Monday's Assignment

Welcome back! What could be a better topic for a nice, cold November Monday morning than the heart-warming topic of taxes!

Tell a partner 5 words that come to mind when you hear the word taxes or taxation.

This is why April is not everybody's favourite month in Canada.

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play: Filing Taxes
2. Check out this article’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights, and read no. 12 by yourself and then with a partner.
3. Record a 60-second chirbit.com audio advising some worried friends on what to do after their house burnt down in March this year.

Friday's Assignment

What are business secrets? How can you protect them?



Here are your tasks:

1. Role play: Finding Loopholes
2. Listen to this Dragons’ Den pitch.
1. Write down names, financials, and outcome.
2. Take dictation of the inventor’s words from 3:01 to 3:30, and check your transcript with 2 partners.
3. In fewer than 20 words, describe one business idea that comes to mind.

Transcript:

Thursday's Assignment

Have you ever broken a business agreement? Have you met someone who did? How did you feel?

What could happen if you promised something and then broke the promise in business?

Here's a real-life Humpty Dumpty for you!

Here are your prep tasks:

1. Those who have been in the class for more than 2 months are requested to please leave a testimonial under Comments here.
2. Role play: Breaching a Contract
1. List 5 new words/expressions.
2. Make sentences using those words/expressions meaningfully.
3. Check with a partner before posting.
3. In less than 60 seconds, record yourself on Chirbit.com telling your lawyer friend about a bad car that you bought from a dealer.
1. Give details about the model, make, year, and price of the car.
2. Describe how you feel and hope to achieve, using some of the new words/expressions you have learnt.
3. Publish your audio link, and then comment on three classmates' audio.

Wednesday's Assignment

Welcome back from the field trip to the Small Business Forum! Did you have fun? What was the best thing about the trip?

What other meaning could Small Business Forum have?

So we continue today on our weekly theme on Business Law.

Here are your tasks:

1. Those who have not setup their e-portfolios can do so at blogger.com.
2. Role play: Sole Proprietorships, Partnership, and Corporations
3. Write a report based on your classmates' experience at the Small Business Forum:
1. What did they do?
2. Who did they see?
3. Where did they find the brochures and souvenirs?
4. When did they go home?
5. Why did they visit certain places at the Forum?
6. How would they rate their experience? Was it fun? 

Upcoming Field Trips: Oct 21 and 25

Guess who!

Tues October 25: Small Business Forum

Metro Toronto Convention Centre
222 Bremner Boulevard (Map)
South Building, Level 800, Exhibit Hall F &G
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3L9
Canada 

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (EDT)

Register now


Please meet for a group photo at the Trade Show entrance at 12 noon.

Monday Afternoon's Assignment

Read about the Small Business Forum that you have registered for, and make a checklist of:

1. presentations/sessions you’d like to attend:

1. keynotes, 
2. panel discussions, and 
3. breakouts
2. classmates you will be travelling, attending, or having lunch with; 
3. people you want to talk to; 
4. trade show brochures you’d like to collect; and 
5. souvenirs you’d like to pick up.

Then:

• Create a table in Word and copy it over to your blog.
• Discuss your points with partner, and add at least 5 more points.
• Publish your checklist.

Monday's Assignment

How about last Friday's field trip, eh?

Before going on our field trip tomorrow, let's think about business law.

How important is it to obey the law in Canada?

What can you do if you get in trouble with the law?

How could you get in trouble with the law?

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play: Being Sued
1. Note pronunciation and meaning of key words in bold.
2. Practise by yourself and then with a partner.
2. Write an email inviting a lawyer friend to play a round of golf.
1. Use some of the key words you have learnt.
2. Add pictures/videos.
3. Have two partners check.

Thursday's Assignment

Good morning! First of all, has everybody secured their rides to tomorrow's field trip and signed up for next Tuesday's visit to the Small Business Forum? If not, do that right away.

For recreation, what do we do when the snow hits?

Or, you could go outdoors!

Here are your tasks:

1. Role Play: Outdoor Vacation Sports and Activities
2. Check out this website:
1. Work out the budget for a ski trip to include admission, equipment, and lessons.
2. Compare the budget with a trip to another nearby ski resort.
3. Write an email to a classmate with the information, and include images and videos.
3. Write your replies to your classmates’ emails.

Wednesday's Assignment

Good morning! Does this FB post remind you of anything?

So before our special personal sharing by Dr Menezes, here is something to consider.

Which is the community centre nearest you?

What facilities and programs does it offer?

Here is your morning task while we're setting up: Role play Painting a Community Centre.

Tuesday's Assignment

Now we turn our attention to our field trip this Friday.

How committed are you to your recreational activity?

Here are your tasks:

1. Do these dictation exercises.
2. Compare these 2 venues, and share your findings in your group: Braeben Golf Course vs Britannia Landfill.
3. Plan your car pool for Friday’s field trip, and write your booking on the board.

Monday's Assignment

Welcome back! As the weather cools, what plans do you have for your recreational activities?

How about keeping fit?

Where would you go? Can you name 3 places and 3 activities in your neighbourhood?

Here are your tasks:

1. Open a Full Program Guide from here.
1. Find a barcode that interests you.
2. Then use this link to begin (but NOT complete) registration.
2. With a partner and in no more than 60 seconds, record yourself telling your partner what you just did and why.

Thanksgiving Break Assignment

Go tag yourselves on FB!

Write a field trip report about last week's visit to Queen's Park:

1. Ask at least 2 classmates about their experience.
1. What part of the trip was the best?
2. What was the worst?
3. What was a surprise?
2. Include pictures from our Facebook Album.
1. Leave a comment on a photo on Facebook.
2. Write a caption for your chosen photos.
3. Have 2 partners check your work using the editing checklist before publishing.

See you back bright and early October 17!

Friday's Assignment

So welcome back! Those who would like to access the editing from Wednesday afternoon can click here for the document.

So guess who controls the transportation industry and auto insurance?

What are you paying for car insurance or transport? What percentage of your monthly expenditure is that?

Trick or treat?

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play: Buying Auto Insurance
2. Find your highest and lowest rates here.
1. How do they compare with the rest of Canada (see the table at the end of the article)?
2. Consider this political promise; tell a partner what you think of it following yesterday's field trip.
3. Create a pretend phone recording asking for a quote.
3. Write an email to cancel your insurance policy, giving reasons and using as many of the new words and ideas you have learnt.

Thursday's Field Trip: Queen's Park

This Thursday's field trip is to the provincial seat of government, the Ontario Legislative Building at Queen's Park.



Please be there around 10:30 as the guided tour starts at 11 a.m.
If you are late, you may miss the tour.
But come on time, come with curious minds, and welcome to where laws are made in Ontario!
And after that, who knows, but we might do a surprise walking tour to a surprise destination!

Wednesday Afternoon's Assignment

Do you aspire to be like Miss McIntyre, the retired buyer at Canadian Tire hired to be in charge of the fryers and dryers in the weekly flyer?

What do the acronyms LCBO and OLG stand for? What is common about them?

What's the news about LCBO?

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play: Serving Alcohol
2. Google for the meaning of “LCBO” and click on News. Discuss your findings and feelings with a partner.
3. Check out which job you are most qualified for on this board and create a bogus application.
1. Save via PrtScr screen capture.
2. Create a Career Alert.

Wednesday's Assignment

Today, we'll take a bit of time to talk about our coming field trip to Queen's Park.

Listen to the following short video clip twice. Click on CC the first time. Then turn off CC.

Write down 5 - 10 words that you understand.

Tell a partner what you think the talk is all about.



Here are your tasks, which you'd hopefully find to be fun:

1. How a Bill Becomes an Act
2. Know Your Levels of Government
3. Harder Quizzes: 
1. Rights and Responsibilities
2. Levels of Government
3. Who am I?

Here's your reward: a free e-book on Queen's Park! Look through it, and write your comments below on:

• your greatest concern about the field trip tomorrow
• one or more facts that surprised you
• how you feel about going to the Ontario Legislative Building tomorrow

Tuesday's Assignment

Having had an overview of the Canadian government, we turn our attention to what exactly the provincial government does.

What areas does the provincial government look at?

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play: Parts of a Hospital
2. Identify three main ways for Hep C transmission from this.
3. Take dictation from 01:02:50 to 01:03:21:
1. Prelearn these words: Kalina Hardy, support worker, outreach program, Aboriginal, treatment process.
2. Do the dictation and check your transcript with at least two partners.
3. Write and record a good introduction for a classmate before a class presentation.

Transcript Below:

Monday's Assignment

Welcome to the country with not one, not two, but three levels of government! Discuss the following cartoon with a partner. Check the caption for questions to ask:

Which level of government is depicted? Who are the people in the picture? Is the picture funny and why?

Here are your tasks:

1. Take notes from this video.
2. Role play: Forms of Government
3. Look at the following paragraphs in this document: M5, M11, M12.
1. What parts of life do they cover?
2. How has the government done on each point.
3. Discuss with a partner, and publish your notes.