ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE - learning disabilities

1 ANNUAL NATIONAL ASSESSMENT 2013 GRADE 9 ENGLISH home LANGUAGE EXEMPLAR QUESTIONS This booklet consists of 30 pages, excluding the cover page. Grade 9 ENGLISH HL Exemplar 1 GUIDELINES FOR THE USE OF ANA EXEMPLARS 1. How to use the exemplars While the exemplars for a grade and a subject have been compiled into one comprehensive set, the learner does not have to respond to the whole set in one sitting. The teacher should select exemplar questions that are relevant to the planned lesson at any given time. Carefully selected individual exemplar test questions, or a manageable group of questions, can be used at different stages of the teaching and learning process as follows: At the beginning of a lesson as a diagnostic test to identify learner strengths and weaknesses.

2 The diagnosis must lead to prompt feedback to learners and the development of appropriate lessons that address the identified weaknesses and consolidate the strengths. The diagnostic test could be given as homework to save instructional time in class. During the lesson as short formative tests to assess whether learners are developing the intended knowledge and skills as the lesson progresses and ensure that no learner is left behind. At the completion of a lesson or series of lessons as a summative test to assess if the learners have gained adequate understanding and can apply the knowledge and skills acquired in the completed lesson(s). Feedback to learners must be given promptly while the teacher decides on whether there are areas of the lesson(s) that need to be revisited to consolidate particular knowledge and skills.

3 At all stages to expose learners to different techniques of assessing or questioning, how to answer multiple-choice (MC) questions, open-ended (OE) or free-response (FR) questions, short-answer questions, etc. While diagnostic and formative tests may be shorter in terms of the number of questions included, the summative test will include relatively more questions, depending on the work that has been covered at a particular point in time. It is important to ensure that learners eventually get sufficient practice in responding to the exemplar. 2. Memoranda or marking guidelines A typical example of the expected responses (marking guidelines) has been given for each exemplar test question and for the ANA model test. Teachers must bear in mind that the marking guidelines can in no way be exhaustive.

4 They can only provide broad principles of expected responses and teachers must interrogate and reward acceptable options and variations of the acceptable response(s) given by learners. 3. Curriculum coverage It is extremely critical that the curriculum must be covered in full in every class. The exemplars for each grade and subject do not represent the entire curriculum. They merely sample important knowledge and skills and covers work relating to terms 1, 2 and 3 of the school year. Grade 9 ENGLISH HL Exemplar 2 SECTION A QUESTION 1 Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow. A TASTE FOR THE WILD Capetonian Paula McAravey whets her appetite for the bush and goes back to her roots on a visit to Nambiti Game Reserve and Rorke s Drift.

5 1 2 When walking to and fro from your rooms at night, please ask a ranger to accompany you. Because this is an unfenced camp, lion, elephant and buffalo often walk through the camp. These words of warning, together with the indemnity form we were asked to sign on arrival, were the first indications that I d left my comfort zone behind in the city. Still, I had exchanged it for a far more comfortable zone five-star luxury of a lodge in Nambiti Private Game Reserve in northern KwaZulu-Natal, with an outdoor bush shower, a suite with floor-to-ceiling panoramic views and meals to satisfy the most discerning appetite. Nambiti means to taste in Zulu and from the moment we arrived I found myself greedily lapping up the tastes, sights and sounds of the bushveld South Africa at its natural best.

6 HISTORY AND HERITAGE. But I wasn t here just for wild encounters. I was also visiting Nambiti to explore our country s heritage, as well as my own. Nambiti and the surrounding areas are steeped in history. Guided tours can also be arranged to nearby Islandlwana, the site of one of the worst defeats ever suffered by the British, and to Rorke s Drift, where 150 British soldiers successfully defended the garrison against 3 000 to 4 000 Zulus with the help of a barricade made from boxes of biscuits and bags of mealies! We visited the sites of the battles at Elandslaagte and Rorke s Drift; we climbed up koppies and stood in fields surrounded by rolling hills and grasslands, and listened as our guides brought 5 10 15 20 Grade 9 ENGLISH HL Exemplar 3 3 4 5 6 history to life.

7 THE BIG FIVE AND FIVE BIG RHINO Nambiti is an 11 000ha game conservancy co-owned and co-managed by the local Zulu community. It s about a three-hour drive from Durban and four hours from Jo burg. On one of our evening game drives, as we stood next to the vehicle sipping sundowners, we discovered that five rhino had silently approached and were watching us from about 120m away. After posing long enough for us to snap some photos as souvenirs of our special encounter, they ambled off into the long grass, passing just 40m in front of us. MAJESTIC ELEPHANTS AND COOL CATS One afternoon we were thrilled when two elephants dropped by our lodge for a drink at their own private watering hole the swimming pool! One then made his way to the front of the lodge, where our ranger and manager watched him with an eagle eye to ensure he didn t step on the wooden walkway, which would have snapped under his considerable weight!

8 Another highlight of my trip was a visit to the Le Sueur Cheetah project on the reserve, where cubs are prepared for reintroduction into the wild or into reserves. Here we met Sky and Storm, two playful young cheetahs, and Vega the leopard, who looked like a big old softie when playing with his blanket and ball until the predatory glint in his eye reminded us that this was no cuddly kitten! SCENIC ROUTES AND HISTORICAL ROOTS As well as being mesmerised by our country s wildlife, this trip re-emphasised for me the importance of knowing where you come from and celebrating your own heritage. It made me want to dig further into my family history and I now regret not having paid more attention during history lessons at school! I ve always thought of myself as a beach girl rather than a bush baby, but I discovered that the bush is truly balm for the soul a place of rest and to recharge tired batteries.

9 And now that I ve had a taste of it, I can t wait for the next course! 25 30 35 40 45 Grade 9 ENGLISH HL Exemplar 4 [For further information visit ] (Adapted from: Good Housekeeping, September 2012 ) 1. Circle the letter of the correct answer. If you were to use the article as a reference for a speech, on which day would you deliver the speech? The above article will be suitable to use as a reference for a speech on .. A B C D the Day of Reconciliation. Heritage Day. Women s Day. Freedom Day. (1) Explain why the writer wrote this article. _____ _____ (2) What is the purpose of this article? Discuss. _____ _____ (2) Grade 9 ENGLISH HL Exemplar 5 Circle the letter of the correct answer.

10 Which ONE of the following best supports the purpose of the article? A B C D South Africans must appreciate the history and heritage they have in their own country and their own lives. More tourists must visit South Africa and especially the bushveld. South Africans must visit the bushveld to see the Big Five. South Africans must appreciate the wild life in their country. (1) Circle the letter of the correct answer. Which ONE of the following best summarises the purpose of the article? A B C D To challenge and inspire To inform and educate To encourage and motivate To criticize and discourage (1) 2. Circle the letter of the correct answer. What does the main idea of paragraph 2 want to make the reader aware of? A B C D That the Zulus defeated the British in the Anglo-Zulu War.