Adult Literacy, Functional English, and GCSE Resources

Step by step instructions for an excellent paired activity. Also provides useful practice for formal speaking and listening assessments.

A speaking and listening card game / warm-up activity for Entry 2-3 Literacy. Makes an ideal link to Entry level descriptive writing and work on adjectives. With differentiation ideas for preEntry and Levels 1-2. Best printed in colour and laminated. 20 animal cards plus extensive teaching notes which include differentiation ideas for preEntry and Levels 1-2.

If you want to use our ‘adjective wheels’ to help students plan their written or spoken descriptions please download the related “Animal Descriptions” game below.

A transcript and video link to a performance of Benjamin Zephaniah’s great poem. Great for discussion of language, dialect and oral performance and for Level 2 reading – inferring meaning, etc.

Provides useful prompts for general discussion work (small groups). Its budgeting slant also makes it suitable for numeracy classes.

A short but very useful PPT that is bound to stimulate much discussion about the different ways we communicate.

Problem Page is a great way to encourage paired reading, writing and discussion skills. Students discuss a typical problem from a tabloid newspaper page and then, in pairs, work on different problems and how they would solve them. For Entry 3, L1/2 ESOL and Literacy.

Multi-sensory alphabetical ordering activity that is bound to provoke lots of discussion!

A lovely sorting exercise that could also be used to stimulate discussion in non-hairdressing classes!

A set of fabulous cards that can be used for a host of games and activities (teaching suggestions are included).

Entry Level punctuation cards for a variety of multisensory games, matching activities and challenges.