Activity Procedures:

Activity One: Handout: The City of Toronto

• using the brainstorm sheet, have your student tell you everything she knows about the City of Toronto and its government
• one question to ask may be "What do you know about the City of Toronto and the municipal government?"

Activity Two:

• have your student develop the words and phrases from the brainstorm in Activity One into sentences
• use the sentences to develop a story about Toronto

Activity Three:

• have your student read the handout, Toronto and Its Government
• ask her to underline any vocabulary she is unsure of (either pronunciation or meaning)
• take turns reading the handout aloud
• ask your student to stop if she does not understand something

Activity Four:

• using the handout, Municipal Responsibilities, discuss each department in the municipal government
• have your student read each word aloud
• take the main responsibilities from the list and then order the other offices under each main heading
• use the Blue Pages of the telephone directory to expand the list