Animal care & Equine
Literacy: Wt/E3.1, Wt/E3.4, Functional English - writing
Context: Animal care & Equine, Employment skills & Public services
Level: E3
Resource type: Assessment material, Worksheet or assignment
A writing task / practice paper written for an E3 booster writing group of 16-18 year olds.
You want a Saturday job in a pet shop and write a letter to the manager about possible vacancies.
Fully mapped to the E2 and E3 Functional Skills English writing criteria, it also includes a one page tutor marking sheet. Modelled loosely on practice papers from the major awarding bodies but note that the marking scheme / points system is my invention and is not weighted exactly as it should be for formal assessment.
Literacy: General literacy / English
Context: Animal care & Equine
Level: E2
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Practice for E2 exams with a pet theme. Reading comprehension, alphabetical order, writing and discussion are all covered.
Literacy: Ws/E3.4, Ws/L1.3, Ws/L2.4
Context: Animal care & Equine
Level: E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Two fun punctuation exercises for cat lovers.
Both are quite challenging. The first page requires full stops, capital letters and commas (E3-L1) whereas the second also includes quotation marks and apostrophes (L1-L2).
Literacy: Functional Skills English, General literacy / English
ICT: Functional ICT
ESOL: ESOL Rw/E2.1a, ESOL Rw/E3.1a, General ESOL
Context: Animal care & Equine
Resource type: ICT task sheet, Worksheet or assignment
Level: E2, E3, L1, L2
Two resources that can be used together or independently.
- An ICC / Literacy / Functional English / ESOL research project task sheet on “My favourite British animal”. E3-L2 reading, writing and ICT
- A basic animal anatomy vocabulary sheet for E2-E3 ESOL (paw, claw, antler, etc.)
For more of Kathy’s animal resources go to ‘see also’ below. (Birds of Prey resources)
Literacy: Rt/L2.1, Rw/L1.2, Rw/L2.1, Ws/E3.2, Ws/L1.2
ESOL: ESOL Rt/L2.1a, ESOL Rw/L1.2a, ESOL Rw/L2.1a, ESOL Ws/E3.2a, ESOL Ws/L1.2a
Context: Animal care & Equine
Resource type: Cloze exercise, Informative presentation, Reading comprehension, Worksheet or assignment
Level: E3, L1, L2
Embedded literacy and Functional English for animal lovers!
Literacy: Recognise and understand a range of words, Functional English - reading, Reading: text focus (comprehension)
Free tags: Australia, Humour
Context: Animal care & Equine, Leisure Travel Tourism
Level: E2, E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Crossword, Reading comprehension
Another great set of three comprehension resources from Australia. Each with a related, differentiated crossword puzzle.
Literacy: Reading: text focus (comprehension)
Context: Animal care & Equine
Level: E2
Resource type: Reading comprehension
Lovely E2 reading comprehension based on a short news article about a new turtle sanctuary at Weymouth Sea Life Park. Questions cover purpose and layout of text, general comprehension and vocabulary.
Literacy: Functional English - reading, Functional English - writing
ESOL: ESOL Reading: text focus (comprehension), ESOL Writing: text focus (composition)
Context: Animal care & Equine, Voluntary & Charity
Resource type: ICT task sheet, Worksheet or assignment, Writing prompts
Level: E3, L1, L2
This Blue Cross resource was written for strong E3 or L1 (or even L2) ESOL learners. I first used it as a homework exercise. The English on the site is a little quirky but it is an exercise using authentic material which always has its upsides and downsides.
However, it is good on human interests and most people like animals. It involves ICT, Reading and Writing. It’s best to pre-teach the vocabulary.
Also ideal for, and fully mapped to, Functional Skills English Level 1 reading and writng.
Literacy: Reading: text focus (comprehension), Rw/L2.3, Writing: text focus (composition)
Context: Animal care & Equine
Level: L2
Resource type: Reading comprehension
Cats exploit humans by purring is a comprehension activity based on a BBC 2009 news report. Comprehension questions, vocabulary/synonyms and a writing task.
Literacy: Reading, Fiction
ESOL: ESOL Reading
Free tags: Humour
Context: Animal care & Equine
Level: E3
Resource type: Reading comprehension
Laugh and Learn is a funny vet story accompanied by an excellent explanation of the puns used in the text and vocabulary/comprehension questions.
