ESOL Speak to communicate (Sc)

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Adult ESOL Core Curriculum (DfES 2001) > Speaking and Listening > Speaking (S) > Speak to Communicate (Sc)

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Joining the PTA (parent teacher association) role play

A role play to encourage learners to join their schools' PTA.  A parent asks at school about joining the PTA. Later she goes to a meeting and offers to help on a face painting stall at the Christmas fete.

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
ESOL
ESOL Speak to communicate (Sc)
ESOL Engage in discussion (Sd)
Context
Education and teaching

Making and dealing with complaints

This resource has a range of activities to help students learn useful expressions/ language to make a complaint.
It is useful in building confidence in making complaints in person and on the telephone.

Editor’s note
Includes sample dialogue with questions (can also be used as a reading comprehension), matching cards, sammple scenarios, curriculum mapping and teaching notes.

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 3
English
Functional English - speaking, listening & communicating
Functional English reading
Adult Literacy: Speaking & Listening
ESOL
ESOL Sc/E3.4d Give an explanation
ESOL Sc/E3.4a Express clearly statements of fact 
ESOL Sc/E2.3d Give an explanation
ESOL Sc/E2.2a Make requests: ask for things or action
ESOL Lr/E3.2b Listen for detail face to face or on the phone
ESOL Lr/E2.2a Listen for detail
ESOL Listen and respond (Lr)
ESOL Speak to communicate (Sc)
Context
Retail Hospitality Customer service

Going to an employment agency - role play prompts

A role play which teaches learners how to start looking for work using an agency. It also contains phrases to help learners to ask for clarification.

Level
Entry Level 3
Entry Level 2
ESOL
ESOL Listen and respond (Lr)
ESOL Speak to communicate (Sc)
Context
Employment skills & Public services

Dialogue prompts for Entry ESOL role play (Set 2)

11 page document with 8 sets of very useful scripts and prompts.
Includes:

  • Asking for personal information
  • Phoning about a job
  • Cancelling and changing appointments
  • On the bus
  • Shopping (includes post office, butchers, etc.)
  • At the bank
  • Reporting an absence
  • Calling for an application form
Level
Entry Level 3
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 1
ESOL
ESOL Listen and respond (Lr)
ESOL Speak to communicate (Sc)
Context
Independent living

Dialogue prompts for Entry ESOL speaking and listening role play

Three very useful sets of scripts and prompts.

  • Using polite language when out and about
  • Having someone around to your house
  • Asking questions at school (e.g. parents chatting in the playground)
Level
Entry Level 3
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 1
ESOL
ESOL Listen and respond (Lr)
ESOL Speak to communicate (Sc)

What year did you? ESOL and Numeracy

This activity encourages ESOL students:
- To communicate with each other while moving around the classroom,
- To revise Past Simple (questions and answers),
- To practise basic numeracy (subtraction).

With extensive teachers’ notes

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 1
Maths
AN N1/E3.2
ESOL
ESOL Sc/E2.2a Make requests: ask for things or action
ESOL Sc/E1.1a Use stress & intonation to make speech comprehensible
ESOL Lr/E1.4a Listen and respond to requests for personal information
ESOL Speak to communicate (Sc)

Conversation skills for E1 ESOL

Set of speaking prompts / paired dialogue sheets and other related worksheets for Entry 1 ESOL. Students can practise reading the conversation in pairs, complete the missing speech bubbles and answer the comprehension questions. Based on a conversation between two male college students. With many photographs and picture prompts.

Level
Entry Level 1
English
Adult Literacy: Speaking & Listening
ESOL
ESOL Listen and respond (Lr)
ESOL Speak to communicate (Sc)
ESOL: Reading text focus - comprehension (Rt)
Context
Education and teaching

Creating a presentation

Excellent advice on giving a presentation (this is a required part of Level 2 Functional English assessment and would also be useful for L2 literacy and possibly L2 ESOL). Step by step guide to planning and delivery.

Level
Level 2
English
Adult Lit SLd/L2.5 Use strategies intended to reassure, e.g. body language, appropriate phraseology
Adult Lit SLd/L2.4 Support opinions and arguments with evidence
Adult Lit SLc/L2.4 Present information and ideas in a logical sequence and provide further detail and development to clarify or confirm understanding
Adult Lit SLc/L2.3 Express clearly statements of fact, explanations, instructions, accounts & descriptions, using appropriate structure, style & vocabulary
Functional English - speaking, listening & communicating
GCSE English Spoken Language AO9 Use standard English
GCSE English Spoken Language AO7 Formal presentation skills
ESOL
ESOL Speak to communicate (Sc)
General
Generic resources for literacy, numeracy and beyond
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