Using English at Work and College

Submitted by Susanne Jones on 10 May 2023.

A set of tasks to practise reading and writing skills. Read about a student and his work and college life.

Practise using conjunctions.
Learn synonyms
Practise using punctuation correctly.
Write about your own experience of studying and working

Editor's notes

So practical and down to earth! Find out about Joseph's day to day college life and his busy job with Deliveroo. Also very useful for E2-E3 Functional Skills English students.

Resource File(s)

e2e3readwriteworkcollege.pdf

Resource type

Revision material

Cloze exercise

Reading comprehension

Writing assessments, tasks or prompts

Physical format

5 page PDF. No answer sheet

Level

Entry Level 2

Entry Level 3

English

General literacy / English

FE E2.13 Use basic punctuation correctly (e.g. full stops, question, exclamation marks)

FE E3.13 Use a range of punctuation correctly (e.g. full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas)

FE E2.8 Understand the main points in texts

FE E3.9 Identify, understand & extract main points & ideas in/from texts

FE E2.19 Write in compound sentences, using common conjunctions to connect clauses

ESOL

ESOL Rt/E2.1a Use a range of strategies to trace & understand main events

ESOL Rw/E2.2a Recognise a range of familiar words

ESOL Rt/E3.1a Understand how meaning is built up in a variety texts of more than one paragraph

ESOL Ws/E2.1a Construct simple and compound sentences

ESOL Ws/E2.3a Use correct punctuation, e.g. capital letters, full stops, question marks

ESOL Ws/E2.1a Construct simple and compound sentences

ESOL Ws/E3.3a Use punctuation to aid clarity in relation to beginnings and ends of sentences

ESOL Ws/E3.2a Use basic sentence grammar accurately

Context

Education and teaching

Employment skills & Public services

Independent living

Free tags

study

work

punctuation

Conjunctions