Course guides › Grade 6 › Afrikaans First Additional Language
Grade 6 Afrikaans First Additional Language (Eerste Addisionele Taal) builds on Grade 5. Learners read longer stories, poems, dialogues and information texts, write paragraphs, letters and short essays, talk about texts, and use more grammar, such as the passive voice, indirect speech and the tenses.
This guide is in English so every parent can follow it; the course itself will be in Afrikaans.
Course status: coming soon. We are still building the Grade 6 Afrikaans First Additional Language (CAPS) course, so it can’t be bought yet. This guide explains what the CAPS curriculum covers this year, so you can use it now. The planned price is R100 per subject per year.
What’s covered: the four CAPS skills
Luister en praat (Listening and Speaking)
- Listening comprehension and following instructions
- Prepared speeches, conversations and role play
Lees en kyk (Reading and Viewing)
- Stories, poems, dialogues and folk tales
- Information texts, advertisements, posters and cartoons
- Comprehension: finding facts, inferring and giving opinions
Skryf en aanbied (Writing and Presenting)
- Paragraphs, short stories and descriptions
- Friendly letters, emails, diary entries, invitations and instructions
Taalstrukture en -konvensies (Language)
- Tenses: teenwoordige, verlede en toekomende tyd
- Lydende en bedrywende vorm; direkte en indirekte rede
- Ontkenning (negatives), trappe van vergelyking, verkleinwoorde, meervoude
- Woordorde, voegwoorde en leestekens
Key ideas, with worked examples
The past tense (verlede tyd)
Afrikaans forms the past tense with het plus ge- on the verb.
Worked example. Ek speel. becomes Ek het gespeel.
Indirect speech (indirekte rede)
Use dat, and the verb moves to the end.
Worked example. Sipho sê: “Ek is moeg.” becomes Sipho sê dat hy moeg is.
The passive (lydende vorm)
Use word (present) or is ge- (past).
Worked example. Die hond byt die man. → Die man word deur die hond gebyt.
Common mistakes (and how to fix them)
- Verb in the wrong place after dat (it goes to the end).
- Forgetting ge- in the past tense.
- Translating idioms directly from English.
- Leaving out the second nie.
Tips for parents
- Little and often. Fifteen minutes on most school days works better than a long session once a week.
- Daily Afrikaans: a short radio slot, song or TV programme.
- Read aloud, even if slowly; Listen mode will help with pronunciation.
- Learn ten words a week and use them in sentences at supper.
Frequently asked questions
Is this Home Language or First Additional Language?
First Additional Language (Eerste Addisionele Taal), the level most schools offer to learners whose home language isn’t Afrikaans.
How much will the Grade 6 Afrikaans First Additional Language course cost?
R100 per subject per year once it opens. Like our live courses, it will be one course for the whole year with Terms 1 to 4 inside it, so there’s nothing extra to pay per term.
When will the course be ready?
We’re building it now. The Grade 6 Afrikaans First Additional Language card on our home page shows “Coming soon” until the course is ready, and then it changes to “Open course”.
Will it work on a phone, and will it use a lot of data?
Yes, it will work on a phone. Like our live Maths courses, it will open in a phone’s web browser or in the free Coursebox app for Android and iPhone. Lessons are pictures and short text with quizzes and no videos, so it uses little data.
Is the course in Afrikaans?
Yes. The lessons, texts and questions are in Afrikaans, as CAPS requires for a language subject. This guide is in English so that every parent can read it. Die kursus self is in Afrikaans.
Get ready for Grade 6 Afrikaans First Additional Language
The Grade 6 Afrikaans First Additional Language (CAPS) course is coming soon at R100 per subject per year. Bookmark this guide and use the term lists above to follow what your child is doing at school. See which Grade 6 subjects are open on the course cards.
Back to the Grade 6 course cards · All Grade 6 guides
Sources and review
This guide follows the DBE’s CAPS Afrikaans Eerste Addisionele Taal Grades 4–6 document. Term placement will be checked against the 2023/24 Grade 6 Annual Teaching Plan. Last reviewed: 31 October 2026. AI Buddies is an independent project and is not endorsed by the Department of Basic Education.