Tuesday's Speaking Assignment

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Tuesday's Speaking Assignment

How do we talk about a field trip? What things are worth telling? What are not? What vocabulary do you need? What tense to use?

No refunds, you Christmas carollers!

Here are your tasks:

1. Read the first five paragraphs of this news article.
1. Find at least five new words to learn their meaning and pronunciation.

investigations

debris 

suspension  

 wrapped 

1. Locate the names of stations on the subway map, and trace your journey to the concert.

https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/Don+Mills+Station,+Toronto,+ON/roy+thomson+hall/@43.7104642,-79.4487961,12z/am=t/data=!3m1!4b1!4m18!4m17!1m5!1m1!1s0x89d4d2f1d778913d:0x459564d5c9e603a7!2m2!1d-79.346276!2d43.775593!1m5!1m1!1s0x882b34d3d618e077:0x33e5adb630149b89!2m2!1d-79.3860921!2d43.6470153!2m3!6e1!7e2!8j1481542200!3e3

1. Compare your results with a partner's. You may need to interview a partner if you didn't go.
1. Rate how you and others did on the following concert rules of etiquette (Good/Could be better/Atrocious); then compare your rating with a partner:

I did not go there.

1. The concert begins at noon, lasting approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour. 
2. When you arrive, please check in with an usher. The ushers will seat your group. 

I did not go there.

1. Please arrange to have lunch prior to arrival or after departure. Please note that food, beverages and gum are not permitted in Roy Thomson Hall. 
2. Concert etiquette serves to provide the best possible listening environment for you, your fellow audience members and the performers on stage. Your group’s consideration for fellow patrons and performers will ensure everyone’s full enjoyment of the live performance. Please observe proper concert etiquette throughout. Patrons may be asked to leave the auditorium if they are disturbing others. 
3. Cameras, cell phones and video games are not permitted in the auditorium.
1. Note down briefly what you liked the most and the least and what surprised you.
2. Organize your thoughts, and record a 2-minute report of yesterday's field trip on Youtube.com, Audioboom.com, or Chirbit.com.
3. Guess what to do next after publishing the audio on your e-portfolio.

My computer

http://chirb.it/rH2faa

Wednesday's Assignment

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Wednesday's Assignment

So, as America begins to cut out their "Obamacare," we continue this morning at looking at our health care coverage in Canada.

What can you do when you have dental pain? Or when you just need some dental cleaning? What about your kids?

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play: Seeing a dentist
1. Practise out loud.
2. Practise and record with a partner.

http://chirb.it/FAxCCv

1. Make a phone call to a dental clinic to see if you are eligible for free cleaning or another service (e.g. a root canal or a filling).
2. Publish your findings, including name and contact of clinic, prices, and other details.\

Eman: Hello, Is this Doctor Loura.

Dr, Loura: Yes, how can I help you.

Eman: My name is Eman, good morning. 

Dr, Loura: Good morning. 

Eman: My teeth hurt me I think I need filling and I want to crown for my right molar..

Eman: Can you tell me how much I paid for that and I do not have insurance card.

Dr, Loura: Hhow old are you?

Eman: I am 33 ears old.

Dr, Loura: Sorry about that because we can acceptable your age.

Eman: Excuse me what is the age you acceptable?

Dr, Loura: Only for children and over 65 age, sorry about that.

Eman:Thanks, good bay.

Dr, Loura: Good bay.

Canada

Friday's Assignment

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.

1. Take dictation of the inventor’s words from 3:01 to 3:30, and check your transcript with 2 partners.

we put half a million dollars mainly because(of) my patents and making the mould, which is  expensive in Canada. Yes, first of all my 

health(insurance). And my other saving, which is from Nortel Network,  where I was working.All my RRSPs, all my mutual funds... 

Yes.

We put half a million dollars mainly because (of) my patents and making the mould, which is expensive in Canada. Yes, first of all my health (insurance). And my other savings, which is from Nortel Networks, where I was working. All my RRSPs, all my mutual funds. ... Yes.

1. In fewer than 20 words, describe one business idea that comes to mind.

Wednesday's Assignment

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

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

1. founder
2. region 
3. establish
4. president 
5. association 
6. legislature 
7. union 
8. addition
9. accomplished 
10. hoppy 
11. recently
12. province 
13. receiving 

Monday's Assignment

Monday, September 19, 2016

Monday's Assignment

Welcome back! This morning, we start off on the theme of health and safety--a healthy lifestyle!

So how often do you see the doctor? Do you visit your family doctor at least once a year? Discuss with your partner how often people should see their doctors.



Here are your tasks:

1. Listening and Vocabulary: A Physical
2. Do these easy exercises for warm-up:
1. Food and Nutrition I – Eli Goes to the Doctor Ex. 1
2. Food and Nutrition I – Eli Goes to the Doctor Ex. 2
3. Food and Nutrition I – Eli Goes to the Doctor Ex. 3
4. Food and Nutrition I – Eli Goes to the Doctor Ex. 4
5. Food and Nutrition I – Eli Goes to the Doctor Ex. 5
6. Food and Nutrition I – Eli Goes to the Doctor Ex. 6
7. Food and Nutrition I – Eli Goes to the Doctor Ex. 7
8. Food and Nutrition I – Eli Goes to the Doctor Ex. 8
9. Food and Nutrition I – Eli Goes to the Doctor Ex. 9
10. Food and Nutrition I – Eli Goes to the Doctor Ex. 10
3. Do this exercise, listening for prepositions.
4. Finally, listen to the following phone message and write down as many details as possible, such as the name of the doctor, the name of the clinic, and opening hours.

The name of the clinic: Aue Yehea.
The name of the doctor:  Doctor Yoseph.
Opening hours: 9am-4pm      Monday-Thursday.
Number: (567)435-6739.

Picnic  Invitation 

Dear, friends

I am so excited to invite you to go picnic and enjoy time with us. we will  have a potluk at park.If you will not come ,please feel free to let me know.

Sunday June 26

11pm

Address:Forest Manor Park.

Eman

 

Here are your tasks:

1. Write an FAQ of your top 5 questions for a poster in a community development centre, based on this page.

1-Do you know any thing about a community Micro skill development center where is it?

Yes, I do.

It is 200 consumer road.

2-How many levels are there?

There are 8 levels in a  community Micro skill development center.

3-When do students begin and end a community Micro skill development center each day? 

It is from 9 am- 2:30 pm

Monday-Friday.

4-How can i contact a  community Micro skill development center, community Micro skill development center bus or any bus from my area?

You can used the shuttle bus following the community Micro skill development center or take bus 24B,190,85 they are coming from the subway station.

5-What activities are available for a community Micro skill development center students?

Many activities are there each tripe, watch movie, conversation with anther class, pot lock and presentation.

  

1. Have 2 partners check your draft.
2. Add an appropriate picture before publishing.

Monday's Assignment

Monday, May 2, 2016

Monday's Assignment

What do you do when you feel lonely? Have you ever dreamed of having a friend?



Here are your tasks:

1. Watch the video, and fill in the 10 blanks below. 
1. Check your answers with 2 classmates.
2. Sing the song by yourself and then together with a partner or two.
2. What differences in accent from Canadian English can you find in this song?

COCKNEYS

1. Discuss your answers with a partner.
1. Any additional syllables?
2. Any vowel changes?
3. Any consonants changes?
2. Write down 10 things that happen when a person has a crush on someone or falls in love. How is it different in a different culture?

on ninety eighteen - sewn, trunnion was have 3,2 million vehicles in the road , some drivers from  scarbro or norse yorka other drivers were GTA , INCLUDING ZOSE OSHAWA ,MEWTON , an richman hew

1. CLB5R Read letters to an advice columnist in the newspaper to decide whether you agree with the advice given.
1. Do you agree with the advice given here?
2. Email Aunt Aggie what you think about her advice. Summarize in a sentence the situation, and comment on her attitude towards Josephine. What did you like or dislike about it, specifically? Do you think her advice was smart? Or helpful to everybody in general?
3. Ask yourself: Did you identify specific factual details and implied meanings; purpose of the message; reader/writer relationship; mood and attitude of the writer; and context, register and style?

• I'm agree with the advice given here.
• I think her advice was smart and helpful to everybody in general 
• The advice includes not selfish and taking into account the people and health
•    And not to go for the purpose of smoking pressures and anxieties, but head to read the newspapers.
• Health the most important thing is more precious than human Occupation

I agree with her advice

I think that the advice was good and useful for everyone in general

Her advice includes not Selfish and Give more attention to human health.

As well as not smoking in order to stress and anxiety

Her advice that human can overcome the pressure reading and busy time

Health The most important thing In human life

Thursday's Assignment

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Thursday's Assignment

What happens when the kids act up? What could you do? Or, not do?

Damned if you don't; damned if you do. You can't win. Feels that way, doesn't it?

Now you know why!

Here are your tasks:

1. Review the attachments for our 1 p.m. Child Welfare workshop.
2. Vocabulary of words in bold: Having a Temper Tantrum
3. Role play: Taking Care of a Willful Child
4. Discuss this claim with a partner: "Willfulness is the root of all evil."
1. Together, write down 3 arguments (sentences) that support the claim and 3 arguments that refute it.
2. Choose a position, either supporting the claim or not.
3. Write a paragraph with a topic sentence clearly stating your position.
4. Add 4 sentences that deals with the arguments you have written.
5. Add a concluding sentence to the paragraph, have a new partner check the work, and then publish.

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play: Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike
1. View these pictures: 1, 2, 3
2. Discuss them with a partner, and then practise the dialogue.
3. Record your dialogue on Audioboom.com with the partner role playing Homer not looking at the words.
2. Reading: First 2 paragraphs of this Toronto Star article
1. Find at least 5 new words/phrases to learn for meaning and pronunciation.
2. Then read to 2 partners to check for meaning and pronunciation before letting your instructor know you're done.
3. Here are your tasks:
   
   1. Role play: Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike
   1. View these pictures: 1, 2, 3
   2. Discuss them with a partner, and then practise the dialogue.
   3. Record your dialogue on Audioboom.com with the partner role playing Homer not looking at the words.
   2. Reading: First 2 paragraphs of this Toronto Star article
   1. Find at least 5 new words/phrases to learn for meaning and pronunciation.
   2. Then read to 2 partners to check for meaning and pronunciation before letting your instructor know you're done.
   3. Here are your tasks:
      
      1. Role play: Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike
      1. View these pictures: 1, 2, 3
      2. Discuss them with a partner, and then practise the dialogue.
      3. Record your dialogue on Audioboom.com with the partner role playing Homer not looking at the words.
      2. Reading: First 2 paragraphs of this Toronto Star article
      1. Find at least 5 new words/phrases to learn for meaning and pronunciation.
      2. Then read to 2 partners to check for meaning and pronunciation before letting your instructor know you're done.
      3. Here are your tasks:
         
         1. Role play: Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike
         1. View these pictures: 1, 2, 3
         2. Discuss them with a partner, and then practise the dialogue.
         3. Record your dialogue on Audioboom.com with the partner role playing Homer not looking at the words.
         2. Reading: First 2 paragraphs of this Toronto Star article
         1. Find at least 5 new words/phrases to learn for meaning and pronunciation.
         2. Then read to 2 partners to check for meaning and pronunciation before letting your instructor know you're done.
         3. Here are your tasks:
            
            1. Role play: Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike
            1. View these pictures: 1, 2, 3
            2. Discuss them with a partner, and then practise the dialogue.
            3. Record your dialogue on Audioboom.com with the partner role playing Homer not looking at the words.
            2. Reading: First 2 paragraphs of this Toronto Star article
            1. Find at least 5 new words/phrases to learn for meaning and pronunciation.
            2. Then read to 2 partners to check for meaning and pronunciation before letting your instructor know you're done.
            3. Here are your tasks:
               
               1. Role play: Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike
               1. View these pictures: 1, 2, 3
               2. Discuss them with a partner, and then practise the dialogue.
               3. Record your dialogue on Audioboom.com with the partner role playing Homer not looking at the words.
               2. Reading: First 2 paragraphs of this Toronto Star article
               1. Find at least 5 new words/phrases to learn for meaning and pronunciation.
               2. Then read to 2 partners to check for meaning and pronunciation before letting your instructor know you're done.
               3. Here are your tasks:
                  
                  1. Role play: Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike
                  1. View these pictures: 1, 2, 3
                  2. Discuss them with a partner, and then practise the dialogue.
                  3. Record your dialogue on Audioboom.com with the partner role playing Homer not looking at the words.
                  2. Reading: First 2 paragraphs of this Toronto Star article
                  1. Find at least 5 new words/phrases to learn for meaning and pronunciation.
                  2. Then read to 2 partners to check for meaning and pronunciation before letting your instructor know you're done.
                  3. Here are your tasks:
                     
                     1. Role play: Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike
                     1. View these pictures: 1, 2, 3
                     2. Discuss them with a partner, and then practise the dialogue.
                     3. Record your dialogue on Audioboom.com with the partner role playing Homer not looking at the words.
                     2. Reading: First 2 paragraphs of this Toronto Star article
                     1. Find at least 5 new words/phrases to learn for meaning and pronunciation.
                     2. Then read to 2 partners to check for meaning and pronunciation before letting your instructor know you're done.
                     3. Here are your tasks:
                        
                        1. Role play: Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike
                        1. View these pictures: 1, 2, 3
                        2. Discuss them with a partner, and then practise the dialogue.
                        3. Record your dialogue on Audioboom.com with the partner role playing Homer not looking at the words.
                        2. Reading: First 2 paragraphs of this Toronto Star article
                        1. Find at least 5 new words/phrases to learn for meaning and pronunciation.
                        2. Then read to 2 partners to check for meaning and pronunciation before letting your instructor know you're done.
                        3. Here are your tasks:
                           
                           1. Role play: Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike
                           1. View these pictures: 1, 2, 3
                           2. Discuss them with a partner, and then practise the dialogue.
                           3. Record your dialogue on Audioboom.com with the partner role playing Homer not looking at the words.
                           2. Reading: First 2 paragraphs of this Toronto Star article
                           1. Find at least 5 new words/phrases to learn for meaning and pronunciation.
                           2. Then read to 2 partners to check for meaning and pronunciation before letting your instructor know you're done.
                           3. Here are your tasks:
                              
                              1. Role play: Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike
                              1. View these pictures: 1, 2, 3
                              2. Discuss them with a partner, and then practise the dialogue.
                              3. Record your dialogue on Audioboom.com with the partner role playing Homer not looking at the words.
                              2. Reading: First 2 paragraphs of this Toronto Star article
                              1. Find at least 5 new words/phrases to learn for meaning and pronunciation.
                              2. Then read to 2 partners to check for meaning and pronunciation before letting your instructor know you're done.
                              3. Here are your tasks:
                                 
                                 1. Role play: Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike
                                 1. View these pictures: 1, 2, 3
                                 2. Discuss them with a partner, and then practise the dialogue.
                                 3. Record your dialogue on Audioboom.com with the partner role playing Homer not looking at the words.
                                 2. Reading: First 2 paragraphs of this Toronto Star article
                                 1. Find at least 5 new words/phrases to learn for meaning and pronunciation.
                                 2. Then read to 2 partners to check for meaning and pronunciation before letting your instructor know you're done.
                                 3. Here are your tasks:
                                    
                                    1. Role play: Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike
                                    1. View these pictures: 1, 2, 3
                                    2. Discuss them with a partner, and then practise the dialogue.
                                    3. Record your dialogue on Audioboom.com with the partner role playing Homer not looking at the words.
                                    2. Reading: First 2 paragraphs of this Toronto Star article
                                    1. Find at least 5 new words/phrases to learn for meaning and pronunciation.
                                    2. Then read to 2 partners to check for meaning and pronunciation before letting your instructor know you're done.
                                    3. Here are your tasks:
                                       
                                       1. Role play: Dealing with a Mass Transit Strike
                                       1. View these pictures: 1, 2, 3
                                       2. Discuss them with a partner, and then practise the dialogue.
                                       3. Record your dialogue on Audioboom.com with the partner role playing Homer not looking at the words.
                                       2. Reading: First 2 paragraphs of this Toronto Star article
                                       1. Find at least 5 new words/phrases to learn for meaning and pronunciation.
                                       2. Then read to 2 partners to check for meaning and pronunciation before letting your instructor know you're done.