BGCSE Setswana 0562 case studies
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BGCSE Setswana 0562 is a secondary-school certificate examination in Setswana, taken by candidates in Botswana who are completing their senior secondary schooling and who want formal recognition of their command of the language. It suits learners who already speak Setswana at home and need to demonstrate academic literacy in it, as well as those who have studied it as a school subject and intend to use it in further study, teacher training, media, public service or community work. The BGCSE Setswana 0562 case studies are 5 cases and about 1,987 words.
1The Radio Phone-In and the Unwritten Rule of Respect
A BGCSE Setswana oral-communication class is analysing a recording of a call-in radio show from Gaborone. A young caller, Mpho, telephones the studio to complain about a broken water pipe in his ward.
432 words, about 2 min2Two Versions of the Same Letter
A teacher gives a Form 5 class two short Setswana texts about a village water shortage. Text A is a personal letter from a daughter to her mother describing how she queues at the standpipe each morning; it uses contracted forms, emotional language, and direct address.
396 words, about 2 min3The Disappearing Subject Concord
In class, the teacher puts three versions on the board: (1) "Bona ba ja bogobe"; (2) "Bone ba ja bogobe"; (3) "Ba ja bogobe". The class must decide which is acceptable in formal written Setswana, which is a common colloquial form, and which is the most natural because the subject concord already carries the subject.
400 words, about 2 min4The Proverb That Does Not Fit
A composition task asks learners to end a story with a Setswana proverb that fits the moral. The story: a boy named Tshepo refuses to share his lunch with a hungry classmate, later loses his own lunch to a dog, and is then helped by the same classmate.
401 words, about 2 min5Poem or Praise? Classifying a Setwana Text
A Literature class is given a short Setswana text with these features: it names a person and praises his cattle, his generosity, and his ancestry; it uses repeated openings, direct address, and vivid comparison; it has no regular line length and no end-rhyme. One learner says "it is not a poem because it does not rhyme and the lines are uneven".
358 words, about 2 min