Wage Calculations Sheet 1

Addressing an Envelope

CLB Level: CLB2 &
PH1D/PH1C
Essential Skills Focus:
Continuous Learning (find out how to address an envelope correctly), Writing (place various addresses)
Task:
Learn how to address & copy addresses correctly onto envelopes
Purpose:
Students will
  • listen to an explanation on how to address an envelope and types of addressing
  • copy addresses and place them in the appropriate location on an envelope
Materials:
Teacher-made worksheets (3 sheets attached) & 1 overhead sheet not attached
Learning Style:
Visual, kinaesthetic, verbal & social
Time:60 minutes / Method:
  1. Prompt questions of prior knowledge onhow students address letters in their own country.
  2. Using an Overhead Projector show Sheet 1, Picture 1 and use step-by-step instructions on how to address an envelope in Canada.
  3. Hand out Sheet 1to students.Prompt questions to make sure students are clear on the rules when writing addresses.
  4. Hand out Sheet 2, Exercise 1 to students. Go over the information to make sure students have a clear idea what items to write and where.
  5. Hand out Sheet 3, Exercise 2 to students. Go over the information to make sure students have a clear idea what and where to write the items.
  6. After completion of task, check their work and discuss any difficulties they had with the exercises.
Debrief:
a)Language Component:
  1. What did you learn today?
  2. Why is it important to know how to address an envelope?
  3. How does this compare with the way you address an envelope in your country?
b)Transfer:
  1. What skills did you use in today’s exercise?
  2. Why are these important skills?
  3. Where do you think you will use this knowledge learned today?
Follow Up:
Have students pair-up and ask them to spell their names and addresses for each other and write this information in the sender’s place on an imaginary envelope. After 10 min. change partners. From their new partners they ask each others names & addresses and write them in the destination’s place on the imaginary envelope.
On another day students could look up specific individuals/businesses in the White/Yellow Pages and copy them down on the imaginary envelopes.
As a computer use exercise students could look up on the Internet the website of Canada Post for additional exploration on addressing envelopes to the US and internationally.

Wage Calculations; Sheet 1Page 1/5

Eva M. Galambos

Addressing an Envelope Sheet 3

Instructions:

  1. Before Sheet 1 is handed out to the students, talk about how students address an envelope in their own country.
  2. Using an Overhead Projector show Picture 1 and introduce the way a general envelope is addressed in Canada. Talk about upper case letters (when and where to use), spaces (one and two, when and where to use), punctuation, height of letters, legibility etc.
  3. Hand out Sheet 1 to the students and review together the information on addressing an envelope.

Address Placement[1]

Picture 1

Exercise 1

Copyeach of the following return addresses in the top-left corner on each of the envelopes.

Address 1: Maria Simpson 56-789 PORTAGE AVEWINNIPEG MB R3B 4K2

Address 2: Vincent Trump MARKETING DEPARTMENT 660 MAIN ST NWMONTREAL QC H3Z 5K9

Address 3: SUPERGOODS LTD. PO BOX 789 STATION A CALGARY AB T7U 3H6

Exercise 2

Copy each of the following destination addresses in the middle of each envelope.

Address 1: Jason Dereksen39-267 BROADWAY AVEWINNIPEG MB R3B 4K2

Address 2: SALLY GORDON HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY CRES NWEDMONTON AB T3L7C2

Address 3: LESLIE FERGUSON UNITED CORP PO BOX72 STATION A CALGARY AB T1Y6V3

WinnipegSchool Division Adult EAL Program Essential Skill Focus: Continuous Learning/Writing

Author: Eva M. Galambos CLB Level: CLB2/PH1D & PH1C

[1]Information taken from: and added callouts for students’ better understanding