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Grade 12 English: modules and lessons

Explore Grade 12 English: 17 modules and 280 lesson entries. Use the dorKk lesson guide to plan revision and catch-up study.

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Source: dorKk English lesson list dated 21 January 2026. Catalogue entries may differ from current app availability.

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LISTENING AND SPEAKING

  1. 1.1.INTRODUCTION TO 'PAPER 4'
  2. 1.2.LISTENING SKILLS
  3. 1.3.ATTEMPTING THE LISTENING COMPREHENSION PART 1
  4. 1.4.ATTEMPTING THE LISTENING COMPREHENSION PART 2
  5. 1.5.PREPARED SPEECH PART 1
  6. 1.6.PREPARED SPEECH PART 2
  7. 1.7.THE UNPREPARED SPEECH
  8. 1.8.INTRODUCING A SPEAKER
  9. 1.9.OFFERING A VOTE OF THANKS
  10. 1.10.DELIVERING THE REVIEW
  11. 1.11.THE SPOKEN REPORT
  12. 1.12.STORYTELLING
  13. 1.13.GIVING DIRECTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS
  14. 1.14.HAVING A FORUM OR INFORMAL DISCUSSION
  15. 1.15.HAVING A FORMAL PANEL DISCUSSION
  16. 1.16.CONDUCTING AN INTERVIEW
  17. 1.17.HAVING A DIALOGUE
  18. 1.18.HOLDING A MEETING
  19. 1.19.HAVING A DEBATE PART 1
  20. 1.20.HAVING A DEBATE PART 2

COMPREHENSION AND THE WRITTEN TEXT

  1. 2.1.INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
  2. 2.2.IDENTIFYING THE CONTEXT OF A TEXT
  3. 2.3.IDENTIFYING THE PURPOSE AND AUDIENCE OF A TEXT
  4. 2.4.IDENTIFYING THE REGISTER OF A TEXT
  5. 2.5.IDENTIFYING THE STYLE OF A TEXT
  6. 2.6.IDENTIFYING THE ATTITUDE AND INTENTION OF THE WRITER
  7. 2.7.IDENTIFYING THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE WRITER
  8. 2.8.DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN WRITER AND NARRATOR
  9. 2.9.DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN THEMES AND MESSAGES
  10. 2.10.DESCRIBING THE WRITERS TONE AND THE MOOD OF A TEXT
  11. 2.11.USING WORD ATTACK SKILLS TO WORK OUT THE MEANING OF A WORD
  12. 2.12.MAKING TEXT TO SELF CONNECTIONS
  13. 2.13.MAKING TEXT TO TEXT CONNECTIONS
  14. 2.14.MAKING TEXT TO WORLD CONNECTIONS
  15. 2.15.ATTENDING TO THE WRITER'S CHOICE OF WORDS
  16. 2.16.ATTENDING TO A WRITER'S CHOICE OF WORDS AND LANGUAGE STRUCTURES
  17. 2.17.ATTENDING TO THE WRITER'S CHOICE TO AVOID OR INCLUDE CERTAIN LANGUAGE STRUCTURES
  18. 2.18.ANALYSING A WRITER'S CHOICE OF TENSE
  19. 2.19.ANALYSING HOW IMAGERY AFFECTS THE MEANING OF A TEXT
  20. 2.20.DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION
  21. 2.21.IDENTIFYING IMPLIED MEANING
  22. 2.22.IDENTIFYING IMPLIED MEANING IN A POEM
  23. 2.23.MAKING INFERENCES AND DRAWING CONCLUSIONS
  24. 2.24.IDENTIFYING STEREOTYPES AND PREJUDICE
  25. 2.25.IDENTIFYING AND CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS
  26. 2.26.RECOGNISING ALLUSIONS
  27. 2.27.RECOGNISING ALLUSIONS IN POETRY
  28. 2.28.RECOGNISING ALLUSIONS IN NOVELS AND DRAMA
  29. 2.29.COMPARING AND CONTRASTING TEXTS
  30. 2.30.SYNTHESISING INFORMATION
  31. 2.31.EVALUATING TEXTS
  32. 2.32.EXPRESSING YOUR OWN OPINION
  33. 2.33.IDENTIFYING FACT AND OPINION
  34. 2.34.IDENTIFYING THE CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF A WRITER
  35. 2.35.IDENTIFYING THE SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF A WRITER
  36. 2.36.IDENTIFYING THE POLITICAL LEANINGS OF A WRITER
  37. 2.37.ANALYSING THE PURPOSE AND EFFECT OF SELECTIONS AND OMISSIONS
  38. 2.38.ANALYSING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND POWER
  39. 2.39.IDENTIFYING EMOTIVE LANGUAGE
  40. 2.40.IDENTIFYING PERSUASIVE AND MANIPULATIVE LANGUAGE
  41. 2.41.ANALYSING BIAS AND DISCRIMINATION
  42. 2.42.EVALUATING LANGUAGE AND DIVERSITY
  43. 2.43.RECOGNISING AND INTERPRETING INSTRUCTION WORDS
  44. 2.44.RECOGNISING TYPES OF COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
  45. 2.45.TIPS ON ANSWERING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
  46. 2.46.AN APPROACH TO ATTEMPTING THE COMPREHENSION TEST
  47. 2.47.EXAMPLE OF THE COMPREHENSION TEST

SUMMARISING IN YOUR OWN WORDS

  1. 3.1.SUMMARY WRITING PART 1
  2. 3.2.SUMMARY WRITING PART 2

VISUAL LITERACY

  1. 4.1.ADVERTISING LESSON 1 OF 4
  2. 4.2.ADVERTISING LESSON 2 OF 4
  3. 4.3.ADVERTISING LESSON 3 OF 4
  4. 4.4.ADVERTISING LESSON 4 OF 4
  5. 4.5.CARTOONS AND COMIC STRIPS LESSON 1 OF 3
  6. 4.6.CARTOONS AND COMIC STRIPS LESSON 2 OF 3
  7. 4.7.CARTOONS AND COMIC STRIPS LESSON 3 OF 3
  8. 4.8.ANALYSING PHOTOGRAPHS PART 1
  9. 4.9.ANALYSING PHOTOGRAPHS PART 2

TEXTUAL EDITING

  1. 5.1.MALAPROPISMS
  2. 5.2.SPOONERISMS
  3. 5.3.TAUTOLOGY AND REDUNDANCY
  4. 5.4.AMBIGUITY
  5. 5.5.MIXED METAPHORS
  6. 5.6.THE MISRELATED PARTICIPLE, THE SPLIT INFINITIVE AND THE COMMA SPLICE

FIGURES OF SPEECH AND OTHER DEVICES

  1. 6.1.SIMILE AND METAPHOR
  2. 6.2.PERSONIFICATION AND ANTHROPOMORPHISM
  3. 6.3.SYMBOL
  4. 6.4.JUXTAPOSITION, PARADOX, OXYMORON, ANTITHESIS
  5. 6.5.UNDERSTATEMENT, LITOTES, EUPHEMISM, HYPERBOLE
  6. 6.6.PUN AND WIT
  7. 6.7.SYNECDOCHE AND METONYMY
  8. 6.8.ANTI CLIMAX AND BATHOS
  9. 6.9.IRONY AND SARCASM PART 1
  10. 6.10.IRONY AND SARCASM PART 2
  11. 6.11.RHYTHM, RHYME, REPITITION AND REFRAIN
  12. 6.12.ALLITERATION, ASSONANCE, CONSONANCE AND ONOMATOPOEIA
  13. 6.13.THE APOSTROPHE

STUDYING POETRY

  1. 7.1.THE ELIZABETHAN AND PETRARCHAN SONNET FORMS
  2. 7.2.VARIATIONS OF THE SONNET FORM
  3. 7.3.FREE VERSE
  4. 7.4.THE VILLANELLE
  5. 7.5.THE ELEGY
  6. 7.6.THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
  7. 7.7.THE ODE
  8. 7.8.THE BALLAD
  9. 7.9.AN APPROACH TO ANALYSING A POEM
  10. 7.10.ANALYSING AN UNSEEN POEM
  11. 7.11.THE POETRY ESSAY

STUDYING THE NOVEL

  1. 8.1.ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL PART 1
  2. 8.2.ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL PART 2
  3. 8.3.ANIMAL FARM PART 1
  4. 8.4.ANIMAL FARM PART 2
  5. 8.5.ANIMAL FARM PART 3
  6. 8.6.ANIMAL FARM PART 4
  7. 8.7.ANIMAL FARM PART 5
  8. 8.8.ANIMAL FARM PART 6
  9. 8.9.ANIMAL FARM PART 7
  10. 8.10.ANIMAL FARM PART 8
  11. 8.11.ANIMAL FARM PART 9
  12. 8.12.ANIMAL FARM PART 10

STUDYING THE DRAMA

  1. 9.1.ASPECTS OF THE DRAMA PART 1
  2. 9.2.ASPECTS OF THE DRAMA PART 2
  3. 9.3.MACBETH PART 1, PRE READING AND PREPARATION
  4. 9.4.MACBETH PART 2, UNDERSTANDING THE STRUCTURE
  5. 9.5.MACBETH PART 3, THE TRAGIC HERO
  6. 9.6.MACBETH PART 4, ORDER VS DISORDER
  7. 9.7.MACBETH PART 5, MORALITY
  8. 9.8.MACBETH PART 6, CHOOSING EVIL
  9. 9.9.MACBETH PART 7, THE CHARACTER OF MACBETH
  10. 9.10.MACBETH PART 8, CHARACTER OF LADY MACBETH PART 1
  11. 9.11.MACBETH PART 9, CHARACTER OF LADY MACBETH PART 2
  12. 9.12.MACBETH PART 10, ANSWERING CONTEXTUAL QUESTIONS
  13. 9.13.MACBETH PART 11, THEMES, MOTIFS, SYMBOLS AND CHARACTERS
  14. 9.14.MACBETH PART 12, SOME MOTIVES EXPLAINED

WRITING THE LITERARY ESSAY

  1. 10.1.THE LITERARY ESSAY PART 1
  2. 10.2.THE LITERARY ESSAY PART 2

THE EXAMINATION PAPER

  1. 11.1.ATTEMPTING PAPER 2 PART 1
  2. 11.2.ATTEMPTING PAPER 2 PART 2

PROCESS WRITING THE ESSAY

  1. 12.1.INTRODUCTION
  2. 12.2.UNDERSTANDING PROCESS WRITING
  3. 12.3.WRITING THE DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY
  4. 12.4.WRITING THE NARRATIVE ESSAY
  5. 12.5.WRITING THE REFLECTIVE AND IMAGINATIVE ESSAYS
  6. 12.6.WRITING THE ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY
  7. 12.7.WRITING THE DISCURSIVE ESSAY
  8. 12.8.PAYING ATTENTION TO CONTENT
  9. 12.9.PAYING ATTENTION TO STYLE AND STRUCTURE

PROCESS WRITING TRANSACTIONAL TEXTS

  1. 13.1.INTRODUCTION
  2. 13.2.WRITING A FORMAL LETTER OF APPLICATION
  3. 13.3.WRITING A COVER LETTER AND CV
  4. 13.4.WRITING A FORMAL LETTER OF REQUEST
  5. 13.5.WRITING A FRIENDLY LETTER OF REQUEST
  6. 13.6.WRITING A FORMAL LETTER OF SYMPATHY
  7. 13.7.WRITING A FRIENDLY LETTER OF SYMPATHY
  8. 13.8.WRITING A FORMAL LETTER OF COMPLAINT
  9. 13.9.WRITING A FRIENDLY LETTER OF COMPLAINT
  10. 13.10.WRITING A FORMAL LETTER OF ORDERING THINGS
  11. 13.11.WRITING A FORMAL MARKETING LETTER
  12. 13.12.WRITING A FORMAL LETTER OF THANKS
  13. 13.13.WRITING A FRIENDLY LETTER OF THANKS
  14. 13.14.WRITING A FORMAL LETTER OF CONGRATULATIONS
  15. 13.15.WRITING A FRIENDLY LETTER OF CONGRATULATIONS
  16. 13.16.WRITING A FORMAL LETTER TO THE PRESS
  17. 13.17.WRITING AN INFORMAL LETTER TO THE PRESS
  18. 13.18.WRITING A FORMAL REPORT
  19. 13.19.WRITING AN INFORMAL REPORT
  20. 13.20.WRITING AN AGENDA AND MINUTES OF A MEETING
  21. 13.21.WRITING A REVIEW
  22. 13.22.WRITING A MAGAZINE ARTICLE
  23. 13.23.WRITING A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
  24. 13.24.WRITING AN OBITUARY
  25. 13.25.WRITING A EULOGY
  26. 13.26.WRITING A FORMAL SPEECH
  27. 13.27.WRITING AN INFORMAL SPEECH
  28. 13.28.WRITING A DIALOGUE
  29. 13.29.WRITING AN INTERVIEW

PARTS OF SPEECH

  1. 14.1.NOUNS; CONCRETE, ABSTRACT, COMPOUND, NOUN PHRASES, GERUNDS
  2. 14.2.NOUNS; PLURAL NOUNS, COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS
  3. 14.3.NOUNS; THE DIMINUTIVE AND AUGMENTATIVE FORM, GENDER, COLLECTIVE NOUNS AND POSSESSIVE NOUNS
  4. 14.4.PRONOUNS; PERSONAL POSSESSIVE AND REFLEXIVE
  5. 14.5.PRONOUNS; DEMONSTRATIVE AND RELATIVE
  6. 14.6.PRONOUNS; INTERROGATIVE AND NEGATIVE PRONOUNS
  7. 14.7.PRONOUNS; ERRORS TO AVOID
  8. 14.8.ADJECTIVES; DESCRIPTIVE, PROPER AND ORDINAL
  9. 14.9.ADJECTIVES; POSITIVE FORMS, COMPARATIVE FORMS, SUPERLATIVE FORMS AND IRREGULAR FORMS
  10. 14.10.DETERMINERS
  11. 14.11.VERBS; FINITE AND NON FINITE
  12. 14.12.VERBS; USING THE PARTICPLE
  13. 14.13.VERBS; MAIN AND AUXILIARY VERBS
  14. 14.14.VERBS TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE VERBS
  15. 14.15.VERBS; VERB COLLOCATIONS
  16. 14.16.VERBS; PHRASAL VERBS
  17. 14.17.VERBS WITH IRREGULAR FORM
  18. 14.18.VERBS; USING SHALL AND WILL
  19. 14.19.VERBS; DIVIDING THE THREE MAIN TENSES
  20. 14.20.VERBS; THE PERFECT ASPECT AND THE PERFECT PROGRESSIVE ASPECT
  21. 14.21.VERBS; RULES OF CONCORD PART A
  22. 14.22.VERBS; RULES OF CONCORD PART B
  23. 14.23.VERBS; RULES OF CONCORD PART C
  24. 14.24.VERBS; SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT (CONCORD)
  25. 14.25.ADVERBS
  26. 14.26.ADVERBS; USING ADVERBS CORRECTLY
  27. 14.27.ADVERBS; ORDER OF ADVERBIAL PHRASES
  28. 14.28.PREPOSITIONS
  29. 14.29.PREPOSITIONS; COMPLEX PREPOSITIONS
  30. 14.30.CONJUNCTIONS
  31. 14.31.INTERJECTIONS AND IDEOPHONES

WORD GRAMMAR

  1. 15.1.ROOT WORDS, PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES
  2. 15.2.PREFIXES
  3. 15.3.SUFFIXES
  4. 15.4.WORD FAMILIES
  5. 15.5.BORROWED WORDS
  6. 15.6.WORD FAMILIES POLYSEMES AND PARONYMS
  7. 15.7.HOMONYMS, HOMOPHONES AND HOMOGRAPHS
  8. 15.8.SYNONYMS
  9. 15.9.ANTONYMS
  10. 15.10.NEOLOGISMS
  11. 15.11.ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
  12. 15.12.COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS
  13. 15.13.SPELLING RULES PART A
  14. 15.14.SPELLING RULES PART
  15. 15.15.SPELLING RULES PART C
  16. 15.16.COMMONLY MISSPELT WORDS
  17. 15.17.SPELLING RULES PART D
  18. 15.18.SPELLING RULES PART E

SENTENCE GRAMMAR

  1. 16.1.PUNCTUATION; INTRODUCTION
  2. 16.2.PUNCTUATION; THE FULL STOP AND THE COMMA
  3. 16.3.PUNCTUATION; THE SEMICOLON AND THE COLON
  4. 16.4.PUNCTUATION; THE EXCLAMATION MARK AND THE QUESTION MARK
  5. 16.5.PUNCTUATION; THE DASH AND THE HYPHEN
  6. 16.6.PUNCTUATION; BRACKETS AND PARENTHESES
  7. 16.7.PUNCTUATION; THE ELLIPSIS
  8. 16.8.PUNCTUATION; THE UPPERCASE AND ITALICS
  9. 16.9.PUNCTUATION; THE APOSTROPHE PART 1
  10. 16.10.PUNCTUATION; THE APOSTROPHE PART 2
  11. 16.11.PUNCTUATION; INVERTED COMMAS
  12. 16.12.SUBJECT AND PREDICATE
  13. 16.13.SUBJECT AND OBJECT
  14. 16.14.COMPLEMENTS
  15. 16.15.SENTENCES AND PHRASES
  16. 16.16.PHRASES AND CLAUSES
  17. 16.17.SUBJECT ADJECTIVAL AND ADVERBIAL CLAUSES
  18. 16.18.CLASSIFYING SENTENCES BY CLAUSAL STRUCTURE PART 1
  19. 16.19.CLASSIFYING SENTENCES BY CLAUSAL STRUCTURE PART 2
  20. 16.20.CLASSIFYING SENTENCES BY TYPE
  21. 16.21.CLASSIFYING SENTENCES BY ARRANGEMENT
  22. 16.22.INDICATIVE MOOD SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD
  23. 16.23.COHERENCE AND COHESION
  24. 16.24.DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH PART A
  25. 16.25.DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH PART B
  26. 16.26.DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH PART C
  27. 16.27.ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE PART A
  28. 16.28.ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE PART B
  29. 16.29.PROVERBS AND IDIOMS
  30. 16.30.COMMON ERRORS TO AVOID
  31. 16.31.COMMON ERRORS TO AVOID PART 2

PRESCRIBED POETRY REVISION

  1. 17.1.THE GARDEN OF LOVE BY WILLIAM BLAKE PART 1
  2. 17.2.THE GARDEN OF LOVE BY WILLIAM BLAKE PART 2
  3. 17.3.VULTURES BY CHINUA ACHEBE PART 1
  4. 17.4.VULTURES BY CHINUA ACHEBE PART 2
  5. 17.5.FUNERAL BLUES BY W H AUDEN PART 1
  6. 17.6.FUNERAL BLUES BY W H AUDEN PART 2
  7. 17.7.FELIX RANDAL BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS PART 1
  8. 17.8.FELIX RANDAL BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS PART 2
  9. 17.9.REMEMBER BY CHRISTINA ROSETTI PART 1
  10. 17.10.REMEMBER BY CHRISTINA ROSETTI PART 2
  11. 17.11.MOTHO KA MOTHO KA BATHO BABANG BY JEREMY CRONIN PART 1
  12. 17.12.MOTHO KA MOTHO KA BATHO BABANG BY JEREMY CRONIN PART 2
  13. 17.13.THE ZULU GIRL BY ROY CAMPBELL PART 1
  14. 17.14.THE ZULU GIRL BY ROY CAMPBELL PART 2
  15. 17.15.AN AFRICAN ELEGY BY BEN OKRI PART 1
  16. 17.16.AN AFRICAN ELEGY BY BEN OKRI PART 2
  17. 17.17.AN AFRICAN THUNDERSTORM BY DAVID RUBADIRI PART 1
  18. 17.18.AN AFRICAN THUNDERSTORM BY DAVID RUBADIRI PART 2
  19. 17.19.FIRST DAY AFTER THE WAR BY MAZISI KUNENE PART 1
  20. 17.20.FIRST DAY AFTER THE WAR BY MAZISI KUNENE PART 2
  21. 17.21.A HARD FROST BY CECIL DAY LEWIS PART 1
  22. 17.22.A HARD FROST BY CECELI DAY LEWIS PART 2
  23. 17.23.SOMEWHERE I HAVE NEVER TRAVELLED GLADLY BEYOND BY E E CUMMINGS PART 1
  24. 17.24.SOMEWHERE I HAVE NEVER TRAVELLED GLADLY BEYOND BY E E CUMMINGS PART 2

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