Functional Skills English Writing overview and top tips for the exam. Covers layout, format and features of letters, articles, emails and reviews.

Presentational Features lesson with activities included. Covers the use of headlines, colour, connotations and denotations and persuasion. 1.To consider the effect of presentational devices in texts. 2. To analyse the use of presentational devices in an image and their effect on the reader. 3.To create a poster that carefully considers language, image and colour to achieve its effect.

Full Persuasive devices lesson on identifying DAFOREST in video and texts. Texts and video provided, with worksheet and card match. Aims and objectives: To identify and revise persuasive devices and their definitions. To be able to explain the impact of persuasive devices and the effect they have on the reader. Analyse the persuasive devices in a piece of text and explain how they have been used for effect. Take part in the ‘verbal boxing’ challenge using your persuasive devices to win the debate.

Learners will develop the use of connectives creating sentences based on imagery. Equality and Diversity is embedded through stereotyping/prejudice discussion that may arise with imagery. Paragraphs - use of headlines and videos to develop learners use of the burger paragraph and topic sentences.

Speaking and listening activity based upon the popular fact and opinion television show. Differentiated activity in which learners have to research themes to contribute to their speaking and listening assessment/discussion. QR codes for research into videos and questions supplied.

Differentiated DAFOREST activity for E3 and L1 Functional Skills learners. Research activity/independent study in which learners have to find examples of DAFOREST. This can be done: On posters around the college, on videos you have provided or a selection of texts.

Informative posters for the DAFOREST terms and a worksheet to go alongside for learner examples and assessment purposes.

DAFOREST card match. Needs to be cut out into small cards, it covers Term, Example and Definition.

Team based work activity/puzzle Each activity needs to be cut into flash cards or folded in to an envelope. Each activity has a reference on the grammar challenge sheet and learners will work in teams to complete. This covers parts of speech, homophones, apostrophes, punctuation, work breakdown and vocabulary building.

A DAFOREST task card that can be cut out and act as an extension or starter activity. This can be applied to any text/reading/visual method.

Will need paper/plastic cups for activity. Persuasive writing structure lesson with recap for writing styles and how to answer a writing question in the exam. Breakdown activity on sentence building which learners will apply to a personal profile and then peer assess to develop vocabulary. All worksheets are printable from the PowerPoint.

A sport themed session analysing presentational features in headlines and imagery. Acts as an introduction to presentational terminology and stretches learners to start using persuasive language devices.

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3 activities and a display/help sheet. Parts of speech infographic for displays or learner workbooks with space for learners to add to the poster. Part of speech activity that covers nouns,adjetives,verbs etc: learners have to find the definition of the term in the dictionary. The Jabberwocky parts of speech activity worksheet in which learners need to identify the word class. Lewis Carroll parts of speech activity in which learners need to identify and explain the word class.

Punctuation mark bingo questions and bingo cards. Punctuation mark display poster or learner assessment sheet.

Ambitious vocabulary worksheet to put in the back of learner books. Learners can fill in as and when they come across interesting words to use in their writing answers for paper1 and paper2.

Two writing activities: Writing a college article and writing at letter. Questions are all based on L2 Functional Skills English exam criteria and a display poster to use as a prompt for planning for writing is included.

Graded outstanding GCSE English lesson. Introduction to Language features used in text. Team based session with three activities to complete. Term, Definition and Example card match activity with card provided. Million pound drop quiz and in powerpoint activities. Learners will use the display poster to analyse a video from PETA 'behind the leather' allowing them to create a link the use of language to form emotions and perceptions.For assessment learners will analyse a PETA text as well as being encouraged to find their own sources online. Engaging and interactive lesson that promotes some good discussions embedding E&D.

Reading for detail, skimming and scanning in texts. Starter activities included, texts with flash card questioning, Kahoot quiz and a challenge worksheet activity.

All the terms required for the AQA GCSE Specification, can be used for display in the classroom or in books. Can be cut up and used as task cards if required.