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likes football plays an instrument is born in the same month
as me
likes curry
has a sibling has a nickname watches Game of Thrones has uploaded a YouTube
video
plays videogames likes to go to the cinema likes coffee met a celebrity
has a pet likes marmite plays a sport has been to Spain
Getting to Know You
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Make sure that you write these down in your BEST HANDWRITING.
1. add
2. calendar
3. everything
4. knowledge
5. address
6. care
7. example
8. learn
9. age
10. carry
11. extreme
12. letter
13. always
14. caught
15. eye
16. machine
17. among
18. cause
19. find
20. material
21. animal
22. circle
23. forty
24. mean
25. answer
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Letters in Alphabetical Order Worksheet
y p t d u k
Place the letters below in alphabetical order.
r g b z q a
n f w c h e
x r o j b y
v e s q n p
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Words in Alphabetical Order Worksheet
Place the words below in alphabetical order.
train
pond
ball
chair
flag
frog
flute
frost
post
swing
slide
play
dust
dice
desk
drill
room
road
roam
roll
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Why are oral communication skills important? Write down as many ideas as you can.
Good
Communication
Skills
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Complete this survey to assess your skills
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Skills description Agree Unsure Disagree
I am good at following instructions
I can speak clearly and confidently
I get on well with new people
I can vary my speech to engage different listeners
I can explain ideas effectively to others
I pay close attention when someone talks to me
I can listen to other’s opinions and build on them
In a discussion I know when it is appropriate to talk and when
to listen
Before I talk I think about what I will say
I know how to disagree in a polite way
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Asking for Directions
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You are in Tesco. You ask a shop assistant for directions to find organic semi-
skimmed milk. The assistant says:
‘No problem, love. Carry straight on until you come to the frozen food section then
turn right into aisle 14. Walk to the end of the aisle then turn left and carry on until you
come to the cheese section. Just past the cheese, on the left, you’ll find all the milk.
The semi-skimmed milk has a green top and the organic one is on the third shelf and
has a picture of a cow on the label. You can’t miss it!’
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1. What is the name of the supermarket?
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2. What specific product are you looking for?
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3. What should you do when you reach the frozen food section?
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4. What number aisle do you need to turn into?
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5. When you reach the end of the aisle, what do you do next?
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6. Where in relation to the cheese is the milk?
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7. Is the milk on the left or the right?
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8. How will you recognise the semi-skimmed milk?
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9. How can you identify the organic milk?
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Healthy or Unhealthy?
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Place the foods from the list into the table below.
1. Fibre is good for you because….. ________________________________________________________________________________
2. Fruit and vegetables help … ________________________________________________________________________________
3. Energy foods are important because… ________________________________________________________________________________
4. We should eat protein as… ________________________________________________________________________________
5. We shouldn’t eat too many high fat or sugar foods because… ________________________________________________________________________________
oranges
crisps
cheese
milk
orangeade
raisins
chocolate
sweets
brown bread
pasta
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Make sure that you write these down in your BEST HANDWRITING.
1. city
2. forward
3. minute
4. anything
5. complete
6. fourteen
7. month
8. arrive
9. computer
10. friend
11. move
12. bare
13. country
14. fruit
15. music
16. bear
17. daily
18. grammar
19. naughty
20. beautiful
21. decide
22. great
23. next
24. behind
25. differ
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DefinitionsHere are a few uncommon words. How many can you define in five minutes?
Word Definition
cranium
tabard
franchise
canker
laudable
soliloquy
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AbbreviationsThese abbreviations are frequently used in dictionaries but do you know what they mean?
Abbreviations Meaning
adj.
pron.
adv.
vb.
n.
pl.
conj.
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Ham and Mushroom Pizzas
1. The recipe serves how many people? _________________________________________________________________________________________
2. How long does it take to prepare? ____________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What temperature does the oven need to be? __________________________________________________________________________________ _
4. What ingredients do you need? ______________________________________________________________________________________________
5. What do you need to do with the tomatoes and mushrooms? _____________________________________________________________________ __
6. What should each pizza base (or tortilla) be placed upon? ___________________________________________________________________ ______
7. What do you do with the mozzarella cherries? ________________________________________________________________________________ ___
8. How long should you bake the pizza for? _____________________________________________________________________________________ __
9. Some ingredients are optional. What would you leave out?________________________________________________________________________
10. You could change some ingredients – what could you change or add? ________________________________________________________________
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Make sure that you write these down in your BEST HANDWRITING.
1. group
2. notice
3. believe
4. different
5. guard
6. obey
7. better
8. difficult
9. guide
10. once
11. blew
12. double
13. Half
14. our
15. blue
16. early
17. heard
18. page
19. break
20. earth
21. height
22. people
23. breathe
24. eight
25. hour
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No Time Like The Present
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You are going to use the website Amazon to help you find presents.
Remember to stick to the budget for each person.
Think carefully about the each gift. Consider the person that you are buying for. What do they
like/dislike? What are their interests/hobbies? Think about their age and personality. Complete the table
below.
Name Gift Price
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Saying Thank You
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TASK
Write a short thank you note to a friend or family member thanking them for a gift you have rceived..
Write three or four sentences.
Take care with spelling and punctuation.
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_____________________________________________________________________________
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Make sure that you write these down in your BEST HANDWRITING.
1. perhaps
2. build
3. eighteen
4. idea
5. position
6. business
7. eighty
8. imagine
9. possess
10. busy
11. everybody
12. important
13. possible
14. potatoes
15. sentence
16. sure
17. truly
18. pressure
19. seven
20. surname
21. watch
22. pretty
23. since
24. surprise
25. weigh
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What do you write at the moment?
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• Make a list of the things you write now in life
• Put them into three categories like this:
School Home / job Personal Life
Essays Fill in forms Social media
posts
What writing do you find difficult or try to avoid?
_____________________________________________
Why do you think this is the case?
_____________________________________________
What do you think you will need to write
in the future?
_____________________________________________
in everyday life?
_____________________________________________
in further study?
_____________________________________________
in work?
_____________________________________________
Extension work: describe the job or career you are aiming for and consider what you will
need to write in this role.
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What do you write at the moment? Write down as many ideas as you can.
I write
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Capital Letters and Full Stops
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Write these sentences again adding capital letters and full stops.
1. you are funny
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2. they went on holiday
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3. i love fish fingers
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4. swimming is brilliant
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5. i had a bath
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Can you write the following mixed up sentences in the right order and
use a capital letter and a full stop?
1. love cat i my
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2. dad my reading likes
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3. cold is it today
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4. river sailed we down the
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5. sat grass i the on
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Change the following singular nouns below into plural.
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
city
butterfly
monkey
donkey
lady
day
puppy
toy
pony
Sunday
box
ash
hand
church
wasp
bus
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
tomato
potato
domino
stereo
cuckoo
hero
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
cliff
wolf
half
knife
life
loaf
shelf
thief
wife
dwarf
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
__________
radio
volcano
tooth
mouse
piano
sheep
child
cactus
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Writing for a Range of AudiencesYou teacher will provide you with four texts. With a partner, read the texts carefully. Analyse the
language, consider the page layout and examine the use of images before completing the table below.
Text Title Audience Evidence
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Make sure that you write these down in your BEST HANDWRITING.
1. probably
2. six
3. therefore
4. weight
5. promise
6. something
7. thirteen
8. whole
9. quarter
10. son
11. thirty
12. woman
13. quiet
14. special
15. thought
16. women
17. quite
18. straight
19. through
20. won
21. remember
22. strange
23. touch
24. year
25. second
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ConjunctionsHighlight the conjunctions in the following sentences.
1. I ran home because I was late.
2. I cheered when we scored a goal.
3. Michael likes swimming but Julia likes tennis.
4. I could walk or I could catch the bus.
5. I went to the cinema while you were shopping.
6. I went to Nazma’s house but she was out.
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ConjunctionsCan you use a conjunction from the words below to
make the two short sentences into one?
1. I had a party. It was my birthday.
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2. I was six. I broke my arm.
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3. It was snowing. We made a snowman.
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4. I could have chips. I could have pizza.
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5. Sarah held the ladder. Amy climbed onto the roof.
______________________________________________________
or because while so when
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Spot the AdjectiveUnderline, circle or highlight the adjectives in the following sentences:
1. The vicious dog ran after me.
2. The angry sea crashed against the black rocks.
3. The fragile, old lady peered through the smashed window.
4. My new bike landed in the muddy pond.
5. A lonely star shone in the purple sky.
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Using Effective AdjectivesPlace adjectives into the following sentences:
1. The ________ wind blasted the ________ castle walls.
2. The ________ child threw its ________ toy onto the floor.
3. A ________ woman crept out of the back door of the
________ house.
4. I sat there ________ in the ________ examination hall.
5. The ________ striker smashed the ball past the
________ goal keeper.
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Improving LanguageCan you improve the paragraph below by changing the vocabulary?
I was walking down the road and saw a nice house with a nice garden. The
house was very big and had a long drive with big gates. Two small girls
were in the front garden. It looked like a good place to live.
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Improving LanguageThink of better alternatives for each of these words.
big small nice hot great
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Improving LanguageThink of better alternatives for each of these words.
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Make sure that you write these down in your BEST HANDWRITING.
1. sugar
2. trouble
3. young
4. hear
5. here
6. one
7. won
8. there
9. their
10. they’re
11. to
12. too
13. two
14. unsure
15. disappoint
16. mistake
17. return
18. interact
19. supermarket
20. autograph
21. illegal
22. immoral
23. impossible
24. irregular
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The Emergency Services
Cut out and place the following 999 transcript into the correct order.
Operator: Can you give me your name and address?
Operator: Is she conscious?
Caller: Saiqa Khan. My address is 64 Commodore Close, Lancaster.
Operator: Ok. I’ll send an ambulance immediately.
Caller: Ambulance please, my mum fell down the stairs.
Operator: Can you spell your name for me, please?
Caller: Yes, but she can’t move.
Operator: Hello. Which emergency service do you require?
Caller: S-A-I-Q-A-K-H-A-N. Please hurry; she is in a lot of pain.
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Operator: Hello. Which emergency service do you require?
Caller: _________ please, ____________________________________________
Operator: ________________________________________________________?
Caller: ____________________________________________________________
Operator: Can you give me your name and address?
Caller: _________________. My address is ______________________________
_________________________________________________________________
Operator: Can you spell your name for me, please?
Caller: _________________________. Please hurry; _______________________
_________________________________________________________________
Operator: Ok. I’ll send ______________________________________ right away.
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Make sure that you write these down in your BEST HANDWRITING.
1. payment
2. witness
3. careful
4. careless
5. partly
6. hoping
7. liked
8. safer
9. chopped
10. winner
11. getting
12. sunny
13. ladies
14. replied
15. happier
16. happiest
17. mention
18. question
19. position
20. action
21. February
22. library
23. often
24. every
25. everything
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Formal Letter Writing
Find all the things that are wrong with the letter below.
Oi Ken! That car you sold me is a piece of crap. I can’t
believe I gave you a grand for it an its knackered already!
Therez smoke pouring out back, its costin me a fortune to
run and it don’t bloomin’ start arf the time. U ripped me off.
I wont me money back and if I don’t get it ill send our tony
round to sort you out. Alright? Get it sorted.
Joey
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RedraftingThink about why and how we redraft. Enter points into the table below and discuss your ideas.
WHY? HOW?
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EL2 Functional Skills English Assessment Criteria
Read the success criteria below. It will give you an idea of what
you need to do to achieve EL2 English Functional Skills.
Entry 2 Skills
Standard
Speaking, Listening
and
Communicating
1. Identify and extract the main information and detail from short
explanations
2. Make requests and ask clear questions appropriately in different
contexts
3. Respond appropriately to straightforward questions
4. Follow the gist of discussions
5. Clearly express straightforward information and communicate
feelings and opinions on a range of straightforward topics
6. Make appropriate contributions to simple group discussions with
others about a straightforward topic
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EL2 Functional Skills English Assessment Criteria
Read the success criteria below. It will give you an idea of what
you need to do to achieve EL2 English Functional Skills.
Entry 2 Skills
Standard
Reading
7. Read correctly words designated for Entry Level 2
8. Understand the main points in texts
9. Understand organisational markers in short, straightforward texts
10. Use effective strategies to find the meaning of words and check
their spelling (e.g. a simple dictionary, spell-checker)
11. Read and understand sentences with more than one clause
12. Use illustrations, images and captions to locate information
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Read the success criteria below. It will give you an idea of what
you need to do to achieve EL2 English Functional Skills.
Entry 2 Skills
Standard
Writing
Spelling, punctuation and grammar
13. Use basic punctuation correctly (e.g. full stops, capital letters,
question and exclamation marks)
14. Form regular plurals
15. Use the first and second letters to sequence words in
alphabetical order
16. Spell correctly words designated for Entry Level 2
Writing composition
17. Communicate information using words and phrases appropriate
to audience and purpose
18. Complete a form asking for personal information (e.g. first name,
surname, address, postcode, age, date of birth)
19. Write in compound sentences, using common conjunctions (e.g.
or, and, but) to connect clauses
20. Use adjectives and simple linking words in the appropriate way
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