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Practise rounding money and estimating totals. 5 questions for Entry 3.

Level
Entry Level 3
Maths
MSS1/E3.2
N1/E3.8
Context
Retail Hospitality Customer service

A great warm-up activity. Students work in pairs to find information in holiday brochures. Easily adapted for your own brochures. Covers scanning, organisational features, detailed reading, etc. at E3-L2.

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
English
Rt/E3.4
Rt/L1.3
Rt/L2.3 Identify the main points and specific detail
Rt/E3.5
Rt/L1.4
Rt/L2.6 Use organisational features and systems to locate texts and information
Rt/E3.6
Rt/E3.7
Rt/E3.8
Rt/L1.5
Rt/L2.7 Use different reading strategies to find and obtain information, e.g. skimming, scanning, detailed reading
Context
Leisure, Hobbies, Travel & Tourism

A fabulous collection of embedded literacy and numeracy activities for Milestone 8- Entry 2. Covers reading, matching and spelling key words, counting, ordinal numbers, money, telephone work and more. Plus lots of great ideas for multi-sensory teaching.

Level
M8
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
English
AL Rw/E1.1 Have limited, meaningful sight vocabulary of words, signs, symbols
AL Rw/E1.3
Ww/E1.1
Maths
AN N1/E1.4
AN N1/E1.2 Read & write numbers up to 10 inc. zero
AN N1/E1.3 Order & compare numbers up to 10 inc. zero
AN N1/E2.2 Read, write, order & compare numbers to 100; odd even nos.
Pre-entry
pre-Entry Rw/M8.1Recognise letters of the alphabet by shape, name, sound
pre-Entry Rw/M8.3 Recognise & read a growing no. of words signs symbols
pre-Entry Ww/M8.1 Write with appropriate grip making many controlled letter shapes & using a conventional sequence of letters
pre-Entry N1/M8.5 recognise, use, record & know value of numerals 0-10
Context
Motor vehicles & Transport

Lots of practice converting sterling to various currencies (selling rate) and then converting back (buying rate).

Level
Level 2
Maths
MSS1/L2.1
Context
Leisure, Hobbies, Travel & Tourism

A topical comprehension activity based on a 2007 BBC news report. Proof reading (misspelt homophones) and comprehension questions.

Level
Level 1
English
Homophones, homographs & confusables
AL Rt/L1.1 Understand continuous texts
Rt/L1.3
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies
Context
Education and teaching
Health, Social care, Early years

A topical comprehension activity based on a 2008 BBC news report. Writing task, 12 multiple choice spelling questions, vocabulary / synonyms and comprehension true / false questions.

Level
Level 1
English
Adult literacy: reading comprehension (Rt)
Adult Literacy: Reading at word level (phonics & vocabulary)
Adult Literacy: writing composition (Wt)
AL Ww/L1.1 Spell & use spelling strategies
Context
Education and teaching

A series of true / false comprehension questions and a dictionary / vocabulary exercise – based on a 2006 BBC news report.

Level
Level 2
English
Adult literacy: reading comprehension (Rt)
Adult Literacy: Reading at word level (phonics & vocabulary)
Context
News, Politics & Government items

A short article with multiple choice questions and ideas for discussion. Several of the questions also require general L1 numeracy skills with time and large numbers, making this a good all round starter activity.

Level
Level 1
English
Adult literacy: reading comprehension (Rt)
Maths
Number
Context
Sport and fitness

Provides topical practice in formatting text, line spacing, etc. – plus students must add their own paragraph of information.

Level
Entry Level 3
ICT
Entry 3 ICT
Context
Sport and fitness

Lots of practice in substitution and converting temperatures from home and abroad. With comprehensive answer sheet.

Level
Level 2
Maths
MSS1/L2.4
AN N1/L2.4
Context
Leisure, Hobbies, Travel & Tourism