INTERMEDIATE PHASE

GRADE 4 LESSON PLANS

2012

Platinum ENGLISH
First Additional Language
 CONTENTS PAGE

CONTENTS PAGE..................................................................................................................................... 2
ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE WORKSCHEDULE GRADE 4.................................3
TERM 1....................................................................................................................................................................... 3
TERM 2....................................................................................................................................................................... 3
TERM 3....................................................................................................................................................................... 4
TERM 4....................................................................................................................................................................... 5
EXEMPLAR TEACHING GUIDELINE– GRADE 4...............................................................................6
THEME 1: PEOPLE WE LOVE.................................................................................................................................... 6
TERM 1 PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4..........................................................................17
THEME 1: PEOPLE WE LOVE..................................................................................................................................17
THEME 2: SUPER SPORTS!.....................................................................................................................................19
THEME 3: RIVER ADVENTURES............................................................................................................................21
THEME 4: GOOD FOOD...........................................................................................................................................23
THEME 5: WHERE I LIVE....................................................................................................................................... 25
TERM 2: PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4.........................................................................27
THEME 6: ROLLING INTO ACTION........................................................................................................................27
THEME 7: SUNNY OR CLOUDY?.............................................................................................................................29
THEME 8: ANIMAL STORIES AND POEMS............................................................................................................31
THEME 9: ANIMALS THAT HARM..........................................................................................................................33
TERM 3: PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4.........................................................................35
THEME 10: A BRAND NEW TOWN........................................................................................................................35
THEME 11: TAKING CARE......................................................................................................................................37
THEME 12: SUN STORIES.......................................................................................................................................39
THEME 13: THE POWERFUL SUN......................................................................................................................... 41
THEME 14: FRIENDS...............................................................................................................................................43
TERM 4: PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4.........................................................................45
THEME 15: BEING BRAVE..................................................................................................................................... 45
THEME 16: MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE............................................................................................47
THEME 17: A BUSY COMMUNITY.........................................................................................................................49
Theme 18: Protecting Our Planet................................................................................................................51

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 ENGLISH First Additional Language WORKSCHEDULE GRADE 4

TERM 1

Teaching
Formal
THEME
WEEKS

Language Structures and

Listen and Speak Read and View Write and Present Assess
and conventions Learning
ment
Material
Listen to a story and Read a story and Summary Spell familiar words Baseline LB pp 1–8
answer questions complete a Personal recount Use a dictionary assessm TG pp 1–
1. People we love

Personal recount comprehension Personal dictionary Punctuation: full stop, ent 15

Daily listening and Independent reading capital letters
speaking Simple present and
1-2

simple past tense

Countable and
uncountable nouns
Determiners
Synonyms
News report News report News event Words starting with soft Term 1 LB pp 9–
Factual account of a news Comprehension Label a map ‘c’ FAT 1 18
event Directions on a map Personal dictionary Sight words TG pp 16–
Listen to and follow Independent reading High frequency words 30
2. Super sports!

directions Punctuation: full stop,

Daily listening and comma
3-4

speaking Present progressive

tense
Verbs
Connecting words
Antonyms
Abbreviations
Adventure story Adventure story Summary The hard ‘k’ sound Term 1 LB pp 19–
Predict what will happen Comprehension Description of characters Breaking words into FAT 1 28
3. River Adventures

Describe characters Read aloud Personal dictionary parts TG pp 31–

Daily listening and Independent reading Acronyms 45
speaking Abbreviations
5-6

Regular verb forms

Adverbs
Prepositions
Connecting words
Compound words
Recipe Read and talk about a List with headings Words starting with ‘k’ Term 1 LB pp 29–
Instructions recipe Instructions Plurals with ‘s’ FAT 2 36
4. Good food

Daily listening and Read aloud Personal dictionary Modal verbs TG pp 46–
speaking Independent reading Negative forms 59
7-8

Command verb forms

Present perfect tense
Words from reading
texts
Poetry Poetry Poetry Question marks Term 1 LB pp 37–
Word game Word puzzle Sentences with rhyme Exclamation marks FAT 2 44
5. where I live

Daily listening and Read a poem aloud and rhythm Personal pronouns TG pp 60–
speaking Independent reading Words beginning with The verb ‘to be’ 74
9-10

the same letter Present progressive

Personal dictionary tense
Adjectives
Words belonging to the
same lexical field

TERM 2

Teaching
Formal
THEME
WEEKS

Language Structures and

Listen and Speak Read and View Write and Present Assess
and conventions Learning
ment
Material
Listen to a story and Read a story Message Plural nouns Term 2 LB
6. Rolling into

answer questions Complete a Personal recount Parts of a sentence FAT 1 pp 45–54

action
11-12

Personal recount comprehension Personal dictionary Proper nouns TG pp 75–

Daily listening and Read aloud Adjectives 88
speaking Independent reading Irregular verbs
Words from reading texts

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 Weather report Weather report Summary Plurals with ‘es’ Term 2 LB pp 55–
Listen to and follow Poster advert Design a poster Words with long vowel FAT 1 64
directions Independent reading Personal dictionary sounds and silent ‘e’ TG pp 89–

7. Sunny or cloudy?
Describe an object Articles ‘a’ and ‘the’ 103
Daily listening and No articles with
13-14 speaking uncountable nouns
Simple present tense and
universal statements
Connecting words
Future tense
Collocations
Synonyms
Traditional story Traditional story Sentences with rhyme Words starting with ‘c’ LB pp 65–
8. Animal stories

Poetry Poetry and rhythm Words starting with ‘k’ 74

Rhyme and rhythm Read aloud Story Countable nouns TG pp
and poems
15-16

Daily listening and Independent reading Personal dictionary Adjectives before nouns 104–119
speaking The verb ‘to be’
Adverbs
Phrasal verbs

Instructions Procedural text Procedure Words with long vowel LB pp 75–

Assessment 9. Animals that harm

Classify things Information text Mindmap sounds 84

Daily listening and Comprehension Personal dictionary Adverbs TG pp
17-18

speaking Independent reading Command verb forms 120–133

Modals for permission
and necessity
Antonyms

Mid- LB pp 85–
year 86
19-20

examina TG pp
tion 266–274

TERM 3

Teaching
THEME
WEEKS

Language Structures Formal and

Listen and Speak Read and View Write and Present
and conventions Assessment Learning
Material
Listen to a story and Read a story Dialogue Punctuation LB pp 87–
answer questions Comprehension Description of a Word families 96
10. A brand new town

Describe a place Read and discuss a book character Break down long words TG pp
Daily listening and review Personal dictionary Plurals with ‘s’ and ‘es’ 134–148
speaking Read aloud Personal pronouns
21-22

Role-play Regular verb forms

Independent reading Direct speech
Construct sentences
parts
Words from reading
texts
Medical report Information text Summary Words starting with ‘g’ Term 3 FAT LB pp 97–
Conversation on a Poster Poster Nouns with only a plural 1 104
11. taking care

familiar topic Independent reading Personal dictionary form TG pp

Daily listening and Adjectives of comparison 149–162
23-24

speaking Nouns with ‘a’ and ‘the’

Subject-verb concord
Shortening words
Initialism
Acronyms
Listen to a story and Story Story Words starting with ‘ce-’, Term 3 FAT LB pp
answer questions Poetry Sentences that rhyme ‘ci-’, ‘cy-’ 1 105–114
12. Sun stories

Poetry Independent reading Personal dictionary Words starting with ‘ke-’; TG pp

Daily listening and ‘ki-’ 163–177
25-26

speaking Adjectives
Simple past tense
The verb ‘to be’
Adverbs of degree
Phrasal verbs
Information text Chart Draw and label a chart Words with long vowel Term 3 FAT LB pp
Description of a place Comprehension Write information based sounds 2 115–124
13. the powerful

Daily listening and Procedural text on a chart Prepositions TG pp

27-28

speaking Independent reading Personal dictionary Forms of the verb ‘to be’ 178–191
sun

Connecting words
Modal verbs
Words from reading
texts
4
 Listen to a play (drama) Play (drama) Book review Spells familiar words Term 3 FAT LB pp
Role-play Act out the play Dialogue Personal dictionary 2 125–134
Daily listening and Independent reading Personal dictionary Punctuation TG pp

14. Friends
speaking Tenses: simple present, 192–204

29-30
present progressive,
future
Adverbs
Reported speech
Words from reading
texts

TERM 4
Teaching
WEEK

THEM

Language Structures Formal and

Listen and Speak Read and View Write and Present
E
S

and conventions Assessment Learning

Material
Conversation Read a story Story Use a dictionary LB pp 135–
Language game Complete a Personal dictionary Words with the ‘k’ 142
Daily listening and comprehension sound TG pp 205–
speaking Read aloud Uncountable nouns 216
15. Being brave

Independent reading with no article

Subject-verb concord
Future tense
Prepositions
31-32

Homonyms

Interview Poster Paragraph Spells familiar words Term 4 FAT 1 LB pp 143–

world a better

Telephone messages E-mail Draw and label a chart Personal dictionary 152
16. make the

Daily listening and Information text E-mail Connecting words TG pp 217–

speaking Comprehension Poster Personal pronouns 234
Independent reading Personal dictionary Prefixes
33-34

Suffixes

Listen to and discuss a Story with dialogue Story with dialogue Punctuation LB pp 153–
story Diary entry Personal dictionary Connecting words 162
Language game Read aloud Direct speech TG pp 235–
community

Daily listening and Independent reading Quotation marks 251

17. A busy

speaking Apostrophes
Words from reading
35-36

texts

Short talk Information text Paragraph Dictionary work LB pp 163–

Conversation on a Comprehension Design and produce a Reported speech 172
18. Protecting our

familiar topic Poster poster Adverbs TG pp 252–

Daily listening and Independent reading Personal dictionary Present progressive 264
speaking tense
Compound words
planet

Prefixes
37-38

Suffixes

End-of-year LB pp 173–
Assessment

examination 174
TG pp 275–
282
39-40

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 EXEMPLAR TEACHING GUIDELINE– GRADE 4
Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 1: People we love
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 1 Weeks 1 & 2
Listening and Speaking Reading and Viewing (5 Writing and Presenting Language Structures and
(2 hours) hours) (2 hours) Conventions
(1 hour)
• Does daily listening and • Reads a story about a • Writes sentences about a Spelling and punctuation
speaking practice family story • Spelling: writes words
• Listens to a story about • Does a comprehension on • Writes a personal recount correctly in a personal
a family the story using a frame dictionary
• Gives a personal • Does independent reading • Uses the writing process • Looks up the meaning of
CAPS recount about an • Creates a personal words in a dictionary
Content enjoyable experience dictionary • Punctuation: full stop,
and capital letters, small
Skills letters
Work with words and
sentences
• Countable nouns
• Uncountable nouns
• Determiners
• Simple past tense
Vocabulary in context
• Synonyms

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 LEARNING TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH
Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page RESOURCES
ACTIVITY
3 in the TG
Week 1  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
and Teacher's Guide
Listening and Daily listening and speaking practice
Speaking Choose one activity a day from the list of activities on page 3.  Platinum English FAL
Grade 4 Reader
Listen and speak
Talk about photographs  Dictionary
Learner’s Book page 2
Work as a class. Ask learners to look at the photographs on page 1.
Talk about how many people there are in each photograph. Identify family  Personal dictionaries
members in photos – grandmother, baby, father, etc.
1. Ask learners to do Activity 1, matching each photo with an event.  Use the exercises in
2. Ask the learners to do Activity 2 in pairs. This activity draws on their own lives. the DBOE Workbooks
Be sensitive to learners who might not live with their families. Point out that the for additional support.
people we love can be family, friends, or anyone we know well and respect.

Listen to and talk about a story

Before you listen
This activity focuses on the picture and gives learners a chance to become familiar
with the words and characters in the story.

While you listen

1. Explain to the class that you are going to read a story about the family in the
picture. Ask them to think about the people in the picture while you read.
2. Read the story from page 182 three times. Read it slowly and clearly. Use these
ideas:
 The first time, read without stopping.
 The second time, stop at the end of each paragraph and ask learners to
identify unfamiliar words, such as ‘trust’.
 Discourage them from using the Word list at this stage, but to try to work
out meanings from details in the text. Ask: What does it meant if you
trust someone?
Before you read the story a third time, go through the words in the Word list.

Informal assessment
Observe which learners participate willingly in the class discussion, and which
learners have difficulty in doing this. These observations will help you organise
the class into appropriate level groups at the end of this two-week cycle. For more
information about this, see page x of the Introduction.

Independent Reading - Reader

About 20 minutes before the lesson ends, prepare learners for independent
reading. If you are using the Platinum English FAL Grade 4 Reader, find out what
learners know about China. (It is a very big country in the East/The capital is
Beijing /A lot of things are made there – cars, clothes, cell phones etc. / rice is a
popular food etc.) Ask learners to find the names of the people in the story. Help
them with the pronunciation (Guo Shuang is pronounced ‘Gwo Shwang’.) Ask
learners to read the headings and the captions for the pictures quietly on their
own. They can look up words they do not know in the Reader Glossary on page 66
or in a dictionary.
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 2 to 4 for
additional support.

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LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes

Listening and Daily listening and speaking practice

Speaking Choose an activity a day from the list of activities on page 3.

Listen and speak

Listen to and talk about a story

Learner’s Book page 2

While you listen

1. Continue with the activity from the previous lesson. Explain to the class that
you are going to read the story again three times.
 The first time you read, learners can look at the picture while they listen.
 Then read the questions in After you listen.
 The second and third times, they can listen for details to answer the
questions.

After you listen

1. Read the questions in Activity 1 and discuss these as a class.
 Questions 1 a–c are straightforward and require literal answers from the
text.
 Questions 1 d–f are more demanding, and draw on metacognitive skills, for
example expressing feelings about a situation.
 Question 1 a also makes use of determiners and countable nouns (‘three
adults’ etc.), which prepares learners for the countable/uncountable nouns
in Work with words and sentences.
2. In Activity 2, organise learners into pairs for the retelling of the story.

Baseline assessment
Use the After you listen activity to do a baseline assessment of listening skills.
Select a few learners, and discuss the questions with them. Use the rating scale
given. Continue this process during the Independent reading sessions over this
two-week cycle, until you have had a chance to assess the whole class. Take note
of learners who are struggling to answer the questions. You will need to do some
remedial work with them during the year.

Work with words and sentences

1. This section focuses on countable and uncountable nouns. Explain that:
 You can count some nouns, but not others.
 You can use a number (a determiner) in front of nouns you can count.
 Use the following example in the picture: one table, six chairs, two pots, etc.
 You can use ‘a’ instead of ‘one’ in front of a countable noun: there is one
table, there is a table.
 You use ‘some’ with nouns you can’t count. Use the examples in the picture
on page 2: there is some food in the pots, some water from the tap, some
dishwashing liquid in the bottle.
 Point out that nouns that we can’t count do not have plurals: water, air, etc.
2. If there is time, use this activity to practise singular/plural – one table, two
tables, one child, four children, one family, two families etc.

Baseline assessment
Use the memorandum provided if you want to do a baseline assessment of
countable and uncountable nouns. Learners have studied them in Grade 3, so they
should be familiar with them.

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LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes
Reading and Daily listening and speaking practice
Viewing Choose an activity a day from the list of activities on page 3.

Read and view

Read a story
Learner’s Book page 4

Before you read

1. Explain that learners are going to read a story about the family in the picture on
page 2.
2. Ask learners to look at the title of the story. Ask: What does ‘quarrels’ mean?
Learners can look up the meaning in the Word list if they need to.
3. Read and discuss the questions in this section with the class. Question 1
encourages learners to relate the theme of quarrels to their own lives. In
questions 2 and 3 learners use the picture to make predictions about what the
family is quarrelling about.

While you read

1. Read the story to the class. Ask learners to follow in their books while you read.
2. Remember to use your voice to show how the characters feel. Remind learners
to think about how each character sounds and feels: cross, friendly or polite.
3. Stop after each paragraph to discuss unfamiliar words. Encourage learners to
work out the meanings by looking at the sentence in which the word is used
more carefully. If they cannot do this, let them use the Word list or a
dictionary to find the meaning of the word.
4. Read the story again without stopping.
5. Read the story a third time. Do this as shared reading. Encourage learners to
join in while you read. They can also volunteer to read some sentences on
their own.

Spelling and punctuation

Practise dictionary skills

1. Work through the guidelines on page 181 of the Platinum English FAL Grade 4
Learner’s Book.
2. Select words from the story and ask learners to look up the meanings in their
dictionaries.
3. Encourage learners to use dictionaries during lessons when it is necessary.

Independent reading - Reader

Learners can do some independent reading. If you are using the Platinum English
FAL Grade 4 Reader, refer to ‘Guo and her family’ on pages 6 and 7. Organise
learners into pairs. They can take turns to read the paragraphs out loud to each
other. They should do this twice, making sure that they each get a turn to read
each paragraph. You can use this activity to do a baseline assessment of reading
aloud skills.
Circulate and assess a few learners while they are reading.
Alternatively, use the resources that you have available for this activity. For
example, learners could read the story ‘Family quarrels’ on page 4 quietly on their
own.
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 6 and 7
for additional support.

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LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes
Language Daily listening and speaking practice
Structures and Choose one activity a day from the list of activities on page 3.
Conventions
Language focus

Present simple tense

Learner’s Book page 6
1. Use the table to explain the present simple tense.
2. Ask learners to complete Activity 1 in their exercise books.
3. Let them swap books with a partner and mark the activity as a class. Ask them
to make a total out of 5 marks.

Baseline assessment
If you wish to do a baseline assessment for the simple present tense, take the
learners’ books in and check that Activity 1 has been marked correctly. Record the
marks.

Extension
Provide extra examples of the simple present tense for reinforcement. Use regular
verbs and the irregular verb to be (am, is, are). For example:
There (am/is/are) … learners in our class.
Our teacher’s name (am/is/are)…
We (write/writes) in our books.
We (read/reads) about Thoko.

Homework
Learners can do Activity 1 from the Revision section on page 8. It focuses on the
simple present tense.

Independent reading - Reader

About 20 minutes before the lesson ends, prepare learners for independent
reading. If you are using the Platinum English FAL Grade 4 Reader, refer to ‘Guo
and her family’ on pages 6 and 7. Continue the process from Lesson 3, but this
time learners read page 7. Remind them to look up words they do not
know in the Glossary on page 66 or in a dictionary. Circulate and assess a few
more learners. Otherwise, use the resources that you have available for this
activity.

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LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes
Writing and Daily listening and speaking practice
Presenting Choose an activity a day from the list of activities on page 3.

Write and present

Write about a story

1. Read the story ‘Family quarrels’ from page 4 to the class again.
2. Explain that the learners must use the frame to write three sentences about the
story. Remind them that people’s names always start with a capital letter.

Informal assessment
Ask for volunteers to read out their sentences. Discuss all the ideas that the class
has used. Then ask learners to swap their work with the person sitting next to
him/her, and check it for spelling and punctuation. Write this checklist on the
board:
• Do the names of the people start with a capital letter?
• Does each sentence start with a capital letter?
• Does each sentence end with a full stop?
• Is the spelling of all the words correct?
If there are mistakes, learners must write their sentences again. About 20 minutes
before the lesson ends, prepare learners for the next activity.

Create a personal dictionary

Use the instructions on page 181 to explain to learners how to make personal
dictionaries.
1. Once they have labelled the pages with the letters of the alphabet, they can add
the words from the Word list on page 4 to correct pages in their dictionary.
2. Learners then can choose five more words from the reading text on page 4 of
the Learner’s Book. Learners can complete their personal dictionaries for
homework.

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) page 5 for
additional support.

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Week 2
Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
Listening and Daily listening and speaking practice
Speaking Choose one activity a day from the list of activities on page 3.

Listen and speak

Give a personal recount

Learner’s Book page 7
1. Discuss Thoko’s story on page 4. Point out that in the story she describes
something that happened in her home. It starts with a difficult situation, but it
ends well.
2. Tell learners they are going to tell a short story about something that happened
in their home. It can be about anything: a funny situation, or a difficult one, or
one that starts badly and ends well, like Thoko’s story. For example, they can
describe how they helped make a meal, or a quarrel they had with a brother or
sister, a visit by a friend or something good or bad that happened to somebody
at home.
3. Read the information in the Platinum English FAL Grade 4 Learner’s Book
about how they should organise the ideas in their stories. You could write a
story frame on the board, for example:
 When did it happen? Yesterday/last week …
 Who was there?
 Where were you? In the house, or outside?
 What happened then?
 What happened next?
 What happened after that?
4. Give learners about 10 minutes to prepare their stories.
5. Organise the class into small groups of three of four.
6. The learners take turns to tell each other their stories. Remind them to listen
carefully while someone else is speaking. They can ask each other questions
about their stories if they wish.

Baseline assessment
Circulate among the groups. Assess a few learners for speaking skills using the
rating scale given. Continue this assessment during the independent reading
sessions over the week. Ask individual learners to tell you their stories.

Independent reading - Reader

If there is time in this lesson, learners can do some independent reading. If you
are using the Platinum English FAL Grade 4 Reader, refer to ‘Guo and her family’
on pages 6 and 7. Learners can work in their pairs and read the whole story. They
can take turns to read the paragraphs. Continue assessing a few learners who
have not yet been assessed for reading aloud skills.
Otherwise, use the resources that you have available for this activity.

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LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes
Reading and Daily listening and speaking practice
Viewing Choose one activity a day from the list of activities on page 3.

Read and view

Read a story
Learner’s Book page 4
1. Read ‘Family quarrels’ from page 4 to the class again.
2. Ask learners to read the story quietly on their own. (This forms part of
independent reading – see below.

After you read

1. Read the questions in Activity 1 and discuss them as a class. They require literal
answers based on information stated in the text.
2. Ask learners to work in pairs and take turns to tell each other the story.
3. Learners then work on their own and write answers for Activity 1 in their
exercise books. Remind them to answer in full sentences, and to start with a
capital letter and end with a full stop.
4. They do Activity 3, which requires a personal response to the story, using a
frame.

Vocabulary in context
The activity in this section practises synonyms. Ask learners to find the synonyms
in the reading text. Learners find the first and last paragraph of the story.
1. angry – cross
2. being friends – getting on well

Baseline assessment
Use the memorandum for Activity 1 in After you read to assess reading
comprehension skills.

Remedial activities
If learners are struggling to retell the story in Activity 2, give them these
sentences to order correctly:
• Thoko said Unathi must put the books away because they were hers.
• So Thoko dusted and Unathi put the books away.
• Unathi said she was busy dusting.
• Thoko’s mother asked her to put the books away.

Homework
Ask learners to learn the words in the Word lists on pages 3 and 4 for a spelling
test at the end of the week. They must add these words and meanings to their
personal dictionaries.
Independent reading - Reader
If there is time, learners can work in pairs and read the story to each other.

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LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
Language Daily listening and speaking practice
Structures and Choose one activity a day from the list of activities on page 3.
Conventions
Language focus
The simple past tense
Learner’s Book page 6
1. Use the table to explain the simple past tense.
2. Ask learners to complete Activities 2 and 3 in their exercise books.
3. Let them swap books with a partner and mark the activities as a class.

Baseline assessment
Take the books in and check that Activities 2 and 3 (not 4) have been marked
correctly. Record the marks out of 10. Use for baseline assessment of the simple
past tense.

Homework
Learners do Activities 1 and 3 in the Revision section on page 8. They focus on the
simple past tense. Remind learners to learn the words in the Word lists on pages 3
and 4 for a spelling test at the end of the week.

Independent reading - Reader

Learners can do some independent reading. If you are using the Platinum English
FAL Grade 4 Reader, refer to ‘Guo and her family’ on pages 6 and 7. Learners work
in their pairs and discuss the questions on page 7. These cover the main ideas in
the story. They can also do this in writing in their exercise books. While they do
this, continue assessing a few learners individually for reading aloud skills if
necessary. Otherwise, use the resources that you have available for this activity.

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LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
Writing and Daily listening and speaking practice
Presenting Choose one activity a day from the list of activities on page 3.

Write and present

Write a story
Learner’s Book page 7
Explain that learners are going to write a paragraph about something they enjoy
doing.

1. Read the paragraph to the class. It gives a frame of what a personal recount
should look like. Discuss the annotated notes around the paragraph. Explain
that learners must use this example to help them plan their paragraphs.
2. Learners write a paragraph in the simple past tense about something they
enjoyed doing. They may use some of the words listed to write four or five
sentences. Discuss the five stages of the writing process in the Checklist.

Explain that they will use the five steps to write their paragraphs. They will also
use this process for most of their writing activities this year. Ask them to start
with Step 1 – Planning what you will say. To help them, write these
questions on the board:
 What are you going to write about?
 Who did you do it with?
 Where were you?
 What happened?
They can use the questions to write notes.

Homework
Learners should be given homework at least twice a week. Remind learners to
learn the words in the Word lists on pages 3 and 4.

Independent reading - Reader

About 20 minutes before the end of the lesson, prepare learners for some
independent reading. If you are using the Platinum English FAL Grade 4 Reader,
refer to ‘Guo and her family’ on pages 6 and 7. Write the following frame up on the
board:
• How old is Guo?
• Who does she live with?
• What do her parents and grandparents do?
• What do they eat for supper?
• What do they use to eat their supper?
• What does ‘Shuang’ mean in Chinese?
• What do Chinese people use instead of letters?
Learners can work in pairs and use the frame to retell the story about Guo and her
family. They should take turns to do this. Complete your assessment for reading
aloud skills.
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) page 8 and 9 for
additional support.

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LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Language Daily listening and speaking practice
Structures and Choose one activity a day from the list of activities on page 3.
Conventions
Spelling test
Use the ten words from the Word list. Read each word three times. The first time,
learners just listen. The second time they write the word in their exercise book.
The third time they check and correct if necessary.
Mark the words as a class. Ask volunteers to write the words on the board.
Learners can swap books and correct each other’s work.

Write and present

Write a personal recount

Learner’s Book page 7
1. Ask learners to read the paragraph frame quietly on their own.
2. Discuss the notes around it again.
3. Discuss the five stages of the writing process in the Checklist again.
4. In Activity 3 they use their plans from the previous lesson to complete the
writing process.
5. Emphasise that learners must present their final draft in their best handwriting,
with no mistakes.

REVISION: Learner’s Book p8

The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Baseline assessment
 It is suggested that you use the first two-weeks of the term to do a baseline assessment of learners
 Assess a few learners for speaking skills
 Use the rating scale to do a baseline assessment of writing skills.

Informal assessment
Lesson 5: Ask for volunteers to read out their sentences. Discuss all the ideas that the class has used. Then ask learners to swap their
work with the person sitting next to him/her, and check it for spelling and punctuation.

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 TERM 1 PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4
Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 1: People we love
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 1 Weeks 1 & 2
Listening and Speaking Reading and Viewing (5 Writing and Presenting Language Structures and
(2 hours) hours) (2 hours) Conventions
(1 hour)
• Does daily listening and • Reads a story about a • Writes sentencesabout a Spelling and punctuation
speaking practice family story • Spelling: writes words
• Listens to a story about • Does a comprehension on • Writes a personal recount correctly in a personal
a family the story using a frame dictionary
• Gives a personal • Does independent reading • Uses the writing process • Looks up the meaning of
CAPS recount about an • Creates a personal words in a dictionary
Content enjoyable experience dictionary • Punctuation: full stop,
and capital letters, small
Skills letters
Work with words and
sentences
• Countable nouns
• Uncountable nouns
• Determiners
• Simple past tense
Vocabulary in context
• Synonyms

LEARNING TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH

Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page RESOURCES
ACTIVITY
3 in the TG
Week 1  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
and Teacher's Guide
LB pages 2 and 3
Talks about photographs of people who love each other  Platinum English FAL
Listening and Listens to a story about a family Grade 4 Reader
Speaking Independent Reading - Reader
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 2 to 4 for  Dictionary
additional support.
LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes  Personal dictionaries

LB pages 2 and 3  Use the exercises in the

Listens to the story about a family again DBOE Workbooks for
Discusses questions additional support.
Listening and
Work with words and sentence
Speaking
LB Page 3
Determiners (one, two etc.)
Countable and uncountable nouns

LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes

LB pages 4 and 5
Reads a story about the family from the listening text
Reading and
Independent reading - Reader
Viewing
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 6 and 7
for additional support.
LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes
Language LB page 6
Structures and Simple present tense Language focus
Conventions Independent reading - Reader

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LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes
Writing and LB page 7
Presenting Writes sentences about the story on page 4
Read and view
Creates a personal dictionary

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) page 5 for
additional support.
Week 2
Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
Listening and LB pages 2 and 3
Speaking Gives a personal recount on something that happened at home.
Independent reading - Reader
LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes
LB pages 4 and 5
Reads the story about the family again
Reading and
Answers questions
Viewing
Vocabulary in context
Synonyms
LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
Language LB page 6
Structures and Simple past tense
Conventions Independent reading - Reader
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 7
Reads an example of a personal recount
Discusses the writing process
Writing and Uses the example to plan a personal recount.
Presenting Independent reading - Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 8 and 9
for additional support.
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Spelling test
Words learnt during the two-week cycle
Language
Structures and Write and present
Conventions LB page 7
Continues the personal recount from Lesson 9, using all the stages of the writing
process
REVISION: Learner’s Book p8
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Baseline assessment
 It is suggested that you use the first two-weeks of the term to do a baseline assessment of learners
 Assess a few learners for speaking skills
 Use the rating scale to do a baseline assessment of writing skills.

Informal assessment
Lesson 5: Ask for volunteers to read out their sentences. Discuss all the ideas that the class has used. Then ask learners to swap their
work with the person sitting next to him/her, and check it for spelling and punctuation.

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 PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4
Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 2: Super Sports!
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 1 Weeks 3 & 4
Listening and Speaking Reading and Viewing Writing and Language Structures
(2 hours) (5 hours) Presenting and Conventions
(2 hours) (1 hour)
• Talks about a photograph • Reads a news report • Writes labels for a map • Spelling (the soft ‘c’sound)
that introduces the theme about South African • Writes about a news • Punctuation (comma and
• Listens to a news report mountaineers event based on own full stop)
about a famous South • Does a comprehension on experience • The present progressive
CAPS
African marathon the report tense
Content
• Listens to and follows • Reads a map of the top of  Adjectives that come
and Skills
street directions based Table Mountain and follows before nouns
on a map of Durban a walking route  Verbs that describe
• Does daily listening and • Does independent reading actions
speaking activities  Connecting words (‘but’,
‘because’, ‘so that’)
• Antonyms
• Abbreviations
LEARNING TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH
Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page RESOURCES
ACTIVITY
18 in the TG
Week 3  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
LB page 10 and Teacher's Guide
Talk about a photograph  Platinum English FAL
Listening and Listen to a news report Grade 4 Reader
Speaking
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) page 52 and 53  Use the exercises in the
for additional support. DBOE Workbooks for
LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes additional support
LB pages 13 and 14
Reads a news report about South African mountaineers  Rough paper
Reading and
Viewing
Work with words and sentences
LB page 14
Uses connecting words (‘but’, ‘because’, ‘so that’)
LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes
LB pages 13 and 14
Reads the news report again
Does a comprehension based on the news report
Record words and meanings
Reading and
Viewing
LB page 14
Adds words and meanings to the personal
dictionary
Includes sentences that show the meanings of the words
Independent reading– Reader
LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 16
Language Focus Present progressive tense
Independent reading
LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 17
Writing and Reads an annotated model of a report
Presenting Uses the report to start planning own report about a news event
Independent reading – Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 54 and 55
for additional support.

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Week 4 Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
LB pages 11 and 12
Listens to street directions and follow them on a
Listening and
map of Durban
Speaking
Gives own directions based on the map
Independent reading - Reader
LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 12
Labels places on the map of Durban
Writing and Independent reading – Reader
Presenting
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) page 56 to 59 for
additional support.
LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 14
Reads and identifies places on a map of walking
Reading and routes on Table Mountain
Viewing Follows routes on the map

Vocabulary in context
Antonyms
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 16
Language focus Adjectives before nouns
Independent reading - Reader
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Spelling test using the words from the Word lists in this theme

Write and present

Writing and
LB page 17
Presenting
Writes about a news event
Continues the writing process

REVISION: Learner’s Book p18

The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Formal Assessment

Lesson 6:
Term 1 Formal Assessment Task 1: Reads aloud a prepared text
Term 1 Formal Assessment Task 1: Reflects on a text read independently

Informal Assessment
Lesson 1: Circulate around the class while learners are retelling the story in pairs. Observe learners who struggle to use English to do
the activity. If possible, organise to do the listening activity again with individuals who are struggling. This could be done
during independent reading sessions.
Lesson 1 ,2, 3 and 9: Peer: Let the learners swap books and mark each other’s work. Allow time for them to check the answers for
Questions 4 and 5 with you if they think they need to. They can indicate by a show of hands how many of the answers
were correct.
Lesson 4, 7 and 8: Self: Allow learners to take turns to answer the questions and let them mark their own work. They can indicate by
a show of hands how many of their answers were correct.
Lesson 10: Take the learners’ news reports in. Use the checklist below to check that learners have included the following points:
Checklist: The paragraph tells you:
• when the event happened
• where it happened
• who was there
• what happened.

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 PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4
Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 3: River Adventures
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 1 Weeks 5 & 6
Listening and Reading and Viewing Writing and Language Structures
Speaking (5 hours) Presenting and Conventions
(2 hours) (2 hours) (1 hour)
• Listens to and discusses • Reads and discusses a • Writes sentences about Spelling
a story about a story about a river what people look like • Breaks long words into
swimming adventure adventure (Term 1 Formal smaller chunks
(Term 1 Formal • Does a comprehension Assessment Task 1: • Words starting with a ‘k’
Assessment Task 1: on the story (Term 1 Writes a paragraph sound and followed by
Listens to and speaks Formal Assessment description of people ‘e’ or ‘i’
about a story) Task 1: Reads and does using a frame) • Shortening words
CAPS • Describes characters a comprehension of a • Writes a summary of a • Uses abbreviations
Content from the story story) story and adds own Work with words and
and • Does daily listening and • Practices reading aloud ending to the story sentences
Skills speaking activities • Does independent • Records words and ← Regular forms of the
reading meanings in a personal verb (Term 1 Formal
dictionary Assessment Task 1:
Language structures
and conventions in
context)
← Adverbs of frequency
← Prepositions
← Connecting words
Vocabulary in context
• Compound words
TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH
LEARNING Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from
RESOURCES
ACTIVITY page 34 in the TG

Week 5  Platinum English FAL

Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
and Teacher's Guide
Listening and Talks about a photograph (LB p20)  Platinum English FAL
Speaking Listens to and discusses a story about a swimming adventure (LB p20) Grade 4 Reader

LESSON 2:  Use the exercises in the

Duration: 60 minutes
Reads a story about a river adventure (LB p22) DBOE Workbooks for
Practises reading the story aloud additional support.
Reading and
Viewing Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 112
and 113 for additional support.
LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes
Reading and Does a comprehension on the story about a river adventure (LB p23)
Viewing Independent reading - Reader

LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes

Language focus
Compound words (LB p25)
Language
Work with words and sentences
Structures and
Conjunctions (LB p24, activity 2)
Conventions Regular verbs (LB p24, activity 3)
Independent reading– Reader
LESSON 5:
Duration: 60 minutes
Writing and Write and present
Presenting Writes a description of people using a frame (based on a listening text) (LB
p21/27)

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 114
and 115 for additional support.

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Week 6
Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
Listens to the story about a swimming adventure again (LB p20-)

Work with words and sentences

Listening and
Adverbs of frequency (LB p21)
Speaking Independent reading - Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) page 116 for
additional support.
LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes
Reads the story about the river adventure again
Practises reading the story aloud (LB p22)
Reading and
Spelling
Viewing
Words starting with a ‘k’ sound and followed by ‘e’ or ‘i’ (LB p24)
Work with words and sentences
Prepositions connecting words (LB p24, activity 1)
LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
Language Breaks long words into smaller chunks (LB p26, activity 1)
Structures and Uses abbreviations (LB p26 activities 2 to 4)
Conventions Independent reading - Reader

LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes

Writes a description of characters and a summary of the swimming adventure
story (LB p27)
Writing and
Presenting Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 117 to
119 for additional support.
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Spelling Test
Uses the words from the Word lists in this theme
Language
Structures and Write and present
Conventions Writes own ending to the swimming adventure story (LB p27, Activity 2)
Adds words and meanings to personal dictionary
Independent reading
REVISION: Learner’s Book p28
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Formal assessment
Lesson 1: Listen to and speaks about a story
Lesson 3: Does a comprehension on the story
Lesson 5: Writes a paragraph description of people using a frame
Lesson 4: Assess regular verbs

Informal assessment
Lesson 7: Self: Mark the activities together as a class. Each learner marks his or her own activities.
Lesson 8 and 9: Peer: Learners can swap books and mark each other’s work. Work through the activities together as a class. Ask for
volunteers to give answers.
Lesson 10: Class: Ask learners to volunteer to read out their story endings. Discuss the different endings.

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 PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4
Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 4: Good Food
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 1 Weeks 7 & 8
Listening and Reading and Viewing Writing and Language Structures
Speaking (5 hours) Presenting and Conventions
(2 hours) (2 hours) (1 hour)
• Daily listening and • Reads and discuss a • Writes a list with Spelling
speaking activities recipe headings • Spells familiar words
• Listens to a recipe and • Answers questions about • Writes a recipe using a correctly, using a personal
carries out instructions the recipe (Term 1 frame (Term 1 Assessment dictionary
(Term 1 Assessment Task Assessment Task 2: Task 2: Writes simple • Uses a dictionary to check
2: Listens to andgive Reading comprehension of instructions using a frame) the spelling of words
instructions) a procedural text) • Record words and • Words starting with the
CAPS • Gives instructions on how • Practices reading meanings in own personal hard ‘c’ sound: ‘ca-’,
Content to make a fruit salad dictionary ‘co-’,‘cu-’
• Add ‘-s’ to form most
and
plurals
Skills
Work with words
andsentences
• Modal verbs
(‘must’,‘should’, ‘have to’)
•Command forms of the
verb (‘has not’, ‘should not’)
• Present perfect tense
(‘have cooked’)
Vocabulary in context
• Words taken from shared
or individually read texts
LEARNING TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH
Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page RESOURCES
ACTIVITY
48 in the TG
Week 7  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
LB page 30 and Teacher's Guide
Talks about a photograph  Platinum English FAL
Listening and Grade 4 Reader
Listens to a recipe for a healthy drink
Speaking
Independent reading– Reader
 Use the exercises in the
DBOE Workbooks for
LESSON 2: additional support.
Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 30
Listens to the recipe again
Gives the instructions for the recipe
Listening and Spelling and punctuation
Speaking LB page 31
The hard ‘c’ sound (‘cut’, ‘cot’)
Plurals with ‘-s’

LESSON 3:
Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 32
Reads a recipe for soup
Work with words and sentences
LB page 33
Reading and Command form of the verb
Viewing Negative forms of the verb

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 98

and 99 for additional support.

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LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 34
Modal verbs: ‘must’, ‘should’, ‘have to’
Language focus
Independent reading – Reader

LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes

Writing and LB page 36
Presenting Writes a list with headings
Independent reading – Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 100
and 101 for additional support.
Week 8
Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
LB page 31
Gives instructions on how to make a fruit salad
Listening and Work with words and sentences
Speaking LB page 31
Present perfect tense (‘has cooked’)
Negative forms of the verb (‘has not cooked’)
LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes
LB pages 33 and 34
Reads the recipe to make soup again and answers questions about it
Reading and
Independent reading - Reader
Viewing
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) page 102 for
additional support.
LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 34
Revises modal verbs: ‘must’, ‘should’, ‘have to’
Language focus
Uses positive and negative forms of ‘should’
Independent reading – Reader
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 35
Preparation for a writing activity: recipe for a cake
Writing and Independent reading – Reader
Presenting
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 103 to
105 for additional support.
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Write and present
Page 35
Spelling test
Writes a recipe for a cake, using a frame
Records words and meanings in personal dictionary
REVISION: Learner’s Book p36
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Formal assessment
Lesson 2: Term 1 Task 1: Listen to and give instructions
Lesson 7: Term 1 Task 1: Do a reading comprehension of a procedural text
Lesson 10: Term 1 Task 2: Write simple instructions using a frame
Informal assessment
Lesson 1 and 6: Circulate around the class while learners are discussing the pictures in their pairs. Observe learners who are
struggling to use English to describe the steps.
Lesson 2 , 4 , 6 , 8 and 9: Self: Work through the answers for the activities as a class. Learners can mark their own work.
Lesson 3: Peer: Work through the activity orally as a class. Ask learners to swap books and mark each other’s work.
Lesson 5: Peer: Learners can swap books and mark each other’s lists. Write the following memorandum on the board for them to use.
Tell them to check the spelling of words in their personal or class dictionaries.

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 PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4
Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 5: Where I live
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 1 Weeks 9 & 10
Listening and Reading and Viewing Writing and Language Structures
Speaking (5 hours) Presenting and Conventions
(2 hours) (2 hours) (1 hour)
• Talks about a photograph • Reads and discusses the • Writes a simple poem Spelling and punctuation
• Plays a memory game that poem ‘I love my house’ with a frame, using rhyme • Question marks and
practices vocabulary • Identifies rhyme and and rhythm punctuation marks
related to houses rhythm in the poem • Practices writing words Work with words and
• Listens to a poem using • Solves a word puzzle that begin with the same sentences
rhyme, rhythm and words using words that rhyme letter • Personal pronouns
CAPS that start with the same • Does independent reading • Records wordsand • The verb ‘to be’
Content letter meanings in apersonal • Present progressive
and • Discusses the poem dictionary • Adjectives before nouns
Skills • Performs the poem in (Term 1 Formal
pairs Assessment Task
• Does daily speaking and 2:Language structures and
listening practice conventions – the present
progressive, and adjectives
before nouns)
Vocabulary in context
• Words belonging to the
same lexical field (house:
‘door’, ‘window’ etc.)
LEARNING TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH
Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page RESOURCES
ACTIVITY
62 in the TG
Week 9  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
LB page 38 and Teacher's Guide
Discusses a photograph using vocabulary and ideas related to homes  Platinum English FAL
Listening and Grade 4 Reader
Extends vocabulary related to homes (identifieswords that belong to the same
Speaking
lexical field)
Plays a memory game using vocabulary related to houses
LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes  Use the exercises in the
DBOE Workbooks for
LB page 39
additional support.
Listening and Listens to a poem with rhyme, rhythm and words that start with the same sound
Speaking Discusses Before you listen activities
Independent reading– Reader
LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 40
Reads a poem
Reading and Discusses the poem and identifies rhyme and rhythm
viewing
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 114
and 115 for additional support.
LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 42
Personal pronouns
Language Focus
Independent reading– Reader
LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 43
Writes a simple poem using a frame, with rhyme and rhythm
Writing and
Presenting
Independent reading– Reader

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Week 10
Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
LB page 39
Listening and Listens to the poem ‘Mouse in my house’ again
Speaking Discusses After you listen activities

LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes

LB page 41
Reads and solves a word puzzle using rhyming words
Work with words and sentences
Reading and LB page 41
viewing Practises using the present continuous tense and adjectives

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 116
and 117 for additional support.
LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 40
Practises reading in pairs, using the poem ‘I love my house’
Reading and Independent reading – Reader
viewing
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 118
and 119 for additional support.
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 42
Language Focus The verb ‘to be’
Independent reading– Reader
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Spelling test
New words from the theme
Write and present
LB page 43
Writing and Practises writing words that begin with the same sound
Presenting Spelling and punctuation
Question mark, exclamation mark
Records words and meanings in personal dictionaries

Independent reading– Reader

REVISION: Learner’s Book p44
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Formal Assessment
Lesson 7: Term 1 Task 1: Listen to and speak about a story

Informal assessment
Lesson 1: Circulate around the class while learners are playing the game. Participate with groups who are struggling to follow the
instructions, or remember the list of words, until you feel they are sure about what to do.
Lesson 2: While you read the poem, observe learners who have difficulty sitting still and concentrating. Monitor them during future
listening activities. Assess whether they are experiencing problems, such as attention deficit. The remedial help described below
might be helpful.
Lesson 3: Circulate while learners are working in their pairs. Assist where you see they are struggling to express themselves in
English, or to understand an activity.
Lesson 4: Peer: Work through the activity with the class. Encourage learners to give answers. Ask learners to swap books and mark
each other’s work.
Lesson 5: Take the poems in. Check that learners have been able to complete the poems successfully.
Lesson 6: Circulate and observe how learners work together in their pairs. Assist where necessary.
Lesson 7: Word puzzle on the board. Work through the words in Activity 2 with the class. Ask for volunteers to come up and circle
the rhyming words.
Lesson 8: Circulate while learners are reading in their pairs. Observe who is struggling to read thepoem. Work with pairs who need
more support.
Lesson 9: Self: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to mark their own work.

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 TERM 2: PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4
Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 6: Rolling into Action
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 2 Weeks 11 & 12
Listening and Reading and Viewing Writing and Language Structures
Speaking (5 hours) Presenting and Conventions
(2 hours) (2 hours) (1 hour)
• Does daily listening and • Reads and discusses a story, • Writes a message (a thank- Spelling and punctuation
speaking practice ‘A clever idea’ you letter) • Uses a dictionary to find
• Listens to a story, ‘The • Does a comprehension on • Writes a personal recount and record words
prize’ the story • Records words and • Plurals with ‘-s’ and ‘-es’
CAPS • Speaks about the story • Practices reading aloud meanings in own personal Work with words and
Content (Term 2 Formal Assessment • Does independent reading dictionary sentences
and Task 1: Listen to and speak • Parts of a sentences
Skills about a story) • Proper nouns
• Gives a personal recount • Adjectives relating to age
about an enjoyable and temperature
experience • irregular verbs
Vocabulary in context
• Words taken from shared or
individually read texts

LEARNING TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH

Note: 55–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page RESOURCES
ACTIVITY 76 in the TG
Week 11  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
LB page 46 and Teacher's Guide
Listens to a story, ‘The prize’  Platinum English FAL
Listening and Independent reading - Reader Grade 4 Reader
Speaking
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 60 and 61
for additional support.  Use the exercises in the
LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes DBOE Workbooks for
additional support.
Listening and LB page 46
Speaking Listens to the story, ‘The prize’ again
Discusses the story
LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 48
Reads a story, ‘A clever idea’
Reading and
Does Before you read activities
Viewing
Work with words and sentences
LB page 50
Adjectives related to age and temperature
LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 51
Language Focus
Parts of a sentence
Independent reading– Reader
LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes
Writing and LB page 53
Presenting Writes a message (a thank-you letter)
Independent reading– Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 62 and 63
for additional support.

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Week 12
Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
LB page 47
Gives a personal recount
Independent reading – Reader
Listening and
Speaking
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) page 64 for
additional support.

LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes

LB page 48
Reading and
Reads the story, ‘A clever idea’, again
Viewing
Does After you read comprehension
LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 48
Practices reading the story, ‘A clever idea’, aloud in pairs
Reading and
Work with words and sentences
Viewing
Proper nouns
Irregular verbs
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 51
Language Focus Plural nouns with ‘-s’ and ‘-es’
Independent reading
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Spelling test
Write and present
LB page 53
Writes a personal recount
Writing and
Records words and meanings in own personal diary
Presenting Independent reading– Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 65 to 68

for additional support.
REVISION: Learner’s Book p54
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Formal assessment
Lesson 2: Listen to and speak about a story

Informal assessment
Lesson 1: Observe who participates willingly in the class discussion, and who does not. Include learners who are not participating by
directing questions at them.
Lesson 3 and 9: Self: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to mark their own work.
Lesson 4 and 8: Peer: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to swap books and mark each other’s work.
Lesson 5: Take the learners’ letters in. Make sure they have understood how to write a letter. Ask learners who are struggling to rewrite their
letters, making all the necessary corrections.
Lesson 6: Circulate while learners are giving their recounts. Work with pairs who are struggling to express themselves in English.
Lesson 7: Take the mind maps in, even if the learners have not finished. Check who has struggled to fill in the mind map correctly? Ask
those learners to redo the mind map. They should be able to do it now that you have worked through it as a class.
Lesson 10: Take in the recounts together with the learners’ rough work. Use the checklist to assess them. Ask learners who have struggled to
do the recounts to redo them. Point out what they need to do to improve.

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 PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4
Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme7: Sunny or Cloudy?
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 2 Weeks 13 & 14
Listening and Reading and Viewing Writing and Language Structures
Speaking (5 hours) Presenting and Conventions
(2 hours) (2 hours) (1 hour)
• Listens to and talks about • Reads and answers • Spelling test Spelling and punctuation
a weather report of questions about a weather • Writes a summary of a • Plurals: ‘-es’ with words
weather in South Africa map of South Africa weather report (Term 2 ending in ‘-s’, ‘-sh’, ‘-ch’, ‘-z’
• Listens to directions of a Term 2 Formal Assessment Formal Assessment Task 1: (Term 2 Formal
weather map Task 1: Summarise an information Assessment Task 1:
• Listens to a description of • Reading comprehension text) Language structures and
CAPS a thermometer of an information text • Designs a poster conventions in context –
Content • Does daily listening and • Reads a poster • Records words and plurals with ‘-s’ or ‘-es’)
speaking activities advertising a Spring Day meanings in own personal • Vowels with long sounds
and
event dictionary Work with words and
Skills
• Does independent reading sentences
• ‘a’ and ‘the’ with nouns
• No article with
uncountable nouns
• Simple present tense
• Connecting words
• Future tense
Vocabulary in context
• Synonyms
• Collocations
TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH
LEARNING
Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page RESOURCES
ACTIVITY 91 in the TG
Week 13  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
LB page 56 and Teacher's Guide
Listens to and discusses a weather report based on a map of South Africa  Platinum English FAL
Listening and Grade 4 Reader
Speaking
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 2 and
3 for additional support. A map of South Africa
LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes
Thermometer (optional)
LB page 57
Listening and Listens to directions relating to directions (north,south, east, west) on a map
Speaking Uses the directions to locate places on the map Colour pencils and kokis
Independent reading - Reader and pictures from
magazines
LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 58
Reads and discusses a weather map using a key A4 sheets of white paper
Reading and for the neat posters
Work with words and sentences
Viewing
LB page 59
Simple present tense; Connecting words (‘and’, ‘then’, ‘but’) Use the exercises in the
DBOE Workbooks for
LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes
additional support.
LB page 62
Language Focus Future tense (‘will’/‘am’, ‘is’, ‘are going to’)
Independent reading - Reader
LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes
Writing and LB page 64
Presenting Writes a summary of a weather report
Independent reading – Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 4 and
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Week 14
Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
LB page 57
Listens to a description of an object, identifies theobject and describes it
Listening and Independent reading - Reader
Speaking
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 6 and
7 for additional support.
LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 60
Reads and discusses a poster, analysing the basic features
Spelling and punctuation
LB page 61
Reading and
Plurals with ‘-s’ and ‘-es’
Viewing
Vowels with the long ‘e’ sound

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) page 8 for
additional support.
LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 62
Uses ‘a’, ‘an’ and ‘the’ with nouns (countable and uncountable)
Vocabulary in context
Language Focus LB page 61
Synonyms
Collocations
Independent reading - Reader
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 63
Writing and
Designs a poster: Plans and does first draft
Presenting
Independent reading - Reader
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Spelling test
LB page 63
Designs a poster: Checks first draft, makes changes, does final neat poster
Writing and
Records words and meanings in personal dictionary
Presenting
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) page 9 for
additional support.
REVISION: Learner’s Book p64
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Formal assessment
Lesson 3: Term 2 Formal Assessment Task 1: Reading comprehension of an information text (map)
Lesson 5: Term 2 Formal Assessment Task 1: Summarises an information text.
Lesson 7: Term 2 Task 1: Language – plurals with ‘-s’ or ‘-es’ and regular verbs

Informal assessment
Lesson 1: Circulate while learners are discussing the weather. Observe if learners have been able to make adequate notes. Assist
those learners who are struggling to use the new vocabulary.
Lesson 3 and 8: Self: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to mark their own work.
Lesson 4: Peer: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to swap books and mark each other’s work.
Lesson 6 and 7: Circulate among the class while learners are working in their pairs. Observe who is having difficulty doing the
activity. Assist where necessary.
Lesson 9: Peer: Write the following checklist on the board. Ask learners to work in pairs and use the checklist to assess their posters
on display. Each learner assesses his or her partner’s poster.Try to organise individual sessions with learners who have
not been able to include the necessary details. Show them where they need to improve. Encourage them to redo the
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 PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4
Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 8: Animal Stories and Poems
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 2 Weeks 15 & 16
Listening and Reading and Viewing Writing and Language Structures
Speaking (5 hours) Presenting and Conventions
(2 hours) (2 hours) (1 hour)
• Talks about a photograph • Reads and does a • Spelling test Spelling and punctuation
that introduces vocabulary comprehension on a • Writes pairs of sentences • Soft ‘c’ followed by ‘-e’, ‘-
that will be used in the theme traditional story about how that rhyme i’ or ‘-y’
• Listens to and discusses a porcupine got quills • Writes an animal story • Letter ‘k’ followed by ‘-e’
CAPS traditional story of how zebra • Discusses stereotypes • Records words and or ‘-i’
Content got stripes • Reads and discusses a poem meanings in own personal Work with words and
and • Listens to and discusses a about two lizards dictionary sentences
Skills poem about tortoises (Term 2 • Independent reading (Term • Countable nouns
Formal Assessment Task 2: 2 Formal Assessment Task 2: • Adjectives before nouns
Oral – Listening and Oral – Reading aloud) • Forms of the verb ‘to be’
speaking) • Adverbs of degree
• Does daily listening and Vocabulary in context
speaking activities • Phrasal verbs words taken
from shared or individually
read texts
LEARNING TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH
Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page RESOURCES
ACTIVITY 106 in the TG
Week15  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
LB page 66 and Teacher's Guide
Listening and Talks about a photograph  Platinum English FAL
Speaking Listens to and discusses a story about how zebra got her stripes Grade 4 Reader
Independent reading - Reader
LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 66
Listens to the story about how zebra got her stripes
Use the exercises in the
Does After you listen activities DBOE Workbooks for
Listening and Work with words and sentences additional support.
Speaking LB page 67
Adjectives before nouns
Independent reading– Reader

LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes

LB page 69
Reads a story about how porcupine got quills
Discusses stereotypes
Does comprehension
Spelling and punctuation
Page 70
Reading and Soft ‘c’ followed by ‘-e’, ‘-i’ or ‘-y’
Viewing Letter ‘k’ followed by ‘-e’ or ‘-i’
Work with words and sentences
LB page 70
Countable nouns
Forms of the verb ‘to be’
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 26 and 27 for
additional support.
LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 72
Phrasal verbs
Write and present
LB page 73
Language Focus
Writes an animal story: plans and writes first draft
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) page 28 for
additional support.

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LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes
Writing and LB page 73
Presenting Completes the animal story from Lesson 4 using the writing process
Independent reading – Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) page 29 for
additional support.
Week 16
Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
LB page 68
Listening and
Listens to and discusses a poem about two tortoises
Speaking Independent reading - Reader
LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 68
Listens to the poem again
Does the After you listen activity
Listening and
Performs the poem in groups
Speaking
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) page 30 for
additional support.
LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 71
Reading and Reads a poem about two lazy lizards
Viewing Discusses rhyme, rhythm and words that start with the same sound
Practises reading aloud: takes turns to read the poem in pairs
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 72
Language and
Adverbs of degree
Focus Independent reading - Reader
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Spelling test
LB page 73
Writes pairs of sentences that rhyme
Writing and Records words and meanings in personal dictionary
Presenting Independent reading – Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 31 to 33 for
additional support.
REVISION: Learner’s Book p74
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework

ASSESSMENT TASK
Formal assessment
Lesson 7: Term 2 Formal Assessment Task 2: Listening and speaking
All lessons: Term 2 Formal Assessment Task 2: Oral – Reading aloud a prepared text

Informal assessment
Lesson 1: Observe who participates willingly in the class discussion, and who does not. Include learners who are not participating by
directing questions at them.
Lesson 2: Observe learners while they work in their pairs. Assist where necessary.
Lesson 2, 3 and 9: Self: Work through the activity with the class. Ask learners to mark their own work.
Lesson 3 and 8: Circulate among the learners while they are working in their pairs. Work with pairs who are struggling to express
themselves in English.
Lesson 4: Peer: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to swap books and mark each other’s work.
Lesson 5: Assess the stories.
Lesson 8: Circulate among the learners while are reading the poem. Observe who is having difficulty pronouncing the words
correctly. Assist where necessary.
Lesson 10: Take in the books to check if learners have been able to use rhyme and rhythm to complete the lines correctly.

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 PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4
Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 9: Animals that harm
Duration: 2 weeks Term 2 Weeks 17 & 18
(10 hours)
Listening and Reading and Viewing Writing and Language Structures
Speaking (5 hours) Presenting and Conventions
(2 hours) (2 hours) (1 hour)
• Listens to an information • Reads an information text • Spelling test Spelling and punctuation
text and uses a mind map to about malaria • Labels and completes a • Words with long vowel
classify animals into groups • Does a comprehension on mind map that classifies sounds
• Listens to and carries out the information text animals • Spells familiar words
instructions on how to treat • Reads instructions on how • Writes instructions on how correctly
an upset stomach to treat itchy bites to treat a scorpion bite • Uses a dictionary to check
CAPS • Gives instructions on how • Does independent reading • Records words and spellings and meanings of
Content to treat an upset stomach meanings in own personal words
and • Does daily listening and dictionary • Builds on knowledge of
speaking activities sight words
Skills
Work with words and
sentences
• Command form of the verb
(‘must’)
• Modals ‘can’ and ‘may’
• Adverbs of place
Vocabulary in context
• Antonyms
• Words taken from shared or
individually read texts
TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH
LEARNING
Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page 122 RESOURCES
ACTIVITY in the TG
Week 17  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
LB page 76 and Teacher's Guide
Talks about a photo  Platinum English FAL
Listens to an information text about animal groups Grade 4 Reader
Listening and
Independent reading - Reader
Speaking If possible, bring the
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 120 and 121 equipment and ingredients
for additional support. for the stomach remedy to
LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes class to make the remedy.
LB page 78
Reads an information text about malaria If possible, bring the
Reading and Spelling and punctuation equipment and ingredients
Viewing Words with long vowel sounds for the itchy bite remedy
Works with words and sentences
to class to make the
Uses the modal ‘must’
remedy.
LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 78 Use the exercises in the
Reading and
Does a comprehension on the information text about malaria DBOE Workbooks for
Viewing Independent reading - Reader
additional support.
LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 82
Language Focus Adverbs of place: ‘here’ and ‘there’
Independent reading - Reader
LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes
Writing and LB page 82
Presenting Labels and completes a mind map that classifies animals

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 122 and 123
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Week 18
Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
Listening and LB page 77
Speaking Listens to and carries out instructions on how totreat an upset stomach
Independent reading - Reader
LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes
Listening and LB page 77
Speaking Gives instructions on how to treat an upset stomach
Independent reading - Reader
LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 80
Reads instructions on how to treat itchy bites
Vocabulary in context
Reading and
Antonyms
Viewing
Work with words and sentences
Command form of the verb
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) page 124 for
additional support.
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 82
Modal verbs ‘can’ and ‘may’
Language Focus Write and present
LB page 83
Starts the writing process for instructions on howto treat a scorpion bite
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Spelling test
LB page 83
Writes instructions on how to treat a scorpion bite
Writing and Records words and meaning in personaldictionary
Presenting Independent reading - Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 125 to 127 for
additional support.
REVISION: Learner’s Book p84
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Formal assessment
Mid year examinations are done during week 19 & 20

Informal assessment
Lesson 1: You will be assessing the mind maps in Lesson 5.
Lesson 2 and 3 : Self: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to mark their own work. Observe who participates and who
does not in the class discussions. Encourage quiet learners to participate by directing questions to them.
Lesson 4, 8 and 9: Peer: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to swap books and mark each other’s work.
Lesson 5: Take the mind maps in and check that learners have filled them correctly. Ask learners who have made a lot of mistakes to redo
them. Show them where they need to improve.
Lesson 6 and 8: Observe who is participating in the class discussion, and who is not. Encourage learners to participate by directing questions
to them.
Lesson 7: Circulate among the learners while they are working in their pairs to give the instructions. Observe who is having difficulty doing
the activity. Assist where necessary.
Lesson 10: Peer: Write the checklist on the board. Learners must copy this checklist in their exercise books under the instructions. Ask
learners to swap books. Work through the steps in the checklist with the class. Explain that learners must circle the correct word. When you
get to where the learners need to fill in the missing words, ask learners to volunteer to give the words. Explain how they must add up the
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Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 10: A brand new town
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 3 Weeks 21 & 22
Listening and Speaking Reading and Viewing Writing and Presenting Language Structures and
(2 hours) (5 hours) (2 hours) Conventions
(1 hour)
• Listens to and discusses a • Reads a story about the • Spelling test Spelling and punctuation
story about a girl who is same girl in the listening text, • Writes a dialogue based on • Builds word families
moving from a farm to a new and how she copes with her characters from the story • Punctuation
town and school first day at the new school • Writes a description of • Breaks words into smaller
• Describes the differences • Practises reading the story some of these characters chunks
CAPS between a farm and a town aloud (Term 3 Formal • Records words and • Adds ‘-s’ or ‘-es’
Content • Does daily listening and assessment task 1: Reads meanings in own personal Work with words
and speaking activities aloud a prepared text) dictionary andsentences
Skills • Reads a book review about • Direct speech with
a family that has to move to quotation marks
another town • Pronouns
• Does independent reading • Regular verb forms
(Term 3 Formal assessment • Parts of a sentence
task 1: Reflect on text read Vocabulary in context
independently – oral book • Words taken from shared or
review) individually read texts

LEARNING TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH

Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page RESOURCES
ACTIVITY 136 in the TG
Week 21  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
LB page 88 and Teacher's Guide
Listens to and discusses a story about a girl whois moving from a farm to a new town  Platinum English FAL
Listening and Grade 4 Reader
and school
Speaking Independent reading– Reader
Choose a storybook from
your class readers with an
LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes attractive cover that you can
LB page 90 use to point out features
Reads a story about the same girl in the listeningtext, and how she copes with her first such as title, author etc.
day at thenew school
Spelling and punctuation Use the exercises in the
LB page 91 DBOE Workbooks for
Reading and Plurals with ‘-s’ and ‘-es’ additional support.
Viewing Work with words and sentences
Regular forms of the verb
Independent reading - Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) page 128 for
additional support.
LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 90
Reads a story about the same girl in the listeningtext, and how she copes with her first
Reading and day at thenew school
Viewing Practise reading
Reads the story in Read and view

LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes

Language LB page 94
Structures and Direct speech
Conventions Write and present
LB page 95
Starts the writing process for a dialogue based on characters from the story in Read and
view

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LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes
Writing and LB page 95
Presenting Writes a dialogue based on characters from the story in Read and view
Independent reading- Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 129 to 131 for
additional support.
Week 22
Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
LB page 89
Describes the differences between a farm and a town
Listening and Spelling and punctuation
Speaking LB page 89
Breaks words into smaller parts
Independent reading- Reader
LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes

LB page 92
Reading and
Reads a book review about a family that has to move to another town
Viewing
LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 92
Reads the book review again and discussesquestions
Prepares an oral book review
Reading and
Work with words and sentences
Viewing LB page 93
Pronouns
Parts of a sentence
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 94
Language Focus Builds word families based on how words lookand sound
Independent reading- Reader
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Spelling test
LB page 95
Writes a description of some of the characters from the story in Read and view
Writing and Record words and meaning in personal dictionary
Presenting Independent reading- Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) page 133 to 135 for
additional support.
REVISION: Learner’s Book p96
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Formal assessment
Lesson 5: Term 3 Formal Assessment Task 1: Read aloud a prepared text.
Lesson 8:Rubric for Term 3 Formal Assessment Task 1: Reflect on a text read independently

Informal assessment
Lesson 1, 7 and 8 : Observe who participates willingly in the class discussion, and who does not. Include learners who are not
participating bydirecting questions at them.
Lesson 2, 4 and 8: Self: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to mark their own work.
Lesson 3: Circulate among the groups while learners are doing their role-plays. Work with groups who are struggling to do this.
Lesson 5: Take in the learners’ dialogues. Check who has understood the rules of direct speech.
Lesson 6 and 9: Peer: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to swap books and mark each other’s work.
Lesson 10: Peer: Work through Activity 1 with the class. Ask learners to swap books and mark each other’s work.

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Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 11: Taking care
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 3 Weeks 23 & 24
Listening and Speaking Reading and Viewing Writing and Presenting Language Structures and
(2 hours) (5 hours) (2 hours) Conventions
(1 hour)
• Listens to and discusses a • Reads and discusses a • Spelling test Spelling and punctuation
report about a patient at a poster • Designs a poster • Soft ‘g’ with ‘-e’, ‘-i’, ‘-y’
clinic • Reads an information text • Writes a summary of a Work with words and
• Takes part in a conversation and does a comprehension report (Term 3 Formal sentences
CAPS about healthy food (Term 3 Formal Assessment Assessment Task 1: Write a • Words that only have a
Content • Does daily listening and Task 1: Reading summary of an information plural
and speaking activities comprehension of an text with support) • Subject/verb concord
Skills information text) • Records words and • Using adjectives to compare
• Does independent reading meanings in own personal • Nouns with ‘a’ and ‘the’
dictionary Vocabulary in context
• Shortening words:
acronyms and initialism
(Term 3 Formal Assessment
Task 1: Language structures
and conventions in context)
LEARNING TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH
Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page RESOURCES
ACTIVITY 151 in the TG
Week 23  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
LB page 98 and Teacher's Guide
Talks about a photograph  Platinum English FAL
Listens to and discusses a report about a patient at a clinic Grade 4 Reader
Listening and
Independent reading - Reader
Speaking white paper, colour kokis
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 104 and 105 and pencils, magazines
for additional support. from which to cut pictures
LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes of food, scissors and glue
LB page 100
Reads and discusses a poster Use the exercises in the
Reading and
Work with words and sentences DBOE Workbooks for
Viewing LB page 101 additional support.
Using adjectives to compare
LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 102
Language Focus Words that only have a plural form
Independent reading- Reader
LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 103
Writing and
Starts the writing process to design a poster
Presenting Independent reading- Reader
LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes
Writing and LB page 103
Presenting Completes the poster
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 106 and 107
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Week 24
Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
LB page 99
Takes part in a conversation about healthy food
Spelling and punctuation
Listening and Nouns with ‘a’ and ‘the’
Speaking Soft ‘g’ with ‘-e’, ‘-i’, ‘-y’
Works with words and sentences
Vocabulary in context
Shortening words: acronyms and initialism
LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 101
Reads an information text and does a comprehension
Reading and Independent reading- Reader
Viewing
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) page 110 for
additional support.
LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 102
Language Focus Subject/verb concord with words that only have a plural form
Independent reading- Reader
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 104
Writes a summary of a report
Writing and Independent reading- Reader
Presenting
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) page 111 for
additional support.
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Spelling test
Writing and
Class assessment of posters done in Week 1
Presenting Record words and meanings in personal dictionary
REVISION: Learner’s Book p104
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Formal assessment
Lesson 1: Term 3 Formal Assessment Task 1: Reflect on a text read independently (oral book review)
Lesson 6:Term 3 Task 1: Language structures and conventions in context– short forms of words
Lesson 7: Term 3 Task 1: Reading comprehension of an information text
Lesson 9: Term 3 Formal Assessment Task 1: Write a summary of an information text using a frame.

Informal assessment
Lesson 1: Circulate among the learners while they are working in their groups. Observe who is having difficulty expressing
themselves. Assist where necessary.
Lesson 2: Circulate among the learners while they are discussing the pictures in the poster. Work with pairs who are struggling to
express themselves in English.
Lesson 2: Self: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to mark their own work.
Lesson 3: Peer: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to swap books and mark each other’s work.
Lesson 4: Circulate among the learners while are planning their posters. Assist where necessary.
Lesson 5: Peer: Organise learners into pairs. Ask them to copy the checklist below, and to use the checklists to assess each other’s
posters. They could do this from their desks if the posters have been done on big sheets of paper. If not, they might have to
move closer, in which case you will need to move desks to make room.
Lesson 6: Circulate among the learners while are working in their groups. Observe who is having difficulty expressing themselves.
Assist where necessary.
Lesson 6: Self: Go through the Work with words and Spelling and punctuation activities with the class. Ask learners to mark their
own work.
Lesson 8: Self: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to volunteer to read out their sentences
Lesson 10: Peer: Continue the peer assessment of the posters that you started in Lesson 5.

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Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 12: Sun stories
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 3 Weeks 25 & 26
Listening and Speaking Reading and Viewing Writing and Presenting Language Structures and
(2 hours) (5 hours) (2 hours) Conventions
(1 hour)
• Does daily listening and • Reads and discusses a • Spelling test Spelling and punctuation
speaking activities Greek myth about the sun • Writes a story based on the • Words starting with ‘ce-’,
• Listens to and discusses a • Reads and discusses a poem listening text about the sun ‘ci-’, ‘cy-’, ‘ke-’, ‘ki-’
traditional story about the sun about the sun and the moon and the moon Work with words and
and the wind in Africa • Writes sentences that rhyme sentences
• Performs the poem in • Does independent reading • Records words and • Simple past tense: irregular
CAPS groups (Term 3 Formal meanings in own personal verbs
Content Assessment Task 1: Perform dictionary • Adjectives before nouns
and a poem) • Verb ‘to be’
Skills • Listens to and discusses a • Adverbs of degree (Term 3
poem about the wind Formal Assessment Task 2:
Language structures and
convention in context –
adverbs of degree only)
Vocabulary in context
• Phrasal verbs (Term 3
Formal Assessment Task 2:
Language structures and
conventions in context)
LEARNING TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH
Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page RESOURCES
ACTIVITY 165 in the TG
Week 25  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
LB page 106 and Teacher's Guide
Listening and Listens to and discusses a traditional story about the sun and the wind  Platinum English FAL
Speaking Work with words and sentences Grade 4 Reader
Adjectives before nouns
LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes A map of the world
LB page 108
Reads and discusses a Greek myth about the sun Use the exercises in the
Spelling and punctuation DBOE Workbooks for
Words starting with ‘ce-’, ‘ci-’, ‘cy-’, ‘ke-’, ‘ki-’ additional support.
Reading and
Vocabulary in context
Viewing Phrasal verbs
Adverbs of degree

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 34 and 35
for additional support.
LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes
Reading and LB page 108
Viewing Reads and does a comprehension on the Greek myth about the sun
Independent reading - Reader
LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 112
Language Focus Simple past tense: irregular verbs
Independent reading- Reader
LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes
Writing and LB page 113
Presenting Writes a story based on the listening text about the sun and the moon
Independent reading- Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 36 and 37
for additional support.

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Week 26 Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
LB page 107
Listening and
Listens to a poem about the wind
Speaking Independent reading- Reader
LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 107
Listens to and discusses a poem about the wind
Reading and
Performs the poem in groups
Viewing
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) page 38 for
additional support.
LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 110
Reading and
Reads and discusses a poem about the sun and the moon in Africa
Viewing
Work with words and sentences
Verb ‘to be’
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 112
Language Focus Simple past tense: irregular verbs
Independent reading- Reader
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes

Spelling test
LB page 114
Writes sentences that rhyme
Writing and Records words and meaning in personal dictionary
Presenting Independent reading- Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) page 39 for
additional support.
REVISION: Learner’s Book p114
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Formal assessment
Lesson 2: Term 3 Formal Assessment Task 2: Language structures and conventions in context.
Lesson 7: Term 3 Formal Assessment Task 1: Performs a poem.

Informal assessment
Lesson 1: Circulate among the learners while they are working in their pairs. Observe who is struggling to use English to express
themselves. Assist where necessary.
Lesson 1, 3, 8 and 9: Self: Work through the activity with the class. Ask learners to mark their own work.
Lesson 4: Peer: Work through the activity with the class. Ask learners to swap books and mark each other’s work.
Lesson 5: Take the learners’ stories in and assess them.
Lesson 10: Self: Ask learners to read out some of the poems. Write the different versions on the board. Discuss the rhyming words.
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 PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4
Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 13: The powerful sun
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 3 Weeks 27 & 28
Listening and Speaking Reading and Viewing Writing and Presenting Language Structures and
(2 hours) (5 hours) (2 hours) Conventions
(1 hour)
• Does daily listening and • Reads a chart that shows • Spelling test Spelling and punctuation
speaking activities sunrise times with visuals • Draws and labels a chart • Words with long vowel
• Listens to and discusses an • Reads and does a that shows sunset times sounds
CAPS information text about solar comprehension on a • Writes a paragraph based Work with words and
Content power procedural text that describes on information in the chart sentences
and • Listens to and discusses a an experiment with solar • Records words and • Verb ‘to be’
Skills description of places to visit power (Term 3 Formal meanings in own personal • Prepositions that show
and enjoy in hot weather Assessment Task 2: Reading dictionary direction
(Term 3 Formal Assessment comprehension of a • Connecting words
Task 2: Listen to and procedural text) • Modal verbs
describe places) • Does independent reading Vocabulary in context
• Words taken from shared
and individually read texts
LEARNING TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH
Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page RESOURCES
ACTIVITY 180 in the TG
Week 27  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
LB page 116 and Teacher's Guide
Listens to and discusses an information text about solar power  Platinum English FAL
Listening and Independent reading – Reader Grade 4 Reader
Speaking
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 10 and 11 Ruler
for additional support.
LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes Use the exercises in the
LB page 116 DBOE Workbooks for
Listening and additional support.
Listens to and discusses an information text about solar power
Speaking Independent reading– Reader
LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 118
Reading and Reads a chart that shows sunrise times with visuals.
Viewing Work with words and sentences
Prepositions that show direction
Modal verbs
LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 122
Language Focus Verb ‘to be’
Independent reading– Reader
LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes
Writing and LB page 123
Presenting Labels a chart giving sunrise times
Independent reading– Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 12 and 13
for additional support.

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Week 28
Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
LB page 117
Listening and
Listens to and discusses a description of places to visit and enjoy in hot weather
Speaking
LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 120
Reading and
Reads and does a comprehension on a procedural text that describes an experiment
Viewing
with solar power

LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes

LB page 120
Reads the procedural text again
Reading and
Independent reading– Reader
Viewing
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) page 14 for
additional support.
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 122
Language Focus
Verb ‘to be’
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Spelling test
LB Page 113
Writes paragraph giving information from the chart
Writing and Independent reading– Reader
Presenting
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 15 to 17
for additional support.
REVISION: Learner’s Book p124
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Formal assessment
Lesson 6: Term 3 Formal Assessment Task 2: Listen to and describe places. Over the next two weeks, during independent reading sessions,
work with individuals.
Lesson 7: Term 3 Formal Assessment Task 2: Reading comprehension of a procedural text.

Informal assessment
Lesson 3: Self: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to mark their own work.
Lesson 4, 8 and 9: Peer: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to swap books and mark each other’s work.
Lesson 5: Take the books in and check that learners have filled in the charts correctly.
Lesson 10: Peer: Work through correct words in the paragraph with the class. Ask learners to swap books and mark each other’s
work.

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 PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4
Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 14: Friends
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 3 Weeks 29 & 30
Listening and Speaking Reading and Viewing Writing and Presenting Language Structures and
(2 hours) (5 hours) (2 hours) Conventions
(1 hour)
• Does daily listening and • Does independent reading • Spelling test Spelling and punctuation
speaking activities • Reads and discusses a • Records words and • Punctuates correctly:
• Listens to and discusses a play about friends who meanings in own personal colons, question marks,
play about a friend who have a fight dictionary exclamation marks,
says hurtful things • Writes a book review commas, full stops
CAPS • Role-plays a difficult (Term 3 Formal Work with words and
Content situation with a friend Assessment Task 2: Writes sentences
a book review with a • Adverbs
and
frame) • Tenses: simple present,
Skills
• Writes a dialogue present continuous and
future (Term 4 Formal
Assessment Task 1:
Language structures and
conventions in context)
• Reported speech
Vocabulary in context
• Words taken from shared
or individually read texts
LEARNING TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH
Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from RESOURCES
ACTIVITY
page 194 in the TG
Week 29  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
LB page 126 and Teacher's Guide
Listening and  Platinum English FAL
Listens to and discusses a play about a friend who says hurtful things
Speaking Grade 4 Reader
Independent reading - Reader
LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes
Use the exercises in the
Reading and LB page 126
DBOE Workbooks for
Viewing Listens to the play again and does After you read activities
Independent reading- Reader
additional support.
LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 128
Reads and discusses a play about friends whohave a fight
Spelling and punctuation
Punctuates correctly: colons, question marks, exclamation marks, commas, full
Reading and
stops
Viewing
Work with words and sentences
Reported speech

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) page 46 for
additional support.
LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 131
Language Focus Adverbs of time
Independent reading- Reader
LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes
Writing and LB page 132
Presenting Writes a book review
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) page 47 for
additional support.

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Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
LB page 127
Role-plays a difficult situation with a friend
Listening and Work with words and sentences
Speaking Tenses: simple present, present continuous and future
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) page 48 for
additional support.
LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes
Reading and
LB page 128
Viewing
Reads the play about friends who have a fight and does a comprehension

LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes

Reading and LB page 128
Viewing Practises reading the play aloud
Independent reading
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 131
Language Focus Adverbs
Independent reading
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Spelling test
LB page 133
Writes a dialogue
Writing and Records words and meaning in personal dictionary
Presenting Independent reading

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) page 49 for
additional support.
REVISION: Learner’s Book p134
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Formal assessment
Lesson 5: Term 3 Formal Assessment Task 2: Write a book review with a frame.
Lesson 6: Language structures and conventions in context

Informal assessment
Lesson 2: Circulate among the learners while they are working in their pairs. Work with pairs who are struggling to express
themselves in English.
Lesson 3: Observe who is participating in the class discussion, and who is not. Encourage learners to participate by directing
questions to them.
Lesson 3, 4 and9: Self: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to mark their own work.
Lesson 6: Circulate while learners are doing their role-plays. Work with pairs who are struggling to express themselves in English.
Lesson 7: Circulate while learners are working in their groups. Assist where necessary
Lesson 10: Take in the learners’ dialogues. Check that they have used the correct structure.

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 TERM 4: PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4
Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 15: Being Brave
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 4 Weeks 31 & 32
Listening and Speaking Reading and Viewing Writing and Presenting Language Structures and
(2 hours) (5 hours) (2 hours) Conventions
(1 hour)
• Does daily listening and • Reads and does a • Spelling test Spelling and punctuation
speaking activities comprehension on a • Writes a story about the • ‘k’ sound and hard ‘c
CAPS • Has a group conversation traditional Japanese story character from the Japanese Work with words and
Content about a brave person • Does independent reading story, using a picture and a sentences
and • Plays a dictionary game flow chart to develop their • Prepositions (‘on’, ‘under’,
ideas ‘above’)
Skills
• Records words and • Use ‘will’ to show that
meanings in own personal something is going to happen
dictionary • Nouns with no article
• Subject/verb concord
Vocabulary in context
• Homonyms
LEARNING TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH
Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page RESOURCES
ACTIVITY 207 in the TG
Week 31  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1
LB page 136 and Teacher's Guide
Talks about a photo  Platinum English FAL
Has a group conversation about a brave person Grade 4 Reader
Listening and Plays a dictionary game
Speaking Independent reading – Reader Dictionary
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) page 18 for
additional support. personal dictionaries
LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes
Reading and LB page 138 Use the exercises in the
Viewing Reads and discusses a traditional Japanese story DBOE Workbooks for
LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes additional support.
LB page 140
Language Focus Prepositions (‘on’, ‘under’, ‘above’)
Independent reading– Reader
LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 141
Starts planning a story about the character from the Japanese story, using a picture and
Writing and a flowchart to develop ideas
Presenting Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 19 and 20
for additional support.
LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes
Writing and LB page 141
Presenting Continues the story writing process from the previous lesson
Independent reading– Reader

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Week 32
Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
LB page 137
Plays a dictionary game
Listening and
Work with words and sentences
Speaking Nouns with no article
Subject/verb concord
LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes
Reading and LB page 138
Viewing Reads the traditional Japanese story in pairs
Retells the story
Spelling and punctuation
‘k’ sound and hard ‘c’
Vocabulary in context
Homonyms
LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 138
Reads and does a comprehension on thetraditional Japanese story
Work with words and sentences
Reading and Verb ‘to be’
Viewing
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) page 22 for
additional support.
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 141
Language Focus Uses ‘will’ to show that something is going to happen
Independent reading– Reader
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Spelling test
LB page 141
Completes the story about the character from the Japanese story
Writing and Records words and meaning in personal dictionary
Presenting Independent reading– Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 23 to 25

for additional support.
REVISION: Learner’s Book p142
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Informal assessment
Lesson 1: Circulate among the learners while they are having their discussions. Observe who is participating, and who is not. Assist
where necessary.
Lesson 3, 7 and 9: Self: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to mark their own work.
Lesson 4 and 5: Observe learners while they start their first drafts. Assist where you can see they are struggling.
Lesson 6: Circulate among the learners while are playing the game. Work with pairs who are struggling.
Lesson 6: Peer: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to swap books and mark each other’s work.
Lesson 7: Circulate among the learners while they are working in their pairs. Observe who is having difficulty doing the re-telling
activity. Assist where necessary.
Lesson 10: Assess the stories.

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 PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4
Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 16: Make the World a Better Place
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 4 Weeks 33 & 34
Listening and Speaking Reading and Viewing Writing and Presenting Language Structures and
(2 hours) (5 hours) (2 hours) Conventions
(1 hour)
• Does daily listening and • Reads a poster about • Spelling test Spelling and punctuation
speaking activities making school a happy place • Writes an e-mail message • Spells familiar words
• Listens to and discusses an • Reads an e-mail message offering to help the correctly using a dictionary
interview about how learners from children to a hospital, community Work with words and
CAPS made a happy face (Term 4 offering help • Writes a paragraph about sentences
Content Formal Assessment Task 1: • Reads and does a helping someone • Personal pronouns
and Listen to an interview) comprehension on an • Draws and labels a chart (‘I’/‘me’, ‘he’/‘him’,
• Listen to a telephone information text about Martin • Produces and designs a ‘they’/‘them’ etc.)
Skills
message to a friend. Luther King, a famous civil poster about bullying (Term • Connecting words to show
• Make up own telephone rights leader (Term 4 Formal 4 Formal Assessment Task 1: addition (‘and’), sequence
messages. Assessment Task 1: Reading Produce a poster) (‘then’, ‘before’), contrast
comprehension of an • Records words and (‘but’), cause and effect (‘so
information text) meanings in own personal that’)
• Does independent reading dictionary Vocabulary in context
• Joining prefixes and
suffixes to a base word
LEARNING TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH
Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page RESOURCES
ACTIVITY 219 in the TG
Week 33  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
and Teacher's Guide
Listening and LB page 144  Platinum English FAL
Speaking Listens to and discusses an interview about how learners made a happy face Grade 4 Reader
Independent reading– Reader
LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes Scrap paper,clean white
paper, colour pencils or
kokis, magazines from
LB page 146
which to cut pictures,
Reading and Reads a poster about making school a happy place
scissors, glue
Viewing
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 70 and 71
Use the exercises in the
for additional support.
DBOE Workbooks for
LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes additional support.
Language focus
Language LB page 150
Focus/ Personal pronouns
Reading and Read and view
Viewing/ LB page 148
Writing and Reads an e-mail message from children to a hospital, offering help
Presenting Write and present
LB page 151
Writes an e-mail message offering to help the community
LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 151
Writing and
Writes a paragraph about helping someone
Presenting Independent reading- Reader
LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes
Writing and LB page 151
Presenting Starts designing a poster about bullying
Independent reading- Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 72 and 73
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Week 34
Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
LB page 145
Listens to a telephone message to a friend
Work with words andsentences
Listening and Connecting words to showaddition (‘and’), sequence(‘then’, ‘before’), contrast
Speaking (‘but’),cause and effect (‘so that’)
Listen and speak
LB page 145
Makes up own telephone messages
LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 148
Reads and does a comprehension on an information text about Martin Luther King, a
famous civil rights leader
Reading and Vocabulary in context
Viewing Joining prefixes and suffixes to a base word

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 74 and 75
for additional support.
LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 150
Language Focus Personal pronouns
Independent reading- Reader
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 152
Draws and labels a chart
Writing and Independent reading– Reader
Presenting
Use exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) pages 76 and 77 for
additional support.
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Spelling test
LB page 151
Writing and
Produces a poster about bullying
Presenting Records words and meaning in personal dictionary
Independent reading- Reader
REVISION: Learner’s Book p152
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Formal assessment
Lesson 1: Term 4 Formal Assessment Task 1: Listen to and speak about an interview.
Lesson 7: Term 4 Formal Assessment Task 1: Reading comprehension of an information text.
Lesson 10: Term 4 Formal Assessment Task 1: Produce a poster.

Informal assessment
Lesson 2: Circulate among the learners while they are working in their pairs. Observe who is having difficulty doing the activity.
Assist where necessary.
Lesson 3, 6 and 8: Self: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to mark their own work.
Lesson 3: Observe who is participating in the class discussion, and who is not. Encourage learners to participate by directing
questions to them.
Lesson 4: Class: Ask for volunteers to read out their paragraphs.
Lesson 5: Circulate among the learners while they are working on their posters, but do not assist, as this is a formal assessment
activity. Learners need to work on their own.
Lesson 6: Circulate among the learners while they are working in their pairs. Observe who is having difficulty doing the activity.
Assist where necessary.
Lesson 7: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to swap books and mark each other’s work.
Lesson 9: Check that the charts and the summary have been correctly filled in. Work with learners who struggled to do this. Explain
where they can improve. Ask them to redo the activity if necessary.

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 PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4
Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 17: A Busy Community
Duration: 2 weeks (10 hours) Term 4 Weeks 35 & 36
Listening and Reading and Viewing Writing and Language Structures
Speaking (5 hours) Presenting and Conventions
(2 hours) (2 hours) (1 hour)
• Listens to a story about an • Reads a story that tells more • Spelling test Spelling and punctuation
accident in a busy town about the accident in the busy • Writes a story with dialogue • Punctuation: comma, colon,
• Plays a game of ‘I spy’ town • Records words and semi-colon, inverted
• Does daily listening and • Reads a diary entry meanings in own personal commas, question mark,
speaking activities • Does independent reading dictionary exclamation mark, full stop
CAPS (Term 4 Formal Assessment Work with words and
Content Task 1: Read aloud an sentences
and unprepared text and reflect • Connecting words
Skills on a text read • Uses the apostrophe to
independently) show possession
• Direct speech
• Uses quotation marks
• Uses commas to separate
nouns in a list
Vocabulary in context
• Words taken from shared or
individually read texts
LEARNING TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH
Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page RESOURCES
ACTIVITY 237 in the TG
Week 35  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
LB page 154 and Teacher's Guide
Listens to a story about an accident in a busy town  Platinum English FAL
Listening and Independent reading- Reader Grade 4 Reader
Speaking Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1(Terms 1 and 2) page 72 for
additional support.
Use the exercises in the
LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes
DBOE Workbooks for
LB page 156
Reads a story that tells more about the accident in the busy town
additional support.
Reading and
Spelling and punctuation
Viewing Punctuation: comma, colon, inverted commas, question mark, exclamation mark, full
stop
LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 156
Reads the story again and does a comprehension
Work with words and sentences
Reading and
Direct speech
Viewing Using quotation marks
Using commas to separate nouns in a list

LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes

LB page 160
Connecting words
Language Focus
Independent reading- Reader

LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes

Writing and LB page 161
Presenting Plans and writes a first draft of a story with dialogue
Independent reading- Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) page 73 for
additional support.

Week 36
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LESSON 6: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 155
Listening and Plays a game of ‘I spy’
Speaking Independent reading- Reader

LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes

Reading and LB page 158
Viewing Reads a diary entry
LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 160
Apostrophes to show possession
Independent reading- Reader
Language Focus
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 74 and 75
for additional support.
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 161
Write a story with dialogue
Writing and Independent reading- Reader
Presenting
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 76 and 77
for additional support.
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Spelling test
LB page 161
Write a story with dialogue
Writing and Records words and meaning in personal dictionary
Presenting Independent reading- Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 1 (Terms 1 and 2) pages 78 and 79
for additional support.
REVISION: Learner’s Book p162
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Formal Assessment
Lesson 1: Term 4 Formal Assessment Task 1: Read aloud an unprepared text and reflect on a text read independently.

Informal assessment
Lesson 1, 3 and 7: Circulate among the learners while they are working in their pairs. Observe who is having difficulty doing the
activity. Assist where necessary.
Lesson 2: Observe who is participating in the class discussion, and who is not. Encourage learners to participate by directing
questions to them.
Lesson 2, 4 and 8: Self: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to mark their own work.
Lesson 3: Peer: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to swap books and mark each other’s work.
Lesson 10: Assess the stories. Work with learners who have struggled to do the activity. Show them where they can improve. Ask
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 PLATINUM LESSON PLANS – GRADE 4
Subject: English First Additional Language Grade: 4
Theme 18: Protecting Our Planet
Duration: 2 (10 hours) Term 4 Weeks 37 & 38
Listening and Speaking Reading and Viewing Writing and Presenting Language Structures and
(2 hours) (5 hours) (2 hours) Conventions
(1hour)
• Listens to and discusses a • Reads and does a • Spelling test Spelling and punctuation
short talk on recycling comprehension on a text • Writes a paragraph giving • Spells familiar words
• Takes part in a conversation about climate change information about litter correctly using a personal
about how to recycle • Reads a poster about litter • Designs a poster about dictionary, and finds words in
containers at home • Does independent reading pollution a dictionary
CAPS • Does daily listening and • Records words and Work with words and
Content speaking activities meanings in own personal sentences
and dictionary • Reported speech
Skills • Adverbs of place (‘here’,
‘there’)
• Adverbs of manner
(‘quickly’, ‘slowly’)
• Present progressive
Vocabulary in context
• Compound words
• Prefixes
• Suffixes
LEARNING TEACHING METHODS / APPROACH
Note: 5–10 minutes Daily listening and speaking: choose an activity from page RESOURCES
ACTIVITY 254 in the TG
Week 37  Platinum English FAL
Duration: 60 minutes Grade 4 Learner's Book
LESSON 1:
LB page 164 and Teacher's Guide
Listening and  Platinum English FAL
Listens to and discusses a short talk on recycling
Speaking Independent reading - Reader Grade 4 Reader
LESSON 2: Duration: 60 minutes
examples of food containers
LB page 166
Reads a text about climate change
Reading and Vocabulary in context scrap paper, white paper,
colour pencils and/or kokis,
Viewing Compound words
Prefixes pencil, rubber
Suffixes
Use the exercises in the
LESSON 3: Duration: 60 minutes DBOE Workbooks for
LB page 166 additional support.
Reads the text about climate change again
Read and view
Reading and Does a comprehension on the text about climate change
Viewing
Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) page 86 for
additional support.
LESSON 4: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 170
Language Focus Reported speech
Independent reading- Reader
LESSON 5: Duration: 60 minutes
Writing and LB page 171
Presenting Writes a paragraph giving information about litter
Independent reading- Reader

Use the exercises in the DBOE Workbook 2 (Terms 3 and 4) page 87 for
additional support.

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Duration: 60 minutes
LESSON 6:
LB page 165
Takes part in a conversation about how to recycle
Listening and
containers at home
Speaking Independent reading- Reader

LESSON 7: Duration: 60 minutes

LB page 168
Reads a poster about litter
Reading and Work with words and sentences
Viewing Adverbs of place (‘here’, ‘there’)
Adverbs of manner (‘quickly’, ‘slowly’)
Present progressive
LESSON 8: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 168
Reading and
Discusses the poster about litter
Viewing Independent reading- Reader
LESSON 9: Duration: 60 minutes
LB page 170
Reported speech
Language Focus Write and present
LB Page 171
Starts the process of designing a poster about pollution
LESSON 10: Duration: 60 minutes
Spelling test
LB page 171
Writing and
Completes the poster about pollution
Presenting Records words and meaning in personal dictionary
Independent reading- Reader
REVISION: Learner’s Book p172
The DBOE Workbook can be used for revision work and homework
ASSESSMENT TASK
Formal assessment
End of Year Examination week 39 & 40

Informal assessment
Lesson 1 and 2: Observe who is participating in the class discussion, and who is not. Encourage learners to participate by directing questions
to them.
Lesson 2, 6 and 8: Circulate among the learners while they are working in their pairs. Observe who is having difficulty doing the activity.
Assist where necessary, but not too much. It is important that learners do their own work.
Lesson 2 and 9: Peer: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to swap books and mark each other’s work.
Lesson 3,4 and 7: Self: Work through the activities with the class. Ask learners to mark their own work.
Lesson 5: Peer: Work through the paragraph with the class. Ask learners to swap books and mark each other’s work. They can give 2 marks
for each of the eight words used to complete the paragraph: 1 mark for using the correct word, 1 mark for spelling it correctly. They can add
up the marks out of 16. Find out who got full marks.
Lesson 10: Circulate while learners are working in their pairs. Observe who is having difficulty doing the activity. Assist where necessary.

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