Revised National Curriculum Statement Grades R-9 (Schools) - Grade Six
Learning Area: Language - Second Additional Language
Learning Outcome 1: Listening
The learner will be able to listen for information and enjoyment, and respond appropriately and critically in a wide range of situations.
Assessment standards
We know this when the learner:
- Listens to and responds to a fairly complex sequence of instructions (e.g. how to play a game).
- Listens to and responds to simple questions (e.g. ‘Have you ever been to Cape Town?’ ‘Who is your favourite singer?’).
- Listens to simple stories and factual texts, and answers questions orally or in writing.
- Listens to some short authentic texts (e.g. a radio or television weather forecast), and answers oral or written questions or completes a chart, diagram or text.
- Distinguishes the sounds of the language (important for pronunciation, reading and writing).
- Begins to recognise some features of intonation and stress.
- Writes a dictation.
Learning Outcome 2: Speaking
The learner will be able to communicate confidently and effectively in spoken language in a wide range of situations.
Assessment standards
We will know this when the learner:
- Responds appropriately to questions (e.g. ‘Can you tell me the way to the hospital?’ ‘Where is the nearest police station?’ ‘When was your birthday?’).
- Asks for and gives directions (e.g. ‘You go down this street. When you reach the robots, you turn left.').
- Takes part in a simple conversation (e.g. about the weather).
- Role-plays some familiar situations (e.g. asking for directions).
- Understands cultural similarities and differences (e.g. how to approach a stranger and ask for directions).
- Carries out a simple class survey (e.g. favourite television programmes or sports).
- Gives a report-back (e.g. on a class survey).
- Makes polite requests (e.g. ‘Can you tell me the way to the police station, please?’).
- Asks for clarification (e.g. ‘I don’t understand. Can you speak more slowly, please?’).
Learning Outcome 3: Reading and Viewing
The learner will be able to read and view for information and enjoyment, and respond critically to the aesthetic, cultural and emotional values in texts.
Assessment standards
We know this when the learner:
- Reads short texts with visual support, for example:
- advertisements;
- picture stories with captions;
- comic strips;
- cartoons;
- jokes.
- Reads a simple story or factual text (e.g. a CD cover).
- Uses reference books for language learning:
- bilingual/monolingual dictionary;
- language textbooks.
- Reads some short authentic texts (e.g. a newspaper weather forecast, simple horoscopes, popular songs).
- Reads a number of graded readers (1000 to 1500 word level).
- Demonstrates a reading vocabulary of about 1500 words by the end of the year).
Learning Outcome 4: Writing
The learner will be able to write different kinds of factual and imaginative texts for a wide range of purposes.
Assessment standards
We know this when the learner:
- Completes simple forms (e.g. a questionnaire about own personality).
- Writes and performs a simple dialogue (e.g. gives directions).
- Writes a poem using a frame (e.g. ‘The wind makes me feel...’ ‘The rain makes me feel...’).
- Writes a paragraph.
- Translates short texts (e.g. a popular song with a simple, repetitive lyric), from the additional language into the home language, with some attempt at idiomatic use of language.
- Designs a poster (e.g. to present results of class survey or to show their favourite things).
Learning Outcome 6: Language Structure and Use
The learner will know and be able to use the sounds, words and grammar of the language to create and interpret texts.
Assessment standards
We know this when the learner:
- Pronounces words reasonably accurately.
- Uses word and sentence stress with reasonable accuracy.
- Incorporates some adjectives and adverbs into simple sentence structure (e.g. ‘It is sunny/rainy/windy.’ ‘It is raining hard.’).
- Co-ordinates sentences with ‘and’ (e.g. ‘Lindi went to town and bought some groceries.‘).
- Uses the present perfect tense (e.g. ‘She has arrived.’ ‘She hasn’t arrived yet.’ ‘Have you ever seen an elephant?’).
- Uses the future tense (e.g. ‘It’s going to rain tomorrow. No, it won’t. It will be sunny.’).
- Uses conditionals (e.g. ‘If it’s sunny tomorrow, we’ll go to the beach.’).
- Records vocabulary in a personal dictionary.
- Completes some word puzzles (e.g. a simple crossword puzzle).
- Plays word games (e.g. word bingo).
- Spells some words with silent letters (e.g. listen, talk, write).
- Forms words (e.g. sing+er = singer; piano+ist = pianist).
- Demonstrates a reading vocabulary of about 1500 words by the end of Grade 6.