Grade 12 English First Additional Language practice papers and memos
Every paper here is in the app. Open one to practise, then check the memo.
Practice papers in the app (10)
- Practice paper 7 — Grade 12 English First Additional Language (Easified, CAPS-aligned)2024 · 140 marks · 180 min
- Practice paper 4 — Grade 12 English First Additional Language (Easified, CAPS-aligned)2024 · 140 marks · 180 min
- Practice paper 3 — Grade 12 English First Additional Language (Easified, CAPS-aligned)2024 · 140 marks · 180 min
- Practice paper 2 — Grade 12 English First Additional Language (Easified, CAPS-aligned)2023 · 140 marks · 180 min
- Practice paper 9 — Grade 12 English First Additional Language (Easified, CAPS-aligned)2023 · 140 marks · 180 min
- Practice paper 5 — Grade 12 English First Additional Language (Easified, CAPS-aligned)2023 · 140 marks · 180 min
- Practice paper 6 — Grade 12 English First Additional Language (Easified, CAPS-aligned)2023 · 140 marks · 180 min
- Practice paper 10 — Grade 12 English First Additional Language (Easified, CAPS-aligned)2022 · 140 marks · 180 min
- Practice paper 1 — Grade 12 English First Additional Language (Easified, CAPS-aligned)2022 · 140 marks · 180 min
- Practice paper 8 — Grade 12 English First Additional Language (Easified, CAPS-aligned)2022 · 140 marks · 180 min
Official DBE past papers and memos
Grade 12 English First Additional Language topics
- Parts of speech in an unseen text
- Paper 1: comprehension, summary and language
- Editing, register and critical language
- Visual and advertising texts
- Summary technique
- Register and tone
- Paper 2: literature — novel, drama, poetry
- Unseen poetry
- Voice of the Land — prescribed poems
- Changes — short stories
- My Children! My Africa! — Athol Fugard
- Macbeth — William Shakespeare
- Paper 3: essay and transactional texts
- Transactional formats
- Pronunciation in the oral
- Oral: prepared speech, unprepared, listening
- Prescribed poems (2015 EFAL list)
- Short stories — 2015 anthology
- Changes — earlier short-story selection (to 2022)
- Nothing But the Truth — John Kani
- A Grain of Wheat — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
- To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
- Lord of the Flies — William Golding