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ESOL Pre Entry​

This level is aimed at learners taking their first steps into learning English.

The sessions at this level are  topic based, enabling learners to focus on:

  1.  Pronunciation
  2. The sounds of letters and syllables
  3. Basic grammar and essential vocabulary

Communicative tasks are used to develop the learners’ speaking, reading and writing skills.

By improving your English, you will hopefully improve your employment prospects, as well as being able to progress to college courses at an appropriate level.

At this level the sessions should give the learner the knowledge and skills to be able to:

  • develop Their English language knowledge and skills
  • achieve a nationally recognised qualification (ESOL)
  • develop personal growth and engagement in learning
  • develop English skills for personal and employment-related applications

ESOL Entry Level 1

At this level the learners would be expected to achieve the following :

 

  1. Reading
    • Read, understand and obtain information from short texts on familiar topics, common signs and symbols
    • Respond to simple written narratives, statements, questions, instructions.
  2. Speaking and listening
    • Speak and be understood when conveying basic information, feelings and opinions.
  3. Writing
    • Write simple sentences correctly and complete simple forms.

ESOL Entry Level 2

At this level the learners would be expected to achieve the following :

  1. Reading
    • Read, understand and obtain information from short, straightforward text, including chronological and instructional text types, signs and symbols
    • Respond to familiar written straightforward information, short narratives, explanations, instructions.
  2. Speaking and listening
    • Listen to other people and speak to convey information, feelings and opinions on familiar topics, including when in discussion with others.
  3. Writing
    • Write to convey information with some adaptation for the intended audience, using correct punctuation, grammar and spelling.

ESOL Entry Level 3

At this level the learners would be expected to achieve the following :

  1. Reading
    • Read, understand and obtain information from short, straightforward chronological, continuous descriptive, explanatory texts from everyday sources
    • Respond to written straightforward information, narratives, explanations and instructions from everyday sources.
  2. Speaking and listening
    • Listen to other people and speak to convey information, feelings and opinions on familiar topics
    • Speak to respond using appropriate formality for the situation, including when making points and responding to others in discussions.
  3. Writing
    • Write to convey information and opinions with some adaptation for the intended audience, using correct punctuation, grammar and spelling.

ESOL Level 1+

At this level the learners would be expected to achieve the following :

Reading

    • Read, understand and obtain information from, and respond to, straightforward continuous descriptive, explanatory, persuasive texts from different sources
    • Read, understand and obtain information from continuous descriptive, explanatory or persuasive texts of varying length, detail and complexity
    • Recognise how language and other textual features are used to instruct, describe and persuade
    • Infer meaning from text.
    • Identify, evaluate and compare information, ideas and opinions in text.

Speaking and listening

    • Listen to other people and adapt their own responses to take account of listener needs when conveying information, ideas, opinions.
    • They will be able to reach a shared understanding about different topics.
    • Listen to other people and make clear and effective contributions, taking account of listener needs, medium, purpose and situation when conveying information, and ideas and opinions.
    • The learner will be able to reach a shared agreement on outcomes appropriate to the purpose and topic.

Writing

    • write to convey information, ideas and opinions, using length, format, style, vocabulary and grammar suitable for the intended purpose and audience.
    • Write to convey information, ideas and opinions effectively, using length, format, style, vocabulary and grammar suitable for the intended purpose, context and audience

Foundation GCSE Maths

GCSE specifications in mathematics should enable students to:

1. Develop fluent knowledge, skills and understanding of mathematical methods and concepts.
2. Acquire, select and apply mathematical techniques to solve problems.
3. Reason mathematically, make deductions and inferences and draw conclusions
4. Comprehend, interpret and communicate mathematical information in a variety of forms appropriate to the information and context.

Students should be aware that mathematics can be used to develop models of real situations and that these models may be more or less effective depending on how the situation has been simplified and the assumptions that have been made. Students should also be able to recall, select and apply mathematical formulae

Higher GCSE Maths

At this level, learners would be expected to achieve the following:

Use and apply standard techniques

Students should be able to:

  • accurately recall facts, terminology and definitions
  • use and interpret notation correctly
  • accurately carry out routine procedures or set tasks requiring multi-step solutions

Reason, interpret and communicate mathematically

Students should be able to:

  • make deductions, inferences and draw conclusions from mathematical information
  • construct chains of reasoning to achieve a given result
  • interpret and communicate information accurately
  • present arguments and proofs
  • assess the validity of an argument and critically evaluate a given way of presenting information

Solve problems within mathematics and in other contexts

Students should be able to:

  • translate problems in mathematical or non-mathematical contexts into a process or a series of mathematical processes
  • make and use connections between different parts of mathematics
  • interpret results in the context of the given problem
  • evaluate methods used and results obtained
  • evaluate solutions to identify how they may have been affected by assumptions made

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