General ESOL
Literacy: General literacy / English
ESOL: General ESOL
Level: E2, E3
Resource type: Listening and/or speaking activity, Reading comprehension, Wordsearch, Worksheet or assignment
A short reading text followed by exercises: True or False; Putting words in the correct order to answer questions; Writing sentences with words from the story (or sentences may be copied from the story) and a WordSearch.
This is followed by some dialogue using the situations in the story for practising pronunciation.
Suitable for literacy and ESOL.
Literacy: Functional Skills English, General literacy / English
ESOL: General ESOL
Context: Health and safety
Resource type: Bingo, lotto or Pelmanism, Discussion points, Lesson plan, Listening and/or speaking activity, Warm-up, Wordsearch, Worksheet or assignment, Writing frame, Writing prompts
Level: E1, E2
Worksheets and tasks around the theme of emergencies. Written for ESOL but also suitable for adult literacy and Functionakl English.
The worksheets and tasks include reading for information, preparing and practising an emergency phone call, speaking and writing about an emergency situation. The material is set in an Irish context so some of the vocabulary is specific e.g. ‘garda’ is a police officer and ‘gardai’ is police.
Literacy: General literacy / English, Functional English - reading, Functional English - writing
ICT: Finding and selecting information
ESOL: General ESOL
Context: Leisure Travel Tourism
Resource type: Investigation or project, Worksheet or assignment
Level: L1
A short project for L1 Functional Skills or ESOL, wherein students research aspects of a foreign holiday destination and produce a piece of persuasive advertising based upon findings.
Numeracy: HD1/E3.1, HD1/E3.2, HD1/L1.1
ESOL: General ESOL
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Sort or match cards
Useful to assess learning or for ESOL numeracy students. Learners need to match words and definitions. Laminate or print onto some good quality card to use again and again.
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: Recognise and understand a range of words
ESOL: General ESOL
Context: Motor vehicles & Transport
Resource type: Game
Level: E1, E2
Ideal for E1-E2 ESOL (and even as quick revision for Entry Level 3). Also suitable for E1 Literacy reading.
Literacy: Recognise and understand a range of words, Reading: text focus (comprehension), Ww/L1.1
ESOL: General ESOL
Free tags: Humour
Context: Motor vehicles & Transport
Level: L1
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Revision material
L1 literacy / ESOL practice on a slightly humorous BBC News article. It covers the main areas my learners have issues with: spelling, true or false and synonyms. With answer sheet.
Numeracy: Functional Maths, General numeracy / maths
ESOL: General ESOL
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Revision material, Worksheet or assignment
20 revision questions written by a group of ESOL numeracy students. They are not multiple choice and there is plenty of space to show working out – thus making them equally suitable for underpinning many Functional Maths coverage and range statements. Questions cover averages, money, percentages, ratio, measures, bar charts and area.
Literacy: General literacy / English
ICT: Entry 1 and 2 ICT
ESOL: General ESOL
Context: Retail Hospitality Customer service
Resource type: Cloze exercise, Crossword, Listening and/or speaking activity, On-screen activity or video, Sort or match cards
Level: E1
Set of interactive and paper based activities based on buying and describing clothes. The on-screen activities (match words and pictures, drag and drop sentences, cloze activitiy, crossword) make a good group activity on an interactive whiteboard and can be extended and consolidated using the dialogue prompts, vocabulary cards and other activities in the PDF document.
To run the on-screen actvities, unzip the file (select “Extract all files”) into a new folder and click on clothes1 to run.
Literacy: General literacy / English
Numeracy: General numeracy / maths
ESOL: General ESOL
General: Generic resources for literacy, numeracy and beyond
Resource type: Game, Listening and/or speaking activity
Level: E1, E2, E3, L1
Fun, multi-purpose speaking / reading / listening / writing / maths warm-up activity that can be used at any level and for any subject – particularly effective at Entry Level. Learners shake two dice to locate a word on a number matrix (good for maths:co-ordinates too!).
Five sample grids are provided – covering descriptions, homophones (2 grids), spellings and clothes – plus a blank grid so you can make your own. Includes full instructions and can also be used for numeracy.
