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English Functional Skills

Various Levels

English Functional Skills

English Functional Skills

Various Levels

Availability & Details

Functional Skills English DPY-ENGLNO/P01

Venue
Other Venue

Type of study
Functional Skills

Dates
Various (Various)

 Fees
Tuition Advanced Learning Loan -
Tuition Overseas -
Tuition Standard -

How to apply

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Overview

Course Start Dates:

Alton (Day): September, February and April,

Havant (Day): September, January and April

South Downs (Evening): September and February.

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.

Please contact our Admissions Team on 023 9387 9999 to arrange your initial assessment before applying.

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

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 structure
  • Writing – a range of formats, word sentence and text level including SPAG (spelling, punction and grammar)
  • Speaking and listening – including discussions and presentations

The course is run on all campuses. We have daytime and evening English courses, run in two semesters. The first is September-February and then February-June.

We use a variety of teaching methods including:

  • Group work
  • Research
  • Kineasthic activities
  • 1:1 teaching
  • Using new technologies
  • Classroom based assessment work

In class and external assessment.

To a higher level Functional Skill or GCSE.

“I owe the staff a lot and I wouldn't be where I am today without them.”

Tom Andrews, A Level Student

My time at the college was definitely life changing, I have learnt a lot of new skills, and obviously it’s a completely new experience. The support was great, there was always people there to help and try make it as easy as they can for you. The college is really fantastic, it has helped me on the way to get to what I want to achieve within my career goals.

Erin Morgan, BTEC student

Everyone at the College was really helpful, and there’s lots of facilities, meaning it’s very easy to get your work done on time, and get good grades. The teaching and support was excellent, they were always on top of it, and made sure you got work done on time and you were challenged. Everyone is friendly and its really diverse, meaning you can get involved in lots of different things.

Conor Ward, BTEC student