History
Literacy: Rs/L2.1, Rt/L1.4, Rt/L1.5, Rt/L2.1, Rt/L2.3, Rt/L2.7, Rw/L1.1, Rw/L1.2, Rw/L1.3
Free tags: Equality and Diversity
Context: History
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Worksheet or assignment
Level 1 / Level 2 resource for literacy students exploring Chinese customs. This has proved to be a popular resource with my students. Includes: reading, dictionary work, comprehension and grammatical knowledge with a fun part where learners find their Chinese horoscope animal.
Literacy: Rt/L1.1, Rt/L1.3, Ww/L1.1
Context: History
Level: L1
Resource type: Reading comprehension
A set of exercises based on an article fromm the BBC News website.
This may interest learners who are keen on antiques. There is a comprehension exercise, exercises involving the identification of spelling errors (homophones) and a noun anagram exercise.
Useful for those working towards Level 1/2 Certificate in Adult Literacy.
Literacy: Rt/E3.1, Rt/L1.1, Writing: text focus (composition)
ESOL: ESOL Writing: text focus (composition), ESOL Rt/E3.1a, ESOL Rt/L1.1a
Free tags: New Year
Context: History
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Interactive presentation, Reading comprehension, Sort or match cards, Worksheet or assignment, Writing prompts
This is an activity on New Year. It was written for an E3 ESOL class but could be adapted for E2 fairly easily too. There is a reading comprehension, a group activity, writing practice and also an optional cut-up “top Ten” resolutions activity.
I haven’t done a lesson plan to go with the resources as I think they could be easily adapted and used in different ways.
Literacy: Rt/E3.1, Rt/L1.1, Ws/E3.1, Ws/E3.2, Ws/L1.1, Ws/L1.2, Wt/E3.1, Wt/E3.2, Wt/L1.1
Pre-entry: Text Focus (interest)
ESOL: ESOL Rt/E3.1a, ESOL Rt/L1.1a, ESOL Ws/E3.1a, ESOL Ws/E3.2a, ESOL Ws/L1.1a, ESOL Ws/L1.2a, ESOL Wt/E3.1a, ESOL Wt/E3.2a, ESOL Wt/L1.1a
Free tags: Australia, Equality and Diversity
Context: History
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Wordsearch, Worksheet or assignment
Level: E3, L1
A first person autobiographical account of life in outback Australia.
Exercises include comprehension questions using when, where etc.
A revision of past tense verbs – regular and irregular.
A fill the gap using the correct verb tense.
A writing prompt for students to write about themselves – emphasising the use of conjunctions and short paragraphs.
A Wordsearch.
Includes a glossary of Australian words used in the text.
Literacy: Homophones, homographs & confusables, Rs/E3.2, Rs/L1.1, Ww/L1.1
Context: History
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Cloze exercise
A clever grammar/vocabulary/spelling task that combines a cloze exercise with homophone practice. The text is about the Victorian era and is particularly suitable for students with an interest in history.
Literacy: Rs/E3.2, Rs/L1.1, Rt/E3.1, Rt/E3.4, Rt/L1.1, Rt/L1.3
Free tags: Winter, Equality and Diversity, Christmas
Context: Gardening & Horticulture, History
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Cloze exercise, Reading comprehension, Worksheet or assignment
Nice selection of winter activities written for an E3-L2 Functional Skills group (best for E3-L1).
The main activities are a reading comprehension (about the history of poinsettias and how they came to be popular at Christmas time) and a cloze exercise based on an old Mexican religious legend. There are also some maths questions.
Literacy: Rt/L1.1, Rt/L1.3
Free tags: Winter, Equality and Diversity
Context: History
Level: L1
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Writing prompts
Based on a BBC Religions – Paganism article, this is an interesting reading comprehension for the long winter months. It also includes a cloze exercise and some short writing and research activities.
Literacy: Rt/L1.1, Rt/L1.3, Rt/L2.1, Rt/L2.3
Free tags: Christmas
Context: History
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Reading comprehension
Beautiful set of L1-2 Reading comprehension exercises. Includes Medieval Christmas, Victorian Christmas, Post-War Christmas, etc. The main focus is reading for detail but there are also vocabulary and dictionary questions.
Based on a series of BBC British History web pages of the same name – but note that only nine “ages” are included in this resource! (There is no Georgian/Regency Christmas).
Literacy: General literacy / English, Homophones, homographs & confusables, Functional English - reading, Functional English - writing
Numeracy: MSS1/E2.3, MSS1/E3.3
Free tags: Autumn, Equality and Diversity, Guy Fawkes
Context: History, Leisure Travel Tourism
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Worksheet or assignment
This resource was created for Adult Literacy Entry 3 Learners but can be used with mixed ability groups from E2 – L1. It includes reading comprehension and related exercises covering many curriculum areas, based on the Guy Fawkes Night theme.
The first section is a comprehension based on the history of Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night. The text is suitable for E3-L2. Questions cover general comprehension, punctuation, homophones/spellings, proper nouns, alphabetical order and dictionary work.
Literacy: Ww/E2.1, Ww/E2.2, Ww/E3.1, Ww/E3.2, Functional English - reading, Rt/E3.1, Rt/L1.1, Rt/L1.3, Rw/E3.3, Rw/E3.4, Wt/E3.4, Ww/L1.1
Free tags: Autumn, Equality and Diversity, Halloween
Context: History
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Worksheet or assignment
This resource was created for Adult Literacy Entry 3 Learners. It includes reading comprehension and related exercises covering many curriculum areas, based on the Halloween theme.
