Functional Skills English - Level 1 - teaching resource

Functional Skills English – Level 1 Teaching Unit

(10 lessons, 84-slide editable PowerPoint, 5 worksheets)

This comprehensive teaching unit covers everything required by the Functional Skills English Level 1 specification. Designed around a creative and engaging business project, pupils develop a product or service, create an advertisement, and deliver an investment pitch inspired by TV’s Dragons’ Den.

The resource focuses on speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills, helping learners build practical communication techniques for both study and everyday life.

Resource includes:

• Introduction to Functional Skills English (with supporting video)

• Developing speaking and listening skills – analyse business pitch videos and group discussions

• Communication skills for real-life contexts – work collaboratively to create a business idea and deliver a persuasive pitch

• Writing development activities, including:

  • Understanding how audience and purpose shape a text

  • Exploring advertisements and persuasive writing techniques

  • Writing for different formats and purposes

• Reading and comprehension tasks based on real-world advertisements

• Creating an original advertisement for the business idea

• Drafting, editing, and redrafting written work to improve clarity and impact

• And much more!

The unit is fully editable, giving teachers flexibility to differentiate tasks and adapt lessons to suit the needs of their learners.

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