Edexcel Functional Skills English Level 2

Learn expert speaking, listening and communication skills you can apply to life and the workplace. Understand the rules of writing, grammar and punctuation and improve your reading skills. With this option, your exams can be included. Just let us know when you are ready and we will book for you! Please note that you must complete the exams to achieve your qualification. You can choose to add your exams to your enrolment, and we will save you the hassle of booking them, giving you more time to dedicate to your studies. If you do not add your exams to your enrolment, you will be responsible for booking and paying for your exams by liaising directly with your chosen exam centre.    

Course Content

Unit 1 Speaking, Listening and Communication

• Extracting relevant information
• Following narratives and line of arguments
• Communication information, ideas and opinions
• Making requests and asking questions
• Expressing opinions and arguments
• Using language effectively
• Making relevant and constructive contributions
• Adapting contributions
• Interjecting and redirecting discussions

Unit 2 Reading

• Identify key information needed for a range of situations
• Compare information, ideas and opinions
• Identify implicit and inferred meaning
• Understand the relationship between textual features and devices
• Use a range of reference materials and appropriate resources
• Understand organisational features
• Analyses texts of different complexity
• Follow and identify different points of an argument
• Identify different styles of writing and writers voice

Unit 3 Writing

• Spelling, punctuation and grammar
• Communicating information, ideas and opinions effectively and clearly
• Writing texts to meet the needs of purpose and audience
• Organising writing for different purposes
• Using different language and register
• Constructing complex sentences