Canadian provinces: Use this lesson plan to teach your beginner ESL students the names and locations of Canadian provinces. The lesson includes two short videos as well as activities for vocabulary acquisition and geographic understanding.
Category Archives: Canada
Week of Mar. 30/26
This lesson for ESL beginners (CLB 1-2) focuses on Canada’s three Prairie provinces. Your students will learn basic facts about the geography and economy. of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Activities include vocabulary exercises, map labeling, a short video, and reflection questions comparing this Canadian region with their own home countries.
Week of Mar. 9/26
It’s tax time! Use this lesson plan to teach your beginner ESL students key vocabulary for filing personal income taxes in Canada. The plan includes warm-ups, skill-building and skill-using exercises, assessment tasks, and reflection questions. After this lesson, your students will better understand basic tax terms and filing requirements.
Week of Feb. 16/26
This simplified version (for beginner ESL students) of information in Canada’s citizenship guide focuses on Canada’s two official languages: French and English.
The lesson plan includes warm-ups, vocabulary exercises, reading passages, a short video, and reflection questions to better understand the history of these two languages in Canada.
Week of Feb. 2/26
This simplified version of information in Canada’s citizenship guide focuses on several of the first Europeans to explore Canada.
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