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Functional Skills English - E3 / Level 1 Writing Tasks
Eight writing practice tasks for Functional Skills English.
Writing a Newspaper Article - English Lesson and Task KS3
How to write a newspaper article
How to format the article
What to include in the article
Newspaper article task
English Reading Comprehension ( Skimming & Scanning Skills): Singers
An English reading comprehension task that will improve learners skimming and scanning skills.
Functional Skills English Skimming & Scanning Reading Comprehension Task
A great starter for a Functional Skills English Lesson
Harry Potter & The Fantastic Beasts English PPT & Worksheet Task
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.
English Functional Skills Reading: Skimming and Scanning - Harry Potter Movie Reviews
Improve your learners’ reading skills with this skimming and scanning exercise.
An Inspector Calls Context Research Worksheet English Language GCSE
Learners are asked to research the context of the novel in order to get some background information on the novel.
The Flowers by Alice Walker - English 5 Part Narrative Structure Lesson
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.
Gangsta Granny Recap Quiz Chapters 1 -15 - Fun KS2/KS3 Quiz
A fun lesson starter to see how much students remember from chapters 1 - 15 .
Unseen Poetry Introduction Lesson: How to Approach Unseen Poetry Using 'The Mirror' by Sylvia Plath
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.
Poetry Anthology Power & Conflict Quotes Quiz GCSE English Literature
A fifteen question multiple choice quiz. Students will be given a each from each poem and must write down on the white board which poem it is from. Answers are given on the PPT once they have answered the question.
I also have a sencond version of this quiz which you can download for free:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12649377
Punctuation Matching Game// Activity: Lesson Starter Primary / E3 Functional English Skills Cards
**Instructions **
Cut out the five punctuation cards and place them in front of you.
On the next page, you will be given a range of phrases and sentences. Each is missing a particular punctuation mark.
Place each sentence / phrase underneath the correct punctuation card.
Example: If the sentence reads: ‘Andys car had a flat tyre,’ then this sentence should be placed under the ‘apostrophe mark’ card.
Entry 3 Alphabetical Order English Functional Skills Worksheet and Answers
This style of questioning will feature in learners Functional Skills Reading Assessment.
Roald Dahl Day English The Twits Character Description Task
A fun task that gets learners to draw characters from the writers description and to recognize adjectives.
Unseen Poetry: Introduction Worksheet on Poetry: 'The Mirror.'
A worksheet to introduce KS3 or KS4 students to what to initially look for when they first read a poem.
There are questions on the sheet to prompt them to read the poem and then answer the questions including:
What the poem is about
Why certain words and phrases are used
What the mood and atmosphere of the poem is
Who the narrator of the poem is.
I have purposely left out the title of the poem, as I wanted my group to guess what the object ( the mirror) is.
GCSE English Language Paper 1 Lesson - The Lovely Bones.
How to read and annotate the text before moving on to answer the exam questions 1- 4.
English Newspaper Activities - Funny Headlines, Descriptive Writing and Language Devices
2 English activities.
I sourced the language technique grid from TES and the article from The Daily Mail and edited them to make an English activity.
Get students to locate the language devices from the article and then create a descriptive story or article by choosing a funny headline as a prompt!
Functional Skills English: Formal and Informal Language Fun Letter Task
This is a task that I have created. Students will use their skills to rewrite an informal letter into a formal letter.
Little Red Riding Hood - Adjectives
Identify the adjectives in the following short story.
GCSE PAPER 2, SECTION C: UNSEEN POETRY. HOW TO ANSWER QUESTIONS 1 & 2
A one lesson PPT for learners which shows them how to answer both Unseen Poetry questions. At the end of the PPT, the learners then have 45 minutes to complete their practice test.
*Please note: some of the information on this PPT was sourced from free poetry powerpoints on TES. Thankyou for sharing your work.