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.

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.

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

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.

Colour in page.

Colour in sheet

A great starter for a Functional Skills English Lesson

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.

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

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

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

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.

15X positive mental health colouring worksheets.

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.”

Knife crime colouring in sheets