Friday's Assignment: Welcome back from the job fair!

Good afternoon! Here are your tasks:

1. Complete your tasks for this morning, especially your field trip report on your blog.
2. Check out this Talking Head grammar resource. If you like it, share it on your Facebook page for your friends to enjoy! What other links are there in the Toronto LINC Facebook group?

TGIF! Welcome back to our theme on rights and freedoms!

 

Here are your tasks for this morning:

1. Write 5 - 10 sentences about what you saw, did, and felt at our job fair field trip yesterday. Feel free to add pictures from this FB album.
2. Listening and vocabulary: take good notes and practise speaking on Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike.
3. Role play with a partner: Limiting Free Speech.
4. Take this listening quiz.

Wednesday's Assignment

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Place: Scarborough GKM Community Centre
Time: Thursday, May 29, 2014
Event: Apprenticeship, Careers and Trades Fair
Location: 1250 Markham Rd, Scarborough, ON M1H 2Y9
Meeting Time: 9.00 at Don Mills Station for people who take the TTC, and 10 am for people who are driving

Go on this link to register today. Make sure to dress appropriately for the event and bring extra copies of your resume.

One of the rights citizens have in Canada is voting rights.

1. Listen to this video and check out this Powerpoint presentation. Discuss your thoughts with a partner.
2. Then read this summary aloud with your partner.

Friday's Assignment and Yesterday's Field Trip to Bluffers Park

Thank God for a wonderful field trip yesterday to Bluffers Park, Dad's Cookie Outlet, and Goodwill Thrift Store. Enjoy the pictures below.

Here are your morning tasks:

1. Please complete this survey on our earlier RRSP, RESP, and TFSA information session. There were only 5 submissions; so those who haven't submitted the survey should please do so immediately.
2. Listen, and take notes from this podcast on Victoria Day.
3. Check out the parties of Ontario’s election on Student Vote. List three most surprising parties and discuss with a partner.

This Saturday's Cultural Fun Time and Job Fair

If you want to travel the world without going too far from the city, you need to visit Mississauga’s Festival of Cultures, Carassauga, on May 23, 24, 25.

Click on these two links to view a full schedule and locations for this Festival.

And, for those who want to burn their Saturday preparing and looking for employment, here are the details of the CPAC Professional Day and Job Fair:

Date:               Saturday, May 31, 2014

Time:              10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Location:        Sheraton Parkway Toronto North (600 HWY-7 E Richmond Hill, Ontario)

Register at:     cpac2014pday.eventbrite.com

Enquiries:       416-298-7885 Ext. 101

More Information about 2014 CPAC Professionals Day

Workshops include the following:

1. Career Opportunities with the Federal Government

2. Strategies to Pass the Experience Requirement for Professional Engineer Licensure

3. Insights on How to Get a Job with Ontario Government

4. Adapting to the Canadian Work Environment

Apparently, there's even free lunch available to those who register.

Wednesday's Assignment

JUST TO CONFIRM, OUR OUTING IS ON!!

See You There!


So, good morning, and a reminder on our field trip to Bluffers Park and shopping places along Progress Ave. on Thursday, TOMORROW!

Please be sure to wear comfortable clothes and bring an umbrella just in case! Each one needs to organize one game for the entire group. You can bring a soccer ball, a skipping rope, a grand piano, etc.

Parking, according to the GreenP parking website, is as follows:

Monday - Friday

FREE PARKING BEFORE 5pm

Night Maximum (5pm - 9pm):     $3.00

Meeting Time: Everyone will meet at Don Mills Station at 9:30 a.m. in front of the subway station to arrive there by 10 a.m.




One thing the Victorian Era brought to many parts of the world was a legal system that isn't perfect but that offers freedom. Canada benefited from that, and many people come to this country as immigrants and refugees because they like that freedom.

1. Watch this video and list the kinds of rights and freedoms mentioned. Compare your list with several partners.
2. Put the list on your blog and write a few sentences (not fragments or run-on sentences) on why you came to Canada, or comparing the freedoms of Canada to those of another country.

Tuesday's Assignment

This week we start a new series on Canada's celebration focusing, albeit a little belatedly, on Victoria Day.

1. You have heard Canada's National Anthem, but have you heard our Royal Anthem? Well, here it is! Practise singing alone the Royal Anthem.
2. Based on the video below, tell a partner three things you never knew until you watched the report.
3. Find five new words from the Royal Anthem, study their meaning and pronunciation, and make a sentence with each.
4. Publish a report on your partner's Victoria Day weekend.

Friday's Assignment

Here are this afternoon's tasks to choose from:

1. Smartphone Fun: Find two partners. Using a smartphone, create a short video (between 1 - 3 minutes) of a father, mother, and child arguing in English about how much to put into an RESP account. Alternatively, do a group job interview involving questions about one's strengths and weaknesses. Upload to Youtube or Vimeo, and embed the link on your blogs.
2. Networking: Google for activities and venues for this Victoria Day long weekend. On your Facebook status, mention three activities and which one you're considering visiting. Then comment on and/or like your friends' FB status as well.

Bonus:

• Check out Sherkston Shores for rentals on the first week of September!
• Join this Camping Group for tips and sharing on civilized camping!

1. Last Friday we had a presentation on RRSP, TFSA, and RESP. What do those acronyms stand for? Google for the information, and write in point form about each of them. What plans are you making for the future?
2. If you have additional time, find three or four partners, and watch the following together: Made for Success and Money Money Money. Keep the volume at a level that does not disturb your other classmates.

Thursday's Assignment

How many of you shop around for the best deals? How many do that for your banking options?

1. According to this source, which institutions offer the best rates for a deposit of $1,000 over 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 years? Discuss with a partner and publish your findings on your blog.
2. Compare the banking options on this list and tell a partner which is best for you. Be sure to consider this discussion?
3. If you have extra time, check through the previous homework and complete any outstanding tasks.

Wednesday's Assignment

Good morning! Today we continue talking about banking, especially about interest rates. And we're going to practise using Audioboo as well.

1. Practise and Role Play with a partner: Understanding Interest Rates.
2. Record your reading of the conversation on Audioboo.
3. Change the details, and record the new conversation with your partner on Audioboo.

Tuesday's Assignment

Thank you, Taofeeq, for opening our eyes to an awful but important situation to understand.

This afternoon, you'll be on your own, but your tasks reflect the skills you've already learned, in particular, your tech skills with Audioboo:

1. Speaking Task: Give a brief description of a typical day at home or at work. Beginning with "Every morning, I ...," record briefly what you do in the morning, afternoon, and evening. Then place the link from Audioboo or AudioPal on your blog.
2. Reading Task: Read a short news article (print or online) to get the details. Select an article from Newser and take notes answering to W-H questions: Who, Where, What, etc. Post the details with a link to the article on your blog.
3. Bonus Activity: Role play and recreate this dialogue with a partner on Audioboo.

Monday's Assignment

Good morning! Welcome back! Can you guess the theme of this week by just reading the cartoon?

1. Answer True/False questions based on this Wiki site. Discuss your answers with a partner:
1. TD Bank has the greatest number of branches.
2. BMO has the least number of employees.
3. CIBC has the lowest amount of capitalization.
4. Two of the banks are headquartered in Halifax.
5. RBC has the greatest amount of deposits.
6. Scotiabank is the most asset-rich of the five.
7. Canada's Big Five Banks are CBIC, BOM, Scotiambank, TB Dank, and BRC.
2. Take dictation of this report, 00:05 - 00:46. Check with 2 partners before publishing. Answers below.
3. Check on the assignments and tasks from last week, and complete any outstanding work.

Answers to dictation exercise:

Friday's Assignment

Afternoon Tasks:

1. Complete the tasks from this morning (below).
2. Canada offers multiple choices for mobile phone plans. Listen to TV commercials about two different cell phone companies and compare their services to determine the best offer. Here they are: Rogers and Telus. Publish your findings on your blog.

1. Write a report on yesterday’s field trip. Make sure you answer as many WH  questions as you can. If you missed the concert, be sure to interview two of your classmates about it. Include links, pictures, and captions. Blog your report. Comment on two classmates' blogged reports.
2. Speech-to-text a sentence from your report to a friend’s smartphone and check for accuracy.
3. Update your Facebook profiles.

Another Wonderful Concert - Hamilton Children's Choir and Toronto Youth

It was an interesting start as those who arrived early by TTC got to see a police-escorted vehicle pull up. Then it happened--in our reserve L5 box, the children entertained with amazing voices and stunning choreography in a program that included a world premier and a North American premier, all capped with an encore piece. Make sure to interview each other for all the juicy details!

Field Trip Thursday: Concert at Roy Thomson Hall

Be at the coffeeshop inside Don Mills Station by 10 a.m. and depart westbound for Sheppard Yonge. Transfer to a southbound train and get off at St. Andrew Station. Follow signage to Roy Thomson Hall.


Enjoy one of Canada's wonderful gifts to the world, as the Hamilton Children's Choir and Young Voices of Toronto present Sound Tapestry.