Weekly outline

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    Welcome to your Friday morning Level 1 Functional Skills English course. Week by week, the course material will be uploaded. Please keep returning to the course for the updated material.

    To the right of this panel you will find a link to BKSB. This is our online learning resource which you will use for your diagnostic assessment and online learning.

    Below you will find some very important information contained in the Learner Handbook 21-22. Please read this as part of your induction.  

    You will also find the course paperwork that you will need to complete. This includes:

    Learner profile - this just helps me get to know you a little better

    Individual learning plan (Level 1) - this includes a self-assessment of your reading, writing and speaking skills

    Health & safety, induction check list - this is a quiz to check that you know all the key information that has been given at induction

  • Week 5

    Today we practised our scanning and skimming skills. We also thought about how to predict the meaning of words. The PowerPoint and resources from the class are below. 


    Homework:

    1. Please complete the activity on inserting the right words into sentences. Download the Word document to complete it.
    2. Please sign up for the reading website www.readtheory.org. Complete the initial assessment and try some of the quizzes over half term


  • Week 4

    This week we looked at different texts and described their unique layout and language features. We also looked at the impact of layout features: clarity, memory, mood.

    Also, if you haven't completed the Organisational and Structural Features module on BKSB please do that for homework.

  • Week 3

    Today we discussed the purpose of text and layout features.

    To take this further, please could you do these activities for homework;

    Click on the link and complete the activities on Understanding Text Types. (Please note it doesn't save your answers so you may wish to screenshot them). http://elss.elc.cityu.edu.hk/ELSS/Resource/Understanding%20Text%20(Genre)%20Types/

    Go to https://islingtonacl.bksblive2.co.uk/ > FOCUS FUNCTIONAL SKILLS > English (Reforms) >  Learn > Reading - Text. Within the Level 1 or Level 2 Resource, complete the section on Organisational and Structural Features. 

    The files/folders below contain:

    - the answers to the Understanding Text Types activity

    - examples of texts I provided to analyse

    - the PowerPoint from today

    - an outline of the term


  • Week 2

    You came back for Week 2! I hope you feel you are getting to know your classmates and me. This week we covered some of the essential information such as term dates and the overview of the course. Those handouts are below.

    We also looked at ACL Gateway, this online learning platform. If you need any more help with this, the Learner Guide is below. 

    We watched the IAG video - see above right to watch it again.

    Homework/prep for next week:

    Please complete the following sections in the online course folder of ACL Gateway:

    - Health & Safety, Induction Check List

    - Individual Learning Plan (Level 1)

    - Learner Profile

    Please also complete the writing homework. Please handwrite your homework or type it without using a grammar or spell checker. Please scan/photograph/attach your writing and email it to me on julie.robinson@islington.gov.uk. The writing question is below.


  • Pre-class work for Week 2

    Please complete your diagnostic assessment on BKSB. The link is below

    http://islingtonacl.bksblive2.co.uk/

  • Week 1 - Induction BKSB

    - Please find below the Induction PowerPoint and the Safeguarding poster

    - Please find a link to the Values video Values video


    Homework/prep for next week:

    Please complete your diagnostic assessment on BSKB. You will find a link to BKSB in the section to the right.