Functional Skills English – Level 1

Functional Skills English – Level 1

(10 lesson unit which includes an 84-slide editable PowerPoint and 4 worksheets)

This comprehensive teaching unit covers everything required by Level 1 Functional Skills English. It focuses on creating a product or service and then making an investment pitch (similar to TV’s ‘Dragons’ Den’) and an advertisement. It includes a range of activities that help develop key communication skills and covers Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing.

Contents include the following:

• An introduction to Functional Skills with video

• Observing, speaking and listening skills – watching videos of business pitches and discussing them

• Developing communication skills for later life - working in small groups to create a business idea and develop a pitch

• Activities to improve writing skills– how audience affects a text, writing for different purposes, exploring advertisements and persuasive writing

• Reading and comprehension skills – studying advertisements and writing answers

• Creating an advertisement

• Drafting and developing ideas in pairs

• And more!

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