English Stepup Course will enhance and develop new students with their English specifically to build their skills in reading, writing, speaking, listening and communication at a basic level. The course is over three weeks and includes:
1 Reading - Identify research, facts and opinions – How opinions can sometimes be presented as fact and the ways in which they can differentiate between a fact and an opinion. Different situations and different purposes of texts
2. Explore texts with different purposes, including persuasive text, informative text, descriptive text and instructive text. This unit will also cover texts that are used for more than one purpose.
3 Textual features and devices – To look at different organisational features that can be used in a piece of text and how these can be identified when reading. Also look at how to understand a range of specialist words in context of the college course and modules
4 Speaking, Listening and Communication - Identifying information and responding to questions.
5 Online – Setting up and using Microsoft emails and using teams
6 Writing including layout, format, structure and writing of various texts, different organisational features and layouts for different texts.