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Paper 1 …the mechanics of the language

PAPER 1 English HL 2020
Question	2019	2020
	%	%
1	50.5	49.9
2	71.3	63.8
3	54.8	45.4
4	44.0	58.7
5	35.5	35.5
Overall	59.1%	58.7%

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Question 1 - comprehension

Learners who are poor readers, struggled with comprehension …

Must read aloud more. Strategies? Part of SSIP?

Must focus on the paragraph /lines required for answer.

This skill cannot happen only in Grade 12.

This NSC paper should be viewed by all Grades –

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Question 3 and 4

Q3 Many unsure of what was being advertised.

Must be the FIRST thought.

Besides persuasive techniques …

focus must also be given to teaching the

advertisement as you would a

comprehension text (headlines/ language).

PLAN: 10 - 15 minutes per week (from Grade 8 – 12) analyzing and discussing visual literacy examples – SAME advertisement and cartoon.

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Answering Question 3 / 4 – state the elementary

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The d….y Question 5

Why, after 12 years in school, do many still not know terms such as ‘a complete sentence, concord, tense, noun …’? (2020 paper)

… malapropism, am……. ?????

Terms often used and tested only at cognitive level 1 (literal) – e.g. name the part of speech / what is ‘irony’.

A better cognitive level question (inference) would be – ‘Use a strong adjective to indicate a dislike for the man’.

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The worst, poorest, foulest … most disturbing …

In my sample - 82% could not answer the

question to write a ‘complete sentence’.

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�Teach all terminology found in CAPs. �

Often these terms are not assimilated into the overall learning and regular language use.
Using terms has become something outside the area of inevitable, usual, accepted knowledge.
Only becomes familiar to the candidates if the terms are used as part of regular-talk

Use the jargon of the trade!

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Finally

Please continue to use previous papers.
Grade 8 and 9 teachers – the overall preparation to start as early as possible.
Start by teaching learners how to write a complete sentence.
To improve … by repetition.

Grade 12 teachers need to inform GET teachers.

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The basics for answering this paper needs ‘to be cemented’ by Grade 10.

They MUST read more – give short pieces to read and test to see if they have comprehended. (essay/poem/…)
Do the analysis of visual literacy – advertisements/cartoons – continuously across Grades.
Set the example by using meta-language in class and out of class.

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