Functional Skills English - Entry Level 1 - teaching resource

Functional Skills English – Entry Level 1 Teaching Unit

(147-slide editable PowerPoint with 34 worksheets)

This comprehensive teaching unit covers everything required by the 2019 Functional Skills English specification for Entry Level 1. Designed with a focus on differentiation, engagement, and practicality, it provides a wide range of activities to help learners develop essential speaking, listening, reading, writing, and communication skills.

Resource includes:

• Introduction to Functional Skills English

• Self-assessment activity – “My Strengths and Weaknesses”

• EL1 key spellings and tests integrated into lessons

• Alphabet-building activities to strengthen foundational literacy

• Practical listening tasks, including radio advertisements and Tannoy announcements

• Real-life scenarios: planning a party and organising a family holiday

• How to share ideas effectively and express opinions in group discussions

• Strategies for building arguments, skimming, and scanning for information

• Debate participation to develop confidence and communication skills

• Exploring the role of non-verbal communication

• Developing core writing skills – capital letters, full stops, sentence structure, etc.

• How to take messages accurately and make effective notes

This unit is fully editable, allowing teachers to adapt activities to suit the needs of individual learners.

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