Wednesday's Assignment

If the first thing that you think of when it comes to Canadian celebrations is John Graves Simcoe, you can jump up and shout Woohoo!

You may already know of Lake Simcoe and Simcoe Street downtown. Well, how about a Simcoe Day, and who really was Simcoe?

What Canadian celebrations are represented above?

Here are your tasks:

1. Look for at least 5 new words about Governor Simcoe here.
2. Listen to the story using a free TTS (Text-to-Speech) website online.
3. Find the meaning of those words.
4. Read the sentences containing those words to a partner to check for pronunciation.
5. Wait for class take up.
6. Write a dialogue using those words.
7. Read your classmates’ dialogues, and identify their words from Simcoe’s story under Comments.