Vocabulary for Monday Morning's Session

So, good morning! Welcome back to a week on business law. This morning we have a special session on Solid Waste Management.

If you haven't studied the vocabulary, make sure to do so right away:

Is this true?

In preparation for Monday morning's presentation by Lisa Ward of Toronto Region Authority, please study the following documents:

1. Solid Waste Management
2. Household Hazardous Waste
3. Green Bin
4. Recycling Bin

What are the 10 best or most useful words/terms you learnt today?

Friday's Assignment

T.G.I.F.!

Here are your tasks before the weekend:

1. Do this dictation exercise.
2. Role play: Conducting a Search

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Thursday's Assignment

If an event, such as a class, begins at 9 a.m., what time do you show up?

In some cultures, you show up at 9:30 a.m. or even 10 a.m. In others you turn up no later than 8:50 a.m., bright eyed and bushy tailed, all ready to go. In still others, you may not show up at all, blaming the will of heaven.

Discuss the topic of punctuality for 3 minutes with a partner. What are the most common excuses? What are the worst ones?

Here are your tasks:

1. Do this dictation exercise.
2. Role play: Being Late to an Event

Editing Exemplar

Monday's Assignment

We all make mistakes, but how we deal with them may be different in different cultures. Making an excuse is one of them:

Do dogs and excuses appear together in excuses in your L1? Here are more excuses in English.

Here are your tasks:

Pick a favourite.

1. Vocabulary & Pronunciation: Time Off from Work
1. Do not practise silently only. Speak aloud the new words, comparing the pronunciation carefully with the audio.
2. Make sentences using the new vocabulary.
2. Role play: Plagiarism
1. Listen. Then discuss with a partner.
2. Practise the dialogue by yourself and then with your partner.
3. Record your dialogue on Chirbit or Audioboom and place it, with these instructions, on your blog.
3. Write a brief trip report (no more than 100 words) for last Thursday's visit to TRL. 
1. If you didn't go, include your excuse and interview a classmate who did.
2. Add pictures (feel free to steal from my FB).
3. Have 2 classmates check your work before hitting the Publish button.

Friday's Assignment

So what else is left of Toronto Public Library? You have seen the stuff you can pick off the shelves. You have seen the stuff you can download. Now what?

What's funny? What's funnier? What's funniest?

Here are your tasks:

1. Click on Programs, Classes, & Exhibits. Identify and discuss ESL and Newcomer programs at 3 nearby venues.
2. identify 3 other kinds of programs (left column of programs home page) and discuss.
3. Write FAQs for the Museum + Arts Pass (how would you search for it?) using 3 WH questions and 3 Y/N questions. Do not include answers. Then respond to your classmates’ FAQs using blog comments.

Wednesday's Assignment

AND FOR THOSE WHO NEED THE REMINDER, WE'RE ON A FIELD TRIP TO TORONTO REFERENCE LIBRARY ON THURSDAY, DETAILS BELOW.

This morning you will all become mass communicators! With your blog post acting as an event poster, create an announcement of Thursday's library trip. You will work in pairs, first by asking all the relevant WH questions.

Do you have a library card?

Here are some of your tasks:

1. With your partner checking over your shoulder, Google for "Toronto Reference Library" and create a map with directions to get there from your home tomorrow, arriving no later than 9:55 a.m.
2. Embed the map in your blog.
3. Check the "posters" from other pairs.

Dictation Answers

1. Hi, are you the librarian? Could you help me check out this book? What if there isn't a bar code or RFID tag?
2. I don't know if this is fiction or nonfiction. It doesn't show in the online catalogue either.
3. It's supposed to open Monday through Saturday from 10 to 6 so I decided to see the new library for myself.

Practise out loud a few more times. Don't forget to create a chirbit of your voice.

Tuesday's Assignment

While much of our public library consists of clicks, we're going to make a visit this Thursday to the bricks:

What caption would you write here?

Here are your tasks:

1. Vocabulary and pronunciation: Visiting a Library
1. Identify 5 new/difficult words/terms
2. Make sentences using those words, and have a partner check your pronunciation of them
2. Do this listening exercise: Library Tour
3. Watch this video, and identify 3 things/places you hope to see.
4. Role play with a partner what you hope to see on Thursday’s field trip and make arrangements to meet. Practise once, and record your chirbit.

Monday's Assignment

Good afternoon! Now that you have discussed your past, future, and language goals, here is your writing task: Who I am and what I want to be in Canada

1. Your educational/work background
2. Your future life in Canada
3. How you’d like to work on your 4 skills (LSRW)--what are some of the most important tasks you’d like to be able to do in the next 6 months

Welcome back! This week we are looking at one of the most important community and government services. Can you guess which one it is?

For the interactive map, click here.

Here are your tasks:

1. Locate "Toronto Public Library" using Google All, Google News, and Wikipedia. Post one interesting item from each search on your FaceBook; don't forget to include links to sources.
2. Check out the Good Morning, Canada! Page of this blog, spending no more than 3 minutes on each item. Then identify:
1. the most surprising resource, 
2. the most difficult one, 
3. most useful one, and
4. the least useful.
3. Visit each other's blogs and add comments and suggestions on your classmates' blogs.