Functional Skills English Level 1 Syllabus
The syllabus for Functional Skills English Level 1 includes the following modules and units.
Speaking, Listening and Communicating
- Identify relevant information from explanations or presentations
- Make requests and ask relevant questions to obtain information
- Respond effectively to questions
- Communicate information, ideas and opinions clearly and accurately
- Express opinions and arguments and support them with evidence
- Follow and understand discusions and make contributions
- Use appropriate phrases, registers and adapt contributions for audience, purpose and medium
- Respect the turn-taking rights of others and use appropriate language for interjection
Reading
- Identify and understand the main points, ideas and details in texts
- Compare information, ideas and opinions in texts
- Identify meaning in texts and distiguish between fact and opinion
- Recognise that language and other features can be varied to suit different audiences
- Use reference materials and strategies for a range of purposes
- Understand organisational and structural features and use them to locate relevant information
- Infer from images
- Recognise vocabulary typically associated with specific types and purposes of texts
- Read and understand a range of specialist words
- Use knowledge of punctuation to aid understanding of straightforward texts
Writing
- Spelling, punctuation and grammar
- Use a range of punctuation correctly
- Use correct grammar (subject-verb agreement, tenses, definite and indefinite articles)
- Spell words used most often in work, study and daily life
- Writing composition
- Communicate information, ideas and opinions clearly, coherently and effectively
- Write text of and appropriate level of detail and length to meet the needs of purpose and audience
- Use format, structure and language appropriate for audience and purpose
- Write consitently and accurately in complex sentences