Description

Functional Skills English qualifications at these levels indicate that students should be able to speak, listen, communicate, read and write with increasing clarity, accuracy and effectiveness at each level. They should be able to:

• Listen, understand and respond to verbal communication in a range of familiar contexts;
• Acquire an understanding of everyday words and their uses and effects, and apply this understanding in different contexts;
• Read with accuracy straightforward texts encountered in everyday life and work, and develop the confidence to read more widely; and
• Write straightforward texts and documents with clarity and effectiveness, and demonstrate a sound grasp of spelling, punctuation and grammar. Students should, with some direction and guidance, be able to apply these functional skills to informal and some formal contexts, in familiar situations.

Your Course Modules:

Scope of study
Text: this should include simple narratives, information and instructions, and short statements, explanations, discussions, questions and exchanges.

1. Say the names of the letters of the alphabet
2. Identify and extract the main information from short statements and explanations
3. Follow single-step instructions, asking for them to be repeated if necessary
4. Make requests and ask straightforward questions using appropriate terms and registers
5. Respond to questions about specific information
6. Make clear statements about basic information and communicate feelings and opinions on straightforward topics
7. Understand and participate in simple discussions or exchanges with another person about a straightforward topic

Reading
Scope of study
Text: this should include short, simple texts that inform, describe and narrate.

1. Read correctly words designated for Entry Level 1 (see Appendix)
2. Read simple sentences containing one clause
3. Understand a short piece of text on a simple subject

Writing
Scope of study
Text: this should include short simple texts such as messages and notes.
Spelling, punctuation and grammar

1. Punctuate simple sentences with a capital letter and a full stop
2. Use a capital letter for the personal pronoun ‘I’ and the first letter of proper nouns
3. Use lower-case letters when there is no reason to use capital letters
4. Write the letters of the alphabet in sequence and in both upper and lower case
5. Spell correctly words designated for Entry Level 1 (see Appendix)

Writing composition
Communicate information in words, phrases and simple sentences

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