Friday's Assignment

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday)!

Today, we try to put our corrections based on the Editing Checklist into our blogs. If you need to review your work with your instructor, do take the opportunity this morning to go over your writing and editing for 10 minutes. Make sure to complete the amendments on your blog completely.

How does this relate to our theme of the week, a Healthy Lifestyle?

Here are your tasks on a healthy lifestyle:

1. Role Play: Walking or Running
2. Search for “Halloween” on this our class blog, read the posts, and comment on at least 2 posts.
3. Complete all edits on your blog using the Editing Checklist; then get 3 classmates to check before updating.
4. Wish your friends Happy Halloween on Facebook!

Thursday's Assignment

What bad habits could hurt your health?

Who's the person in the cartoon? What's so funny?What's not?

Here are your tasks:

1. Role Play with a Partner: Breaking Bad Habits
2. CLB6S: Role play a call to make an appointment with a dentist next Friday at 4 p.m. to talk about your daughter’s mouth breathing. Post the Vocaroo recording on your blog.
3. Post your comments on two other classmates' blogs.

Wednesday's Assignment

Good morning!

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play by yourself and then with a partner: Caring for Your Teeth
2. Record your role play with your partner on Vocaroo.com, and place it on your blog.
3. Learn the following vocabulary on Dental Care.
4. Sharpen your listening skills: Friendly Dental Care.
5. Write five sentences on what you learnt from the Employment Laws and Rights session yesterday. Publish them on your blog.

Tuesday's Assignment

Are you ready for a healthy lifestyle? How's your diet?

Here are your tasks:

1. Learn the vocabulary and make three sentences from this lesson: Shopping for Produce
2. Role play the following by yourself and then with a partner, and record the dialogue on Vocaroo.com: Unhealthy Food

Be ready for the information session in class with Carl on Employment (and Human) Rights, starting any time from 9:30 - 10:00 a.m.

Monday's Assignment

Welcome back! If you haven't spoken a word of English all weekend, that's all about to change.

Is this funny? What do you think is the theme for this week?

We're going to practise the following dialogues and then each find a partner to role play:

1. Role Play 1: Infatuated
2. Role Play 2: Teasing
3. Role Play 3: Your Looks

Be ready for the information session in class, starting any time from 9:30 - 10:00 a.m.

Friday's Assignment

Here are your tasks for this afternoon:

Who are those people in the picture?

1. Write your report of yesterday’s field trip or Wednesday's Student Vote.
2. Have 3 classmates check your work before posting.

Why so happy? Where are they going? Who's that on the extreme right?

Good morning! Hope you had a profitable time at yesterday's Small Business Forum!



Write down the three new words/phrases, and make sentences that bring out their meaning clearly. Read them aloud to a partner, focusing to make sure of correct pronunciation.

Here are your tasks for this morning:

1. Vocabulary building: Being an Entrepreneur
2. Watch this video and write down names and a sentence from three interviewees.
3. Role play on Vocaroo.com: Starting a Franchise Business

Thursday: Field Trip to Small Business Forum

Best wishes in your business startups, Diego, Ben, German, Yun, Hong, Jian, and Wu!

Check out more pictures on our class album!

Wednesday's Assignment

What are they pitching? Did they succeed? Check out this video!

Some people promote themselves to serve the city (or that's what they tell us), and others do so obviously to get rich. Today, we are checking out both kinds of people:

1. Watch the videos on the municipalities and school boards in Ontario. Find the list of candidates running in our Ward. Ask two partners who they will vote for in the Student Vote later this morning.
2. Watch Dragons’ Den/Shark Tank on streaming, taking good notes with this worksheet
1. Dragon’s Den-CBC
2. Shark Tank-ABC

Tuesday's Assignment

Do you think it's a good idea for a businessman not to have a business plan? What do you consider a good or a bad business plan? Share your ideas with a partner.


Here are your tasks:

1. Vocabulary building: Business Plan
2. Check out this resource and identify the 3 most important and the 3 least important sections of a business plan. Write your list down on your blog.
3. List 3 upcoming events by Enterprise Toronto, and update them on your Facebook status. Be sure to say why you might be interested in them.

Welcome Back! Here's Monday's Assignment

Woohoo! The one-week Thanksgiving Break is finally over! Did you have fun? We have a busy and exciting week ahead!



Guess what this week's theme is. Is it about healthcare? Education? Or what? Look for some clues on this post. Then take a guess, and tell a partner. So, here are your tasks:

1. Be sure to register for Thursday’s Field Trip right away.
2. Think of a business you could start. Read this webpage and discuss your thoughts with a partner.
3. Write 10 sentences on your blog about your dream business, and include some pictures.
4. Imagine that your dream business has been on for 3 months already. Introduce yourself and your business in less than 1 minute on vocaroo.com.

Friday`s Assignment

Today, to round up our week on the topic of celebrations, we take a look at something old and something new.

For more scary images, click here.

Here are your tasks:

Halloween 1517

1. First, something contemporary: role play with a partner this Halloween exercise on Scary Things.
2. Second, we go back in time to the Halloween of 1517, the greatest Halloween of all. Watch this Video (focus on 3:00 - 15:30): Why is it so important in history? Take good notes. Discuss your answers with a partner.
3. As we celebrate and give thanks to God for the freedoms in our new land of Canada, let us not forget those who are not so free in some other countries (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4). Write an email to a friend comparing Canada with another country, have two partners check it, and then post it on your blog.

Small Office Home Office - All you wanted to know

Check out this other free conference during the Thanksgiving school vacation next week! The Toronto SOHO SME Business Expo.

➔ Learning from industry leaders and experts in the areas of marketing, sales, money and media.

➔ Overcoming everyday business challenges to grow your business.

➔ Amazing networking with like-minded entrepreneurs, industry leaders and business marketers to build relationships and grow your business network.

➔ Keeping connected to the latest trends, technology, and marketing opportunities and gain exclusive access to products, services, tools and resources for your business.

Besides SOHO SME, there's also the TESL Ontario Conference previously mentioned.

Just the ESL exhibition

http://www.teslontario.net/conference For those who are not volunteering but only want to buy books, CDs, DVDs, etc. related to ESL, there's a free pass!

You can print a complimentary pass online at http://www.teslontario.net/uploads/conference/conf2014/Tradeshow%20Invite%20092314.pdf, complete the information at the bottom, and bring it along for complementary access to the exhibit area.

Tuesday's Through Thursday's Assignments--Great Job, Paul!

Good morning! Today, we continue our series on Canadian celebrations by going onto Paul's blog!

What do you think you will see there?


Follow the instructions there, and be sure to ask him if you need any help.

Volunteer Opportunities:

Show your support and be part of the action!  Over 1000 ESL Professionals will gather in Toronto this October for the TESL Ontario 2014 Conference.

Lend your expertise and be a part of the Volunteer Team … sign up today!

When:     October 16-18, 2014
Where:   Metro Toronto Convention Centre (South Building)
                 222 Bremner Boulevard Toronto, ON  M5V 3L9

Volunteer as little or as much time as you like.  We require many conference volunteers who are willing to donate a small portion of their time to assist with the smooth running of our very large conference.  You will need to register and pay the conference fee if you would like to participate in the education sessions or networking events.  You do not have to miss any session time to volunteer!

Prepare Conference Registration Materials (before the conference) – October 13, 14, 15
Collate attendee name badges, registration kits and delegate bags.
Registration Desk Volunteer (at the conference) - October 16, 17, 18
Welcome attendees to the conference, distribute name badges and registration materials.

The Benefits?
·      Certificate of Appreciation
·      Volunteer ribbon on your name badge to recognize your contribution among all attendees
·      Working in a team environment, alongside other ESL Professionals
·      Networking, Networking, and more Networking!
·        6 daily draws for gift certificates

Please register online at http://www.formstack.com/forms/teslontario-teslvolunteers2014.

Monday's Assignment

Today, we begin a new week on Canadian celebrations, in particular, Thanksgiving and Halloween!

But first, let us complete any work left over from last week, e.g. a trip report on our picnic to High Park. Also, don't forget to use your editing checklist to clean up your writing. Have at least 3 partners help check your work using the editing checklist.

Before Shankari's information session at 10 a.m. today on "Healthy Skin, Oral, Eye n Ear Health," here are your tasks:

1. Role play with a partner, and make an audio link at www.vocaroo.com: American Thanksgiving.
2. Learn and make five sentences using the vocabulary here: Halloween.
3. Listen once through this most famous celebratory hymn, "Amazing Grace" in English, and then listen again following along with the lyrics:
1. In different languages (can you hear it in your first language?)
2. In myriad variations

Friday's Assignment

Ontario, and especially Toronto, has some of the highest car insurance rates around.


Here are your tasks for this morning:

1. Watch this video and discuss with your partner if it has any impact on car insurance rates.
2. Role play: Auto Insurance
3. Listening & Vocabulary: Car Rentals

Field Trip Thursday Oct 2: High Park

A lovely day for all, an unnumbered delegation of LINC students, their kids, and even alumni, guests, and student teachers descended upon High Park and took in the glories of the season. Seneca TESL student Paul pulled out his tackle and demonstrated the art of fishing. He also led the tour through the spacious recreational grounds. Students shared their food, and alumna Cheyenne worked a barbecue.

Enjoy the pictures below and a whole lot more on our FB album! Then comment on this post and tag yourselves in the FB pictures.

Thank God for the beauty of His creation, and thank you, Workplace English, for inviting us along on this lovely field trip.

Wednesday's Assignment

Today, we break a little early, at 10 a.m., to support the United Way Fundraiser Breakfast on the ninth floor.

Who has already taken the road test in class? Who has passed the G1, G2, or full G? What are your greatest fears when it comes to taking the road test?

Here are your tasks:

1. Watch this video. Take dictation on 0:30 - 0:41 and check your answers with three partners before publishing on your blog.
2. Role play: with 2 different partners: Driving Test
3. Listening & Vocabulary: Road Test

Dictation Answer: