ESL Directions lesson plans and other external resources for your online beginners’ classes (CLB 1-4).
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Money and banking
Lesson plans
Understanding Canadian money
Learn the names of Canadian bills and coins.
Learning banking vocabulary
Learn some of the words and phrases related to banks.
Opening a bank account
Learn the vocabulary needed to open a bank account.
Using an ATM
Learn the vocabulary and steps needed to use an ATM.
Understanding Canadian income taxes
Learn some key vocabulary related to filing personal income taxes in Canada.
Resources
Links to helpful external resources …
- Money resources:
- Banking, and other financial resources:
- Hello World: Using an ATM video
- Learning Chocolate: Canadian banking
- Toronto Catholic District School Board: English for Financial Literacy: PDF Version and Volumes 1-3 Audio Files (Tutela is a free resource-sharing site for ESL teachers. You do need an account to access material.)
- Tutela: Banking and finance collection (A “compilation of teaching resources centred around the theme of Banking and Finance from Literacy to CLB 5/6.” Tutela is a free resource-sharing site. You will need to create an account to access the resources.)
- Wordwall:
- Money and banking discussion questions:
- LearnHip conversation questions: Money (Choose “Money” from the pull-down list.)
- The Internet TESL Journal Archives conversation questions: Money and shopping
Numbers
Lesson plans
Learning about cardinal numbers
Learn the English words for cardinal numbers from one to twenty.
Learning about ordinal numbers
Learn about ordinal numbers and how to use them.
Resources
Links to helpful external resources …
- Cardinal numbers:
- ESOL Courses:
- Google Roll Dice
- Learning Chocolate: Numbers category (vocabulary)
- Math is Fun: Numbers index
- MyFreeBingoCards (Create your own virtual bingo cards.)
- Roll a die
- Ordinal numbers
- Eddie Chan: Ordinal numbers, Describe a position (Tutela is a free resource for ESL teachers, but you do need to create an account.)
- ESOL Courses: Ordinal numbers 1-12
- Language Guide: Ordinal numbers
- Learning Chocolate:
- SplashLearn: What are ordinal numbers?
Telling time
Lesson plans
Telling time
Learn some different ways to tell the time in English.
Resources
Links to helpful external resources …
- Games4ESL: Telling the time quiz
- Games to Learn English:
- Bubbles English game (click on “Time”)
- Fast phrases (click on “Time”)
- Monster phrases (click on “Time”)
- Time
- Learning Chocolate: Time/date index page
- Time discussion questions:
- LearnHip conversation questions: Time (Choose “Time” from the pull-down list.)
- The Internet TESL Journal Archives conversation questions: Time
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FINANCE AND BANKING WORDWALL ACTIVITIES
Wordwall is a very useful interactive lesson-creation site. If you sign up for a free Wordwall account, you will be able to see our “Finance” folder, which includes ESL Directions activities that you can add to your lessons.
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