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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.

The teaching and support was absolutely brilliant, they couldn’t have done anything more or anything better, if I had any questions my lecturers would always stay behind to help me if I needed it and their emails were always open, it was second to none. This college is the best by far.

Amber Searle, BTEC student

I’m very, very happy, I didn’t expect to do so well. The College has been helpful and supportive. I loved my courses, and the teachers were really good – every single one of them. The facilities are great, but it’s the staff that really make this place.

Matthew Randell, A Level student

My courses were all especially interesting, I thoroughly enjoyed all of them. All of my lecturers were extremely knowledgeable and I have learnt a lot from them.

Lottie Warren, A Level student