ESOL Resources
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Literacy: Rs/E1.1, Rt/E1.1
Pre-entry: General pre-Entry
ESOL: ESOL Rs/E1.1a, ESOL Rt/E1.1a
Context: Independent living
Resource type: Cloze exercise, Reading comprehension, Writing frame, Writing prompts
Level: M8, E1
This is a lower-level version of ‘My Busy Day’ Housework by Laurence Fletcher (see below) for a basic literacy for ESOL class. Also suitable for M8-E1 literacy.
Reading comprehension, simplified cloze and sentence exercises.
Literacy: Ww/E3.2, Prefixes, suffixes & plurals, Ww/L1.1
ESOL: ESOL Ww/E2.1b, ESOL Ww/E3.1a, ESOL Ww/L1.1a, ESOL Ww/L1.1b
Level: E2, E3, L1
Resource type: Handout or guide, Sort or match cards, Worksheet or assignment
Visual colour-coded resource, explaining the main plural spelling rules. Created for E2/E3 learners, but could also be useful for all visual learners working between E2-L2.
Includes: colour-coded fact sheet, blank table, worksheet and flash cards to cut out and laminate. Could be used for a number of different activities.
Literacy: Rt/E1.1
ESOL: ESOL Rt/E1.1a, ESOL Rt/E1.1b
Free tags: Australia
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Worksheet or assignment
Level: E1
An easy reading for beginners followed by complete the sentence exercise and a prompt to write about themselves. Two sheets – one for British students, one for Australian learners.
Literacy: Rt/E1.1
ESOL: ESOL Rt/E1.1a, ESOL Rt/E1.1b
Free tags: Equality and Diversity
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Worksheet or assignment
Level: E1
A short reading text for beginners followed by comprehension exercises. Useful for revising early family vocabulary.
Literacy: Rt/E1.1
ESOL: ESOL Rt/E1.1a, ESOL Rt/E1.1b
Free tags: Australia, Equality and Diversity
Context: Catering Food Nutrition
Level: E1
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Worksheet or assignment
A short reading text for beginners, followed by fill the gap sentences. Two sheets – one for British students and one for Australian students.
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.
Literacy: Rt/E3.1, Rt/L1.1, Writing: text focus (composition)
ESOL: ESOL Writing: text focus (composition), ESOL Rt/E3.1a, ESOL Rt/L1.1a
Free tags: New Year
Context: History
Level: E3, L1
Resource type: Interactive presentation, Reading comprehension, Sort or match cards, Worksheet or assignment, Writing prompts
This is an activity on New Year. It was written for an E3 ESOL class but could be adapted for E2 fairly easily too. There is a reading comprehension, a group activity, writing practice and also an optional cut-up “top Ten” resolutions activity.
I haven’t done a lesson plan to go with the resources as I think they could be easily adapted and used in different ways.
Literacy: Rw/E2.4, Rw/E3.4
ESOL: ESOL Rw/E3.4a
Context: Employment skills & Public services
Resource type: Interactive presentation, Listening and/or speaking activity, Worksheet or assignment
Level: E2, E3
The resources have been designed to complement the alphabetical ordering component of the E2 and E3 adult literacy exams. There are are four printable worksheets suitable for levels E2-E3. Two worksheets have also been adapted as PPT slides which include audio files so that the jobs and instructions can be heard as well as read.
Literacy: Rt/E3.1, Rt/L1.1, Ws/E3.1, Ws/E3.2, Ws/L1.1, Ws/L1.2, Wt/E3.1, Wt/E3.2, Wt/L1.1
Pre-entry: Text Focus (interest)
ESOL: ESOL Rt/E3.1a, ESOL Rt/L1.1a, ESOL Ws/E3.1a, ESOL Ws/E3.2a, ESOL Ws/L1.1a, ESOL Ws/L1.2a, ESOL Wt/E3.1a, ESOL Wt/E3.2a, ESOL Wt/L1.1a
Free tags: Australia, Equality and Diversity
Context: History
Resource type: Reading comprehension, Wordsearch, Worksheet or assignment
Level: E3, L1
A first person autobiographical account of life in outback Australia.
Exercises include comprehension questions using when, where etc.
A revision of past tense verbs – regular and irregular.
A fill the gap using the correct verb tense.
A writing prompt for students to write about themselves – emphasising the use of conjunctions and short paragraphs.
A Wordsearch.
Includes a glossary of Australian words used in the text.
Literacy: Rw/L2.3
ESOL: ESOL Rw/L2.3a
Level: L1, L2
Resource type: Interactive presentation, Worksheet or assignment
A complete lesson to help students in using these reference books. Look at and compare the features of different dictionaries, look up words in a dictionary, order words alphabetically and rewrite a text (in aprs) using a thesaurus to replace every instance of “good” with a more appropriate woprd