Background Notes:

Activity One:

• this activity provides a review of the previous units on skill identification
• a step you might wish to add before identifying various companies/organization would be to identify various jobs where your student's skills could be used

Activity Two:

• using the Yellow and White pages to locate companies for this purpose also serves in aiding your student in becoming more familiar with the information contained in both
• another activity using telephone directories would be to provide your student with a list of stores organizations and services and have them decide which section they would look in to find that particular store
• the Internet also contains telephone directories (type in: telephone directories Toronto, Ontario)

Activity Three:

• have your student list the Key Vocabulary on index cards and use them in sentences

Activity Four:

• this exercise will help in building a student's confidence in using the telephone
• it will also make him much more aware of services in his community
• a written script can serve as a resource tool for future reference