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Functional Skills Spellings 1



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






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






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




Communication Skills



Why are oral communication skills important? Write down as many ideas as you can.

Good

Communication

Skills




Complete this survey to assess your skills



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




Asking for Directions



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!’




Asking for Directions



1. What is the name of the supermarket?

_____________________________________________________________________________________

2. What specific product are you looking for?

_____________________________________________________________________________________

3. What should you do when you reach the frozen food section?

_____________________________________________________________________________________

4. What number aisle do you need to turn into?

_____________________________________________________________________________________

5. When you reach the end of the aisle, what do you do next?

_____________________________________________________________________________________

6. Where in relation to the cheese is the milk?

_____________________________________________________________________________________

7. Is the milk on the left or the right?

_____________________________________________________________________________________

8. How will you recognise the semi-skimmed milk?

_____________________________________________________________________________________

9. How can you identify the organic milk?

_____________________________________________________________________________________




Healthy or Unhealthy?



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








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






DefinitionsHere are a few uncommon words. How many can you define in five minutes?

Word Definition

cranium

tabard

franchise

canker

laudable

soliloquy






AbbreviationsThese abbreviations are frequently used in dictionaries but do you know what they mean?

Abbreviations Meaning

adj.

pron.

adv.

vb.

n.

pl.

conj.






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? ________________________________________________________________








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




No Time Like The Present



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




Gift Tags






Saying Thank You



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.

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________








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




What do you write at the moment?



• 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.




My writing



What do you write at the moment? Write down as many ideas as you can.

I write




Capital Letters and Full Stops



Write these sentences again adding capital letters and full stops.

1. you are funny

___________________________________________

2. they went on holiday

___________________________________________

3. i love fish fingers

___________________________________________

4. swimming is brilliant

___________________________________________

5. i had a bath

___________________________________________




Capital Letters and Full Stops



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

_____________________________________________

2. dad my reading likes

_____________________________________________

3. cold is it today

_____________________________________________

4. river sailed we down the

_____________________________________________

5. sat grass i the on

_____________________________________________




Singular to Plural Nouns



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






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








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






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.






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.

______________________________________________________

2. I was six. I broke my arm.

______________________________________________________

3. It was snowing. We made a snowman.

______________________________________________________

4. I could have chips. I could have pizza.

______________________________________________________

5. Sarah held the ladder. Amy climbed onto the roof.

______________________________________________________

or because while so when






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.






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.






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.






Improving LanguageThink of better alternatives for each of these words.

big small nice hot great






Improving LanguageThink of better alternatives for each of these words.








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






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.






Writing Frame

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.








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






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






Job Application Letter






RedraftingThink about why and how we redraft. Enter points into the table below and discuss your ideas.

WHY? HOW?




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







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







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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