English offers learners opportunities to develop and extend a wide range of skills, including communication, independent learning, critical literacy, personal, interpersonal and team working, and creative thinking. In particular English aims to enable learners to develop the ability:

to listen and talk, read and write, as appropriate to purpose, audience and context.

to understand.analyse and evaluate texts, as appropriate to purpose and audience in the contexts of literature, language and media.

create and produce texts, as appropriate to purpose, audience and context. Plan and research, Integrating and applying language skills, as appropriate to purpose, audience and context.

 Apply knowledge of language