Tuesday's Assignment

The dreaded event finally happens, and you get into an accident. Now what?

What are some sounds the cars make?

Here are your tasks for this morning:

1. What are three questions that 911 operators would like to know when reporting an accident? Write your answers on your blog.
2. Role play: Assigning Blame
3. Listening & Vocabulary: Car Accident

Monday's Assignment

Good morning! Welcome to a week on the theme of transportation, and this week we'll be considering the topic of Driving in Ontario.

Study the above picture and caption, and share your thoughts with two partners.

Here are your tasks:

1. Take 15 minutes to check out the government website on driving. Tell a partner what three things you learnt from the website that you did not know before.
2. Role play with a partner: A Traffic Report
3. Listen & write down sentences using new vocabulary from: A Traffic Jam.

Friday's Assignment

Here are this afternoon's tasks:

So far, so good, for Sara, Maryam, Hans, Majid, and Yan

1. Choose two pictures from the field trip to put on your blog. 
2. Write your report, focusing on the WH questions--who all went, what did he or she do, why did they do or not do that, how much did they spend, how long was the trip, etc. Publish your report on your blog. 
3. Then comment or ask questions on three of your classmates’ postings.

Toronto offers a plethora of community resources for all sorts of people. Or are all categories included?

Some people don't think so. Do you agree with them?

Anyway, welcome back from the field trip! Here are your tasks for this morning:

1. Check out the resources on our Good Morning page. Discuss with a partner which is your favourite.
2. Check out 211 and make an enquiry with a partner using a phone (on speakerphone). Post your findings on your blogs.
3. Tag yourselves in these pictures of the field trip. Interview at least three of those who went for their views of the field trip. Take good notes to write a report this afternoon.

Thursday's Assignment--in lieu of the field trip

Good morning!

For those not travelling on the field trip, here is your assignment for today for purposes of attendance. Please complete the form and submit it by 2:30 p.m.
 

Wednesday's Assignment

Today, we check out our field trip destination for tomorrow and focus on resources in our neighbourhood.



What is the one word the above video talks about? Do you agree?

1. Check out the ship schedules here. What are the chances of seeing a ship on our planned field trip tomorrow?
2. Don't forget to sign up! With a group of 3 to 4 partners, suggest and discuss other places of interest and activities around the Welland area.
3. Practise by yourself, and then role play with a partner this conversation on selecting a neighbourhood.
4. Locate five useful services provided by the community agencies in our neighbourhood. Ask your classmates what they found, and see if you came up with the same services.

Tuesday's Assignment

Continuing on our theme of community resources, here are your tasks for this morning:

1. Listen to this conversation and discuss with a partner what this firm does. Then record your role play together on Vocaroo.com.
2. What other community services are there? Learn the vocabulary from this lesson.
3. Watch the latest posting of a Liveleak Freaks video on our FB page, and take dictation of 1:36 - 1:46, posting it to your blog. Then:
1. Record your reading of the dictation on Vocaroo.com, making sure to place the stresses and high and low syllables where they belong.
2. Place your comments on at least 3 Liveleak Freaks videos.

Free 2-Day Entrepreneur Workshop Sept 27-28

Well, I can't guarantee it's good, but this popped up on my FB.



Feel free to check it out!

Monday's Assignment

Welcome to a new week! The theme is on community and government services, and there is going to be a field trip on Thursday.

1. Check out these settlement services and select three that are the most unexpected. Tell a partner about them.
2. Have a look at this map in PDF. Locate (using Ctrl-F): the Niagara Escarpment, Lundy's Lane, and Welland Canal. Then look these up using Google. Discuss the differences with a partner.
3. At 9:30 a.m. please go back to class for an Info Session on Community Services, by Shankari.

Friday's Assignment

First, take this opportunity to finish up on this morning's tasks, especially commenting on your classmates' blogs.

Here are this afternoon's tasks:

• Vocabulary Enrichment:

• Medical English through pictures 1
• Medical English through pictures 2
• Medical English through pictures 3
• Sentence Practice:
• English for doctors and patients 1
• English for doctors and patients 2
• English for doctors and patients 3

We round out this week's theme with a report on the job fair and a look at some eye specialists.

1. Tag your friends on FB pictures (here and here) of yesterday's field trip. Then write a report on your blog about the field trip. Then comment on three other blogs.
2. Vocabulary and Pronunciation: Alternative Medicine
3. Role Plays, with a Partner:
1. Seeing an Eye Doctor
2. Buying Glasses
3. Getting a Massage
4. Google for the difference between a optometrist and ophthalmologist, and publish the most helpful information.

Please vote!

This is a reminder that MicroSkills is asking our friends to vote for "Community MicroSkills Development Centre" as their favourite charity from a list. The charity that gets the most votes by Sept 19 will be awarded a $10,000 donation by the Woodbine Entertainment Group.

(VOTE HERE)  

   

WEG Cares is a celebration of the many valuable community organizations and causes that we support, and which contribute so much to the life, health and vibrancy of Toronto.   

Share this message by engaging your colleagues and community with our event hashtag #WEGCares. Join @woodbineracing on Twitter in continuing the conversation with our event partners @imaginecanada and @MicroSkills

For more information about WEG's CSR agenda and its performance outcomes, read their CSR Report HERE.

Field Trip Thursday: Niagara Area

• THOSE CONFIRMED GOING ARE: Majid, Sara, Yan,  Hans, Maryam + Daughter.
• Pick-up: 9 a.m. from Don Mills Station Passenger Pick-up Area (on the Sheppard side of Fairview Mall)
• Approx. return time: 5 p.m.

(We have 1 more place. Email me for details or any last-minute interest/changes)



Take a look at this map. It's a whirlwind tour that would require adequate car pool resources. But what you will see will give you a good understanding of Canada's transportation, agriculture, tourism, environment, history, and other aspects of your new home and future.


Indicate your interest on this invitation page.

Field Trip Wednesday: National Job Fair

Check out the pictures here: (Photo 1 and Photo 2)

Can you tag the names of your classmates?



The National Job Fair is held in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, and our class and Workplace English are going there on Wednesday.

Please arrive by 10:30 a.m. for the first public presentation. Those leaving from Don Mills Station should leave by subway by 9:30 a.m., get off at St Andrew Station, and walk over to the convention centre. For detailed directions and timings, see this map. You might wish to meet with a few classmates or schoolmates and go there together.

Bring your resume (if you have one), good walking shoes, and about $5 for exhibition admission (if you would like to go in). Make sure to meet around 11:50 outside the public presentation room for a group photo. Best wishes on getting a job!

Tuesday's Assignment

Today, we continue with learning about healthcare professsionals as well as focus a little on grammar:

1. Role Plays: Be sure to practise on your own (headphones on) and then work with a partner, speaking aloud on the following:
1. Psychological Disorders
2. Mental Disorders
2. Google for the difference between a psychologist and psychiatrist, and publish the most helpful information.
3. Using your library card, explore TPL's Tense Buster. Tell a partner what you like or don't like about the resource.
4. To improve our mental and social health here, let's please roll up our sleeves after the break and do some area cleaning in the kitchen! Did anyone hear that?

Monday's Assignment

Welcome back! Hope your weekend was good and you didn't need to see a cardiologist, a proctologist, or a dentist. Can you guess the theme for this week?



This week we'll be talking about healthcare professionals. Here are your tasks for this morning:

1. Please be sure you're signed up for this Wednesday's field trip to a job fair downtown.
2. Vocabulary Pre-learning: Child Protection
3. What is this story all about? Is it worth reading and discussing in class this afternoon? What do your classmates think?
4. Be back in class 5 minutes before our 9:30 a.m. information session with Shankari on Child Protection Laws.

Monday's Assignment

Here are your tasks for Monday afternoon:

1. Sign up for this Job Fair.
2. Based on your interviews with your classmates this morning, write a report on the school vacation. Write at least 10 sentences. Find appropriate pictures or videos to embed. Be sure to check with three partners before posting.
3. Comment on at least three classmates’ vacation posts.

Welcome Back to School on September 8

Bright and early, at 9 a.m. on Monday, we'll see everybody back, loaded with experiences and stories to share and all hungry to learn how to be more Canadian!
See you then!