A Field Day of a Field Trip!

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Today's Assignment

Register now for our next field trip: to the Internationally Educated Professionals Conference 2012! When you receive the confirmation email (see sample below), please forward it to me.

1. Listening and Role Play: Types of Business Entities 
2. Read the following threads, and submit a post with a question/comment:

• Thread 1
• Thread 2

Today's Assignment

Going to college or university is not easy, not the least of which reason is finances!

What are some ways you could minimize the financial damage?

1. Listening and Vocab:Slogging through University 
2. Explore and discuss with a partner post-secondary financial assistance options.
3. Watch the video and write transcript of the third point regarding OSAP; then check with provided transcript.

Field Trip Wed and Tue, Jan 24 and 31

Two field trips yet await, for January.


First, a Chinese New Year celebration with LINC Levels 1 and 2 at the Mandarin Restaurant (lunch buffet at $12.99) on Wednesday, Jan. 24, after the morning session:

2206 Eglinton Avenue East, Scarborough, ON M1L 4S7‎ - (416) 288-1177‎

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Then, next Tuesday, on the last day of the month, we're going on our long-awaited ski trip. Stay tuned for details of the prefit day. The location is Earl Bales Ski and Snowboard Centre (at Earl Bales Park--see map below) near Bathurst and Sheppard. There's free parking available, but those coming by bus should meet at the Sheppard Yonge Station's Bus Interchange to catch the westbound Bus Service 84 at 9 a.m. Don't be late! Skiing lesson ($21 per person) starts at 10 a.m., and everyone's free to enjoy the following:

1. Cozy fireplace in a chalet
2. Coffeeshop with fabulous hot chocolate and scrumptious street meat
3. Busy rental shop, with boots, snowboards, skis, poles, and helmets
4. Bunny hill with rope tow and "magic carpet"
5. Blue ski hill with chair lift
6. Cute City of Toronto instructors in red uniforms and goggles
7. Ski patrollers
8. Ticketing office and counter selling timed and season snowpasses
9. Nearby community centre and Holocaust memorial
10. Glorious, if thin, snow, both natural and artificial, for multiple photo opportunities!

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Today's Assignment

1. Listening and Role Play: Moving for Higher Studies
2. Read three threads and submit a post at this Settlement Forum.
3. If you have not updated your blogs, please do so. You may write about the field trip to Ryerson or what you did after that.
   
   

Happy New Year all Lunar New Year celebrants

Q: Why is the Year of the Dragon longer than all the other years?






A: Because it always seems to "drag on."

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• Play village, midway and arcade
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Today's Assignment

1. Listening and Role Play: Rec Activities http://esl-lab.com/week/weekrd1.htm 
2. Find the nearest facilities to your home for swimming, skating, skiing, and music: http://www.toronto.ca/parks/pdf/torontofun/NY/NY_Fa11Wi12T_All.pdf.
3. Blog about the Field Trip to Ryerson (feel free to rip pictures from the post below).

Prospective Students Old and Young at Ryerson

Blow wind, come wrack, at least 10 MicroSkills participants showed up this morning at Ryerson University's ENG Building through fog and filthy air.

Just before stepping within, we, too, had a moment to ponder the row of Bixi Bikes at the side of the building.

First, we enjoyed a presentation where we got questions answered by Soeun Outh.

Hao and daughter, Jane and son and mom, Amanda, Ning, Tony, Babak, Henry, Jenan, Julia, Judy, and Ping and daughter were all there!

For our walking tour, two student guides showed up. Harley and Jennifer took us from one campus building to the next, which brought back memories of schooldays for some of us.

Finally, we got to Maple Leaf Gardens and Loblaws, where some of us headed for the food troughs and others hightailed home. Fodder for tomorrow's blog postings!

Today's Assignment (Answers shown) & Field Trip Details

Don't forget your umbrellas!








We're headed for a field trip to Ryerson University tomorrow (Tuesday), and our meeting point is 8:55 a.m. on the Southbound Platform of Sheppard Yonge Subway Station. Please do not be late. If you're coming from Don Mills, you should leave around 8:30 a.m. The plan is to get off at Dundas Station and walk over to Ryerson's ENG Building (George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street) for a presentation at 10 a.m. The presentation will be followed by a walking tour of the university. I'm planning to carry a borrowed cell phone (2647 229 99488--delete the first and last digits) in case of anyone getting lost.

The work for this afternoon is as follows:

1. Listening and Role Play: Exercise Program.
2. With a partner, find Winter/Camp registration dates and selected 6-digit course numbers from North York's Toronto Fun magazine for the following programs: Registration date was Sep. 13, 2011. A. EBSSC Snowboard: Camp 3-STEP 3 9-14 yrs Mon-Fri 9am-4pm Mar 12 $461/5 days 1879068 $587/5 days 1879076  B. Georges Vanier SS Swimming Ultra 15 yrs+ $62/9 wks Mon 6:30pm-7pm Sep 26 1877610 C. Oriole CC Keyboard: Beginner 4-5 yrs $32/9 wks Sat 4pm-4:30pm Jan 14 1876463
3. Blog on Friday’s Field Trip to Fairview Mall (check the use of commas, keeping in mind Peter's lesson on Thursday)