Detailed Sample Task: EAL Literacy
CLB
4L-Listening
Comprehending Information
Banking and Numeracy
Real-World Task
Listen to a short description of banking safety tips to share with your children/friends.
Planning Context
Helpful Knowledge:
- Imperative voice
- Personal information
- Sequencing language: first, second, third, next, also
Context:
- Bank information should be kept private to prevent identity theft or fraud.
- There are people who intentionally try to con you out of your bank information.
- A tip is similar to a piece of advice or a suggestion.
Vocabulary and Grammar
Sample Vocabulary:
- safety
- prevent
- fraud
- con
- PIN
- private
- security
Sample Grammar:
- Modal verbs: should
- Complex sentences with because
Knowledge and Strategies
Textual and Functional Knowledge:
- Tips are often given in the imperative voice.
- Tips are often given as a list.
Sociolinguistic Knowledge:
- Tips help keep you and your banking information safe.
- Following security tips helps prevent fraud.
Activities and Tasks
Sample Skill-Building Activities:
- Discuss in small groups: What services do banks provide? What kinds of information do you need to give bank tellers?
- Discuss new vocabulary in small groups: safety, prevent, fraud, con, PIN, private, security. What do you think these words mean? Discuss what you already know and make predictions with your group. Review the words as a class.
- Copy information about vocabulary words into a template to create a mini-dictionary.
- Review bank vocabulary and practice using matching, fill-in-the-blanks, and games such as Memory or Bingo.
- Discuss as a class: What is personal information? What information can you share freely? What information can you share with specific people? What information should you always keep private, even from loved ones (e.g. your PIN)?
- Read a simple instructor-made story about a con and personal banking information. Discuss the story in small groups and complete comprehension activities like answering questions, filling in the blanks, and writing sentences.
- Review modal verbs and elicit examples from learners using should. Continue with various activities to practice modals.
- Work with a partner to take a list of instructions in the imperative and rewrite them into sentences using You should…
- Listen to a dialogue between two friends about tips to keep your information safe. With a partner, make a list of the tips you hear in the recording. Compare with another pair of learners.
- Teach complex sentences with because, including rules for commas. Create complex sentences with because by combining a main clause with a reason.
- Read a list of tips for banking safety and rewrite the tips using You should…because… Share your sentences with a partner.
- Interview a partner: What do they do to keep their banking information safe? Present your partner’s ideas to the class.
Sample Skill-Using Tasks:
- Listen to a very short presentation on tips for preventing fraud and theft of information. Demonstrate comprehension by answering comprehension questions.
Sample Assessment Tasks:
- Listen to a short description of banking safety tips to share with your children/friends. Demonstrate comprehension by answering comprehension questions.
Teaching Considerations
Cultural Considerations:
- People from different cultures may have different expectations of how to manage their finances. Some may not have experience with banks or may not trust banks.
- Some learners may have the expectation that they share all information with their spouses, partners, or parents, including information such as their PIN. Respect cultural differences but share the advice that in Canada, a PIN is usually kept completely private, even from your spouse.
Digital Literacy Strategies:
Successful completion of some tasks may require some baseline knowledge and digital skills.
Learners may need to:
- Have keyboarding and typing skills.
- Locate, navigate and use websites relevant to the task.
- Use familiar apps, social media platforms and web pages relevant to the task.
- Read information from a screen.
- Navigate camera and microphone.
- Adjust volume on device.
- Navigate forms.
Instructors can:
- Dedicate time to improve digital literacy for learners.
- Make and/or adapt digital materials.
- Introduce websites that are relevant to the task(s).
- Support learners in finding, navigating and using websites relevant to the task.
- Support with clicking on appropriate fields for an online form.
- Introduce tools and apps that can aid learners in coping with communication barriers, such as translation, pronunciation, text to speech, speech to text tools and so on.
- Share knowledge and strategies to ensure online safety.
- Refer learners to programs to improve their digital skills.
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Indigenization Strategies:
- Use diverse representations of people in all your learning resources and images, including people who are 2SLGBTQ+, Indigenous, Francophone and of other cultures, and people who have disabilities or who are neurodivergent. Consider this diversity as you choose names for characters in stories you create as well.
- Learners who identify as women may not have had access to their own finances. Make sure that all learners are aware of their rights in Canada and are aware of services and resources that can help them.
Trauma-informed Strategies:
Possible Trauma Triggers:
- Learners who have lived or are living in poverty and learners who have lost their homes and possessions may find discussions around banking, money, or finance triggering.
- When teaching about Canada, you may teach about things that are triggering to learners who have experienced trauma. We can’t know what the triggers might be and what seems commonplace to us may have a triggering component for learners. Be aware of this and be prepared to support learners as needed.
Strategies:
- Give learners advance warning of this topic and be aware that there may be learners who require support.
- Learners who have experienced trauma often benefit from having routine. Create a safe and supportive classroom environment by establishing familiar routines, repeated activities, and model friendly and non-evaluative interactions.
- Learners will benefit from positive relationships established in the classroom with the instructor and peers.
- Learners who have experienced trauma benefit from having choices.
- Allow learners choice:
- the choice to work on a different topic
- the choice to share or not share their own experiences
- the choice to work alone or to work with others
- the choice to take care of themselves
- the choice to step out of the learning environment
- Allow learners choice:
- When learners have shared personal distressing or traumatic experiences, make space for learners to feel safe and recover from the experience of sharing their experiences. Follow the activities which may make learners feel vulnerable with routine, predictable and comforting activities.
- Giving learners the knowledge, skills and language to access resources can be empowering.
Resources
Outings, Guest Speaker Suggestions, Extension Activities:
- Visit a local bank.
- Invite someone who specializes in financial literacy to speak to the class.
- Have learners create posters about suggestions for banking security and safety.
Realia:
- Pamphlets for local banks
- Websites and/or apps for local banks
- Examples of recent/local scams involving finances
Units and Modules:
- Tutela (CCLB): Reporting a Lost/Stolen Bank/Credit Card: CLB 3/4 (Not literacy or the right level but can be adapted)
- Tutela (CCLB Blended Modules): Reporting a Lost/Stolen Bank/Credit Card: CLB 3/4 (Not literacy or the right level but can be adapted)
Lessons and Activities:
- Tutela: Basic Banking: Module Plan and Assessment Tasks: CLB 4 (Not literacy but can be adapted)
- Tutela: Banking and Money: CLB 3/4 (Not literacy but can be adapted)
- Tutela (OCDSB): Collecting Information About Banks: CLB 4 (Not literacy but can be adapted)
- LINC 4 Classroom Activities: Pre-Authorized Payment Plan Application Form (p. 70) (Not literacy but can be adapted)
- Tutela: Norquest LINC Phonics Curriculum: CLB 4L
- A search of NLCG (nlcg.achev.ca) may provide additional tasks that can be adapted.
Multimedia:
Detailed Sample Task
This exemplar is aligned with the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) and is designed to guide and inform your lesson and module planning. Consult the Canadian Language Benchmarks English as a Second Language for Adults for detailed performance descriptors at this benchmark and skill.
The information in this document is not exhaustive and can be expanded on. As well, you can use more learner-friendly language in your materials and assessments.
This is NOT a lesson or module plan.
