Eight writing practice tasks for Functional Skills English.

A 20 question quiz in which learners will be shown a picture on screen from a well-known movie. The learners will they to guess the name of the movie and the answers are revealed at the end of the PPT.

How to write a newspaper article How to format the article What to include in the article Newspaper article task

An English reading comprehension task that will improve learners skimming and scanning skills.

A 20 slide back to school PowerPoint. This PowerPoint contains a mix of games, brainteasers and quiz questions. Please note that this PPT contains games, questions and brainteasers taken from other free TES powerpoints and off websites on the internet. I compiled them all into one fun powerpoint. Thankyou for sharing your work on TES if I have used any of your work.

A great starter for a Functional Skills English Lesson

This is a PPT, aimed at KS4 learners. It gives students information about online grooming and contains real life case studies. It features Kayleigh’s Love Story, which tells the story of Kayleigh Haywood , who was a 15-year-old schoolgirl from Measham in North West Leicestershire. She received an unsolicited Facebook message from a man she did not know on Saturday 31 October 2015. Fifteen days later, she was murdered. A video is attached which may cause distress for some viewers. Information included in the PPT, is sourced from various websites.

This PPT has been adapted from a team building ‘Lost at Sea’ task that I found online ( https://insight.typepad.co.uk/lost_at_sea.pdf ) I have made it into a fun PPT which explains the activity, the rules and gives instructions on how to play this game. I have also added a game sheet which I have adapted so that learners can work in groups. My learners had fun completing this task.

Uniformed Public Services - Communication Module - Bingo Game ( 3X3) Instructions: Cut out the words on the grid sheet and place them inside a container. Give each player a bingo card ( cut out each bingo card ). As you draw a word from the container, ask the players to cross them out on their grid sheet. The first player who gets 3 in a row, wins!

Get your learners to create their own magical creature to add to ‘Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them’ book. They will start by looking at an extract from the book and doing a task on this. Then they will begin to create their own creature. Please note that this PPT and Worksheet was not my original idea and I used FREE resources that I found on TES and the internet to put into a PPT. I adapted this PPT and created the worksheet myself using these ideas. Thank you for sharing your resources with other education professionals.

Students will create their own comic strip style ‘pop art’ words using onomatopoeia words to complete this task. Inspired by Roy Lichtenstein Please Note: I am not an Art teacher and have created this task by looking for ideas on the internet and resources on TES. I have then compiled/ edited them into one resource. Thank you. Word document and word RTF files.

Quiz and answer sheet provided. Learners will try to find each characters name in the word search.

Learners are asked to research the context of the novel in order to get some background information on the novel.

Improve your learners’ reading skills with this skimming and scanning exercise.

A lesson so learners can understand the five parts of narrative structure. They will read this short story before breaking it down in 5 parts. Following this they will then begin to plan part 2 of this short story.

Colour in page.

Get students to answer the questions on the cards so that their classmates can get to know more about them!

Colour in sheet

A lesson introducing Unseen Poetry and what to expect in the exam paper. It explains to learners how to annotate a poem using the SMILE technique and they will analyse Plath’s poem ‘The Mirror.’ Please note: I created this PPT using mostly my own ideas, however, to create this lesson, I have also adapted/ pasted some information from other ‘FREE download’ poetry resources that I found on TES. Thankyou for sharing your work.

A3 Classroom Poster. Great for LGBTQ+ displays. The quote is based on the famous Freddy Mercury quote: “You can be anything you want to be.”