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I'm a functional skills English and maths tutor for 16-19 year old construction students. I provide resources for learners from e2-l2, although this can be used with secondary school learners.

I'm a functional skills English and maths tutor for 16-19 year old construction students. I provide resources for learners from e2-l2, although this can be used with secondary school learners.
Driving
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Driving

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For learners who are thinking about learning to drive, this fun, interactive presentation helps learners understand the different road signs they will need to know. The worksheet is a matching game involving different facts with reaction times. The answer sheet is also attached.
Body Language at Interview
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Body Language at Interview

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Presentation to demonstrate how body language is important within an interview. Fun and interactive with a YouTube clip demonstrating how to do it properly. Really good to show non-verbal communication.
Fundamental British Values Introduction
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Fundamental British Values Introduction

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Great way to introduce learners to the fundamental British values, with a brief description on rule of law, individual liberty, democracy and mutual respect for others. Brief introduction prior to delving into each area. After the presentation is complete get the learners to complete the handout at the end of the session to see how much they have retained, or use it as a starter for the next lesson.
Different types of text
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Different types of text

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Great presentation to teach learners about the different types of text we use in everyday life, includes formal and informal language as well as informative, descriptive, instructive etc can be used as an introduction to the topic of writing text
Different types of text
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Different types of text

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For learners to identify the different types of text that they can come across, each type of text has questions on the bottom for learners to answer. This resource also enables learners to identify the key features of text that shows what type of text they are including headlines, links, as well as the language that can be used. This worksheet can be used to challenge higher level learners as you are able to add additional questions to these, getting them to highlight parts of the text and use the correct terminology for these so if there are any lists of three etc. Really effective worksheet!
Plenary Activity
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Plenary Activity

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Find out how confident your learners are with the objectives you have set by giving them this simple handout. You can the review it at your own leisure and see how they feel and if you need to recover your objectives.
Example of a CV
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Example of a CV

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For learners who struggle with the formatting of a CV, this clear and concise CV will help them so they only have to fill in the blanks. There are some notes to help them on their way to creating a successful CV.
Health and Safety
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Health and Safety

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Need your learners to understand the importance of health and safety? This presentation with handouts will help, it is a fun and interactive presentation which can be implemented with the use of a SMART board as learners can come and circle their answers. Extension activities are included in the presentation.
Measuring area and perimeter
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Measuring area and perimeter

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Fun interactive presentation to teach about area and perimeter, plenty of small activities that can be done in groups or as a whole class. Worked really well with my construction learners.
Punctuation
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Punctuation

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Great resources to help learners understand where punctuation should be used. The pre-prepared writing is construction based but can be adapted to meet the needs of your learners, alternatively get them to create a story about any topic they want including the punctuation they need. The worksheet has gaps for them to fill in, this can be done as plenary or starter activity the next lesson.
Converting to percentages
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Converting to percentages

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Simple and easy to use presentation to convert fractions and decimals to percentages. Explains when we use percentages, includes practice activities get the learners thinking.
Ratio
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Ratio

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Get your learners to understand ratio with this simple PowerPoint and worksheet. Get students moving around the class to complete the ratio, this can also be linked to Tally charts.
Planning for writing
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Planning for writing

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This presentation explains to learners how they can plan their writing, includes different methods they might want to use, also has an activity at the end for the learners to practice their planning methods.
Converting fractions and decimals
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Converting fractions and decimals

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Fun interactive presentation explaining how to convert fractions and decimals, includes explanation for each as well practice activities that can be done as a class.
Dress code for interview
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Dress code for interview

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It can be hard to know what to wear for an interview, so to help learners this fun interactive presentation will help explain this to them. Includes a video clip to help them understand what is appropriate and what is not as well an activity for them to complete independently or as a class.
Fractions of whole numbers
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Fractions of whole numbers

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Colourful presentation explaining how to work out the fraction of a whole number. Includes a practice activity that can be done as a whole class or independently to help learners practice doing the sums
Positive and Negative Numbers in Practical contexts
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Positive and Negative Numbers in Practical contexts

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This PowerPoint and worksheet enables learners to gain an understanding and practice using positive and negative numbers in practical contexts, this is mainly used for temperature as this is the easiest way to teach learners about this.
Back to Basics- Maths
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Back to Basics- Maths

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This simple presentation allows you to go back through addition of 3 digit numbers, it explains the unit value of each digit in a number and how to add and carry numbers over. Useful resource to go over simple numbers.
Simple Tenses
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Simple Tenses

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A fun and interactive lesson to do with all age groups. The Presentation includes all the verbs to do the bingo game with, the bingo game allows learners to see the verb and to work out the simple past, simple present and simple future tense and cross these out when they find them. The worksheet includes 2 different worksheets, 1 for lower level learners where the past, present and future tenses are easy to recognise and to complete, whereas the 2nd one is for higher level learners who need to change the spelling of the word in order to gain the past, present or future tense of the verb.