Friday, June 3rd Field Trip

On Friday, June 3, we're going to Bluffers Park for a tour and pot luck.

Address:

1 Brimley Road South, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Directions from Don mills

Please be there by 10 a.m. 

Activities:

Each one is required to bring a game to play with the rest of the group.

Plan five creative questions using the vocabulary we have been learning to ask your peers.

Monday's assignment

Good morning everyone,

Do dreams come true?

This question I would like every one of you to answer in the following tasks. Based on our today’s reading (Dream Comes True), please write a similar overview for yourself following the main points below:

Task 1:

• Introduce yourself in 2 lines
• Specify your dream
• Give a short background on yourself
• Describe your family
• Describe your education
• Highlight two to three of your achievements in life
• Share a new goal you want to achieve in the future

Task 2:

Ask one of your peers to edit your work and give you a helpful suggestion on how to achieve your new goal.

Task 3:

After editing, publish your work for evaluation J

Materials for the Child Welfare in Ontario Session, May 26, 1 p.m.

Hello all,
Be sure to access the documents here!
Enjoy the goodies!

Tuesday's assignment

Tenses

Task 1:

Write one paragraph using simple present ONLY. Describe five or more routine or habitual actions that you practice.

Task 2:

Write one paragraph using present progressive ONLY. Describe your classroom and your peers.

Task 3:

Write one paragraph using present perfect ONLY. Share five things that you have never tried, visited, eaten, or done and why.

Task 4:

Write one paragraph using present perfect progressive ONLY. Share five things that you have started in the past and have been doing till the current time.

Wednesday's assignment

PRESENTATIONS

Good morning everyone, hope that you have had a great, productive, and relaxing long weekend. This week's theme is Presentations. Presentations help you develop confidence, build self-esteem, get more organized and learn to track your time.

Click on this link  and this link; these are two different presentations; play both and answer the following questions after.

Compare between the two links in the following table:

Criteria	First Link	Second Link
Useful Tips
Dos
Don'ts
Engaging
Helpful
New Vocabulary

List of topics to pick from

Presentations

Here is a list of presentation topics; each one needs to pick one topic only and research it to be presented this coming Friday. This will be on first come, first served basis. So you need to pick your topic quickly! Each presenter will have a feedback from both students and teacher after presenting. If you have a different topic in mind, please let me know.

Rules for your coming presentation:

• Each presentation will be 10 min long max
• Must have a visual included
• Must start with an outline

1. Food additives and unhealthiness.
2. Overreaction to cholesterol.
3. Underground gasoline tanks leaks.
4. Plastic surgery for cosmetic reasons (cosmetic surgery). Is it rising to a level that exceeds good sense?
5. Is the Fast-Food Industry Accountable Legally for Obesity? (The McLawsuit)
6. Intelligence depends more on the environment than genetic factors.
7. Should there be stronger limits on immigration?
8. About Gay Marriage
9. Smoking in Public
10. Should Marijuana be legalized?
11. Cross Culture Adoption
12. Drinking Age: How to lower it
13. Online Dating is Safe or Risky
14. Are Movie/Video Ratings Accurate?
15. Television Violence: How it Affects Children
16. Impact of technology on learning
17. Rights of prisoners; are they necessary?
18. Globalization and its impact
19. The power of social media
20. Euthanasia
21. Food Poisoning
22. Global Warming
23. Role of Cinema in Social Awareness
24. Increase in childhood obesity
25. Lasik surgery
26. Internet crimes
27. Marriage rituals around the world
28. Stress and its effects
29. How traditional marriages have changed since the 60's
30. Low carb diets
31. Caffeine (or any favourite drink and what it does to your body)

Field Trip Thursday, May 19, 2016: Canada Job Expo - North York Civic Centre's Memorial Hall + Suggested June's field trips

On Friday June 3, we're going to Immigrant Employment T.O. Day. Please register here right away and forward your confirmation email to your instructor. Please be there by 10 a.m. for the group photo. Directions from Don Mills Station

On June 17, we're probably headed to Centre Island for a picnic.

This Thursday's May 19 field trip is to the Canada Job Expo, located at North York Memorial Hall, below North York Central Library, from 10 a.m.
Those who are coming from Don Mills Station should leave by 9:30 a.m.
Be sure to register online (It's free!), and forward the email confirmation to your instructor.



Dress appropriately, and be ready to ask and answer a lot of questions in English. If they have free lectures, you're welcome to enjoy them. Be there at 10 a.m. sharp for a group picture!
Do bring a resume with you if you have an update one :)

Monday's assignment

 Presentations

Task 1:

Listen to a radio interview with a communications consultant about giving presentations. Answer the questions below.

1. How does Melanie define a good presentation? 


2. What three Ps of presentations does she mention? 


3. Why is it important to consider your audience when preparing a presentation? 


4. How can you start your presentation? Give examples. 


5. What is a presentation outline? 


6. How can an outline help you in giving a good presentation? 


7. What are signposts? 


8. What other aspects of a presentation are important? 


 Task 2:

Listen to the interview again. Pay attention to the expressions below. Try to define each one based on your understanding, and then answer the questions below.

Idiom	Meaning
fall on deaf ears
be second nature
frame of mind
with someone in mind
ice-breaker
attention grabber
tried and tested

Task 3:

1. What does Melanie mean when she says a presentation can fall on deaf ears? 


2. What is an ice-breaker? In what situations, other than presentations, would you use an ice-breaker? 


3. What does Melanie mean by a good frame of mind for listening? 


4. What does Melanie mean when she says to some people public speaking is second nature? 


5. What is an attention grabber? What example of an attention grabber does Melanie give? 


6. When Melanie says you need to have your audience in mind when you plan your talk, what does she mean? 


Wednesday's Picnic

LET'S HAVE A PICNIC :)

We will be leaving around 11:45 to go to have our picnic first at Sunnybrook park. Then, walk to Edwards Gardens and have a quick tour there.

Friday, May 13, 2016 field trip to a free concert!

For one of the last free noon-hour concerts of the season, we'll be heading to Roy Thomson Hall on Friday to enjoy some stunning organ music and the Toronto Mass Choir. To get there on time, do plan to leave no later than on the 10:27 a.m. train from Don Mills Station.

You are welcome to bring older children and adult friends and family, and do remember to maintain good concert etiquette.
Based on this ad, what are you looking forward to enjoying at this concert?
At the end of the concert, let's meet at the entrance for a group photo and perhaps head out to lunch together.
Don't forget to post your comments before and after the concert below!

Monday's assignment

Dream Destinations

Based on today’s class work, we will conduct a contest! This contest will be based on your votes. 

Each one will come up with an ad for the travel destination he/she will advocate for, then each one will post his/her ad on the class blog , in the comments session to be available to all of you, and people will vote for the best three ads.

The one rule here is that NO ONE is allowed to vote for him/herself!

The first three winners will get a treat J

Friday's assignment

Good afternoon all,

Based on our reading, think of a similar experience that has happened to you and narrate it to us. Use present tense, even though this was in the past.

Make sure to answer the 5Ws in your answer.

• When was it?
• Where was it?
• Who was with you?
• What happened?
• How did it end?
• Describe our feelings before and after the situation. 

Future Field Trips

Let’s vote on our future field trips. Write down three places that you would like to visit in the future.

There was a suggestion to go to Sky zone. Click on this link and share your opinion with the rest of the class.