Functional Skills English

Functional Skills English is a UK qualification for people seeking to advance their careers and enter higher education in the UK. We look at the mindset for success, while practising the skills required to pass E3, L1 and L2 English.

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Course curriculum

1. What is this course?
2. Subject content functional skills: English
3. Introduction to Functional Skills and British Values
4. What are British Values?
5. Is Democracy Dead Comprehension Text
6. Comprehension Questions L2
7. Comprehension Questions L1
8. Comprehension Questions E3
9. Reading Vocabulary
1. Aims of Lesson
2. Lesson stages
3. Disorder in the UK 2024
4. What is Prevent?
5. Case Study
1. How to Write Formal Letters
1. Introduction
2. Net Zero Discussion Presentation
1. Aims of Lesson
1. Aims of Lesson
2. Texts: Identifying genre, audience and purpose
3. Practice 1
4. Answers 1
5. Identifying figurative language
1. Reading Text L2+
2. Reading Text L1
3. Identifying implicit and explicit information
4. Worksheet to accompany the reading
1. Language Features: What do you already know? (Answers on second page of this worksheet)
2. Identifying language features
3. Language Techniques (Language Features) Worksheet
4. Language Techniques Worksheet Answers
1. Structure Warm Up Exercise
2. Identifying structure in reading texts and applying structure in your writing
3. Talking About Structure
4. Reading text: Charles Dickens' Gin Shops
5. Gin Shops: Structure Work Sheet
1. Practice Test One: Writing and Reading Level 2
1. Genre, audience and purpose writing prompts
1. Apply your knowledge: writing prompts
1. Complete the Sentence
2. Using Different Types of Conjunctions
3. Spelling and Punctuation Common Errors
4. Commonly Mispelled Words
5. Punctuation
1. Overview
2. Writing Overview
3. Revision and Examples Article and Email
4. Example L2 Writing 1
5. Example L2 Writing 2

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Functional Skills English

Course curriculum

Class 1: Prepare for Functional Skills English

Class 2: Safeguarding, Prevent, and Writing Skills

Class 3: Writing a Formal Letter

Class 4: Carbon Literacy/Net Zero

Preparation for Speaking Exam

Reading Skills 1

Reading Skills 2

Reading Skills 3

Reading Skills 4

Reading Practice Tests Level 2

Writing Skills 1: Genre Audience Purpose

Writing Skills 2: Structure

Writing Skills 3 : Punctuation

Writing Skills: Overview

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