What will the teacher need?
The teacher needs the following resources: • the CAPS document for English First Additional Language (Senior Phase) on a data CD
• National Language in Education Policy document • the prescribed language textbook used by the learners as well as additional textbooks as additional resources
• a Literature Anthology with the recommended literature text types
Term 1
2 Weeks
Weeks 1–10: 5 two-week cycles for teaching and learning
Weeks 1–10: 4 two-week cycles for teaching and learning 1 two-week cycle for mid-year exam papers
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Weeks 1–10: 5 two-week cycles for teaching and learning
Weeks 1–10: 4 two-week cycles for teaching and learning 1 two-week cycle for end-of-year-exam papers
Each two-week cycle is carefully structured. Language structures and vocabulary are introduced in Listening and Reading texts and through pictures and other visual texts like maps and diagrams. Learners then find out more about the structures as they are explicitly taught in focussed activities. After that they apply what they have learnt in oral and written activities.
Planning
Oxford Successful English has been carefully planned and structured to cover the content, skills and strategies given in the CAPS teaching plans and provide further material for extension and enrichment. Firstly, this Teacher’s Guide provides a range of
Planning tools to help you plan your year. The following tools can be found in Section 2 of this Teacher’s Guide
(Planning tools): • overview plan for the year • detailed teaching plan for each two-week cycle • plan for the Formal Programme of Assessment • example teaching plan for one week.
In Section 4 of this Teacher’s Guide, detailed teaching plans are provided for each unit. Each unit starts with an overview of the suggested teachings plans for the two- week cycle. A weekly plan for each teaching week of the year with suggestions about how much time to spend on each activity as per the CAPS requirements is then provided. However, there is also some flexibility, as not all
• dictionaries and other reference books • the Teacher’s Guide and a teacher’s resource file.
How Oxford Successful English is organised
Oxford Successful English is organised into 18 units, which correspond with two-week cycles in the CAPS’ teaching plans, as shown in the table below:
Units in Oxford Successful English
Units 1–5 Term 1 Revision test
Units 6–9
Units 10–14 Term 3 Revision test
Units 15–18
classes will work at exactly the same pace. Your timetable may allow for a double period every week and this would be ideal for teaching reading or for longer writing activities. You can also break up activities into several shorter lessons. For example, additional activities (also in the Reading Book) are provided for learners who complete their work early. Also provided is a list of key vocabulary at the beginning of each weekly plan for easy reference. A summary overview of each two-week cycle is
provided at the beginning of each unit in the teaching guidelines of the Teacher’s Guide. The extract below from the summary overview shows the information that is
provided: • list of resources that you will need for each week • information about the activities that develop skills –
these activities correspond to the skills listed in the CAPS
• information about the texts that can be used from the Literature Anthology
• a summary of the formal and informal assessment activities in the two-week cycle
• links to other subjects in the Senior Phase • information about inclusivity which relates to specific activities in the cycle.
On the next page is an example of an overview from Grade 7 which shows the CAPS coverage for a two-week cycle.
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