Monday's Assignment

Welcome back! Hope everybody's feeling well this week, when we'll be considering the topic of healthcare practitioners!

Where do you go to fill your prescriptions? What's your favourite pharmacist? Do you also buy milk, eggs, chocolate, hairspray, and greeting cards there?

Here are your tasks:

1. Vocabulary: At the Pharmacy
1. Write down some new words.
2. Use them in sentences, and have a partner check them with you.
2. Role play: Consulting a Pharmacist 
1. Practise aloud by yourself.
2. Practise aloud with a partner.
3. Record on audioboom.com.
3. Write a brief report on Friday's field trip.
1. Interview and quote at least one of your classmates who went.
2. Include a picture of the field trip.

CLB5L: Listen to a phone message from a medical receptionist changing the date and time of an appointment.

Friday's Field Trip: IEP Conference Downtown

So the annual IEP Conference is finally here again! Here's the addresss: 255 Front St W, Toronto, ON M5V 2W6.

Please make your own arrangements with your classmates to get there by car pooling or on the TTC.



Be sure to pick up your lunches and meet near the entrance of the Marketplace for a group photo, around 12:20 p.m.

Here's the schedule for the day for you to enjoy:

Program Schedule

TIME	PROGRAM	ROOM No.
7:30am	Registration in MTCC North Building	LOBBY
	INFORMATION AND RESOURCES MARKETPLACE Opens	Room 106/107
OPENING CEREMONY
8:30am	Welcome Remarks/Opening Ceremony	Room 105
8:45am	Keynote Speaker	Room 105
PANEL
9:15am	Successful IEP Panel	Room 105
10:15am	Information and Resources Marketplace	Room 106/107
REGULATORY FOCUSSED SECTOR HUBS- Accreditation, Academia WITHSKILL BUILDING SESSIONS
10:45am	Engineering	Room 105
	Information Technology	Room 103
	Sales, Marketing & Communications	Room 104D
	Finance & Accounting	Room 104C
	Healthcare and Related Professions	Room 104AB
LUNCHEON / INFORMATION AND RESOURCES MARKETPLACE (Room 106/107)
12:30pm	Light lunch and visit the Information and Resources Marketplace (Room 106/107) and take advantage of this opportunity to network!  Notes:  1. Light lunch provided for delegates from 12:30 – 1PM.  2. Marketplace closes at 2:30pm.
EMPLOYER FOCUSSED SECTOR HUBS - Employers/HR Managers and Networking with employers
1:45pm-4:00pm	Engineering	Room 105
	Information Technology	Room 103
	Sales, Marketing & Communications	Room 104D
	Finance & Accounting	Room 104C
	Healthcare and Related Professions	Room 104AB
CLOSING REMARKS AND DRAWS
3:50pm	Closing Remarks in Sector Hubs, Collection of Evaluation Forms and Drawing of Prizes
4:00pm     Conference Ends

Thursday's Assignment

Are there any differences between male and female friendships?

Do you agree with this cartoon? Share your thoughts with the person sitting next to you.

Role Play: Differences in Male and Female Friendships

True?

• Listen and practise aloud by yourself.
• Have a partner check your pronunciation.
• Then, with your partner, record on Audioboom.com or Chirbit.com.

Tuesday's Assignment

Today, we continue on the theme of friendships.

Where would you read a message like that?

Here are your tasks:

1. Vocabulary enrichment: Friendships
1. Write down at least 5 new words/phrases.
2. Make sentences with them, and check your pronunciation of those sentences with your partner.
2. Role Play: Having a Best Friend
1. Practise by yourself.
2. Then practise with your partner.
3. Finally, record your dialogue on Chirbit or Audioboom.
3. Networking 1: Connect Facebook to ESLTeach
4. Networking 2: Connect LinkedIn to your instructor’s.

Monday's Assignment

Welcome back!



To begin with, copy the following questionnaire onto your blog and answer the questions:

What do you want to study in LINC? Directions:

1. Add additional topics to this list. 
2. Then prioritize the topics by putting them in the right order--the most urgent and important ones at the top. 

• Medical issues (going to the doctor and hospital, phoning an ambulance, and staying healthy by eating well and exercising) 
• Information about Canada (what's in the news, aboriginal people, government, history, geography, customs and everyday life) 
• Employment (how to write a resume and covering letter, where and how to look for a job) 
• Canadian law and the police (individual rights and responsibilities, zero tolerance, traffic laws) 
• Housing (changing apartments, tenants rights, buying a house) 
• Education (the education system, contact with your child's school) 
• Consumer information (buying things, servicing and repairing cars and other items) 
• Insurance (public car insurance, private life and house insurance) 
• Banking and money (using bank machines, how to save on taxes) 
• Other - please specify 

Write one sentence on what you hope to be able to do in the next 3 months in each of the four skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. This list of skills may help. E.g. "I hope to be able to read and follow instructions and warnings on a label for a common chemical product (such as cleaning products, paint thinner) used at home or at work."

Finally, write a short report about your break last week. Did you make any new friends?

See you on Monday, Feb 22!

In the meantime, enjoy the following picture:

Share your thoughts under Comments, below.

Have you thought about this?
Was this your experience?
What were you doing during those years?
Do you agree with the sequence of events?
What tenses were used in the above questions?

Friday's Assignment

Good afternoon! Great job, folks! Hope you're all confident about Emergencies by now!

Here are your tasks for the rest of the afternoon:

Task one:

Write a short trip report about yesterday’s field trip. Interview a classmate about it. Describe what you liked, what you didn't like, what you learned, and if you would like to repeat it again or not and why.

Task two:

Please register for the IEP conference that is coming up on Feb. 26^th. Click here and send me the confirmation after the registration.

Field Trip: Thursday Feb 11 to Earl Bales Ski & Snowboard Centre

Bundle up, folks! Make sure to zip up your winter jackets and also protect your head, hands, and feet.

Welcome to Canada!

It's so cold, it's not funny.

The cafeteria might just be open! Who knows?

It's back! Our annual journey to Earl Bales is here again.

For those who are taking the lesson at $35 per person, here are your details. You can bring your friends and family. Be sure to pay up before Feb 5.

For those not taking the lesson, don't be late. Be there by 10 a.m. for a walking tour and introduction to skiing/snowboarding in the City of Toronto!

SKI TRIP THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11

MEET AT 10 A.M. AT EARL BALES SKI AND SNOWBOARD CENTRE (ON RAUL WALLENBERG, OFF BATHURST)

4169 BATHURST STREET – FREE PARKING

BUS 84 FROM SHEPPARD-YONGE STATION

THOSE TAKING A LESSON SHOULD BRING SNOWPANTS, GLOVES, SOCKS, AND WINTER JACKET

See you here in the morning

Thank God for the white stuff!

Wednesday's Assignment

Today we continue with Brenda's teaching!

What you need to do this morning are these things:

1. Register for the IEP Conference (make sure to forward your teacher the confirmation). Enjoy more pictures from a previous year.
2. Wait for Brenda's instructions.

Tuesday's Assignment

Here's the link to our lesson with Brenda today!

Monday Afternoon's Assignment

Welcome back! So, have you ever experienced a burglary? If so, what would you do?

Here are your tasks for this afternoon:

1. Take dictation of this call, only of the dispatcher's speech, from the beginning to 1:48.
2. Check with a partner, and then reenact with 2 or 3 partners using your own caller’s details.
3. Record on Chirbit or Audioboom.

Monday's Assignment

This week, our focus is on emergencies. And the first emergency, this morning, is on getting accent 9-11.


How important is it to have a Canadian or North American accent? Why? Discuss with a partner.

Here are your tasks:

1. Check out the following accent reduction programs:
1. Accent Master
2. Accent School
3. Accent Science Systems
4. Test Den
5. Udemy
2. Fill in the following table:

Program	Pros	Cons	Price	Rank (Best = 1)
Accent Master
Accent School
Accent Science Systems
Test Den
Udemy

Post the table of your results on your blog. Feel free to comment specifically on Accent Science Systems. Then visit your classmates' blogs and publish your comments.

When you finish, let's see if you can try a different accent using these videos.

Friday's Assignment

Welcome back! TGIF! Anyone going for a walk in the park on the weekend?

Is this cartoon funny? Discuss with a partner.

So, here are your tasks:

1. Read this page, and identify one major response you would like to see from Torontonians (e.g. I would like more people to go outdoors/take more iPhone pictures/play computer games/walk their dogs). Discuss it with 2 partners.
1. Create a table on 6 facts about the parks of Toronto.
2. Create a poster that includes your table of facts.
3. Read your classmates’ blogs and leave your comment on each.
2. Find your home on the Parks & Trails Map. Is it on the front or back side of the map?

Thursday's Assignment

Good morning! The first thing we're going to do today is to follow-up on all the interesting, useful, and varied idioms from the Dictation Triptych on Rec Jobs.

So here are your tasks:

1. Identify 10 most useful idioms and create a sentence with each one, a sentence that brings out the meaning most clearly.
2. Using a different work situation, e.g. a restaurant or grocery store, use those sentences in a conversation between a manager and a worker. Feel free to insert interesting details of your own.
3. Have 3 classmates check your dialogue before publishing it.
4. Add a picture.
5. Create an audio recording.

Tuesday's Assignment

Okay, what do you do when you're really cold? Like in winter.

What can you do when you're really hot?

If you don't know what Zumba is, have a look.

Here are your tasks:

1. Find some “Zumba” courses in this guide book. Discuss your interests with a partner.
2. Role play: Learning to Dance
1. Do it by yourself first.
2. Practise with a partner.
3. Record your audio with your partner on Audioboom or Chirbit.
3. Open the Fun Guide again. Write down 5 activities, with their codes, that you and your family might like to register for.

Monday's Assignment

Welcome bbbback! Winters can be long. What can you do in this frigid city?

Where's this? Recognize anyone? Me neither, LOLs!

Here are your tasks:

1. What are some things you could do in the winter? Do this exercise.
2. Sign up for this activity.
3. Check out the Fun Guide (other than North York), and identify 
1. the activities at Oriole Community Centre, 
2. your nearest rec centre, 
3. seniors’ benefits under the Welcome Policy.
4. What information is needed to register your family in a City program?
1. Discuss with a partner.
2. Write notes--any registration numbers, course codes, start date, etc.
3. Have your partner check the accuracy of details.
4. Publish the details.
5. With a partner, practise and perform this role play: Planting