Before I get into a specific lesson using the resources listed within this post I ask my students to navigate through the Workplace Skills site and the Essential Skills site. Once they had a period to do so I often ask a very general question such as "What did you discover?"
Taken from What are Essential Skills:
The Government of Canada conducted extensive research to examine the skills people use in the workplace. From this research and through interviews with workers, managers, practitioners and leading researchers, over 350 Essential Skills Profiles have been developed for various occupations. The essential skills that people need for learning, work and life. They are used in the community and in the workplace, in different forms and different levels of complexity.
