Grade 12
English First Additional Language
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Paper 1 — language
- 01Parts of speech in an unseen textIn the unseen text, name the job of each word. A verb acts. An adjective describes. An adverb says how.
- 02Paper 1: comprehension, summary and languageStay inside the passage. A fact you add scores zero.
- 03Editing, register and critical languageChange the word that is wrong for the reader. Leave a correct formal word alone.
- 04Visual and advertising textsThe slogan is not the whole message. Read the small line before you praise it.
- 05Summary techniqueOne fact per sentence. No example from outside the passage. Write the word count if it is asked.
- 06Register and toneA formal task loses marks when the words slide into slang. Match the words to the reader.
Paper 2 — literature
- 07Paper 2: literature — novel, drama, poetryRead the copy your school prescribed. This lesson shows how to answer. It does not replace the book.
- 08Unseen poetryThe poem is on the paper. Use its words. Do not bring a poem you studied at home.
- 09Voice of the Land — prescribed poemsVoice of the Land — prescribed poems is the poetry for English First Additional Language, Grade 12. Read the copy your school prescribed. This lesson does not replace that book.
- 10Changes — short storiesChanges — short stories is the short stories for English First Additional Language, Grade 12. Read the copy your school prescribed. This lesson does not replace that book.
- 11My Children! My Africa! — Athol FugardA teacher, his pupil, and a visitor from another school argue about words, school, and a country in 1984. The title is a teacher’s claim on a generation.
- 12Macbeth — William ShakespeareA loyal thane chooses the murder that makes the witches’ greeting come true. Ambition needs a human hand. The weird sisters do not hold the knife.
Paper 3 — writing
Oral
Extra reading (not prescribed 2025–2027)
- 17Prescribed poems (2015 EFAL list)Old setworkPrescribed poems (2015 EFAL list) is the poetry for English First Additional Language, Grade 12. Read the copy your school prescribed. This lesson does not replace that book.
- 18Short stories — 2015 anthologyOld setworkShort stories — 2015 anthology is the short stories for English First Additional Language, Grade 12. Read the copy your school prescribed. This lesson does not replace that book.
- 19Changes — earlier short-story selection (to 2022)Old setworkChanges — earlier short-story selection (to 2022) is the short stories for English First Additional Language, Grade 12. Read the copy your school prescribed. This lesson does not replace that book.
- 20Nothing But the Truth — John KaniOld setworkA family play about a funeral that cannot happen the way the brother at home planned it. Truth is the price of the last scene.
- 21A Grain of Wheat — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’oOld setworkA village waits for Uhuru. Independence is close, and so is the truth about who betrayed the movement.
- 22To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper LeeOld setworkScout Finch looks back at Maycomb. The novel holds a child’s view and an older judgement in the same voice. Use both.
- 23Lord of the Flies — William GoldingOld setworkBoys stranded on an island try to keep order. The novel asks where the violence comes from once the adult rules are gone.