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Functional Skills English

Part Time

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Availability & Details

English Functional Skills - Entry Level 1 HPY-ENGLE1/C01

Venue
Havant Campus

Type of study
Functional Skills

Dates
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Examination board
Pearson Education Ltd (Formerly EDEXCEL)
Fees
Course Fee Overseas 724.00

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Overview

This course is designed to assess your current working level of English and help you progress from that level forward. You will work through a range of smaller stepping stone units to help grow your confidence with reading, writing, speaking and listening.This will then give you the opportunity to work up the levels from Entry 1 to Level 2. You will be required to come in for an initial assessment before you can enrol on this course.

This course is for students who do not already have a grade C/4 or above in GCSE English Language. If you have already achieved a Level 2 Functional Skill in English it is suggested that you progress to a GCSE English Language Course.(You will be required to come in for an initial assessment before you can enrol on this course)

The course covers:Reading – Skimming, scanning and intensive reading including looking at purpose and structureA range of formats, word sentence and text level including SPAG (spelling, punctuation and grammar)Speaking and Listening – Including discussions and presentations

The course is run on the Havant campus. We have daytime and evening English courses, run in two semesters. The first is September-February and then February-JulyWe use a variety of teaching methods including: Group work Research Kinaesthetic activities 1:1 teaching Using new technologies Classroom based assessment work

In class and external based assessments.

This course is free to students who do not already have a grade C or 4 or above in GCSE English Language.

To a higher level Functional Skill or GCSE.


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