What's There to Do for March Break?

Well, you could rearrange the shoe closet for the umpteenth time. You could take the kids for an exciting adventure in Food Basics! Or how about something really memorable for years to come, like watching the CCTV footage of your building's lobby on television again!

Alternatively, you might check out some of the following places:

• Casa Loma
• Art Gallery of Ontario
• Harbourfront Centre
• Royal Ontario Museum
• TIFF Bell Lightbox

For details on what's going on at these places or more, enjoy reading this Toronto Star article!

Friday's Assignment

1. Watch the 11-page Voicethread presentation above on cosmetic dentistry. Listen to that funny-looking "Jose" for stress and pronunciation. Choose one page for yourself to record your reading of that page.
2. Listening and Vocabulary: Cosmetic Surgery
3. Role Play with a Partner: Describing Symptoms to a Doctor
4. Write one sentence of over five words from this presentation:

FREE Expert Tax Advice!

It's tax season again, but are you ready?

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario is holding free tax clinics from now till the end of this month. Here's the information you need:

To qualify for the free help, total household income must be less than $30,000 with dependents or less than $20,000 without dependents. You will also need last year’s return and notice of assessment if you’ve filed before, a list of dependents with their birthdays, and any receipts showing income and expenses.

Appointments for the March 8 clinic can be booked by calling 416-962-1841 ext. 0. For information on other GTA clinics call 416-962-1841 ext. 462. Or go to the Institute’s website and click on the Serving the Public option to find a list of free tax clinics across the province.

Read the rest of the article and make your appointment now!

Wednesday's Assignment

Update: Fake MBA Executive Gets Demoted

 

1. For 35 minutes, research about Ontario's ORNGE helicopters, former Health Minister George Smitherman, E-Health project, and other such scandals, beginning your work at this forum, today's Toronto Star article, and this video report.
2. Then participate in this online forum and post one comment there.
3. If you were our province's Minister for Health, what would be your top three priorities? Write a list of those three things on your blog. (E.g. "If I were Ontario's Minister for Health, I would: 1. Offer free dental services to all Ontarians, 2. Make myself and my friends rich through special appointments to key healthcare positions, and 3. Prevent all opposition through an effective advertising campaign.")

Today's Assignment

"Next?"

1. Listening comprehension: Medical advice 
2. Listen, and role play with a partner: Going to the dentist 
3. Listen, and role play with a different partner: Seeing a dentist
4. Use the Editing Checklist and spell checking (e.g. in MS Word) to correct your blog.

Wheee! There goes your résumé!

Have you ever heard back from companies you applied to?

Do you hope to get a reply for your future job applications?

What's really going on in the Human Resources Departments that get those application letters?

Can you beat the system?

Check out the answers to those and more questions on this 4-page Time magazine article.

Today's Assignment

1. Search for job fairs in March 2012 and blog about them.
2. Catch up on blog work--create, edit, or update yours.
3. Add your voice or text comment to the following Voice Thread: