Field Trip Tuesday: Indoor Skiing in Mississauga

The photos are now ready at our FB photo album and other friends' pages. Be sure to make new FB friends and share the fun! And don't forget to tag yourselves in the pictures.

Monday Morning's Assignment

This week we will consider the theme of Skills for Life. Just a quick announcement, though: at 10 a.m. we're going back to our classroom for a workshop on Employment Rights. Also, please pay your $16 fee for tomorrow's field trip activity to your instructor before lunch.



Here are the tasks:

1. What do you think the most important skills are for your new life in Canada? Is it to pick up the phone? Is it to express your disagreement to an officer about a parking ticket? Is it to understand a letter from CRA? Or to email your local councillor?
1. Think of the top 3 tasks for each of the four language skills (LSRW).
2. Talk to a partner about your total list of 12 tasks, and compare your lists.
3. Publish your partner's list on your blog and say why you agree or disagree with it.
2. Make corrections on the printout of your blog writing using the editing checklist, and update your blog with the corrected version. Make sure the before and after versions are clearly seen.
3. Bonus Activity: Only when you've completed all of the above, you may take this survey. A four-step guide is available. If asked, the class name and class code are: LINC 4-5 and ON-00060-1.

Friday Afternoon's Assignment

So, you can get stuff in the brick-and-mortar library, and you can download stuff from the online library. What else can you get from your public library? Welcome back for the final assignment of this week:

1. Read the rules for the MAP.
2. In an email to a friend overseas, list 3 great things and 3 frustrating things about the MAP.
1. Then compare the Toronto Public Library to a public library system of another country. This could be the country you came from.
2. Have two partners check your work using the editing checklist, and post the email on your blog.
3. Complete any unfinished assignments from earlier this week.

Friday Morning's Assignment

Let's step back and have a look again at our city's public library. Do you recognize this place:

Drawing reproduced in Toronto Daily Star, 1922 (a clipping of which is in Toronto Public Library, Scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, photographs, etc. relating to the Toronto Public Library, p.108, 1922). See also X 71-8. TEC 391.02. Date Created year approximate for 1922?

Here are your tasks for this morning:

1. Listen to this text using Natural Readers. Practise reading and pronouncing the words, and then post a recording of your reading on your blog.
2. Using your editing checklist and printouts from yesterday afternoon, update your posts with the corrections. Did you make any improvements to your writing? Make sure to show the writing BEFORE and the writing AFTER editing.

Thursday's Assignment

What are libraries made of? What kind of materials are used in building one? What's the opposite of online or web-based? What do you like or not like about "brick-and-mortar" places?


Here are your tasks:

1. Listening and vocabulary: A Taped Tour
2. Check out the programs at the 3 branch libraries nearest to your home. How did you find your answers? Did you arrive at your answers the same way as your classmates?
3. Listen to a few sample radio ads. Create a radio ad on Vocaroo.com for your neighbourhood branch library. What information would you include? Discuss with a partner. Leave comments on your classmates’ ads, too!

Tuesday's Assignment

Do you have a library card? What do you know about the online resources of Toronto Public Library?

Do you know what "pick-up lines" are? Do you know any examples in your first language? Tell a partner.

Check out the following tasks:

1. How many of the 16 public library resources here can you access? Comment on your favourite.
2. Can you really learn grammar online? Check this out: 7. Tense Buster > Access Online > Option 2 > Intermediate > Relative Clauses