Thursday's Assignment, April 28, 2016

Thursday's Assignment

Are you excited about the field trip tomorrow? Who's going with you? What time are you meeting and where? Listen to the following video and see how much you can transcribe.

Here are your tasks:
1. Reading: Find out 3 places in the vicinity of Bathurst Subway Station
     1. Check out the Honest Ed's flyer for the week, and tell a partner what interests you.

I interested clogs and bath towels.

     2. Decide on a good place for lunch for the whole class. What's the budget? Then nicely knock on Hala's door (Level 5-6 Workplace English) and ask to recommend it to them.

    

Korean Village Restaurant Menu
628 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M6G 1K7

I interested stone bowl(bibimbap).

    

2. Role play: Learning to Ride the Subway
    1. Record with a partner.
https://audioboom.com/boos/4495691-emma-cheng-learning-to-ride-the-subway
    2. Help those who need help with their blogs or recordings.

Wednesday's Assignment, April 27, 2016

Wednesday's Assignment

What do you do when you wake up one day for a field trip and find out that public transport workers are on strike?

Well, you check the blog. That's what you do!

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.

A lot of people was walking on the street. They looked like very sad. Nobody smiled in the photos.

   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

The TTC workers union has appealed to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in a bid to win back its right to strike.

The provincial Liberal government made the TTC an essential service in 2011, acting on a request of the city in the wake of an April 2008 transit strike that stranded riders late on a Friday evening.

   1. Find at least 5 new words/phrases to learn for meaning and pronunciation.

(1) appeal someone to something: to make an urgent request for people to give you something that you need such as help, money, or information

(2) in a bid: attempting or trying

(3) essential service: completely necessary service

(4) act on something: to do something because you have been given information, advice, or orders

(5) in the wake of: happening after an event or as a result of it
   2. Then read to 2 partners to check for meaning and pronunciation before letting your instructor know you're done.

Tuesday's Assignment, April 26, 2016

Tuesday's Assignment

Now that you've been in the Toronto area for a while, are you pretty familiar with the public transport system?

So, have a look at the map and find the nearest station from here:

If you need help, try clicking here. You might like to also enter a specific day/time or see the PDF.

Here are your tasks:

1. Vocabulary: Getting Around without a Car
      1. Learn the meaning and pronunciation of the words in bold.
got it covered - the situation was under control

Segway - a two-wheeled motorized personal vehicle 

in the meantime - until something else happens

Worst case scenario - the worst situation was happened

commute - to change to a less severe one

fess up - own up; make a confession

well- being - a good or satisfactory condition of existence; a state characterized by health, happiness, and prosperity; welfare:

ulterior - existing beyond what is obvious or admitted; intentionally hidden.

motive - a reason for doing something, especially one that is hidden or not obvious.

scooter - motorcycle

next to nothing - almost nothing; a very little bit 

pawn off - an object left as security for money lent

con artists - a person who cheats or tricks others by persuading them to believe something that is not true.

      2. Read them to a partner who speaks a different L1 than yours.

2. Role play: Reading a Bus Schedule

3. Find two field trip venues for the summer using Google Maps.
      1. For one trip, find out how much and how long it takes to get there and back on the TTC.
      2. For the other trip, do the same thing, but include a GO train journey.
      3. Give reasons for each of your choices.

Monday's Assignment, April 25, 2016

Monday's Assignment

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Here are your tasks:1. From the video above, write down a list of adjectives and nouns.

customer

pride

daily rides

safety

professional

accountable

courtesy

service

employees

leadership

annual ridership

routes

transparent

performance

evolution

expansion

mission

values

transformation

communications

modernization

    1. From the adjectives, find the noun forms and other forms; and likewise for the nouns, e.g. "performance" > perform, performing, performer.

custom > customer

performance > perform, performing, performer

safe > safe, safety

proud > pride
professional > profession, professor

accountable > account, accounting

transparent > transparency, transparentness

courteous > courtesy

employable > employee, employer, employment

leading > leader, leadership

evolutionary > evolution, evolutionism

expansive > expansion, expansionism, expanse

transformable > transformer, transformation

communicative > communication

modern > modernization
     2. Choose 10 of those forms and make sentences with them, e.g. "The performance of performing elephants included a child dressed as a ballet performer."

The professor asked a professional question about profession.

The accountable accounting created an account for Billy.

The employee is employable by an employer.

Leader's meaning is an leading man. 

The courteous gentleman doesn't need learn courtesy.

Modernization will need modern knowledge.

Evolutionism talks about biology's evolution. 

Canadians is proud of Canada, more Canadian prides can be talked about.

If you want safe driving. Tie up safety belt will be safer.

The customer need a pair of custom shoes. 
    3.Read them to a classmate, who will help correct them before publishing.
Olivia is my partner.

2. Vocabulary: Getting Around
    1. Learn the words in bold for meaning and pronunciation.
    2. Read them and have a partner check for pronunciation, and then record those words in sentences.

3. Role play: Selecting a Neighbourhood
    1. Add 2 more lines, one from Jeremy and one from Leona, to end the conversation on a funny note.
    2. Practise with a partner, and record the whole conversation together, including your 2 additional lines.

How funny is this cartoon? Would you like to see more of these?

Thursday's Assignment, April 21, 2016

Thursday's Assignment

Besides diet, flossing, and annuals, what else is essential to a healthy lifestyle?

Does anyone else you know exercise so vigorously? What other great ideas on physical exercise can you find here?

Here are your tasks:

1. Reading: Find clues here as to what Her Majesty the Queen does for exercise. Discuss your answer with a partner.

2. Vocabulary: Walking or Running as Exercise
     1. Learn 5 words or expressions for meaning and pronunciation.

enthusiastic: very interested in something or excited by it.

brand new: never been used before.

low-impact workout

work up a sweat

Pick up the pace

psyched: extremely surprised, excited, or nervous.

blister: a swollen area on your skin that is full of a clear liquid and is caused by being burned or rubbed

     2. Make sentences with them, and have a partner check your reading of those sentences.

They were enthusiastic about the great idea.

This is a brand new car.

He worked up a sweat when he ran 5 miles in an hour. 

I'm very psyched about the trip.

I got a blister on lip.
     3. Record them on Audioboom.com, and check at least 5 other classmates' recordings.

https://audioboom.com/boos/4464603-sentences?t=0 

3. Role play: Childhood Fitness
    1. Practise aloud by yourself, and find 5 words that are most commonly mispronounced (e.g. "Ob City" or "opposite," instead of "obesity.")
    2. Practise with a partner, focusing on correct pronunciation of those 5 words.
    3. Record with your partner on Audioboom.com those 5 words, followed by the whole dialogue.

4. Write a list of 10 Dos and Don'ts on exercise and fitness for your family. For example:

• Wear good tennis shoes to avoid getting blisters.
• Don't do high-impact workouts to avoid getting shin splints.

Wednesday's Assignment, April 20, 2016

Wednesday's Assignment
Another way to maintain a healthy lifestyle is to go for annual checkups with one's doctor. Do you agree? Do you do that?

Did you chuckle at this cartoon? What else tickles you on this search?

1. Here are your tasks:
Vocabulary: A Visit to the Doctor
(1) Pick 5 words or expressions to learn for meaning and pronunciation.

-put it off: delay doing something.

-co-pay: a type of insurance policy.

-stethoscope: a medical instrument for listening to the action of someone's heart or breathing.

-strip down: remove all or most of your clothes.

-abdomen: the front part of your body below your waist.

(2) Practise saying them in sentences, and record your sentences on Audioboom.com.
https://audioboom.com/boos/4457829-vocabulary-wednesday-s-assignment-april-20-2016

2. Role play: Doctor-Patient Confidentiality
(1) Pick 5 new pronunciations you never knew before.

-ethics: a set of principles that people use to decide what is right and what is wrong.

-breach: a failure to do something that you have promised to do or that people expect you to do.

-tricky: difficult to do.

-divulge: to give information about something, especially something that should be kept secret.

-sensitive: reacting quickly or strongly to something.

-Hippocratic Oath

-adhere to the spirit of

-miraculous recovery(2) Practise saying them, and read them to a partner, who will check your pronunciation.

Hamed checked my pronunciation.

Tuesday's Assignment, April 19, 2016

Tuesday's Assignment

Now that we've taken a bite at dieting, let's chew on the topic of dental hygiene.

Where's the humour in the cartoon? Can you find a funnier cartoon from among these?

Here are your tasks:1. Role play: Taking Care of Your Teeth
          1. Publish your audioboom.com recording with a partner.

https://audioboom.com/boos/4452445-hamed-cheng-taking-care-of-your-teeth
          2. Then take dictation of the longest sentence as a Comment on a partner's blog.

2. Using yesterday's nutritional triptych as a guide, write a dialogue between a patient and a dental hygienist:
 (1) Work in pairs, with a partner.
Cheng: Welcome! I'm glad you've finally found our dental hygiene centre. What can I do for you?
Hamed: I need you to help me. I have a terrible toothache.

Cheng: Yeah, we hear that a lot. Have you been in dentist in years?
Hamed: No, I have't seen a dentist for 2 years. So what's your advice? 

Cheng: Oh! my God. 2 years! You should get completely check. After that dental hygienist will talk to you.
Hamed: Ok, I will. I knew I'd get the right help from a registered dental hygienist!

Cheng: I'm an experienced dental hygienist with 20 years experience. I'm glad to help you.
Hamed: Thanks.


 (2) Have the patient tell the hygienist about battling plaque.
 (3) Then have the patient wonder if that was a full-fledged hygienist.
 (4) Create a happy ending if you're on the east side of the room, or an unhappy ending if you're on the west side.
 (5) Publish and perform your dialogue to the class and then as a recording.

3. Read the headline of this article and then look for 5 words or expressions that you've recently learnt.

Monday's Assignment, April 18, 2016

Monday's Assignment

Welcome back! Did you eat a lot this weekend? Any big buffets or parties?

There's a popular saying that goes, "You're what you eat." Do you agree with it? Talk to a partner about it.

Do you like the above cartoon? What are your 5 most favourite cartoons here?

Here are your tasks:

1. Vocabulary: Fad Dieting

1. Copy out key phrases and words, and use them in sentences.

-don’t look so hot

He doesn’t look so hot, what's wrong with him?

-perfectly 

Emma is a perfectly good student.

-grouchy

Mike was grouchy yesterday.

-dieting & lose weight 

If you want to lose weight, you have to diet.

-popping pills

We should stop Popping pills in the teenage.

-shed

Water shed from the bathroom.

-pounds

 A bag of rice is 8 pounds.

-fad diets

We almost have new fad diets every year.

-onto

I am onto a new situation.

-guaranteed

Mike guaranteed to finish homework yesterday. 

-slimmer

Mary is slimmer than Ann.

-infomercial

they bought a new vacuum cleaner on a infomercial

-scientifically proven

This theorem has been scientifically proven

-make fun of it. 

I hope you will make fun of it.

-bleeping 

I couldn't stop this bleeping sound.

2. Record those sentences on Audioboom.com.

1. Role play: Eating Unhealthy Foods
1. Practise alone and then with a partner.
2. Record your work.