Monday's Assignment

Welcome to a fresh week on the theme of Job Interviews!

Can you guess the question to this answer?

1. Using the Editing Checklist, make corrections to blog entries.
2. Reading and Vocabulary: Different Work Styles 
3. Listening Comprehension and Role Play, from ESL Corner at Settlement.org

Ever Get Mad AT/FOR All Those Prepositions?

So, how did I arrive to/at this preposition chart? Would you like to copy it down/up? What can you do for/with it? Do prepositions drive you over/up the wall?

Here are some basic meanings of/for prepositions that you need to know in/for starters:


Were there any prepositions that were new against/to you?

Answers to the eight prepositional pairs in this post:

Friday's Assignment

TGIF!

1. Using the Editing Checklist, clean up your blogs today!
2. Listening and Role Play: Assigning Blame in an Accident
3. Reading Comprehension: Car Accident 

Some of you asked about the Santa Claus Parade on Sunday--here's the link!

Wednesday's Assignment

We continue on our theme of car insurance today as well as have a preview of our field trip next week:

1. Writing Activity: Do a Google Web, Maps, Images, and Video Search for Glenn Gould and the park that is named after him, and put the information on your blog.

1. Locate Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, Upper Canada College, St. Clair Station, Glenn Gould Park, Deer Park, and Forest Hill. Create a walking tour and embed it on your blog.
2. Find out what's happening at Yorkminster Park Baptist Church next Wednesday. Feel free to include any videos or pictures.
3. List at least three things you'd like to see or discover on our field trip. You could mention photo opportunities, lunch places, street interviews, shopping interests, or anything else!
2. Research Skills: Find the best quote for your car (real or imagined) using http://www.kanetix.ca/ and insurancehotline.com
3. Listening and Role Play: Buying Car Insurance 

Monday's Assignment

Welcome to a week on the theme of car insurance in Ontario!



Your tasks are the following:

1. Check your blogs using the editing points you learnt from Kathleen this morning. Feel free to mutually check with a partner.
2. Take notes from this information site and list 5 things you learnt on your blog. 
3. Listening and Role Play: Handling a Traffic Stop 

Good Morning, Boys and Girls, It's Time for Dictation!

Ready with a half-sheet of paper?

Here goes ... listen to the following question as many times as you wish, and write out what it says.

Then post your dictated question under Comments below.

Remembrance Day Ceremonies 2012 and Friday's Assignment

UPDATE: Meanwhile, over in England, Prince Philip lays a cross (check out the video).

  
Feel free to take in a little of the atmosphere in Toronto this Sunday!

LINC 4 - 5 participants at Remembrance Day celebrations in North York last year

This Sunday, November 11, is Remembrance Day, and you may find yourself stopped at 11 a.m. for two minutes' silence if you're out shopping.

However, if you'd like to participate intentionally in a Remembrance Day ceremony, here are some options: