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Functional Skills English Package Teaching Resources

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Our Functional Skills English Pack contains three complete units of work designed to teach Functional Skills Speaking and Listening, Functional Reading, and Functional Writing. Perfect for teachers delivering Functional Skills English, this comprehensive resource features 281 editable PowerPoint slides and 70 worksheets, providing everything you need to teach, assess, and support learners effectively.

What’s Included in the Pack:

1. Functional Skills Speaking & Listening

(78-slide PowerPoint + 16-page worksheet booklet)

A complete seven-lesson unit using a four-part lesson structure: starter, introduction, development, and plenary. Activities are fully editable and adaptable.

Topics covered:

  • What are Functional Skills?

  • Verbal and non-verbal communication

  • Understanding target audiences and using rhetorical devices

  • Analysing The Apprentice and Dragons’ Den

  • Planning, writing, and delivering a persuasive sales pitch

  • Peer and self-assessment using Functional Skills criteria

2. Functional Skills Reading – A Skill for Life

(88-slide PowerPoint + 32 worksheets)

Step-by-step lessons to improve reading comprehension, retrieval, and analysis skills. Includes examples, activities, and assessment tasks.

Topics covered:

  • Features of written texts and adapting writing to audience and purpose

  • Skimming, scanning, and highlighting information effectively

  • Understanding how texts are structured

  • Identifying presentational devices and layout

  • Finding and interpreting data from tables and charts

  • Completing an example Functional Skills reading task

  • Functional Skills Reading assessment criteria

3. Functional Skills Writing – A Life Skill

(114-slide PowerPoint + 28 worksheets)

A complete writing unit to develop learners’ ability to communicate clearly and effectively in real-life contexts.

Topics covered:

  • Why writing is a key life skill

  • Adapting writing for audience and purpose

  • Taking messages and making effective notes

  • Transforming notes into structured prose

  • Mind mapping and planning techniques

  • Writing formal emails

  • Structuring a Functional Skills writing task

  • Self and peer assessment using Functional Skills criteria

This all-in-one teaching pack equips you with high-quality, fully editable resources designed to engage learners, build confidence, and develop essential communication skills.

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