English Functional Skills

Level 2 Functional Skills English is an alternative qualification to a GCSE English C grade. Our Level 2 English online course uses real-life examples to improve your reading, writing and speaking skills. If you find learning English easier with practical examples, this is the course for you.

A Level 2 English qualification will improve your career options. You’ll be able to apply for jobs in careers such as; nursing, teaching, policing, the fire service and many more. You’ll also be able apply for higher education courses, apprenticeships and training courses.

• Identify relevant information from extended explanations or presentations.
• Follow narratives and lines of argument.
• Respond effectively to detailed or extended questions and feedback.
• Make requests and ask detailed and pertinent questions to obtain specific information in a range of contexts.
• Communicate information, ideas and opinions clearly and effectively, providing further detail and development if required.
• Express opinions and arguments and support them with relevant and persuasive
  evidence.
• Use language that is effective, accurate and appropriate to context and situation.
• Make relevant and constructive contributions to move discussion forward.
• Adapt contributions to discussions to suit audience, purpose and medium.
• Interject and redirect discussion using appropriate language and register.

• Identify the different situations when the main points are sufficient and when it is important to have specific details
• Compare information, ideas and opinions in different texts, including how they are conveyed
• Identify implicit and inferred meaning in texts
• Understand the relationship between textual features and devices, and how they can be used to shape meaning for different audiences and purposes
• Use a range of reference materials and appropriate resources (e.g. glossaries, legends/keys) for different purposes, including to find the meanings of words in straightforward and complex sources
• Understand organisational features and use them to locate relevant information in a range of straightforward and complex sources
• Analyse texts, of different levels of complexity, recognising their use of vocabulary and identifying levels of formality and bias
• Follow an argument, identifying different points of view and distinguishing fact from opinion
• Identify different styles of writing and writer’s voice

• (clarity) Communicate information, ideas and opinions clearly, coherently and effectively.
• (detail) Write text of an appropriate level of detail and of appropriate length to meet the needs of purpose and audience.
• (format) Organise writing for different purposes using appropriate format and structure.
• (visual organisation) Convey clear meaning and establish cohesion using organisational markers effectively.
• (register/ language) Use different language and register suited to audience.
• (construction) Construct complex sentences consistently and accurately, using paragraphs where appropriate.

• Punctuate writing correctly using a wide range of punctuation markers
• Use correct grammar and modality devices
• Spell words use in work, study and daily life including a range of specialist words