as it is being read to you. It may be read more than once.
2. Make notes on the worksheet provided
3. Make meaning of the news report by referring to your notes
4. Summarise your understanding of the news report
5. Discuss impact of report
Activity 2: Reading and Viewing: Analyse Advertisement
Look at the advertisement given to you and make sure that you have a firm grasp of the
following and can identify and define them:
1. Answer the questions that follow
Activity 3: Writing and Presenting: Create your own advertisement/ poster, keeping the
following in mind (and applying the checklist of techniques used above):
Audience (Who is it aimed at)
Purpose (Why)
Language/text/ word choice/ Sentence constructive (emotive/literal/emotive
language)
Layout
Colour and design
Special offers
Language Structure and Conventions: Direct and Indirect Speech, Simple and Compound
Sentences, Literal and Figurative Meaning
1. Familiarize yourself with the notes on the three topics
2. Explain to a sibling or adult your thoughts on it.
3. Refer to the videos explaining the concepts for further clarity.
4. Complete the worksheets.
Heading/question to grab attention Bold, clear, text and images
Persuasive/emotive or figurative
language
Real people using the product
Information (facts and “did you know’s) Eye-catching design and colour
Appealing gimmicks or special offers Catchy slogan or jingle
Specific target market (teenagers,
ladies,etc)
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Activity 1: Listening and Speaking: Listen to a Television News Report
Using the template below, organize your thoughts about the television news report.
Keep the following in mind while you listen to the television news report.
What is the news report about?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Who does it involve?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How does the news report make you feel?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
When does this take place?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Why do you think that this was newsworthy?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
To whom would the news report have an impact on? Why?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
Write down any other thoughts you have on the poem
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Activity 2: Reading and Viewing : Analyze an Advertisement
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1. What is being advertised or promoted and who is the target market?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What is the main idea? What does it want you to do?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Use the list of techniques to analyse it. Organise your answers in a table using examples of each technique.
4. Comment on whether you think the advert could be manipulating the reader in any way. Give examples.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. Comment on whether you think it’s a good advert. Give reasons from the text to support you answer.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Heading/question to grab attention Bold, clear, text and images
Persuasive/emotive or figurative language Real people using the product
Information (facts and “did you know’s) Eye-catching design and colour
Appealing gimmicks or special offers Catchy slogan or jingle
Specific target market (teenagers, ladies,etc)
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Activity 3: Writing and Presenting:
Design your own poster. Make a poster or advertisement in which you create awareness about the
importance of sanitizing and washing your hands to prevent the spread of the novel Corona virus
(COVID-19). Use the table in Activity 2 to help you.
Plan
• Draw up a planning board, using a copy of the table above and include one or more persuasive techniques mentioned in the previous lessons
• Use enticing and persuasive language. Steer clear of manipulative language
Draft
• Draw a draft of your design on a sheet of A4 paper and then have a parent/sibling check it for feedback.
Revise
and
Edit
• Revise your design and redraw it onto another sheet of A4.
• Do not finalise it until you have checked the spelling and grammar
Proofread
• Finalise your text and advert after proofreading it carefully one more time.
• If possible, have a parent/sibling proofread again. It is often easier to proofread someone else's work.
Publish
• Complete your advert and present it to the class, explaining your process from the planning board to final product and giving reasons for the choices you made. First, write your process down.
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Now design your poster/ advertisement:
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Activity 4: Language Structures and Conventions:
Direct and Indirect Speech
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Literal and Figurative Meaning
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Complete the chart with the missing literal and non-literal meanings below:
Non-Literal Phrase Literal Meaning
It’s raining very hard outside.
My brother is a couch potatoe.
I was really in a jam at school.
That was very easy.
Dad is a bear when he wakes up in the morning.
My new baby sister is a doll.
I was busy the whole day at school.
Actions speaks louder than words.
It’s harder for older people to learn something new.
She was very sick.