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Burns Night resources

9 January 2024

Burns Night is celebrated every year on January 25 in Scotland and across the globe. Learn more about Robert Burns and the history of Burns Night, whilst consolidating many aspects of Functional English reading.

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Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday 2024

10 November 2024

Follow this tag to find twelve Remembrance Day  (Sunday Nov 10) and Armistice Day (Monday Nov 11) resources covering maths, English and ICT at all levels.

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St Dwynwen's Day resources for Jan 25th

9 January 2025

St Dwynwen's Day is celebrated every year on January 25 and is often referred to as the "Welsh St Valentine's Day".

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Burns Night E3 English tasks

Based on a short, simplified text about Burns Night, this set of 14 questions covers all E3 Functional Skills English reading content descriptors plus a couple of writing elements. Unlike assessment papers, the questions are arranged under topics such as purpose, punctuation, organisation, etc. 

Editor's note

Every year I say I'm going to create a Burns Night resource and every year (until this one) I leave it too late!  An L1-2 version is also available. Happy Burns Night!

 

Level
Entry Level 3
English
FE E3.9 Identify, understand & extract main points & ideas in/from texts
FE E3.10 Identify different purposes of straightforward texts
FE E3.11 Use strategies to find meaning of words e.g. dictionary, context, word types
FE E3.12 Understand organisational features & use them to locate relevant information
FE E2.14 Form regular plurals
FE E3.14 Form irregular plurals
FE E2.15 Use 1st & 2nd letters to sequence words alphabetically
FE E3.16 Use 1st, 2nd & 3rd letters to sequence words alphabetically
FE E3.13 Use a range of punctuation correctly (e.g. full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas)
Context
Leisure, Hobbies, Travel & Tourism
History, culture, museums, libraries

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New Year resources 2025

1 January 2025

Happy 2025 to all our users and contributors!

Follow our New Year tag to find 21 different maths and English resources. New Year resources can cover any or all of the following topics. 

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Thundersnow: L1-L2 Functional English organisational features - Skillsworkshop

A quick interactive add-on exercise, created in Wordwall, for our popular Thundersnow reading resource (L1-2 version - but this act would probably suit E3 too). Drag the organisational features to the correct places in the text. 

https://wordwall.net/resource/28052371/english/thundersnow-l1-l2-functional-english-organisational

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
Level 2
English
FE E3.12 Understand organisational features & use them to locate relevant information
FE L1.14 Understand organisational / structural features use to locate relevant information
FE L2.16 Understand organisational features & use to locate relevant information in a range of sources
Context
Science, Nature & Weather

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Leap Year / Leap Day resources 2024

12 February 2024

Follow this tag to find resources for Leap Year / Leap Day 2024. Answers to L1-2 Move Leap Day available from Feb 28

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Halloween, Bonfire Night and other seasonal resources 2024

16 September 2024

Follow this tag to find Halloween Functional Skills maths and English resources (13 resources).

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Christmas and other seasonal resources 2024

7 December 2024

Follow these tags to find seasonal resources: Christmas (61 resources), Winter (7),  New Year (14). 

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At the Cafe E1-2 Functional Maths & English (SL&C)

 UPDATED 19/4/23   -  UK and Australian versions both updated: an error fixed (headings on p2 in both versions) and remapped for Reformed Functional Skills Maths and English. Covers:

Level
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
English
FE E1.4 Make requests & ask straightforward questions using appropriate terms & registers
FE E1.6 Make clear statements, communicate feelings & opinions on straightforward topics
FE E2.2 Make requests & ask clear questions appropriately in different contexts
FS Eng E2.5 Clearly express straightforward information & communicate feelings / opinions
FE E1.5 Respond to questions about specific information
FE E2.3 Respond appropriately to straightforward questions
Maths
FM Simple one step problem(s)
FM E1.1 Read, write, order, compare numbers to 20
FM E1.3 Add numbers which total up to 20, & subtract numbers from numbers up to 20
FM E1.5 Recognise coins & notes, write them in numbers with the correct symbols (£, p) where these involve numbers up to 20
FM E2.12 Calculate money with pence up to £1 & in whole £s of multiple items, use correct symbols (£ or p)
FM E1.11 Read numerical information from lists
FM E2.22 Extract information from lists, tables, diagrams, bar charts
Context
Retail Hospitality Customer service
Catering Food Nutrition
Independent living