Unit B
Activity 1

The Canada Customs and Revenue Agency: What is it, exactly?

To the Teacher:

This activity consists of a two-page reading, and an exercise involving scanning the reading and saying large numbers.

Students can read the text aloud as a class, or silently on their own. The text contains several numbers that are the basis of the exercise that follows. Students are asked to match each of the numbers in the text to how they are said and what they describe in the text. They can do this matching in one of two ways, by drawing lines to join items in three lists, or by grouping items that are on slips of paper. You can choose the method that is easiest for you to prepare if your time is tight, or you can choose the method that your students would enjoy or benefit from the most, or you might choose to do the activity one way on one day and the other way on a second day - that way the students would spend more time with the content (you might have them do the activity on the second day without the text, to see if they can remember what the numbers mean) and to practice two kinds of exercises.