English for Life Grade 5 Learner's Book for Home Language offers a range of texts with integrated activities through which learners will also improve their language use in other subjects. These texts will assist learners to understand language usage and apply communicative skills, to interpret and respond to a variety of visual materials, and to read and understand literature. Learners will listen, speak, read, write, present and practise using English functionally, fluently and creatively.
The Teacher’s Guide for English for Life Grade 5 has been compiled according to the requirements of the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement. The Teacher’s Guide supports the teacher’s task by providing: • relevant information from the CAPS document; • Teaching, Learning and Assessment Plans for the year; • guidance for lesson planning and classroom practice; • a formal assessment programme; • daily assessment with the activities; • answer keys for each activity; and • a user-friendly lay-out.
The English for Life Core Reader for Grade 5 contains examples of a novel, folklore, short stories, dramas, and various information and media texts, such as newspaper and magazine articles, poems, advertisements, brochures, posters, and notices. These are the texts suggested as teaching support material for Grade 5 by the Department of Basic Education. The English for Life Reader provides a volume of reading material that is easy to access, and which has been chosen specifically for the Grade 5 learner. The content is interesting, thought-provoking and exciting and offers examples of texts that can be found in everyday life. The Reader can be used on its own as a supplement to classroom material, or in conjunction with the English for Life Grade 5 Learner's Book for English as Home Language.
