Do you know of countries that persecute people of certain ethnic groups, religious beliefs, or political opinions? What can those people do? Where can they go? The principles underlying Canada's freedoms shows itself through our refugee system.
Listening form on a historical event with implications on Canadian culture, rights, and freedoms: Passion Week Sequencing
Explore our Good Morning, Canada! page. As time permits, check out Tense Buster from the Toronto Public Library or install Overdrive for e-books or audiobooks, or Hoopla for movies on your smartphone.
Our theme this week is Canada's Rights and Freedoms. Look up the word charter and make some sentences with it. Then watch this video:
Here are your tasks for this afternoon:
Read the first 30 words of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Discuss with a partner, and then read the next 5 paragraphs on Fundamental Freedoms. How are they similar or different from another country's in terms of statement and practice?
Can you imagine the conversation above? What was just said? And what comes after?
What do Canadians do in their leisure time? Are their customs and behaviour the same as those from your background? What are some of the things you do when you chill out?
Do Canadians look or smell funny? What do they think of newcomers? What are some North American customs and behaviours that puzzle you?
What does the sign on the window say? Is it funny?
Here are your tasks for this morning:
Role play the following conversation,and practise aloud. Then practise with a partner and publish your chirbit.com recording on your blog: Personal Grooming
Can you pronounce halitosis and deodorant? What would you say to someone who has not taken a shower for a while or their breath is bothering you? Discuss in groups of three or four, and publish a list of 5 useful statements on your blog. See if you could borrow some of the disagreement statements you have learnt. Would you like to include the two words at the beginning of this question in your sentences, and create a chirbit.com recording of them on your blog?
Leave suggestions and comments on your classmates' blogs.
While waiting for Nevine's instructions for this morning, here's today's assignment.
Think about what is about to happen in the above cartoon. Discuss.
Have you ever met a person who is impolite to you at work? Or maybe at home, there's someone who likes to cut you off while you are speaking. How do you feel when that happens?
"No, you are wrong! In total, there are five vowels in English, not seven! I totally disagree with you!" That's one way of showing disagreement. But is it the best way or the only way? Can we be more polite?
Some of you were asking about the Museum and Arts Pass from TPL for free visits to places like the zoo, museums, and the science centre. Please check out the details at the site and enjoy visiting with your family!
This afternoon's tasks are as follows:
Complete this morning's work if you haven't already done so.
Report about how partner spent March BreakIs this cartoon funny? Discuss with a partner.
Welcome back to school! Hope your March Break went well. Today we begin a series on Canadian customs and social behaviour. What special cultural features do you think of when you think of Canada?
Here are your tasks:
Role Play practice: Good and Bad Luck and Taboos. Listen, and then practise by yourself and with 2 different partners.
Write 3 questions to interview your partner on the subject of superstitions and taboos. Do they have any such beliefs? Are they the same in North America and your country of birth? Check, practise, and record your brief interviews on chirbit.com.
This afternoon, we have a couple more interesting tasks to do:
Several field trip suggestions came in yesterday. Using Google and TripAdviser.com, study the following options, and make a recommendation with supporting reasons:
CN Tower: Group rates? Prix fixe lunch? Air Miles discounts?
Ripley's Aquarium: Group rates? Lunch places?
Niagara Falls: Transportation? Schedule and itinerary?
Review, discuss with a partner, and leave a comment on Youtube on this native service.
TGIF, and welcome back! Here are your tasks:
Complete your tasks from earlier this week by 10 a.m.
One of the last free concerts of the season at the Roy Thomson Hall, this Wednesday's performance features VIVA! Youth Singers of Toronto singing Songs of the Season: Old and New. To preview their music, click here.
As always, the program showcases music from the pipe organ, one of the most powerful musical instruments of all time.
The concert starts at 12 noon and runs for one-and-a-half hours. We should meet there by 11:15 to be seated in our reserved area, for MicroSkills. Here's the MAP if you need it.
The program is suitable for children at least 6 years old, and photography and video recording are usually prohibited.
Come enjoy some of Canada's finest!
Our LINC program has been sponsored by Canadian taxpayers through the federal government on an annual basis. Through the LINC program, you have the opportunity to meet friends, go on field trips, learn some grammar and vocabulary, use the editing checklist, join the Tuesday conversation circle, practise the four language skills using computers and the Internet, make speeches in class, etc.
The purpose of the program is to help you improve your English communication skills and your settlement in this great country. Hopefully, most of us will wake up every day feeling a bit more Canadian than the day before.
If you feel you have benefited from any of these, please think of two or three things that have helped you the most, and write your comments below.
Here is the coming job fair for you. Click on this link to be directed to its website. Register here.
Check all the hiring companies, current job openings, location, and timing.
CLB6R: Read a course outline (for a non-language course) on a class homepage. Based on the outline, determine how much work will be required, how grades will be determined and how strict or relaxed the course will be. Check out this page on a college's academic policy. If the nursing program your friend is enrolled in follows the college's normal policy on paper submission deadlines, sees a 50% pass rate in most of its courses, and requires a minimum GPA of C+ for graduation, what would you advice to your friend be, specifically? Publish your advice with this question on your blog.
Do this CLB6L task: Take simple routine food orders on the phone or at a drive-through. Write down Batman's order from 1:00 to 1:34. Post it on your blog.
- who you met
- what you learnt
- what surprised you
- how you’d advise next year’s participants
- 1 thing you’d want to continue
- 1 thing you’d wish to stop
Feel free to add pictures from this album.
Welcome back! Wasn't that an amazing visit to the IEP Conference? This week, we turn our focus onto something very practical: Job Interviews!
CLB assessment Writing Artefact: Copy one of your existing trip reports, edit it using your editing checklist, and publish the before-and-after reports on your blog to demonstrate your ability to write and edit your work. Make sure to entitle the post "CLB Writing: Before and After."
After completing your Writing Artefact, watch this video. Discuss with a group of at least three parthers:
What do you agree with or like?
What do you disagree with or dislike?
On which of the 20 difficult interview questions did you receive the best help? List three of the best, e.g. What makes you the perfect candidate for this job?
Check out the YouTube right column of other videos. How would you compare this video with the others in the right column, e.g. this one?
Write out the most difficult interview question and practise it with a partner. Then record your interview question on Chirbit.com. Make sure to listen to and comment on your classmates' postings.
Some of you were asking about the Museum and Arts Pass from TPL for free visits to places like the zoo, museums, and the science centre. Please check out the details at the site and enjoy visiting with your family!
This afternoon, we have a couple more interesting tasks to do:
TGIF, and welcome back! Here are your tasks:
Good morning! Before our morning presentation, here's today's task:
Write a Trip Report on the IEP Conference
