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Give me some advice is a great way to encourage students to provide non threatening advice, whilst improving their writing and listening-speaking skills.

A great project that covers many L1/2 numeracy elements. You win the lottery, buy a salon and have to furnish it from catalogues and/or Internet sites. Learn about budgeting, displaying data, working with areas and floor plans, bank statements, rounding, estimating, and much more. Everything must be written up as a comprehensive report with a clear conclusion (a great guidance page on report writing is included in the resource).

Premier League numeracy. Makes a great beginning of term activity for mixed ability (E3-L2) groups – especially if the group includes some footie fans!
With lots of questions about the 2007 Premier League table. Covers a range of number elements inc. fractions, tables, percentages and formulae. A small research question is also included that requires learner to find the latest league table.

Use the web sites to find travel / car hire information and accommodation and then work out the cost of your weekend away. A great way to practise written methods and problem solving.

A card game and a great way to introduce students to official statistics and get them to extract, interpret, and organise data.

Very clear help sheet that explains how to find fractions of amounts (followed by some questions).

A great paired game for improving listening, speaking and reading skills. You need a pack of playing cards.

A great paired game for improving listening to instructions, speaking and reading skills – plus you get to eat the sweets at the end!

THOAN (think of a number) makes a great starter and can be adapted for all levels.

These sheets make great starter activities – especially when used in pairs or small groups. One for qu- words, one for -all words and a blank ‘wall’ to add your own spelling challenge.