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Recognising and using long and short vowels. Great for reading and spelling. The ‘fill in the vowels’ exercise also helps with basic grammar and sense.

What’s the weather like? and Party Time! are two ‘real-life’ task sheets that involve budgeting, Excel charts and tables, rounding and checking, and finding mean and range.

Equal opportunities maths makes a great quiz for college Equal Ops weeks etc. Once you have checked the answers to the quiz you can complete percentage questions to put the statistics into perspective.

Introduces fractions, explains numerators and denominators and then uses an edible task to teach evaluating one number as a fraction of another and adding fractions. Great for paired work (or small groups).

A short but very clever worksheet that relates these three topics and really helps learners see the connection between decimals and fractions.

A very useful sheet (best used on-screen) providing online links to a range of mouse exercises where learners can learn about right and left clicking, double clicking, drag and drop, etc. Activities range form straightforward tutorials to ‘Dress the Eggplant’, Join the Dots and a bubble game. Many also provide very useful practice on reading instructions.

Provides realistic everyday practice in adding and subtracting time and converting between hours and minutes.

Provides step by step help to ICT / Lit / Num students plus useful practice in reading instructions.

49 slides to use as needed for spelling and vocabulary practice with ESOL and Literacy students. Could also be printed out (for example, 6 to a page) and used as traditional card flashcards.

Please see notes area on slide 1 for updated teaching ideas inc ‘charades’ (E1-3) and sentence level ideas for Level 1and 2 which make this resource suitable for mixed ability classes (E1-L2).

Match the words used on forms to their meanings (laminate to make a great re-usable game) and then practise your skills on the example forms.