Education
ESOL: ESOL Lr/L1.2a, ESOL Lr/L1.5a, ESOL Lr/L2.1a, ESOL Lr/L2.3a, ESOL Sc/L1.2b, ESOL Sc/L2.3b
Free tags: Equality and Diversity
Context: Education
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Discussion points, Listening and/or speaking activity, On-screen activity or video, Worksheet or assignment
A Yorkshire Yarn is a short documentary series exploring the English language learning experiences of three students at the University of Huddersfield. There are three episodes in the series.
1 The Tales of a Trainee Tutor
http://www.youtube.com/user/ESOLRESOURCES#p/a/u/2/Itb9nc9rIMg
‘The Tale of a Trainee Teacher’ is the first episode and explores the experiences of Wafaa Fathy. Wafaa was born in Egypt and now lives in Leeds.
Pre-entry: Ww/M8.1, Wt/M8.4, Ww/M8.2, Rw/M8.2, Rw/M8.3
Literacy: Apply strategies to spell correctly, Rw/E1.1, Rw/E2.2
Context: Education, Independent living
Resource type: Flash cards, Sort or match cards, Worksheet or assignment
Level: M8, E1
A flexible set of exercises based on common classroom items such as pens, pencils. folders, hole punch, etc. Can be used in a variety of ways – with or without learner support. Includes worksheets and flash / matching cards. Detailed preEntry mapping information. First used at the start of the academic year with a new preEntry class.
Literacy: Speaking & Listening
ESOL: ESOL Reading: text focus (comprehension), ESOL Speak to communicate, ESOL Listen and respond
Context: Education
Resource type: Listening and/or speaking activity, Worksheet or assignment
Level: E1
Set of speaking prompts / paired dialogue sheets and other related worksheets for Entry 1 ESOL. Students can practise reading the conversation in pairs, complete the missing speech bubbles and answer the comprehension questions. Based on a conversation between two male college students. With many photographs and picture prompts.
Literacy: Functional English - speaking, listening & communication, Engage in Discussion
Context: Education, Politics & News items
Level: E2, E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Discussion points, Informative presentation
Education Cuts!Stop FE/HE Education Cuts is a set of 6 photographs (taken in Hackney, March 2010). Each accompanied by questions to get learners thinking about the effects of proposed education cuts (spring 2010). Designed to accompany any of the 4 related resources on this topic (see below) and ideal for prompting discussion about the importance of education for all.
Contributed by Rebecca Galbraith, Rose Veitch and Rachel Emmett.
Literacy: Reading: text focus (comprehension)
Context: Education, Politics & News items
Level: L2
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Worksheet or assignment
Written for a GCSE English class but is equally suitable for Level 2 Literacy. Various tasks based on a transcript of a speech about education cuts (in 2010).
Please also download the related PowerPoint (see below).
Contributed by Rebecca Galbraith, Rose Veitch and Rachel Emmett.
Literacy: General literacy / English, Reading: text focus (comprehension)
Context: Education, Politics & News items
Level: L2
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Writing prompts
A super, and very topical (Spring 2010), practice Level 2 Literacy test based on a student union magazine article about education cuts.
12 multiple choice questions cover spelling, comprehension, grammar, tone, punctuation, etc. These are followed by 5 non-multiple choice questions which include a writing task, persuasive writing techniques, and summarising.
Please also download the related PowerPoint (see below).
Contributed by Rachel Emmett and Rose Veitch
Literacy: Functional Skills English
ESOL: General ESOL
Context: Education, Politics & News items
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment, Writing frame, Writing prompts
Level: E2, E3
Education cutsA fabulous set of scaffolded reading/writing tasks – written for E2-E3 ESOL but absolutely ideal for Entry 2-3 (and higher) Functional English. The reading is based on three different topical texts on this emotive subject (spring 2010).
The writing involves writing a letter to your MP – a frame is provided for E2 writers. Get your college/students involved in this now!
With full details of relevant Functional English criteria.
Please also download the related PowerPoint (see below).
Literacy: Reading
Context: Education, Politics & News items
Level: L1
Resource type: Assessment material
A super, and very topical (Spring 2010), practice Level 1 Literacy test based on a letter of protest written to the Prime Minister. 12 multiple choice questions cover spelling, comprehension, grammar, punctuation, paragraphing and purpose of text.
Please also download the related PowerPoint (see below).
Literacy: Homophones, homographs & confusables, Reading: text focus (comprehension), Rw/L2.3, Writing: text focus (composition), Ww/L2.1
Context: Education
Level: L2
Resource type: Reading comprehension
A comprehension activity based on a BBC 2008 news report. Comprehension questions, vocabulary, spelling, homophones and a writing task.
Literacy: Reading: text focus (comprehension), Rt/L2.3
Context: Education
Level: L2
Resource type: Reading comprehension
Primary education ‘too narrow’ is a comprehension activity based on a BBC 2009 news report. General comprehension questions and recognising the main points.
