ESOL Speak to communicate

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
ESOL Engage in discussion
Context
Education and teaching

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
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
ESOL Speak to communicate
Context
Retail Hospitality Customer service

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
ESOL Speak to communicate
Context
Employment skills & Public services

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
ESOL Speak to communicate
Context
Independent living

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
ESOL Speak to communicate

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

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
Speaking & Listening
ESOL
ESOL Listen and respond
ESOL Speak to communicate
ESOL Reading: text focus (comprehension)
Context
Education and teaching

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
SLd/L2.5
SLd/L2.4
SLc/L2.4
SLc/L2.3
Functional English - speaking, listening & communicating
ESOL
ESOL Speak to communicate
General
Generic resources for literacy, numeracy and beyond