I love to teach students visiting Toronto. -

It gives me an opportunity to use lots of Realia in the classroom. 

My favourite realia is using Maps to Teach English.

Maps offer ESL teachers with a wonderful format for teaching.

Teachers can teach basic math terms for scale and distance. Teachers 
can also teach spatial relationships and even ratios. Adding time and 
speed components allows for lots of applications for students to plan 
trips and calculate each section.

Maps can indicate three dimensional components. Students can learn 
terms about height and depth as well as composition. Resources Maps 
can indicate agriculture, forests and minerals. Land use maps allows 
for explanations about parks, preserves and the effects of 
urbanization.

My students love to use the free Ontario Driving maps and use the 
distance cross references to calculate driving times. I pass out 
about 100 of the Ontario travel brochures that promote Niagara Falls, 
Algonquin Park, Elora Gorge, Museums, festivals, boat cruises, canoe 
trips, camping adventures and the other 90 wonderful things students 
can do while visiting Toronto. Students can pick two or three 
locations and use the maps to plan the trip.

The students want to see their favourite attractions or activities or 
events. When you provide the information and maps the students will 
learn an amazing amount of English motivated by their interests.

I have fun teaching the students have fun learning. They don't even 
realize that they did homework sometimes.

Teachers can go to the Ontario Ministry of Tourism for free maps. The 
staff are very helpful and can provide almost everything that you 
need.

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