BANKING AND FINANCE
Check out my blog post in which I tell about the time I built a classroom ATM from a cardboard box and how you can do the same using mock ups of TD Green Machine screens I have already created.
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BANKING
For CLB 4 and up, I created a matching activity from an informational pamphlet from TD Bank. Print one copy on green card stock, one copy on yellow card stock. Keep the left column in green (discarding the right column) and cut the squares apart; keep the right column in yellow (discarding the left) and cut the squares. Now you have a set you can distribute, one card per student or partnership.
A fantastic resource is English for Financial Literacy, which you can download for free from the Settlement at Work Wiki.
When I recently taught a banking module for my multi-level seniors class, I introduced learners to actual TD Bank schedules of fees and interest rates for all savings and chequing accounts. You are free to edit this reading assessment and the rubric that I designed as an end-of-week test of their abilities.
The Best of the Reader series - Keeping Safe book includes a chapter Safety Tips at the ATM
GFC Learn Free has an ATM simulator (American).
Here is a Canadian ATM simulator.
Here is a debit / Interac (TM) simulator.
For CLB 4 and up, I created a matching activity from an informational pamphlet from TD Bank. Print one copy on green card stock, one copy on yellow card stock. Keep the left column in green (discarding the right column) and cut the squares apart; keep the right column in yellow (discarding the left) and cut the squares. Now you have a set you can distribute, one card per student or partnership.
A fantastic resource is English for Financial Literacy, which you can download for free from the Settlement at Work Wiki.
When I recently taught a banking module for my multi-level seniors class, I introduced learners to actual TD Bank schedules of fees and interest rates for all savings and chequing accounts. You are free to edit this reading assessment and the rubric that I designed as an end-of-week test of their abilities.
The Best of the Reader series - Keeping Safe book includes a chapter Safety Tips at the ATM
GFC Learn Free has an ATM simulator (American).
Here is a Canadian ATM simulator.
Here is a debit / Interac (TM) simulator.
CHEQUE WRITING
Is there even a need to teach this topic anymore? Well, if there is, help yourself to these worksheets.
Cheque writing worksheet 1
Cheque writing worksheet 2
Cheques vocabulary word search puzzle
Cheque writing practice (We used the $20 cheques in our ATM - Deposits lesson later.)
Is there even a need to teach this topic anymore? Well, if there is, help yourself to these worksheets.
Cheque writing worksheet 1
Cheque writing worksheet 2
Cheques vocabulary word search puzzle
Cheque writing practice (We used the $20 cheques in our ATM - Deposits lesson later.)
IDENTITY THEFT
I used this text on identity theft and the attached activities for a multi-level seniors class, most of them at CLB 3 or higher.
I used this text on identity theft and the attached activities for a multi-level seniors class, most of them at CLB 3 or higher.
LISTENING LINKS
ESL Fast has a vast collection of dialogues for the "At the Bank" topic
ESL Fast has a vast collection of dialogues for the "At the Bank" topic
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