Humour
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: Functional English - speaking, listening & communication, Present information
Free tags: Humour
Level: E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Discussion points, Listening and/or speaking activity
Cards that can be laminated and used over and over again for speaking and listening using persuasive language. Ideal for Functional Skills English speaking, listening and communication practice.
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: 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.
Literacy: Writing: text focus (composition)
Free tags: Humour
Context: Business & Money management, Employment skills & Public services
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment, Writing prompts
Pass Percy’s three point test and then complete his informative and persuasive writing tasks!
Literacy: Fiction, Follow and understand, Apply strategies to spell correctly, Rw/E1.2
Free tags: Humour
Level: E1
Resource type: Crossword, Flash cards, Shared text, Sort or match cards
An outstanding resource for E1 emerging readers. Based on a humorous story, this set of multi-sensory phonics activities includes a 2 page story; detailed tutor notes; various sets of word cards for spelling, reading, rhyming, listening/speaking and alphabetical order activities; and a crossword.
ESOL: ESOL Reading: sentence focus (grammar, punctuation), ESOL Rs/E2.1b
Free tags: Humour
Context: Retail Hospitality Customer service
Level: E1, E2
Resource type: Cloze exercise
E1-E2 ESOL gap fill exercise that focuses on personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, they) and possessive adjectives (my, your, his, her, its, our, their). Lovely real life style story with a touch of humour.
General: Study Skills and General Teaching
Free tags: Humour
Level: E1, E2, E3, L1
Resource type: Warm-up
This is a fun, short warm up activity to energise learners at the start of the lesson. It asks students to make a decision on a question and either stand up or sit down depending on their views.
I use it with my Foundation learners, as I teach them maths at 9am in the morning and sometimes they need a short activity to engage them!
Two different versions are included. Some of the questions are not for the faint-hearted but all can be easily edited to suit your own learners.
Literacy: Ws/L1.3, Ws/L2.4
Free tags: Humour, Royal wedding
Context: Politics & News items
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Handout or guide, Worksheet or assignment
One handout with the main rules of using speech marks and one worksheet for learners to practise applying these rules.
I used these with a strong L1 literacy group who had little prior knowledge of the rules for speech marks. They generally did well with re-writing some unpunctuated sentences I gave them but got a bit confused with the attached exercise on Prince William and Kate Middleton (they used speech marks inside the speech bubbles). This may need to be demonstrated in front of the group first.
Literacy: General literacy / English, Rt/L1.1, Rt/L2.8
Free tags: Humour
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Reading comprehension
A comprehension exercise based on an amusing newspaper article of the same name. Questions cover purpose of text, vocabulary, punctuation and summarising.
