Functional Skills English - Level 2 - teaching resource

Functional Skills English – Level 2 Teaching Unit

(10 lessons, 109-slide editable PowerPoint, 9 worksheets)

This comprehensive teaching unit covers everything required by the Functional Skills English Level 2 specification. Centred around the impact of social media on society, this engaging resource develops reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills through debate, discussion, and discursive writing.

The unit contains 10 fully planned lessons featuring interactive and practical activities designed to prepare learners for assessment and build essential communication skills.

Resource includes:

• Introduction to Functional Skills English with an accompanying video

• Exploring the positive and negative effects of social media through reading, discussion, and analysis

• Comparing and contrasting articles to evaluate different perspectives

• Understanding trusted sources and the dangers of fake news

• Developing debating skills by following both sides of an argument and taking part in a class debate

• Writing development activities, including:

  • Understanding audience and purpose

  • Structuring and writing balanced discussion texts

  • Using evidence to support ideas

• Reading and comprehension tasks based on real-world articles

• Planning, drafting, and editing written work to improve impact and clarity

• And much more!

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

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