The document discusses objectives for a workshop on teaching functional English. The objectives are to: review the levels and assessment structure of functional English; recommend sources for ready-made teaching materials; identify literacy support strategies and e-learning tools for all levels; and explore how reading activities can prepare students for developing writing skills. Active learning strategies are presented, such as using graphic organizers and text marking. Links between reading comprehension and writing skills are also discussed.

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Teaching Functional English 2

2. Objectives
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• to review the levels and assessment structure
of Functional English
• to recommend some sources of ‘ready made’
teaching and learning materials
• to identify some literacy support strategies & e
learning tools appropriate for all levels
• to explore how reading activities can prepare
for writing skills development

4. 3 skill areas
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Functional English
Speaking
and listening Reading Writing

5. Functional English – assessment
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overview
Level 1 Level 2
Entry Level
- externally set, - externally set,
- externally set, externally marked externally marked
internally assessed papers for reading & papers for reading &
tasks for all 3 elements writing writing
- some modification of - internally set and - internally set and
contexts for Speaking internally marked internally marked
and Listening tasks for Speaking tasks for Speaking
and Listening and Listening

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Skillsworkshop

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Awarding Organisations - OCR

11. Active learning teaching strategies
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• use of graphic organisers
• classifying activities
• text marking
• matching
• domino activities
• sequencing
• table reconstruction
• ranking
• ‘jigsaw’ activities
• webquests

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The Basic Skills Agency

13. My Club - Norwich City

14. Word Magnets

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21. Activate prior knowledge
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• before you look at the text question the group
about what they already know about it –
• purpose – what kind of information are we
• looking for?
• lay out – what are the typical features?
• where do we look first?
• how do we expect the information to be presented
– under headings? in a table? next to a diagram?
• what are some of the key words & phrases
we might expect to find?

22. Text level purpose, lay out, audience
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Sentence level
Word Level punctuation & grammar
vocabulary, spelling, word structure

23. Using reading tasks to prepare for writing
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‘As (learners) read and discuss an increasing range
of text types, their implicit understanding of style will
be extended and made more explicit. They can then
draw on this knowledge for their own writing.’
(p 121 Adult Literacy Core Curriculum)

24. The link between reading and writing
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‘learners need to be encouraged
to read as writers’

25. Objectives
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• to review the levels and assessment structure
of Functional English
• to recommend some sources of ‘ready made’
teaching and learning materials
• to identify some literacy support strategies & e
learning tools appropriate for all levels
• to explore how reading activities can prepare
for writing skills development