Grade 7 Life Orientation Term 1 Written Task + Memo
About this resource
Help your Grade 7 learner prepare for Term 1 Life Orientation with this comprehensive 70-mark written task, complete with a full memorandum. The task has a duration of 1 hour and includes a balanced combination of lower-, middle- and higher-order questions.
The written task covers:
- Basic hygiene principles
- Healthy hygiene practices
- Self-image
- Positive personal qualities
- Strategies for improving self-image
- Self-respect and respecting others
- Respect for diversity
- Physical changes during puberty
- Changes experienced by boys and girls
- Emotional changes during puberty
- Managing emotions during adolescence
- How puberty can affect relationships
- Supporting others through physical and emotional changes
- Communication and managing frustration
- Peer pressure
- Positive and negative peer pressure
- Vaping and skipping school as examples of negative influences
- Assertiveness and saying no
- Negotiation skills
- Finding help and guidance
- Positive peer influence
- Building confidence through encouragement
- Personal growth and goal setting
- Appreciation and acceptance of yourself and others
- Promoting respect for diversity
The task places a strong emphasis on real-life application and critical thinking. Learners work through case studies involving puberty and emotional changes, negative peer pressure and positive peer influence, and are required to explain concepts, give advice, suggest strategies and reflect on how choices can affect self-image and relationships.
Total: 70 marks | Duration: 1 hour | Full memorandum included | PDF format.
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