Friday's Assignment

Welcome back!

Please finish this morning's work (below) and do the following:

Are you too strict or too lax on your kids? If there are two things to change about your parenting style, what would they be?

Which parent in the picture best represents your parenting style?

Here are your tasks:

1. Role Play: Being a Strict Parent
2. Listening and Discussion: Getting Home Late from School
3. Reading and Writing: An Overbearing Father; write about your own experience

This morning's work:

Some people think raising teenagers is the greatest challenge in parenting. Nothing is as hard before or after the kids are in their teens. Do you agree?

Are teen problems bigger than those of younger chldren?

Here are your tasks:

1. Listening and Discussion: Generation Gap
2. Role Play with a partner: Raising Teenagers
3. Using your edited printouts, update your blogs with corrections, showing the before-and-after versions of your writing.
4. Learn the following vocabulary, focusing on pronunciation. Then choose 10 words and make sentences with them, writing them out, having a partner check them, and then recording them on chirbit.com. This will get you ready for our Land-Use presentation next Wednesday!

ESL/ LINC Vocabulary for Land-use and Transportation Presentation

1. Biodiversity: The number and variety of organisms found within a specified geographic region.
2. Built Environment: An area where humans have transformed the landscape; an example is changing a meadow into a farmed field.
3. Cargo: Is the term generally used for goods carried by ship or plane.
4. Deforestation: The cutting down and removal of all or most of the trees in a forested area. Deforestation can erode soils, contribute to desertification, pollute waterways, and cause the decrease of biodiversity through the destruction of habitats.
5. Desertification: The transformation of land once suitable for agriculture into a desert.
Desertification can result from climate change or from human practices such as deforestation and overgrazing.
6. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): An EIA is an assessment of the possible impact—positive or negative—that a proposed project may have on the environment, consisting of thenatural, social and economic aspects.
7. Fertilizer: Any substance, such as manure or a mixture of chemicals, added to soil to increase its productivity.
8. Freight: Is the general term for goods transported from one place to another by any means.
9. Groundwater: Water found deep within the ground that can be pumped up for human use or naturally flows into a nearby body of water, like a river or lake.
10. Habitat destruction: Is the process in which a natural habitat is altered and unable to support the species present. In this process, the animals and plants which previously lived in the area are displaced or destroyed. This negatively impacts the biodiversity of the area.
11. Habitat fragmentation: Fragmentation occurs when a large region of habitat has been broken down, or fragmented into smaller areas of habitat. For example, a forest habitat may become fragmented when a highway is built through the forest.
12. Habitat: The area or environment where a particular kind of animal or plant usually lives or occurs.
13. Hazardous Waste: Waste that is dangerous or potentially harmful to our health or the environment. These wastes can be liquids, solids or gases; examples are cleaning products, pesticides, batteries, and paints.
14. Infrastructure: Transportation, communication, sewage, water, and electric systems are all a part of infrastructure. These systems tend to be high cost investments; however they are needed for a society to be efficient and productive.
15. Land-fill Site: A method of solid waste disposal in which garbage is buried between layers of dirt and left to slowly discompose.
16. Land-use Designations: Includes areas of land chosen for neighbourhoods, commercial areas, parks, utility corridors, etc.
17. Land-use: Is the human modification of the natural environment into built environments such as fields, pastures, and settlements.
18. Logging: The process, work, and business of cutting down trees and transporting the logs to sawmills.
19. Natural Environment: Includes all living organisms and non-living things found naturally within
an area.
20. Ontario’s Green Belt: A protected area of land in the Province of Ontario, which includes the Oak Ridges Moraine and the Niagara Escarpment.
21. Pesticide: A chemical preparation used for destroying plant, fungal, or animal pests.
22. Pollutant: Any substance, such as chemicals or waste products, that makes the air, soil, or water harmful or unsuitable for living organisms.
23. Regulations: Laws through which governments can control or regulate actions within their focused area such as a city, region or province. A governmental order having the force of law.
24. Shipment: Is a quantity of goods destined for a particular place, no matter how sent.
25. Sustainability: Capable of being continued with minimal long-term effects on the environment.
26. Trails: A marked or beaten path through a natural environment, used by people, pets and wildlife.
27. Transportation: A way of moving from one place to another.
28. Urban sprawl: The uncontrolled spread of urban development, or urbanization into nearby regions.
29. Urbanization: The process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.
30. Watershed: The area of land where all of the water that is on it or under it, drains into the same river, and eventually into a larger body of water, like a lake or ocean.
31. Wetland: A low-lying area of land that is seasonally wet, and provides habitat for wildlife and plants. Marshes, swamps and bogs are examples of wetlands.
32. Wildlife: Non-domesticated animal species, which live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.
33. Zoning By-law Amendment: An application is submitted to the city to rezone / change the land-use designation for an area; an example is seeking permission to change agricultural land to residential / neighbourhood land.
34. Zoning: A section of an area or territory established for a specific purpose, as a section of a city restricted to a particular type of building, or activity: an example is a residential neighbourhood.