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Friday's Assignment

Let's wrap up a week's work on the environment:

1. Check online the answers to the FAQ T/F Quiz.
2. Vocabulary Enrichment and Listening: Business Trends
3. Practise with a partner, and record your conversation on Trash and Recycling on Vocaroo.com.
4. Was the farm we visited organic? Check out Guy Farintosh's blog and discuss with a partner.
5. Blog your report on Wednesday’s field trip or respond to this article. Using the editing checklist, have two partners check it before publishing.

A Warm Welcome from Farmers Guy and Karen Farintosh

Nice group picture, courtesy Chang Liu

Baskets and bushels in hand, or else dragging along a buggy, there we were--Nora, Maribel, Cheyenne, Sabrina, Ying, Golnaz, Chang, Marjan, Susanna, Ming, and Katie--doing our best to gather in the roughage ere the winter come.

And a load of vocabulary we got as well, from vegetable names to road and place names. And, with the friendly owners on hand, what was there not to like? God be thanked!

Click for more pictures!

Field Trip Announcement and Monday's Assignment

Welcome to a week on the Environment!

But first, a few announcements:

We have a couple of field trips coming up, folks, to a PYO (Pick Your Own) visit at Farintosh Farms on September 25 and a concert at the Four Seasons Centre on October 9.

Our field trip on Wednesday, September 25, leaves from Don Mills Station's pick-up/drop-off area at 10 a.m.

Bring good walking shoes, a warm jacket, a camera, some water and snacks, and some pocket money.

So we'll be enjoying the great Canadian outdoors on Wednesday. One good way to help the environment is reduce the amount of things we throw away. What are the options? Here are your tasks for today:

1. If you have not started or updated your blog, do it first. Do not go on to the next exercise until you have set up or cleaned up your writing.
2. Read this article and submit your Comment.
3. Listen and role play: Trash and Recycling
4. Look at these examples of repurposing (or these ones) and tell a partner which are your favourite three.

Tips and Thoughts on Adult ESL Learning

One doesn't always come across good articles on learning a second language in a newspaper. But here are two that come from the British newspaper The Telegraph:

1. Are children really better at foreign language learning?
2. How to pronounce foreign languages

Check out the articles and think about:

1. What you agree with
2. What you disagree with
3. What you are surprised to read
4. What you plan to:

• Start doing with regard to learning English
• Stop doing with regard to learning English
• Continue doing with regard to learning English

Share those ideas--and a link back to this blog post--on your blog.

Friday's Assignment and Upcoming Field Trips

We have a couple of field trips coming up, folks, to a PYO (Pick Your Own) visit at Farintosh Farms on September 25 and a concert at the Four Seasons Centre on October 9. Stay tuned for details!

Today's tasks are:

1. Edit your blogs using your Editing Checklist.
2. Listening and Vocabulary: Pizza Delivery
3. Role play and record in Vocaroo.com: Speaking to a Store Clerk on the Phone

Monday's Assignment

Welcome to a week on Customer Services!



Here are your tasks for today:

1. Listening and Vocabulary: Computer Sales and Repairs
2. Role Play and record in Vocaroo.com: Getting Bad Service
3. Blog Editing

Friday's Assignment

Today, we wrap up a week's exercises in the area of education for kids.

1. Blog writing: Field Trip Report (If you missed the trip, you can write 5 sentences about your first day in school.)
2. Vocabulary enrichment: P-T Interview
3. Role play, and record on Vocaroo with a partner: A Parent-Teacher Conference

Field Trip to St Lawrence Market: From Commerce Court and Cathedral to Supermarket and Sugar Beach

On possibly the last hot day of the summer, on September 11 no less, here we were, Maribel, Katie, Chang, Amanda, Golnaz, Marnaz, and Teresa, all downtown for our St. Lawrence Market field trip.

 

With elephants in Commerce Court on Bay before checking out St James Cathedral and Park en route to the market

 More pictures below

Monday's Assignment and Field Trip on Wednesday to St. Lawrence Market

Welcome back to school! Hope everybody had a restful and fun time over the last couple of weeks.

First, please remember that our field trip is on Wednesday, September 11. We'll be leaving at 9:30 a.m. from Bayview Station. Please meet on the platform about 10 minutes beforehand. Bring a pair of good walking shoes, your camera, and some pocket money or snacks. You're free to bring along your neighbourhood as well. We're looking forward to learning about the history of our city and our country.

As a forecast, our second field trip of the month is scheduled for September 25, to Drummond Hill Cemetery, a key national site for the War of 1812 where one of the most bloody battles was fought. We hope to see other places while in that neighbourhood as well.

Here are the tasks for today:

1. Write a post about your vacation (not mine) or a six-sentence paragraph about schools not being necessary with distance education, with kids sitting at home.
2. Role Play: Staying Home from School
3. Research: Check out alternatives like Distance Education and Private Schools and discuss these with a partner.

Is It More Mouthwatering or Tongue Twisting?

Ever walk into a restaurant and wonder how order the bruschetta or bowl of pho?

Or that package of quinoa or gnocchi on the supermarket shelf?

Here's a guide to help you with the iconic Canadian dish poutine and more:

As the original website disappeared ere a link could be created, here's a cheat sheet from some place else.

Welcome to a new spread of multiculturalism!

How do you say Jiaozi and Guotie?

Toronto Fun Fall and Winter Registrations: September 8 and 10

 

Here we go again--snow/ice programs, swimming lessons, camps for kids, and courses and gym sessions for grownups and seniors!

The registration dates are:

• Scarborough District - Sunday, September 8
• North York District - Tuesday, September 10

Details at the website. Be sure to review the Welcome Policy's latest guidelines here.