Friday's Assignment

Welcome back! Hope you had a wonderful time yesterday at DBAF!

For all the pictures and more, log in to this FB album.

Here are your tasks:

1. What tense would you expect to use to make your report? Complete and answer the following questions with a partner:



Click to watch the MicroSkills and Bayramov families in action!

1. Who came ...
2. How long did ...
3. When did ...
4. What did you ...
5. What did your partner ...
6. Which painting or photograph made you ...
7. Would you recommend ...
8. Would you visit ...
9. How could Durdy Bayramov Art Museum ...
10. In what way has your view of ...
2. Record report of the field trip on audioboom.com, and publish it on your blog. DO NOT type or write it out. Just speak out your answers. You may use the above questions to guide your speech.
3. Listen to at least 3 classmates' reports. For each report, write a comment that includes:
1. Three facts they mentioned
2. Three facts they did no mention
3. What you liked about their report
4. What they could work on to improve

If there's time, check out the comments, write out the best suggestions, and make a Version 2 of your audioboom.com report. Also, don't forget to tag yourself in the pictures on Facebook!

Thursday's Field Trip To DBAF Museum at 2647 Bayview

This Thursday's field trip meets at Durdy Bayramov Art Foundation's museum at 2647 Bayview at 11 a.m. If you're driving, parking is limited (see map below for street side parking on Berkindale). There are buses going there from Bayview Station.

Durdy Bayramov was a painter and photographer who lived in Canada for six months. During this time, he added the synchronic style of Canada's Group of Seven artists to his diachronic depiction of the Spanish greats. On Thursday, be among the second LINC group to enjoy the artistic talents of Bayramov as part of our Canadian multicultural art appreciation experience!

 

The first visit to DBAF Museum on September 11, 2015

Wednesday's Assignment

When you're on the job hunt, what's a good way to let others know about your goals and abilities?

Sometimes you get lucky.

One way to make yourself known is to dress the part.

Another is to make a resume.

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play by yourself and then with a partner: Working Part-Time Jobs
1. Rewrite the dialogue with your partner, keeping the words in bold.
2. Publish your new dialogue with audio on your blogs.



But sometimes you don't.

3. Check out your classmates' work, and leave a comment!
2. Check out this page and take notes.
1. Compare your notes with a partner, and ask your partner 5 questions from your notes.
2. Check out your 5 positions from yesterday’s work (Task 3), and identify one to write a resume for.

Tuesday's Assignment

Welcome back! Spring's here, although there wasn't much of a winter, and we're getting more sunlight and heat this week, as well as more moisture!

To open our week on the theme of job search, here are your tasks:

1. Vocabulary--learn and practise using some new phrases: Landing an Interview
2. Role play by yourself, and then record with a partner: Video Resume
3. Check out these job sites and find 5 positions most relevant to you or your spouse or friend: 1, 2, 3:
1. What’s common among the sites?
2. What’s your best find?
3. What are your partners’ best finds?

School closed today

Do not come! See you Tuesday

Thursday's Assignment

Good morning! Before our special talk this morning on cancer prevention, here's today's assignment.

What kind of outcomes from school do you expect of your kids?

What's so funny? Huh?

Here are your tasks:

1. Listening: Report Cards
1. What words or phrases were hard to understand at first?
2. What surprising pronunciation rules did you discover?
2. Vocabulary: Punishment
1. What new words did you learn?
2. What new ways can you use those new words in?
3. Role Play: On the Fringes of Society
1. What new meaning and pronunciation items did you learn?
2. What do your partners say when you check your reading with them?
3. How did your Audioboom.com recording with your partner go? What about your classmates'?

Wednesday's Assignment

Hello everybody! Here's your assignment for this afternoon before going for the job fair:

What kind of outcomes from school do you expect of your kids?

What's so funny?

Here are your tasks:

1. Listening: Report Cards
1. What words or phrases were hard to understand at first?
2. What surprising pronunciation rules did you discover?
2. Vocabulary: Punishment
1. What new words did you learn?
2. What new ways can you use those new words in?
3. Role Play: On the Fringes of Society
1. What new meaning and pronunciation items did you learn?
2. What do your partners say when you check your reading with them?
3. How did your Audioboom.com recording with your partner go? What about your classmates'?

Morning's assignment:

Tuesday's Assignment

Can you remember the trauma of going back to school? Or perhaps going to school for the first time? What were you excited about? What were you fearful of?

Did this cartoon make you laugh? Discuss with two or more classmates.

This week we consider a child's education in Canada. How different is it from your childhood experience?

Here are your tasks:

1. Listening: A Day at School
1. What words or phrases were hard to understand at first?
2. What surprising pronunciation rules did you discover?
2. Vocabulary: Naming Kids
1. What new words did you learn?
2. What new ways can you use those new words in?
3. Role Play: Types of Students
1. What new meaning and pronunciation items did you learn?
2. What do your partners say when you check your reading with them?
3. How did your Audioboom.com recording with your partner go? What about your classmates'?

Welcome Back!

Good afternoon!

For our radio listening exercise, here's an excerpt from 680news this morning.

1. Listen once through, keeping an eye on the handout.
2. Listen again, stopping and rewinding as necessary to fill in the blanks.
3. Check with a partner. And fill in the blanks in a different colour.
4. Take a picture of your completed sheet.
5. Publish your handout on your e-portfolio (blog).

Good morning! Welcome back!

This morning we have two main things to do:

1. Read up on Class Policies and Your Online Learning Companions. You can click on the links or look up at the bar of pages at the top of this blog.



Don't take too long to finish, like this guy. When does he finish writing his report?

1. State your response and suggestions to the Class Policies under its Comments section at the bottom of the page.
2. In the Learning Companions page, copy all the questions under "About Me Section" onto your blog and begin answering them on your blog. For some of the questions, you may need to answer them at the end of this week!
2. Write 10 sentences about your March Break. Organize the sentences into paragraphs either logically or chronologically. To help you think of what to write, use WH questions like What, Who, When, e.g. What did I do on Tuesday?
1. Use the editing checklist to check your own work first.
2. Offer your new friends to check their work, but introduce yourself first.
3. Publish your work and mention who helped you to check.

ANSWERS TO RADIO LISTENING:

Thursday's Assignment

Did you enjoy the trip yesterday? Did you take some nice pictures? How was the potluck?

Guess what the next public holiday is!

Here are your tasks:

1. Write a trip report for yesterday's outing. Use the Editing Checklist as well as get two partners to correct.
2. There’s a public holiday this month called Good Friday. Why is Good Friday called Good Friday? Is it to welcome the warmer season? Is it for families to go on a picnic? Discuss with a partner. Then:
1. Watch this video (5:50 - 7:50). Listen again, and put the sentences in the handout in the correct order.
2. Take dictation from this child’s telling of Easter. Publish your transcript with its video link on your blog.

Answers:

Field Trip Wednesday March 9

For our encore ski trip this year, please meet at Earl Bales Ski & Snowboard Centre at 10 a.m.

As before, those taking a lesson should have on their gloves and snow pants. It might be good to bring some snacks, too, in case the cafeteria isn't open.

Those who are not skiing can bring along their hot drinks and potluck to enjoy, as well as cameras to take fun pictures of the skiers.

Feel free to do some inline skating, snowshoeing, casterboarding, or skateboarding for free!

More warm weather's coming--let's get moving:


See you all at Earl Bales!

Weather looking not too bad

See you tomorrow

Tuesday's Assignment

In some countries, freedom is guaranteed in name only, but in other countries, the freedom is perhaps more sincere. Welcome to Canada! Why did you choose to come here? What other countries are similarly free? Why?

Here are your tasks:

1. Vocabulary: Vacation Plans
2. Role play: Visiting Places of Worship

Monday's Assignment

Welcome back to our last week before the March Break! How exciting that the holidays are approaching. How are you planning to celebrate?

Are you as excited as this family?

Here are your tasks:

1. What countries share similar public holidays? Why?
2. Which ones share public holidays most closely with Canada? Why?
3. Tell a partner and publish your findings.
4. Vocabulary: Holiday Traditions

Friday's Assignment

If something is serious, you might want to get an order for various diagnostic tests and imagings as well as a referral to a healthcare practitioner called a specialist.

What are some of the specialists listed in this cartoon?

Here are your tasks:

1. Leave comments on all your classmates' Listening (Tues) tasks. Do not proceed to the other tasks until you have done this.
2. Role play with a partner: Getting Plastic Surgery
3. Vocabulary: Visiting a Doctor
4. More Role Play: Describing Symptoms

Thursday's Assignment

What happens when you have a workplace accident? What usually happens between dialling 911 and the arrival of the paramedics?

What's the idiom in this cartoon? Demonstrate it to your partner (if you have special health insurance).

1. Role Play: Going to the ER

2. Fill out an incident report given the following details:

1. Your uncle, who turned 57 last June, slipped and fell on the icy sidewalk at dinner time last Tuesday.
2. His supervisor saw it and called 911.
3. Your uncle is afraid of losing his part-time job after only 2 months.
4. Your uncle aches all over and sometimes can’t remember his name.
5. The paramedics let him rest in the ambulance for 10 minutes before deciding to take him to emergency.

CLB7W: Complete an incident report form, including a narrative about the incident.
CLB5W: Read an instructional text on the prevention and treatment of burns at home or in a work setting.

Wednesday's Assignment

Nurses play a big part in healthcare in Ontario. Sometimes they have to read things to you. And sometimes they get you to read.

Are nurses regulated in our province, and if so, by whom? What other professions are regulated? Google and discuss with a partner.

What makes this cartoon so funny?

Here are your tasks:
1. Make comments on your classmates' assignments on Monday and Tuesday, including Version 1.0 and Version 2.0 on the following for each:
a. What went well: was the meaning clear? was the pronunciation clear? how was the self-correction?
b. What could be improved: was the meaning clear? was the pronunciation clear? how was the self-correction?
2. Role play: Nurses and poor handwriting

3. A nurse hands you this burns outpatient resource. Do the following:

1. Find (Ctrl-F) the number of times itch, itching, itchy, or itchiness appears.
2. Write down 2 do’s and 2 don’ts when feeling itchy.
3. State in your own words 5 steps for bathing.
4. Write down 3 rules regarding diet.

Here's the transcript to yesterday's listening exercise:

Sample Corrections Using the Editing Checklist

+A Day with my friend Lilit<<Title Case

Last week in Tuesday I met my friend Lilit. She is an Art teacher in my daughters's schoolcomma and her son goSVA in<<to the same group in kindergarten with<<as my little daughter. The First time we met in<<was at our kids' friend's birthday partycomma and after that, we became friends. She is a very friendly and kindly woman. She offered me<<delete to show my handmade jewelry in the Armenian school. In<<On Tuesday I brought my products and gave<<passed/handed them to her. She showed and sold some jewelry. In<<The next day she invited me at school<<delete to meet other people. They wonted to order special things. I met their and talked with them.<<delete After that my family and Lilit's family spent<<had a good time together in my home. I cooked a delicious dinner. While we were talkingcomma the children played. It was a very nice day.

• S1, and S2.
• DC, IC. DC=dependent clause; IC=independent clause
• IC DC.

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Field trip of IEP Conference<<Title Case
Last Friday, our class went to the 13th IEP Conference downtown. I went there by subway. I took route<<Line 4 first, and then changed to route<<Line 1. I got off at the Union Station. There were many exits, and I felt confoused with them. When I reached at Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC), I found that it<<I was at the South Building of MTCC. But the Conference was in the North Building! I followed the signs,<<and passed<<took a<<the path which connected <<the two buidings. The path was on level 4,C.S. I could see railways and CN Tower though the beautiful purple and yellow glasses of the path.
Finally, I arrived +at the Conference. It was already 10:20 A.M..<<a.m. After the registration, I met some of my classmates in the lobby. I listened to the Engineering Session with Helen Huang, and went to the marketplace for job informations. I learned that it was very important having<<to have the licenses and a Canadian education experiences. After that, we enjoyed the<<a light lunch and took some happy pictrues together.

CONJUNCTIONS
FANBOYS ... S1, (fanboys) S2

1. For
2. And
3. Nor
4. But
5. Or
6. Yet
7. So

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Tuesday's Assignment

Today, we continue learning about healthcare practitioners through listening to a voicemail.

What would you do if you got this voicemail?

Much of medical communications these days rides on digital technology!

Here are your tasks:
1. Role play: Scheduling a Medical Appointment

2. Listen to this voicemail.  Then write down the following information:

1. Addressee
2. Contact number
3. Doctor’s name
4. New Appointment date/time
5. Old Appointment

3. Take dictation of the voicemail and publish it.

CLB5S: Read an instructional text on the prevention and treatment of burns at home or in a work setting.