Field Trip Friday April 29: Honest Ed's and Koreatown

Eight months before it's all over, we'll be visiting one of Toronto's most interesting institutions, Honest Ed's (flyer), and its closest neighbourhood, Koreatown.

Let's arrive by 10:30 a.m. at the Bloor and Bathurst entrance and leave for lunch in Koreatown around 11:30 a.m. from the Markham Street exit. Be sure to be in the photo session at 11:35.

Please arrange with your classmates to ride the subway there! Those leaving from Don Mills Station should board the 9:38 a.m. train. If you are joining those going for lunch, we should finish no later than 1:30 p.m. and could get back to Don Mills from either Bathurst or Christie station.



What are you most excited to find out? What are you most hungry for?

Post your comments below!

Thursday's Assignment

Are you excited about the field trip tomorrow? Who's going with you? What time are you meeting and where? Listen to the following video and see how much you can transcribe.

Here are your tasks:

1. Reading: Find out 3 places in the vicinity of Bathurst Subway Station
1. Check out the Honest Ed's flyer for the week, and tell a partner what interests you.
2. Decide on a good place for lunch for the whole class. What's the budget? Then nicely knock on Hala's door (Level 5-6 Workplace English) and ask to recommend it to them.
2. Role play: Learning to Ride the Subway
1. Record with a partner.
2. Help those who need help with their blogs or recordings.

Haha here you go ... Can you say strike?

http://www.blogto.com/city/2016/04/all_of_torontos_libraries_might_shut_down_next_week/

Wednesday's Assignment

What do you do when you wake up one day for a field trip and find out that public transport workers are on strike?

Well, you check the blog. That's what you do!

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play: Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike
1. View these pictures: 1, 2, 3
2. Discuss them with a partner, and then practise the dialogue.
3. Record your dialogue on Audioboom.com with the partner role playing Homer not looking at the words.
2. Reading: First 2 paragraphs of this Toronto Star article
1. Find at least 5 new words/phrases to learn for meaning and pronunciation.
2. Then read to 2 partners to check for meaning and pronunciation before letting your instructor know you're done.

Tuesday's Assignment

Now that you've been in the Toronto area for a while, are you pretty familiar with the public transport system?

So, have a look at the map and find the nearest station from here:

If you need help, try clicking here. You might like to also enter a specific day/time or see the PDF.

Here are your tasks:

1. Vocabulary: Getting Around without a Car
1. Learn the meaning and pronunciation of the words in bold.
2. Read them to a partner who speaks a different L1 than yours.
2. Role play: Reading a Bus Schedule
3. Find two field trip venues for the summer using Google Maps.
1. For one trip, find out how much and how long it takes to get there and back on the TTC.
2. For the other trip, do the same thing, but include a GO train journey.
3. Give reasons for each of your choices.

Monday's Assignment

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Here are your tasks:

1. From the video above, write down a list of adjectives and nouns.
1. From the adjectives, find the noun forms and other forms; and likewise for the nouns, e.g. "performance" > perform, performing, performer.
2. Choose 10 of those forms and make sentences with them, e.g. "The performance of performing elephants included a child dressed as a ballet performer."



How funny is this cartoon? Would you like to see more of these?

3. Read them to a classmate, who will help correct them before publishing.
2. Vocabulary: Getting Around
1. Learn the words in bold for meaning and pronunciation.
2. Read them and have a partner check for pronunciation, and then record those words in sentences.
3. Role play: Selecting a Neighbourhood
1. Add 2 more lines, one from Jeremy and one from Leona, to end the conversation on a funny note.
2. Practise with a partner, and record the whole conversation together, including your 2 additional lines.

Shadi's Lesson Plan

1. CBC News Article
2. New Words

Youtube: Click Me

Best Cities To Invest In Real Estate? Those Would Be Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary

The Huffington Post Canada

By Daniel Tencer

Canadian cities top the world for the real estate markets that make the best bet for long-term

investment, according to a study from U.K. property developer Grosvenor — but they may not be

such a great investment in the short term.

Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary took the top three spots, respectively, on the survey that aims to

measure which real estate markets are the most resilient, and therefore make the best long-term

investment.

"Canada, as a whole, is doing exceptionally well in developing resiliency,” Richard Barkham, group

research director at Grosvenor, said in a statement.

But the study doesn’t put to rest the argument that Canada may be facing a housing bubble, as it

doesn’t look at what could happen to real estate markets in the short term. Of the rankings’ top 20

markets, eight are in the U.S., whose housing markets are just now recovering from the bursting of

last decade’s bubble.

In fact, in the short term, Canada’s real estate markets are more prone to ups and downs than

average, Grosvenor suggested.

"If you are investing with a short-term perspective, a portfolio of the resilient cities won't necessarily

be less volatile; in fact you would have a more volatile portfolio if you only invested in the top five

cities,” Barkham said.

To determine a real estate market's long-term strength, the study looked at “environmental and

social vulnerability and adaptive capacity,” covering areas such as infrastructure, environment and

climate.

“In our view, environmental sustainability, community liveability and economic prosperity are all

necessary components of long-term city resiliency,” Urban Land Institute CEO Patrick Phillips said.

Thursday's Assignment

Besides diet, flossing, and annuals, what else is essential to a healthy lifestyle?

Does anyone else you know exercise so vigorously? What other great ideas on physical exercise can you find here?

Here are your tasks:

1. Reading: Find clues here as to what Her Majesty the Queen does for exercise. Discuss your answer with a partner.
2. Vocabulary: Walking or Running as Exercise
1. Learn 5 words or expressions for meaning and pronunciation.
2. Make sentences with them, and have a partner check your reading of those sentences.
3. Record them on Audioboom.com, and check at least 5 other classmates' recordings.
3. Role play: Childhood Fitness
1. Practise aloud by yourself, and find 5 words that are most commonly mispronounced (e.g. "Ob City" or "opposite," instead of "obesity.")
2. Practise with a partner, focusing on correct pronunciation of those 5 words.
3. Record with your partner on Audioboom.com those 5 words, followed by the whole dialogue.
4. Write a list of 10 Dos and Don'ts on exercise and fitness for your family. For example:
• Wear good tennis shoes to avoid getting blisters.
• Don't do high-impact workouts to avoid getting shin splints.

Wednesday's Assignment

Another way to maintain a healthy lifestyle is to go for annual checkups with one's doctor. Do you agree? Do you do that?

Did you chuckle at this cartoon? What else tickles you on this search?

Here are your tasks:

1. Vocabulary: A Visit to the Doctor
1. Pick 5 words or expressions to learn for meaning and pronunciation.
2. Practise saying them in sentences, and record your sentences on Audioboom.com.
2. Role play: Doctor-Patient Confidentiality
1. Pick 5 new pronunciations you never knew before.
2. Practise saying them, and read them to a partner, who will check your pronunciation.

Tuesday's Assignment

Now that we've taken a bite at dieting, let's chew on the topic of dental hygiene.

Where's the humour in the cartoon? Can you find a funnier cartoon from among these?

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play: Taking Care of Your Teeth
1. Publish your audioboom.com recording with a partner.
2. Then take dictation of the longest sentence as a Comment on a partner's blog.
2. Using yesterday's nutritional triptych as a guide, write a dialogue between a patient and a dental hygienist:
1. Work in pairs, with a partner.
2. Have the patient tell the hygienist about battling plaque.
3. Then have the patient wonder if that was a full-fledged hygienist.
4. Create a happy ending if you're on the east side of the room, or an unhappy ending if you're on the west side.
5. Publish and perform your dialogue to the class and then as a recording.
3. Read the headline of this article and then look for 5 words or expressions that you've recently learnt.

Monday's Assignment

Welcome back! Did you eat a lot this weekend? Any big buffets or parties?

There's a popular saying that goes, "You're what you eat." Do you agree with it? Talk to a partner about it.

Do you like the above cartoon? What are your 5 most favourite cartoons here?

Here are your tasks:

1. Vocabulary: Fad Dieting
1. Copy out key phrases and words, and use them in sentences.
2. Record those sentences on Audioboom.com.
2. Role play: Eating Unhealthy Foods
1. Practise alone and then with a partner.
2. Record your work.