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!