Summer
Literacy: Functional Skills English, General literacy / English
Free tags: Summer
Context: Art Film Media Music TV, Leisure Travel Tourism
Level: E3
Resource type: Assessment material, Revision material
A fabulous City and Guilds style E3 literacy assignment that covers all aspects of E3 speaking and listening, reading and writing. Based on a trip to a seaside music festival, it makes a very appealing summer-time revision activity for music fans of any age.
The real-life, practical nature of the tasks makes them equally suitable for Functional Skills English practice.
Numeracy: Functional Maths - number, N1/L1.7, N2/L1.2
Free tags: Summer
Context: Catering Food Nutrition
Level: L1
Resource type: Worksheet or assignment
Planning a barbecue is just in time for the end of the BBQ season and is a great way to introduce the idea of scaling down (or up). Some of your guests are unable to come. How can you adjust the food quantities to avoid wastage? Designed to facilitate discussion about ratios and fractions.
The problem solving nature also makes this very suitable for L1 Functional Maths.
Literacy: Rw/E1.1, Rw/E2.1
ESOL: ESOL Rw/E1.1a, ESOL Rw/E2.2a
Free tags: Summer
Resource type: Bingo, lotto or Pelmanism
Level: E1, E2
An ideal end of year or summer activity for beginning readers (ESOL or Lit). 9 illustrated bingo boards plus checklist.
Literacy: General literacy / English
ESOL: General ESOL
Free tags: Summer
Resource type: Cloze exercise, Crossword, Wordsearch, Worksheet or assignment
Level: E1, E2
A beautiful set of 5 games and activities at text, sentence and word level. Includes word fill, word search, cloze exercise and more. Ideal for end of term lesson (or the beginning of the autumn term when holidays are being discussed) with answer sheets and teaching ideas.
Numeracy: MSS1/E2.5, N1/E2.6, N1/E3.7, MSS1/L1.9, N1/L1.8, N1/E3.9, MSS1/L2.7, N1/L1.3, N1/L2.4, N1/L2.1, MSS1/E3.5, MSS1/L1.4, MSS1/L1.7, MSS1/L2.6
Free tags: Spring, Summer, Autumn
Context: Gardening & Horticulture
Level: E2, E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Investigation or project, Teaching idea
A super differentiated whole group activity (E2 – L2) for spring, summer or autumn. Covers measures, area, rounding, substitution and more.
Numeracy: N1/E3.2, HD1/L1.3, N1/E1.7, N1/E2.6, HD1/L1.4, N1/E3.7, HD1/L2.3, N1/E2.2, N1/E3.9, HD1/E2.5, HD1/E3.2, N1/L1.3, N1/L2.4, HD1/E3.4, N2/E3.4, HD1/L1.2, MSS1/E3.4, N2/L1.11, HD1/L2.2, N2/L2.10, MSS1/L1.5, MSS1/L2.6
Free tags: Summer
Context: Leisure Travel Tourism
Level: E1, E2, E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Lesson plan, Teaching idea
A differentiated whole group (E1 – L2) activity that’s ideal for the first class after the summer break.
Literacy: Ww/E3.1, Ww/E3.2, Rs/E3.2, Rt/E3.2, Rt/E3.4, Rt/L1.2, Rw/L1.2, Rw/L1.3, Wt/E3.1, Wt/E3.3, Wt/L1.1, Wt/L1.4, Wt/L1.5
Free tags: Summer
Context: Leisure Travel Tourism
Level: E2, E3, L1
Resource type: Handout or guide, Interactive presentation, Shared text, Writing frame
Happy Holidays is a set of two resources that was used and created during a series of eight 2 hour lessons. DO NOT USE IT ALL AT ONCE – and please read the notes underneath each slide!
PowerPoint
Start by looking at postcards. Then learn about compound words and write a group postcard (followed by individual ones). Move on to look at adjectives and the persuasive language of holiday advertisements (inc. working out unfamiliar vocabulary) and finish by writing your own hotel adverts.
Happy Holidays extra resources
To accompany the Happy Holidays PowerPoint.
Numeracy: General numeracy / maths
Free tags: Summer
Level: E1, E2, E3, L1, L2
Resource type: Teaching idea
Numeracy during the summer. Keep your students’ skills going during the summer break with these ideas. 1 page for Entry level, one for levels 1/2. Covers number, measures, shape and space, and data.
