It’s tax time! The “Understanding Canadian taxes” lesson plan teaches your beginner ESL students key vocabulary for filing personal income taxes in Canada. The plan includes warm-ups, skill-building and skill-using exercises, a short video, assessment tasks, and reflection questions. After this lesson, your students will better understand basic tax terms and filing requirements.
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What’s new: Week of June 3/24
This updated webpage offers full lesson plans and interactive resources for teaching beginners about numbers, money, dates, and time (including Canadian-specific topics).
What’s new: Week of Mar. 18/24
During a new lesson plan, “Canadian income taxes,” your students will learn about
common tax-related words and phrases and the basic process of filling in a Canadian tax form. Pair this lesson with another recently added lesson plan, “Where do your Canadian taxes go?,” which outlines why and how taxes are collected and spent.
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