This is a quick session which should last roughly 1.5 hours - on and offline. It contains two Marco-enabled sorting activities which are great for use with touch screens, in class, and for online delivery. See slide notes for brief instructions. It has been carefully animated, has a sample response (sadly based on Friends) and has a summative assessment task for which students need to write a formal character reference. Session plan included. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-) **Please be aware that these have been created in Microsoft Office 365 - they will work in older versions but the older it gets, the less advanced they will be - in terms of the visuals, transitions and animations. **

This lovely looking ppt and handout set is best used with a bolt load of free brochures from The Brochure Bank online. Order as many as you need and they are delivered within 48 hours - free! Practise writing skills, using language features, taking notes from videos and writing persuasive and informative postcards. This leads nicely into Report writing - simply get my session or create one to follow removing the persuasive elements. This lesson is also good because some of the new C&G writing questions are mixing purposes.

Including the Subject Content Statements in colour-coded, comparative format, this 30 page booklet can be distributed and displayed in PDF format and written on with Microsoft Edge. Likewise, it can be printed in A4 in booklet form, which looks really nice and works well going through it with a small group. It can also be taught - lecture-style - with a 49 slide, fully animated, answers Powerpoint. Take your students through the main skills of the FS new spec. With detailed language feature grid, a multitude of tasks and activities, as well as a number of exam-style questions. This can be used in classes, as a guided workshop set or it can be given as independent study. Aimed at both L1 and L2 students, it could also be used with lower GCSE and Adult groups, too. A free Punctuation book is also available from our partner GCSE English Language shop - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/english-language-punctuation-workbook-and-answer-booklet-12225126 Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

This uses a cinema booking page and a TV show review. The former being aimed at L1 and the latter, L2. It guides through determining purpose & tone, via the use of sentence types and purposes - as well as revisiting persuasive features, previously explained. There are a multitude of animations which demonstrate and explain how Document 1’s purpose can be determined. After guidance, all students are encouraged to have a go at Document 2. L1 students may need support with that one and there are slides with quotations selected to get them started. Finish off with an email creati a set of relayed instructions to a friend, from Document 1 - after a bit of vocabulary replacement research.

This differentiated lesson is designed to last 3 hours and is modeled on the new C&G exams for both L1 & L2. It is a professionally animated ppt presentation with animated annotations and step-by-step, click-by-click animation throughout. It has a number of handouts, to complete tasks but can also be used without a couple of them, as I’d just get them to draw tables into their books. Learning outcomes have been differentiated, as well as most tasks. It also includes two sets of 12 reading questions for both L1 & L2. The questions for each level are very different in the new specification and so this differentiation took some work! I created it to dollow on from a previous Space-themed reading & writing session which is also in my shop. Take a look! https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-functional-skills-english-l1-2-reading-and-article-writing-space-12214592 Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Break up the monotony of formal writing with some solid examples of informal approaches. This session has links to a multitude of upcoming movie trailers - simply click on each mini image, on the slide, in turn, and close each screen once they have finished. There are a number to choose from so that you can extend the session in a number of ways. I have mixed classes so I chose trailers for a number of different audiences. the hand out was designed by a colleague of mine and has 3 boxes which can be copied and pasted onto a second page in word, should you wish you use the lot of them. - A second session is also included for free, which logically follows on to review writing. Hope it is helpful! Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. =-)

Can be used with either GCSE or FS English, as a starter or extension. In itself, it is differentiated - begins quite easy and works students through 4 levelsstages. see where they get to for Entry/ESOL learners All the best!

Suitable mostly for Functional Skills English but would work for GCSE also. Use as a starter or Extension. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)

This session has been made with original documents, created for specific purpose. Introduce your students to blogging and what is required for the new Functional Skills exams. This covers: Personal Blogs Professional Blogs Purpose Language Layout An example written, based on included planning. Annotations and planning tasks. Two options for a summative assessment task (with a planning sheet) Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

This double session is intended for 3 hours but could be extended over a few sessions and contains 40 slides & an 8 page hand out. It is meant to follow my Language Features intro’ session and then features the main acronym running through all my resources. Effectively, students create a language guide to carry forward through the year, or for revision at home. Explore both fictional and nonfictional features of language - Word Classes Sentence Forms & Purposes Listing Repeating Letters Figurative Features Persuasive; Informative & Explanatory Features This is quite detailed and is essentially 2-3 sessions in one. It is littered with task boxes and guided annotations via step-by-step/click-by-click animations. There are two main ways for delivery, either teacher-led or student-led. Teacher-led, requires a prescriptive approach: providing the annotations and answers upfront. This can get quite monotonous but splitting it up will be necessary. Approaching this way, would be an introductory approach. Student-led requires the opposite: holding back the answers and annotations and letting students find them, either independently or together, before providing any answers. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! =-)

This was designed to help prepare upon return from lockdown. We have a number of students, however, whom might be sitting online exams at home. So with this in mind, this 6 week pack includes: A pair of Reading Initial Assessments (Hair & Beauty/Engineering) A 30 page Crash Course Workbook A 60 slide Powerpoint Presentation There are a number of fun and interesting tasks which can be taught with the presentation. PPT is fully animated with most answers and so this could even be sent out to parents to home school and help their children plan.

This contains all the government issued Subject Content Statements for L1 & 2 - Functional Skills English. It shows highlighted/colour-coded, side-by-side comparison/contrast of L1 & L2 and aims to briefly explain some key differences between the two levels in relation to all 3 elements. These feature in my 30 page revision book for L1/2. Hope it’s useful!

Adventure through the Solar System with this engaging, visually impressive and unique Functional Skills English session! Practise exam-style reading questions, based on the new spec C&G exam papers and then flow straight into using these original and author-created documents to inspire and guide through article writing. Differentiate with word count and let L1 learners have a little go of comprehension+ for L2…I also changed the audience aim of the writing to fit with vocational areas like children for childcare students and so on…

New Functional Skills quals have changed of late and some of the expectations of students have become more intense. This session attempts to introduce reading skills and language features with the focus being on Alliteration and Expert Opinions. This session would lead well into a session on Bias. Alliterative Music Mini Quiz Expert opinions Layout Features 2 Health/Exercise related articles. New SPec Exam-style questions.

This little set is completely animated with step-by-step/click-by-click animation - including a Formal Letter Structure guide and an overview of punctuation which has been differentiated through E3, L1 & L2. There is an example formal/informal letter which is also a formal language assessment task in which student must cross out informal choices of language. Additionally, there is a summative writing task and templates for writing either a formal email or letter. Finally, a reflection slide for proofreading and correct errors… As usual, any feedback would be greatly appreciated and please offer any improvements or criticisms. Always willing to improve! =-)

This session is covering speech writing, language, format and examples with links to videos. Discuss Purpose and Language feature matching, as well as directly addressing the audience and its importance. It is fully animated with click-by-click/step-by-step animation and has some pronoun tasks to cover pronoun use in persuasive writing. There are choices for the summative task and students need to plan for specific purpose, dependent on their choice.

Takes the whole group to the same educational end via tasks which are progressive through two 1hr sessions (or so). It looks at ‘explicit’ and ‘implicit’ definitions and examples. It uses a how to stay safe at a concert video to start with and has questions on the handout. There are a couple of basic reading tasks and a group activity with a map link and matching 10 questions. Looks briefly at 6 non-fictional layouts and has a pairs, matching, game with instructions for peer questioning. There is a template and suggestions for a mock article and an example basic article with an annotations task. There is a mini homework task at the end. Join the discussion! Like our Facebook page and join our group…share your experiences and ask any questions: