Functional Skills English Conjunctions/connectives

E3-L1 Functional Skills English tense worksheet with a series of relevant examples.

Presentational Features lesson with activities included. Covers the use of headlines, colour, connotations and denotations and persuasion. 1.To consider the effect of presentational devices in texts. 2. To analyse the use of presentational devices in an image and their effect on the reader. 3.To create a poster that carefully considers language, image and colour to achieve its effect.

Harry Potter style card match activity for simple - compound and complex sentences.

Worksheet E3 - L1 and low level 2. Dealing with money, banks and negative numbers.

Functional Skills English Writing overview and top tips for the exam. Covers layout, format and features of letters, articles, emails and reviews.

Learners will develop the use of connectives creating sentences based on imagery. Equality and Diversity is embedded through stereotyping/prejudice discussion that may arise with imagery. Paragraphs - use of headlines and videos to develop learners use of the burger paragraph and topic sentences.

Language Devices poster/display can be used to go on walls or as a reference in learner books. PDF copy which covers definition, term and example and can be used for Functional Skills English and GCSE English.

Picture activity to build up vocabulary for describing an image. Each learner will get a section of a picture and write a short description. As a group all learners will piece together the images to make a complete image and share and discuss their descriptive sentences.

A day in the life at ... Is a college/school based activity book in which learners will create a comic strip as a story board for their day. Learners will then be prompted to create a piece of writing based on the comic strip - self assessment forms included for teachers to provide formative feedback.

Full Persuasive devices lesson on identifying DAFOREST in video and texts. Texts and video provided, with worksheet and card match. Aims and objectives: To identify and revise persuasive devices and their definitions. To be able to explain the impact of persuasive devices and the effect they have on the reader. Analyse the persuasive devices in a piece of text and explain how they have been used for effect. Take part in the ‘verbal boxing’ challenge using your persuasive devices to win the debate.

Differentiated DAFOREST activity for E3 and L1 Functional Skills learners. Research activity/independent study in which learners have to find examples of DAFOREST. This can be done: On posters around the college, on videos you have provided or a selection of texts.

DAFOREST card match. Needs to be cut out into small cards, it covers Term, Example and Definition.

Full lesson into enterprise project for cash for kids charity (this could be changed to a more local charity) Sponsored silence activity - team task allocations and aims and objectives all included.

Graded outstanding GCSE English lesson. Introduction to Language features used in text. Team based session with three activities to complete. Term, Definition and Example card match activity with card provided. Million pound drop quiz and in powerpoint activities. Learners will use the display poster to analyse a video from PETA 'behind the leather' allowing them to create a link the use of language to form emotions and perceptions.For assessment learners will analyse a PETA text as well as being encouraged to find their own sources online. Engaging and interactive lesson that promotes some good discussions embedding E&D.

All the terms required for the AQA GCSE Specification, can be used for display in the classroom or in books. Can be cut up and used as task cards if required.

Full differentiated lesson. Interactive crime scene activity with resources, tone music activity and finding bias in the media. Separate worksheets for entry level, level 1 and level 2 learners. Texts provided from two different sources for Level 2 learners to compare: Daily Mail and The Guardian.

Confidence charts for Entry Level 2 - Level 2 that are individualised by topic. I stick one at the front of each learners book and before we start a topic they rate their individual confidence with a number out of 10. At the end of the deliery of the topic the learners rate themselves again.

SPaG booklet with QR code link to the BBC bitesize learning for spelling, punctuation and grammar. Learners must work through the tasks and complete the quiz for each topic recording their score in the coloured box. They must then write a recap of what they have learnt and demonstrate this within a piece of writing. Making improvements self/tutor assessment sheet also included.

Worksheet for start activity in which learners must pick a letter as a class and try and answer all the categories on the sheet with an answer starting with the chosen letter.