Theme 1: Impilo

CAPS Theme: Impilo

(BT: 1 - 5): ALL LEVELS OF TAXONOMY + including Creativity


Lesson for GRADE 11: The learners were expected to divide in four groups who all got assigned to a different body part on which they will be constructing an 'unprepared oral' on that are also one of the CAPS requirements. I let the children each draw a lollipop (4 colors / 4 of each) that will then determine how their groups will be made up. This way the group division is fair and also fun. 

Learners each received an resource pack of phrases and words with translations, (a few pages of this resource pack will be attached) which described problems about different body parts. Learners had the chance to read and pronounce the words in their groups. 

After discussing the material they had 5 minutes to construct the unprepared oral.

This lesson had; collaborative learning (writing, speaking, listening, reading). They learned to work together as a group and also with different classmates than their friends. The learners had to use creativity and their own general knowledge about proper greeting and small grammar changes to construct a proper oral, preformed in class.

Critical Incident / Reflection Moment: When I as teacher experienced how my teaching of impilo in my degree studies was useful in preparing functional lessons. I was able to see how my lectures taught the work to us, and that is when the lecture hall and the classroom 'met'.





Lesson for GRADE 8 and 9:

Lesson Plan / Impilo

Learners each received a page of a body with different body parts and the isiXhosa names of these parts.

Learners read, listen and pronounced these names as I went through the lists with them.

They also listened to body part songs (see functional icebreakers for a link to these songs).

Activity: The learners paired into two big groups and they each had a chance to recall the names of the body parts and had to come up and write it in themselves. Points were awarded if they got the spelling correct as well as the name it self.

Later on I went to fill in all the correct words, and I let the class decorate the poster and write their names on it:




Here is a clean template if you wish to use the same activity:









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