Good Morning, Canada!

Welcome to another day of becoming more Canadian! Time to ...



Here are your resources for this morning:

From Toronto Public Library

1. NEW: Historical and other lectures in the Great Courses series--learn to talk about things you can talk about so well in your first language!
1. Persian Empire
2. The Fall and Rise of China
3. Maya to Aztec
4. Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age
5. Polar Explorations
6. How to Grow Anything: Food Gardening for Everyone
7. The Everyday Gourmet: How to Master Outdoor Cooking
8. Raising Emotionally and Socially Healthy Kids
9. Language and Society: What Your Speech Says About You
10. Building a Better Vocabulary
2. Lynda on interviews for ESL learners
3. Study Skills Success
4. Business Writing
5. Hoopla Movies
1. Standard Deviants ESL Program DVDs
1. Pronouns, Adjectives & The Present Tense
2. Prepositions, Questions & Time
3. Possessives, Verb and Infinitive and The Past
4. Regular and Irregular Past and Adverbs
2. Standard Deviants AP* English Language & Composition DVD
3. Standard Deviants Public Speaking DVD
4. Business SoftSkills Series
1. Introduction To Soft Skills
2. Introduction To Power Listening
3. Business Verbal Communications
4. Introduction To The Business World
5. Resume Writing
6. Interviewing And Networking
7. Finding A Job
8. Workplace Relationships
9. Phone Etiquette
10. Email Essentials
11. Business Written Communication
12. Customer Service Basics
13. Career Transitions
14. Successful Meetings And Events
5. Classics, Canadian interest, Educational, Children's, Rom Com, Disney, etc. movies, plus audiobooks and music
6. Zinio E-magazines
7. Road to IELTS
8. My Canada Lessons
9. Oxford English Dictionary
10. Tense Buster Grammar Lessons
1. E: Elementary - Simple Present, BE verbs, Negatives, Countables, Questions, Pronouns, Articles, Some vs Any
2. LI: Lower Intermediate - Simple Present, Simple Past, Present Perfect, Present Continuous, Comparisons, Prepositions
3. I: Intermediate - "Will" and "Going to," Passives, Question Tags, Equality, Relative Clauses, Conditionals
4. UI: Upper Intermediate - Past Continuous, Present Perfect, the Future, Conditionals, Modals, Adjectives, Adverbs
5. A: Advanced - Past Perfect, Articles, Passives, Reported Speech, Phrasal Verbs
11. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
12. Canadian Encyclopedia Online
13. Canadian Newstand - Major Dailies
14. Career Cruising
15. Consumer Reports
16. Consumer Health
17. Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
18. Naxos Audio Library: National Anthems, Comedy, Hymns, Carols, etc. (or just GrooveShark it)
19. Toronto's History: The Digital Archive

Cool Events

1. Meetup's Study English in Canada (English mentoring/partnerships, hangouts, etc.)
2. Other ESL-related Meetups (for women, chatters, North Yorkers, photographers, etc.)

Various News Services

1. BBC Learning English
2. Toronto Sun E-edition (ask your classmates for login details)
3. CBC Edmonton Learning English Newscasts
4. Voice of America News in Special English
5. NewsTalk 1010 Canadian Talk Radio
6. Next Issue Canada Magazines
7. Podcasts in English

Chat

1. Facebook with an ESL teacher
2. Facebook with LINC Folks in Toronto
3. A Toronto Blog with Many LINC 4/5 Students
4. Dave's ESL Café
5. Ask a Partner About:
   
1. Hometowns
2. Free Time & Hobbies
3. Silly Questions
4. Likes & Dislikes
5. English study
6. Moving to Another Country
7. Money & Shopping
8. When did you first...?
9. Restaurants & Eating Out
10. Or anything else

Et Cetera

1. NewsLINC Magazine by ESL Learners
2. North American Humour: Doonesbury
3. Daily Sermon Clip
4. Toronto Weather
5. Toronto Time (The real time, not the one on your computer!)