Functional Skills English Level 1 – Purpose, Audience & Finding Information

An engaging, ready-to-teach 60-minute Functional Skills English Level 1 reading lesson designed to help learners develop essential reading comprehension and exam preparation skills.

This interactive PowerPoint explores how writers communicate with different audiences, the purposes of everyday texts, how to locate information efficiently and how to distinguish between fact and opinion.

Learning objectives:

• Identify the main purpose of a text: inform, persuade, instruct or entertain.
• Identify the intended audience using clues from vocabulary, tone and layout.
• Recognise common text features and explain their effectiveness.
• Use scanning techniques to locate specific information.
• Distinguish between facts and opinions.
• Answer Functional Skills-style reading questions.

Activities include:

• Retrieval starter on text features
• Purpose Corners movement activity
• Audience Detectives paired task
• Scanning Race using a leisure centre information text
• Fact or Opinion mini-whiteboard challenge
• Functional Skills-style reading comprehension questions
• Creative text-design activity and peer review
• Exit ticket and teacher answer recap

What’s included:

• One PowerPoint presentation
• Structured explanations and model examples
• Individual, paired and group activities
• Reading comprehension and exam-style practice
• Selected answers and teacher recap

Ideal for: Functional Skills English Level 1 learners, post-16 education, FE colleges, adult learning and revision sessions.

Designed to encourage participation, discussion and independent reading confidence.