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ESL in Canada Study Tours

The Study Tour Program begins with Pre-Tour English instruction for a special purpose. ESL in Canada provides vocabulary, definitions, history and culture of the Canada locations, events and activities. The pre-tour English instruction will prepare tour participants to understand and communicate in English during the Canada events and tours.

• Arrival in Canada


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• Week One Toronto


• 20 hour Study program


• Toronto Tours


• Niagara Falls Day Trip


• CN Tower


• Toronto Zoo


• Hockey Hall of Fame


• Royal Ontario Museum


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• Week Two Ottawa


• 20 hour Study program


• Ottawa Tours


• Algonquin Park Tour


• Parliament Buildings


• White water rafting


• Ottawa Museums


• Ottawa Galleries


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• Week Three Montreal


• 20 hour Study program


• Montreal Tours


• Mount Tremblant Tours


• Mount Royal


• Expo 67 Fairgrounds


• Montreal Cathedrals


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• Week Four Quebec


• 20 hour Study program


• Quebec Tours


• Old Quebec City Tours


• Walled City Tours


• Fort Tours


• Saint Lawrence River tours


• Departure to Toronto


• Return to Home

Spectacular Canadian Tour Locations

Niagara Falls - Join the sightseeing excursion to Niagara Falls, with a Maid of the Mist cruise for an up-close view of the falls.



Toronto CN Tower - The CN Tower is Canada's most recognizable icon. At a height of 553.33m (1,815 ft., 5 inches), it is the World's Tallest Building. Visitors can enjoy "To The Top: The Movie" a 15 minute documentary of the building of the engineering marvel that created the CN Tower.

English Language Skills

Writing introduces the purpose of the work, expresses main ideas and gives details, conveys essential information to the reader, uses format and content appropriate for intended audience, demonstrates adequate vocabulary for the topic. Student can reduce information to main points with accurate supporting details and no major omissions of important points or details, can also demonstrate good use and control of complex grammatical structures, vocabulary, spelling and punctuation.

Speaking effectively in most daily practical and social situations, and in familiar routine work situations; participate in conversations with confidence; speak on familiar topics at both concrete and abstract levels; can provide descriptions, opinions and explanations.

Reading identifies main ideas, factual details and inferred meanings in text, identifies organization of text, topic sentences and logical relationship including links between paragraphs; follows the sequence of narration or process even when events are out of sequence; distinguishes facts from opinions; infers meaning of words from context clues; hypothesizes how something works; evaluates ideas in text, draws conclusions and expresses own opinion; interprets key information in a diagram or graph as verbal text; transfers key ideas from a chart or diagram. The student can follow an extended set of multi-step instructions for established process or directions.

Listening can comprehend main points, details, speaker's purpose, levels of formality and styles in oral discourse in moderately demanding contexts; follow most formal and informal conversations, and some technical work-related discourse in own field at a normal rate of speech; follow discourse about abstract and complex ideas on a familiar topic; comprehend an expanded range of concrete, abstract and conceptual
language; determine mood, attitudes and feelings; understand sufficient vocabulary,
idioms and colloquial expressions to follow detailed stories of general popular
interest; follow instructional texts and directions; follow clear and coherent phone
messages on unfamiliar and non-routine matters; identifies the component parts of the presentation: introduction, topic development, topic shift and conclusion; identify and respond to formal welcomes, farewells, toasts, congratulations on achievements, awards, sympathy, condolences and questions. Student can follow an extended set of multi-step instructions on technical and non-technical tasks for familiar processes or procedures, and identify stated and unspecified meanings in extended suggestions and recommendations.