Life Orientation Flashcards

Flashcards on Life Orientation Grade 11 Class Notes 2025

Goals

The things we want to achieve in life; plans and aims that require active steps to achieve.

SMART goals

Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time Based.

Short-term goals

Goals achievable in a short space of time, typically within a week or month.

Medium-term goals

Goals achievable in the next 6 months.

Long-term goals

Goals achievable in a few years, such as becoming a doctor or engineer.

Values

Principals you think are important in life, influencing decisions and goal-setting.

Family relationships

People related to you through blood or marriage, typically providing the most love, care, and support.

Casual relationships

Relationships with people you see often but are not very close to.

Friends

A person you know well, like, trust, and respect, who supports you.

Formal relationships

Relationships with people in a more senior position than yourself, such as teachers and elders.

Romantic relationship

Close relationship with another person, based on love.

Power in relationships

Having control over something or someone; can create power relations in relationships.

Gender stereotyping

When people think that someone behaves or will behave in a certain way because of their gender.

Higher Certificate

Enables you to work in a specific industry with specific introductory knowledge and practical skills.

Diploma

Enables you to work in a specific industry/profession with general principles of knowledge application.

Bachelor's Degree

Provides you with a broad education, focusing on principles, theory, and research, enabling a career as a professional.

FET College

Institution providing vocational or occupational training in a specific field, registered with the Department of Higher Education (DHET).

Admission Point Score (APS)

The system giving possible points for the marks you get in your NSC examinations.

South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA)

Regulates and sets the standards in the South African education system, including the National Qualifications Framework (NQF).

National Qualification Framework (NQF)

The framework on which the standards for colleges are registered, combining education and training in South Africa.

Bursaries or Scholarships

Awarded to students who excel in a particular field and wish to pursue a career in that area.

Merit Award

Given based on school results or at the end of a year of study for maintaining an excellent set of results.

Financial Aid

Financial assistance given after a detailed personal financial analysis shows parents are unable to pay for studies.

Study Loans

Applying at a bank for a loan to fund education, which must be paid back over time.

NSFAS: National Student Financial Aid Scheme

SA’s only public student loan scheme which helps academically deserving and financially needy students.

Public participation

To be involved with others in doing something; to take part in an activity or an event.

Petition

A written document that people sign to show that they want a person/organization to change or do something.

Governance

The way that a country is controlled or managed by the people who run it.

Representation

Through elections, people are voted in to represent/speak on behalf of a certain group of people.

Proportional representation

Parties get a certain number of seats in parliament according to the percentage of votes they get in an election.

Constituency-based representation

Country is divided in voting areas, called constituencies. A constituency is represented by one member of a party’s choice.

Rule of law

A government that is accountable; an absence of corruption; security, order, and fundamental rights; an open government that enforces laws and regulations; access to justice.

How sport can support nation building

Build tolerance, understanding and success, oppose all forms of discrimination, build relationships, build unity through hosting international sports events.

Left Hemisphere

Brain learns from part to whole, stimulated by function, phonetic reader, likes words, prefers to read about it first, needs detailed instructions.

Right Hemisphere

Brain learns whole first, then parts, stimulated by appearance, wants pictures, relationships in learning, likes open-endedness, prefers surprises.

SQ3R Method

Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review

Antibiotics in food production

Used to prevent disease and make animals eat more to grow fat, can lead to antibiotic resistance in humans.

Artificial hormones (rBST)

Injected into cows to stimulate milk production, linked to deformed calves and potential cancer risks in humans.

Animal by-products in food production

Parts of animals not consumed by humans, fed to animals, can lead to animal disease epidemics.

Pesticides

Kills insects, weeds, and germs that may inhibit healthy plant growth; some can be stored in body fat and make humans ill.

Food additives

Chemicals used to preserve food and give it color and flavor; some may cause allergic reactions or lead to ADD.

Degradation

The process of damaging or ruining something, affecting people and the planet.

Overfishing

Whole species of fish can disappear, impacting livelihoods and diets.

Firewood depletion

Some types of trees will become extinct, leading to erosion and lack of fuel.

Land depletion

Farmers planting the same crops on the same land year after year, depleting the soil and causing crop failure.

Climate Change

A change in temperature and weather patterns due to gases like carbon dioxide trapping the sun’s heat.