How much do our students know about Canada’s geography? What (tourist) attractions do they choose to visit? Is Niagara Falls one of their top destinations? Canada includes many exciting places to explore other than Niagara Falls, the Rocky Mountains, and Banff National Park.
This presentation will introduce new ways of learning about Canada’s geography. Engaging students in group activities such as designing vacation packages with enticing posters or asking them to brainstorm on how to revive Canada’s smallest town can enhance their knowledge and make learning fun. Making Canada’s map with geographical places derived from Indigenous words is also an enjoyable task. Real samples of student work will be shared with the webinar participants.
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Webinar Type: Teaching Best Practices
Categories: Blended Teaching/Learning; Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion; Reading; Speaking; Vocabulary; Writing
Teaching Sectors: Adult ESL (credit), Continuing Education/Adult ESL (non-credit), LINC
Participant Level: All levels
Ilona Sandor (she/her) is an experienced teacher, a LINC Instructor and PBLA Lead Teacher. She has been working at Polycultural Immigrant and Community Services in Toronto for 18 years. Her students have won prizes in previous ESL-week contests organized by TESL Ontario (in 2010 first runner-up in poster contest; in 2011 Grand Prize in essay contest). Ilona has mentored TESL students over the years. Besides teaching, her primary interests lie in second language acquisition, teaching methodology and curriculum design. She is the author of the Hungarian language book entitled Szépen magyarul (Beautifully in Hungarian).
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* Members must be a member of the TESL Ontario group on Tutela.
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