Entry Level Certificate

Resources

Most schools delivering Entry Level certificate courses use conventional GCSE textbooks as these will cover the topic areas of the Entry Level Certificate course comprehensively. Where two tiers of coursebook are available, the version of the book aimed at Foundation GCSE candidates is the one to select. 

The assessment tasks are provided in advance and some teachers use these to create their own similar materials to use for practice purposes. 

Resources aimed at beginners and students in KS3 may well be appropriate to students following an Entry Level certificate course in KS4. However, it is important that if resources have already been used in KS3 that they are not presented to the students again in KS4 as this will have a demotivating effect.

Online resources aimed at beginners or less able linguists which schools delivering Entry Level have found useful include Textmatch (part of the TaskMagic range of exercises) and Linguascope, a subscription website.