Friday's Assignment (Work From Home)

As announced earlier this week, we're working from home today. Make sure to publish the assignment on your blog by 2:30 p.m. for attendance.

Have you ever bought stocks in Canada or overseas? What do you think of the above cartoon? 

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play: The Stock Market
1. Listen carefully to the podcast, especially for pronunciation of difficult words.
2. Speak it aloud at least 3 times.
3. Record your audio on Chirbit or Audioboom, and place the link on your blog--as always, include this question .
2. Read this flowchart, and create a table of brokers and features:
1. Create table in MS Word before copying it over to your blog. For example:

   FEATURE	BROKERAGE
   Lowest Possible Commission, No ECN Fees	??
   ??	CIBC Investor’s Edge
   Online Access to Global Markets	??
   ??	??

   
   
2. Write 5 sentences using: “If what you want is (noun phrase), your best bet would be (broker name).”

As always, be sure to copy and paste the above instructions on your blog and place your answers beneath the instructions.

Thursday's Assignment

Have you heard of RRSP, RRIF, TFSA, and RESP? Maybe you own one or more of them?

Discuss with a partner, and then google for some clues.

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play: Investing Your Money
1. As usual, practise by yourself and then with a partner.
2. Create an Audioboom recording.
2. Read this, and in groups, try to figure out what the investments mean in Canada.
1. Revise the above role play, making it more Canadian.
2. Then create another recording.
3. Copy out the list of 10 reasons for investing in Bitcoin. Discuss with a partner and rank the reasons in order of importance to you.

Super Tuesday (February 16) Tickets @ $12

During our school holidays in February, there are discount tickets to one of the best car shows in North America, which is held in Toronto, right in our city!

If you'd like to join me on that day, here's the link to the tickets.

Enjoy! See you there on Super Tuesday!

Tuesday's Assignment

Is this cartoon funny?

Have you ever taken out a mortgage or loan in Canada? Why would that be considered an investment, or not? Discuss your answer with a classmate.

Here are your tasks:

1. Under Comments, below, write as many examples of language "chunks" you'd like to learn in the future. Also, don't forget to leave your Feedback of the class here.
2. Role play: Getting a Mortgage Loan
3. Read this, and make sentences using comparatives and superlatives. Read aloud to a partner, who will check them online as you read.

Welcome Back!

This morning, in line with our weekly theme this week of Finance & Banking, we have a presentation from BMO's human resource specialists at 9:15 a.m.

If you have the time before or after the presentation, here are your tasks:

1. What did you learn during the presentation?
1. Name one thing, and write it out in fewer than 30 words. E.g. "What did I learn? Well, I learnt that ..."
2. Say it to a partner and get their feedback.
3. Record your voice on Chirbit or Audioboom.
2. Visit 5 of your classmates' blogs and leave a nice and helpful comment on each one.
1. You could leave a compliment like "Nice work!" "Great recording!" or "I like the way you described your experience!"
2. You could leave a helpful hint like "I hope the verb tense lesson this afternoon helps" or "It would be great if you could iron out the w/v and th sounds."
3. Write about last Friday's field trip, and like and add pictures from Facebook.

Friday Jan 22's Field Trip: City Hall and Skating

This Friday, our field trip will look at some of the fundamental processes of business law with a visit to a municipal government committee meeting in City Hall. What kinds of businesses are affected by the decisions of the lawmakers?

Here is the agenda:
Licensing and Standards Committee (2014-2018)
 Committee Room 1, City Hall, 9:30 a.m.

LS9.1	Amendments to Chapter 591, Noise  (Ward All)
LS9.2	Expanding the Sale of Fireworks to Include Labour Day  (Ward All)
LS9.3	Licensing of Wildlife Control Operators  (Ward All)  Confidential Attachment
LS9.4	Calgary Injunction Decision regarding Unlicensed Ground Transportation Providers  (Ward All)  Confidential Attachment
LS9.5	Toronto Police Services Board Response on Enforcement of Unlicensed Taxi-cabs pending Council's Consideration of New Regulations

To arrive on time, make sure to leave from Don Mills Station by 8:30 a.m.

At 10 a.m. we'll meet by the nail wall sculpture near the entrance of City Hall for a group photo, followed by a mini guided tour of City Hall and outdoor skating at Nathan Phillips Square.

Feel free to bring your kids and skates.

Welcome to Canada!

PLANNING ULTIMATE GIFTS PRESENTATION

Okay, folks, remember the promised presentation from Investors' Group?
Well, here it is!



Enjoy reviewing it!

Thursday's Assignment

Practise role playing the following cartoon with a partner. Is it funny?

Here are your tasks:

1. Today being the last opportunity to work in class before our field trip tomorrow, make sure to complete your work for the week. Pay attention especially to your blog.
2. Role play: Paying an Employee
1. Practise aloud.
2. Record and publish your audio link.
3. Listen to this, and discuss what you would do if you knew your employees wanted to form a union.

Wednesday's Assignment

Have you ever been caught for not having read a contract carefully? Share with two or three partners.

 

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play: Reading Contracts Carefully
1. Read aloud by yourself, with a partner, and into Chirbit or Audioboom.
2. Include on your blog a short story about what happened when you did/didn't read a contract.
2. With your partner, select one more role play to practise together.
3. Watch this, and select any useful vocabulary to learn.
4. Then pick one contract-related vocabulary exercise to try out.

Tuesday's Assignment

How are businesses formed in the country you came from? Continuing on our theme of business law, we have three kinds of business in Canada. Do you know what they are? Check out the following table:

Do they look familiar, or is there a different structure from where you are from?

Here are your tasks:

1. Read this article and discuss your chosen form of business.
2. Role play: Launching an IPO
3. Listen to this, and draw a corporate structure based on it. Publish a photo of your hand-drawn chart.

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?