Course curriculum

  • 1

    Class 1: Prepare for Functional Skills English

  • 2

    Class 2: Safeguarding, Prevent, and Writing Skills

    • Aims of Lesson

    • Lesson stages

    • Disorder in the UK 2024

    • What is Prevent?

    • Case Study
  • 3

    Class 3: Writing a Formal Letter

    • How to Write Formal Letters
  • 4

    Class 4: Carbon Literacy/Net Zero

    • Introduction

    • Net Zero Discussion Presentation
  • 5

    Preparation for Speaking Exam

    • Aims of Lesson
  • 6

    Reading Skills 1

    • Aims of Lesson

    • Texts: Identifying genre, audience and purpose

    • Practice 1

    • Answers 1

    • Identifying figurative language
  • 7

    Writing Skills 1: Genre Audience Purpose

    • Genre, audience and purpose writing prompts
  • 8

    Reading Skills 2

    • Reading Text L2+

    • Reading Text L1

    • Identifying implicit and explicit information

    • Worksheet to accompany the reading
  • 9

    Reading Skills 3

    • Languages Features: What do you already know? (Answers on second page of this worksheet)

    • Identifying language features

    • Language Techniques (Language Features) Worksheet

    • Language Techniques Worksheet Answers
  • 10

    Reading Skills 4

    • Structure Warm Up Exercise

    • Identifying structure in reading texts and applying structure in your writing

    • Talking About Structure

    • Reading text: Charles Dickens' Gin Shops

    • Gin Shops: Structure Work Sheet
  • 11

    Writing Skills 2: Structure

    • Apply your knowledge: writing prompts