Politics & News items
Literacy: Functional English - reading, Rt/E2.1
Free tags: Humour
Context: Motor vehicles & Transport, Politics & News items
Level: E2
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Worksheet or assignment
A short reading adapted from an online news report. Exercises include comprehension questions, placing sentences in the correct order, matching words and phrases and a fill the gap exercise. Answer sheet included.
Editor’s note
Fully mapped to E2 Functional English (reading) with extra teaching tips.
Literacy: General literacy / English, Functional English - reading, Functional English - writing
Context: Politics & News items
Level: L2
Resource type: Revision material, Worksheet or assignment, Writing prompts
A Level 2 Functional Skills English pack based on the troubles in London and other parts of England in the summer of 2011.
Reading and writing activities are included, alongside answers.
Discussions across a range of subjects may stem from this work in order to inform Speaking and Listening skills practice.
Fully mapped to the Functional English criteria.
Literacy: Reading: text focus (comprehension), Writing: text focus (composition), Ww/L2.1, Reading: word focus (phonics & vocabulary)
Context: Politics & News items
Level: L2
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Writing prompts
A set of exercises based on an article from the BBC News website.
The article concerns a survey conducted by iPhone. There is a comprehension exercise, an exercise involving the identification of spelling errors and a synonym exercise. The learner is also asked to write their views. Useful for those working towards the Level 2 Certificate in Adult Literacy.
Literacy: Homophones, homographs & confusables, Reading: text focus (comprehension), Writing: text focus (composition)
Context: Politics & News items
Level: L2
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Writing prompts
An article from BBC News on-line.
There is a set of comprehension questions, a homophone exercise and an
anagrams puzzle. There is a short writing task.
Literacy: Functional English - reading, Reading: text focus (comprehension)
Context: Politics & News items
Level: E3
Resource type: Reading comprehension
E3 reading comprehension based on a short news article about the replacement of ASBOs with criminal behaviour orders.
Questions cover purpose and layout of text, general comprehension and vocabulary. Ideal for, and fully mapped to, E3 Functional English. Teaching tips also included.
Literacy: Reading: text focus (comprehension), Writing: text focus (composition), Ww/L1.1, Reading: word focus (phonics & vocabulary)
Context: Politics & News items
Level: L1
Resource type: Reading comprehension
An article based on an on-line BBC News story. There are comprehension questions, along with vocabulary and spelling tasks. The final task is short writing exercise based on the text.
Literacy: Functional Skills English, General literacy / English
Context: History, Politics & News items
Level: L2
Resource type: Discussion points, Reading comprehension, Writing prompts
Excellent set of reading comprehension, vocabulary (definitions, synonyms, antonyms), grammar (parts of speech) and writing tasks (write an article) on this emotive topic. Based on a BBC “On this day” article.
Also ideal for prompting a Level 1 or 2 Functional English discussion.
Literacy: SLlr/E1.1, SLlr/E1.2, SLlr/E1.3, SLlr/E2.2, SLlr/E2.3
Context: Health, Social care, Early years, Leisure Travel Tourism, Politics & News items
Level: E1, E2
Resource type: Listening and/or speaking activity, Worksheet or assignment
Listening activities are few and far between but this fabulous set is ideal for, and fully mapped, to Entry 1 and 2 Functional English learners.
Based on four everyday listening events
- An announcement in a station
- A notice in a waiting room
- A news report
- A telephone conversation
Each provides practice listening for gist and detail in short explanations.
Literacy: Reading, Writing
Context: Politics & News items
Level: L2
Resource type: Revision material, Worksheet or assignment
A very good and rather challenging set of Level 2 reading and writing tasks. Based on a topical and controversial news article about the UK benefits system, it also makes an prompt for discussion.
The reading questions are multiple choice as in the Level 2 Literacy test but they are followed by several challenging writing and summarising questions that would also be suitable for Functional Skills English.
Literacy: Listen for gist, Listen for detail, Functional English - speaking, listening & communication
General: Generic resources for literacy, numeracy and beyond
Context: Politics & News items
Resource type: Listening and/or speaking activity
Level: E1, E2, E3
This is a resource I developed, prior to the May 2011 referendum, to use as part of ‘language for expressing opinions’ at E3 Level. It’s quite basic but can be developed in different ways for classes of different levels. It is based the Victor the Vote Counter video available on YouTube or www.aboutmyvote.co.uk
