Activity Four: Handout: Responsibilities of the Federal Government

• go through the handout and discuss the various responsibilities of the federal government
• bring in an article which relates to one of the responsibilities of the federal government
• read the article with your student
• before beginning the article choose any vocabulary that your student may have difficulty with and discuss this before starting
• have him read the article aloud
• ask him to tell you in his own words what the story was about
• assign questions about the story starting with simple questions that require locating the answer in the story to questions which mean interpreting information from the story

Activity Five:

• use the blue pages in the back of the telephone directory and find out the numbers for each of the responsibilities for the federal government
• list the numbers on the handout, Important Federal Government Numbers, which the student feels would be useful information for him

Activity Six:

• ask your student to choose an area of responsibility of the federal government that he feels needs to be improved or that he feels is doing a good job
• ask him to explain why he feels that way
• ask him to write a letter to his Member of Parliament