Preparing Students for Adult Life- English

Name: Michael Burdon

1. Why do you think studying English is important? It helps you to read and write properly so that you can get a job. 2. What skills have you developed in your English lesson over the past five years? I have developed my handwriting, so that it clearly spaced and legible. I have written many stories over the years and enjoy making things up. I have also learnt how to write interesting poems. One of the most important things I have learnt is to read and fill in forms correctly. This is useful, as when I leave school I might have to fill in lots of different forms by myself. I have also developed my library skills over the past year and this has helped me to research things. 3. Have you learned what you expected in your lessons? Yes, we have covered a big range of things.

Subject Aims
Our aim is to provide experiences and learning which will enable students to:

Speaking and Listening

· Encounter a range of situations, audiences and activities designed to develop competence, accuracy and confidence in speaking and listening and to appreciate that different contexts may require different linguistic responses
· Develop their oral abilities at their own levels
· Develop listening and comprehension skills through a variety of means to include both reciprocal and non-reciprocal situations
· Express opinions, articulate feelings and formulate appropriate responses to increasingly complex instructions and questions
· Gain an understanding of causality and effect, sequencing, prediction and recall, and a notion of relevance

Reading

· Read a varied selection of texts whilst gaining an increased level of fluency, accuracy, independence and understanding
· Use reading as a means of information gathering and retrieval
· Display an ability to describe, predict and evaluate
· Develop positive attitudes towards books so that reading is a pleasurable activity
· Develop different strategies for approaching reading. These should include phonics, picture clues, sight words and context
· Use their reading skills as an integral part of their learning throughout the entire curriculum
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Writing

· Write in different contexts and for different purposes and audiences, including themselves
· Form letters correctly, leading to a fluent and legible handwriting style
· Be increasingly aware of the conventions of writing, including grammar, punctuation and spelling
· Work both individually and collaboratively on written tasks
· Become familiar and adept in the use of word processors