Tuesday's Assignment

Good morning! Here are your tasks for today:

1. This Friday is a public holiday 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.
2. Watch this video (5:50 - 7:50). Listen again, and put the sentences in the handout in the correct order.
3. Take dictation from this child’s telling of Easter. Publish your transcript with its video link on your blog.

ANSWER IS HERE:

Monday's Assignment

Good morning! Welcome to a new week on the theme on cultural diversity in Canada! One of the most multicultural events for newcomers was last Friday's IEP Conference. Publish on your blog a report on the conference.

1. What did you learn? 
2. Was it useful? 
3. Include pictures, and comment on your classmates’ blogs.

If you were not there, make sure to interview your classmates and publish your report on your blog.

IEP Happy

What a nice representation from our class and other classes at this year's IEP!

Most of us look very happy, for some reason.

 

Thursday's Assignment

Well, here we are at the end of a week in the classroom. Tomorrow, we'll all be going to Metro Toronto Convention Centre for the IEP Conference. You can get there by 8:30 a.m. if you leave at 7:30 from Don Mills Station. When you arrive at the Convention Centre, look out for signs that say "IEP Conference" and for people wearing sashes showing the way. At 12:30, how about group photo at the entrance of the exhibition area called the Marketplace?

While there, please note:

1. the name of the sessions you attended and the speakers' names.
2. the name of one person you met in each session and something about that person, e.g. "I met Arumugam Gopindasamy, a senior consultant proctologist from Brunei Darusalam."
3. at least one interesting or helpful thing you learned in each session.

This morning, though, here are your tasks:

1. Listening and vocabulary: Any Referral?
2. Role play with a partner: Seeing a Specialist
3. Complete any of the unfinished tasks from Monday through today, especially those involving an update or posting to your blog.

 

Wednesday's Assignment

Good morning again!

Here are your tasks for this morning, focusing more healthcare professions:

1. Role play with a partner: Getting Plastic Surgery
2. Role play, practise, and record your dialogue at audioboo.fm. Publish the link to the audio on your blog. Listen to and comment on each other's postings.
3. Friend this weirdo on Facebook, and discuss his latest post with a partner.

Tuesday's Assignment

Good morning! Today, we look at referrals.

 

1. Please fill in the following survey on our Navigating the Mental Health System session on Monday morning as soon as possible.
2. Complete publishing/updating your writing to your blog (see yesterday's assignment).
3. Listening and vocabulary: Any Referral?
4. Role play with a partner: Seeing a Specialist

Monday's Assignment

HAPPY THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY, MICROSKILLS!

And we're invited! When was the last time you had a 30th birthday celebration? The party starts at 3 p.m. today on the 9th floor. Are you coming?

Welcome back this afternoon!



Here are your tasks (in addition to the morning tasks below):

1. Learn the vocabulary and role play with a partner: Types of Work
2. Write a paragraph about your vocational or professional background. Consider these examples. Have it checked by  partners before publishing on your blog. Remember that blogged work can be checked for writing improvement.

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This week we start an exciting week on the topic of healthcare professionals. So, what do you call a specialist that treats mental illnesses with medication? You call that person a:

1. Mentalist
2. Medicator
3. Psychologist
4. Physicist
5. Psychiatrist
6. Shrinker
7. Physiologist
8. Physiotherapist
9. Philosopher
10. Psychopath

This morning, we have a workshop on Navigating the Mental Health System in Canada, in preparation for which we have this conversation on Psychological Disorders. Learn the vocabulary and pronunciation, and practise speaking with a partner.

Friday's Assignment

Happy Campers?

T.G.I.F.! Glad we made it through the week! Here are our tasks for this morning:

Cheaper by the Dozen

1. Based on this page of EZ Camping Tips, write a list of what to pack for your family’s camping trip next summer. Compare your list with your classmates'.
2. Pick a campground, and decide on a budget. Compare your budget with a partner's. Did you leave out anything?
3. Upload the information and pictures to your blog, and comment on 3 friends’ blogs. Feel free to subscribe to EZ Camping Tips on FaceBook and connect with your friends.
4. Check out this famous biblical story, and compare it with the movie we watched this week. Make sure you focus on the English translation.What do you think of this sentence: "He ran to his son and hugged and kissed him"? Discuss your feelings with your partner.
5. At 9:30 a.m., feel free to join your instructor in attending the IEP volunteers' teleconference.
6. AFTERNOON: Complete your morning work, making sure your blog post is published and updated, and then role play with a partner: Spending Time with Family.

Thursday's Assignment

Good morning again! Here are your tasks:

1. Sign up for the IEP Conference if you haven't.
2. Check your blog using the editing checklist.
3. Do this lesson on Our Family Roots.
4. Check out the CARP website. Would you recommend it to your parents or consider joining it yourself? Tell a partner why or why not.
5. Role play with a partner: Eating a Family Dinner

Wednesday's Assignment

 

 

1. Vocabulary Enrichment: Daily Chores on a Farm
2. What services are offered at Family Services Toronto? In what languages? Discuss with a partner the pros and cons of using such a service.
3. Role Play with a partner: Roles Within the Family
4. Listening Comprehension: Family Relationships
5. Write a list of five most important chores a husband should do at home. Then list five for the wife. Post your lists on your blog, and comment on your classmates' posts.

 

CLASS CANCELED TODAY <-- April Fool's Joke, LOLs

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