Level 1

Level 1

Written for L2 literacy and ESOL students. Six lively task sheets cover letters of application, holiday enquiries, letters of complaint and more.
The practical, real life aspect also makes this an ideal resource for Functional English.

Level
Level 1
Level 2
English
Functional English - writing
Adult Literacy: writing composition (Wt)
ESOL
ESOL: Writing - text focus (composition)

Written for Key Skills ICT Level 1 (but also suitable for ICT Skills for Life, Functional ICT etc.). First task covers netiquette, the second task is based on holidays and covers sending, printing, replying to, and forwarding emails.

Level
Level 1
ICT
Level 1 and 2 CLAIT / ECDL
Context
Business & Money management

A great way to give a start- of-course overview of skills covered in word processing. 16 slides cover formatting and aligning text; copying, cutting and pasting; tabs; bullets; clip art; headers and footers; page layout and more!

Level
Level 1
Level 2
ICT
Level 1 and 2 CLAIT / ECDL
Context
Business & Money management

Covers sending, receiving, attachments and viruses. Designed for students using Postmaster but easy to insert your own screen shots if needed.

Level
Level 1
Level 2
ICT
Level 1 and 2 CLAIT / ECDL
Context
Business & Money management

A very useful 2 page handout with information, tip and two quick exercises (one for omission, one for possession).

Level
Level 1
Level 2
English
Apostrophes
Rs/L1.2
AL Ws/L2.4 Use apostrophes & inverted commas

Lots of sequential practice working out percentage parts, increase, decrease and VAT. Three fill-in tables, all based on 4 large mountain bike posters.

Level
Level 1
Level 2
Maths
N2/L1.10
N2/L2.7
AN N2/L2.8 Find percentage parts of quantities and measurements
N1/L1.9
Context
Motor vehicles & Transport
Sport and fitness

Costing-up a nursery is ideal for L2 childcare students studying L1 Functional Maths – originally written for AoN (Key Skills). Clear step by step directions on what to do – research, calculate, find averages, create a scale diagram, etc.

Level
Level 1
Maths
Data Handling
Common Measures
Whole Numbers
Context
Health, Social care, Early years

Written for ESOL students with good basic numeracy skills who were taking the test without attending numeracy classes. However these notes are brilliant for any Level 1 numeracy student (who should also refer to the E3 tips below).

Level
Level 1
Maths
Data Handling
General numeracy / maths
Measures shape and space
Number
ESOL
General ESOL
General
Exam tips and help

A lovely question sheet for checking students’ understanding of practical applications of negative numbers such as temperature.

Level
Level 1
Maths
N1/L1.2

Short quiz provides useful on-screen practice in recognising adverbs (and reading instructions). You can also print a separate copy of the recipe for reading practice, a paper based activity (or to cook it!).

To run the quiz unzip the files (select “Extract all files”) into a new folder and click on l1adverbhotpot. Do not try to run directly from the zip folder or you will not see all the graphics and links.

Created with the excellent freeware program Hot Potatoes http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

Level
Level 1
English
Adult Literacy Rs/L1.1 Use implicit and explicit grammatical knowledge
ESOL
ESOL Rs/L1.1a Use implicit & explicit grammatical knowledge to predict meaning & check for sense
Context
Catering Food Nutrition