Friday's Field Trip: York University

Here's the latest update, which you should have received if you've signed up:

Good Afternoon,This is to remind you that you are registered for the following event:Pathways To Bridging Programs - Post Secondary Education and Careers

Date: Friday, October 30, 2015
Time: 9:00 am to 2:00 pm
Location: York University - Meeting Room
Address: 4700 Keele St
Date: Friday, October 30, 2015 Time: 9:00 am to 2:00 pm Location: York University - Meeting Room Address: 4700 Keele StClick here for a mapPlease contact Employment & Social Services staff if you have questions about this Event: Employment & Social Services, 416-392-6557

Have you been thinking much about a post-secondary education and career? This Friday's field trip may bring you some answers!


From the ad, this event helps those "wishing to explore bridging programs to employment and/or advanced education. The session will showcase the pathways and resources available to achieve related career and employment goals."

Keynote and closing speeches by various directors from the City of Toronto!

Please register early.

Directions from Don Mills Station are provided here.

Thursday's Assignment

It's one thing to get a friend into your network. It's another thing to keep them.

How successful was this networking attempt?

Here are your tasks:

1. Now that you have submitted your ESL Week contest entries, you have two days to vote by clicking on "Like"!
2. Register for tomorrow's field trip to a career event at York University if you still have not.
3. Role Play: Socializing with Clients
4. Listening and Vocabulary: Maintaining Connections.
1. Write down and practise with a partner. 
2. Record on chirbit.
5. Check through the work for this week, and complete any bits that are missing.

Wednesday's Assignment

So let's learn how to network with others!

Here are your tasks:

1. Role Play: Important Business Contacts.
2. Listening and Vocab: Socializing and Networking
1. Write down and practise with a partner. 
2. Record on chirbit.

Tuesday's Assignment

How important is it to network with high officials in government? Can you be successful in business or life without connecting with government? Is it any different in Canada than in your country of origin?

Do the words e-health, ORNGE helicopter, and gas plants mean anything to you?

Here are your tasks:

1. Role Play: Corrupt Officials
2. Take dictation from 3:45 - 4:07, check with a partner, practise it aloud, and record a chirbit.**
3. Edit your blog to show improvements in your writing skills:
1. Do not delete the original writing, but label it "BEFORE."
2. Copy the original writing, label it "AFTER," and correct it using the checklist.
3. Update your blog.

**Transcript below:

Monday's Assignment

It's the last week of the month! So let's remember to do our feedback on the LINC program!

Welcome back! Did you connect with anybody over the weekend?

Read the banner for the theme of the week!

Here are your tasks:

1. Register for this Friday's field trip to a career event at York University.
2. Browse and find the 5 most attractive groups you could join.
3. Role Play: Making Business Contacts
4. Create your online business and social network:
1. Add at least 5 classmates and your teacher to your LinkedIn network.
2. Add at least 5 classmates and your teacher to your Facebook network.

Friday's Assignment - Janice

Vocabulary for the article

Please find the meanings from an online source (a dictionary or google).  Write the meanings down next to the definitions.  If you don’t understand the meaning(s) or can’t find the word(s), please ask a classmate.

Obesity-

Epidemic-

Weight-

Eliminate-

Consume-

Harmful-

Best interest-

Impact-

Nutrition-

Antioxidants-

Source: http://www.ivlproducts.com/Health-Library/Health-Concerns/Healthy-Living/Four-Lifestyle-Factors-Contribute-to-One-Third-of-All-Deaths/

 Four Lifestyle Factors Lead to One-Third of All Deaths

Please read the article. Summarize the four unhealthy habits in your blogs.

*Factor One-Waist Size*

An obesity epidemic is happening in North America. There is a direct link between waist size, health and longevity. Being overweight will increase your risk for heart disease, type 2 diabetes and even cancer. Taking steps to lose weight will decrease your overall mortality risks and help you feel better is important. Here are key steps for weight loss.

1) Eliminate junk food and processed foods

2) Eat whole foods

3) Increase fruits and vegetable intake

4) Consume more omega-3 fatty acid rich foods such as sardines and wild

Alaskan salmon

5) Eat more nuts and seeds

6) Reduce sugar

*Factor Two-A Lack of Physical Activity*

Most people are not getting enough physical activity. Maintaining a good body means that physical training is a must. Your heart, needs to be worked out as well. It is necessary to exercise your body a few times a week.

*Factor Three-Smoking*

Smoking has been extremely harmful to human health. If you are smoking, it is in your best interest to stop. Smoking increases the risk of cancer, and not just lung cancer, but also to cancers including brain and pancreas cancer.

*Factor Four-A Poor Diet*

Poor dietary choices will impact your health. Processed foods are bad for you and they reduce people's lifespan. If you want to life longer and be healthier, you will need to choose a diet that is rich in vitamins and minerals. Consider adding flavor to your food with spices which are full of nutrition and antioxidants.

When you finish writing the four unhealthy habits, please write two or three of your own unhealthy habits.

Examples:

l  I smoke a pack of cigarettes a day.  I know I shouldn’t but it’s difficult to stop. I should try reducing the number of cigarettes I smoke.

l  I eat potato chips three or four times a week.  It’s so tasty even though it’s not good for my health. I will try to eat only two smaller bags a week.

Your own unhealthy habits:

1.

2.

3.

Thursday's Assignment

So, does the thought of exercise cause you to sweat?

Let's talk about exercise today.

Here are your tasks:

1. Share your notes from this morning's talk on your blog.
2. Role Play: Walking or Running as Exercise
1. Practise speaking aloud by yourself.
2. Get a partner to practise it with you.
3. Make a chirbit recording of your conversation.
3. Listening and vocabulary: Exercise Program
4. Listening and comprehension: A Healthy Lifestyle
1. Listen first without CC.
2. Then click on CC and follow, checking for comprehension.

How About This Inspirational ESL Week Contest?

UPDATE! Check out these free videos teaching you how to make your own effective videos. Nice clear speech!

HOW to Make Video EASY!

Some of you have written really nice and inspiring things about your experience in learning English. But you just lack the confidence to finish the job and submit it. So why not:

1. Check out these early entries.
2. Check your work by yourself and with friends.
3. Submit it to win the prize!

Here is one of the most prestigious ESL contests, organized by TESL Ontario, and this year it is all in digital format! The theme this year is "Sharing Inspirational Moments." "ESL learners are invited to share inspirational moments from their language learning experiences in either written or video format."

The deadline is October 23; so let's start moving on this one!

To see some of the winning entries of last year's contest, click here: 2014 Learner Contest.

We can work on our entries in class--there's a category for writing and one for video!

So, are you ready to rumble, ready to rock and roll?

I can't wait to see us submit some good ones at Learner Online Entry Form!

Tuesday's Assignment

Welcome back to class!
Hope you enjoyed the concert yesterday. Did it help you in any way in terms of your health?
This week, we hope to exercise our bodies and our minds a bit.


Here are your tasks:

1. Listening--take notes and practise pronunciation: Healthy Lifestyle
2. Role Play--first by yourself, then with a partner: Eating Unhealthy Foods
3. Write up your trip report--in either first or third person, about our trips to the AGO and Roy Thomson Hall. This is very important if you wish to be assessed on your writing skills.
4. As Canada looks at the federal election results, here are the results of the Student Vote in which we participated before the Thanksgiving Holiday. Compare them, and tell a partner if and how you find the comparison surprising.

Field Trips: MONDAY October 19 Free Concert Downtown; October 8 Art Gallery of Ontario; October 9 Thangksgiving Lunch (cancelled)

Monday October 19: Roy Thomson Hall 

Mehdi, Chaiyoung, Jane, Meizi, Fabio, Reed, and Tina showed up, with Somaya possibly still in the subway! Hope everybody had fun! Don't forget to friend and to tag on Facebook.

One of the greatest musical treats in Toronto is the free choir and organ series at Roy Thomson Hall, downtown. On this Monday immediately after our Thanksgiving Break, we will be going there instead of to our classroom.

The program starts at noon, but we should arrive at the entrance at 11:15 a.m. to get in line and try to find seats together. Those starting from Don Mills Subway Station should leave no later than on the 10:15 a.m. train.



We will get to watch an Organ Spectacular featuring Dr. David Baskeyfield, an award-winning performer. It will be a chance also to put on our best behaviour as we take in the music and haute couture!

AGO Trip

We're headed to the AGO again, this time on Thursday October 8.

Friday's Assignment

More photos in our FB album!

How was the field trip yesterday? What was your favourite thing there? What was your least favourite? Did you have a surprise or learn a lesson?

Here are your tasks:

1. Write up your field trip report of 10 sentences, including details on what you liked, disliked, and were surprised by about the trip.
2. Identify where they went to school and two other interesting facts about each of our female astronauts. Share with a partner, and post these facts on your blog.

Wednesday's Assignment

Have you ever seen a painting that you thought you understood at first and then you start wondering about it? How about an artist that changes his style so you can never quite figure him out?

What do you think of this famous painting? What does it look like to you? A skull, maybe? What's the name of the artist? What do you think his life was like? What else did he draw?

Here are your tasks:

1. Listen to this lesson. What do we say when we hear a compliment? Take notes.
2. Take dictation from this video's 00:18 - 00:41 about Kurelek’s painting in the UK's Maudsley and Netherne psychiatric hospitals. Check your transcript with a partner before posting.
3. Compare Kurelek’s paintings in Gallery 1 and Gallery 2. 
1. Can you think of some compliments for each?
2. Make some sincere and insincere compliments and tell a partner.

TRANSCRIPT TO NO. 2, COURTESY OF JANICE AND ALI (and Joseph):

Tuesday's Assignment

Some of you know Cyrus the Great, Chin Shi Huang Ti, Emperor Gojong, and Queen Victoria Park (jokes). As a new Canadian, can you name some famous historic figures who were Canadians?

Isaac Brock, Tecumseh, Laura Secord, and Charles de Salaberry from the War of 1812

Here are your tasks:

1. Google for Laura Secord, Georges Vanier, and A.Y. Jackson, and write 2 sentences about each of them.
1. Add their pictures.
2. Add their videos.
2. Check with at least 2 partners before publishing.
3. Comment on at least 2 classmates' blogs after publishing.

Monday's Assignment

Can you name 10 famous people from your country of origin?

How about 10 famous people from Canada?

To kick off our week on famous Canadians, here are your tasks:

1. Take notes on this ESL lesson.
2. Who are Justin Trudeau and Justin Bieber? See their Wikis. What does Trudeau believe about marijuana (see this video from 1:13)? What’s the news about Bieber (video)?
3. Then discuss with a partner your likes and dislikes about the Justins you just watched. Be sure to introduce your names before recording the Chirbit.
4. If you have time left, try the Vote Compass challenge.

Friday's Assignment

Here are your tasks for this afternoon:

1. Please complete any incomplete work for the week.
2. Check out this video, and discuss NAFTA with a partner. Does it mean anything to you personally or professionally?
3. Listen blind, then with transcript, to this report. Note five words for which your pronunciation is corrected. Write the before/after pronunciation of each word on your blog.
4. Write a report on our field trip this week.

Guess what NORAD stands for. Tell a partner what's happening in this story.

Here are your tasks:

1. Watch this video and discuss with a partner what NORAD is all about.
2. Then discuss this article with your partner.
3. Role play with a partner: Getting a Visa to Travel

Thursday's Assignment

Why did you and/or your family come to Canada? Some people come to Canada to have a better life. Others give up a better life to give their children a better life here. Still others come to Canada to make babies!

Where were you born? Based on this Lottery of Life article.

Interestingly, many Canadians have gone the other way, to other parts of the world, to a worse life. They have gone to places of disease, destruction, desolation, and death. What impact have some of them brought to the global village? This morning you have some reading and listening to do!
Here are your tasks:

1. Read the headings in this article.
1. Click on some of the links to find the original sources.
2. How does Canada fare in the global village.
3. How about the country of origin?
4. Discuss with a partner possible reasons for a country's international success.
2. What about second language learning and ESL? Listen to this video: 12:46 - 14:36.
1. Click on CC for captions to help you along.
2. Did any fact surprise you?
3. Discuss why you agree or disagree with the speaker.
3. How was Canada involved in the global village?
1. Search (Ctrl-F) this document for Canadian missionaries.
2. Locate the last name "Goforth" in the same document.
3. Google for "Jonathan Goforth," and publish 3 interesting facts about him. Then leave a comment on your classmates' blogs.
4. Extra reading: One of Mrs. Goforth's reports