Friday, April 8, 2016 Friday's Assignment

After you see today's assignment, you might exclaim, TGIF!

Think about your view of Canada before coming here. How was it similar or different from this:

How different is your view of the world from the Americans'?

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play: Reading a World Map
Greg: What are you doing with that map and that globe? 

Julianna: I’m trying to keep track of Carmen as she travels from country to country. I just got anotherpostcard from her today. 

Greg: I’m not sure I like the idea of my daughter traveling around the world with a group of people for three months. It’s not safe. 

Julianna: She can take care of herself. You know she’s the adventurous type. Give her a compass and she can find her way around anywhere. Help me find Nauru on this map. I don’t even know what continentit’s on. I was never any good at geography. 

Greg: All right. You look above the equator and I’ll look below it, but couldn’t you just look it up on the Internet? It would be easy to find the latitude and longitude of this place. 

Julianna: This is more fun. I sort of feel like I’m on an adventure myself. 

Greg: I can’t make heads or tails of this map. It’s not to scale and this legend is all wrong! 

Julianna: It doesn’t matter. We just need to find the place name, and then I can put a pin in this map showing where’s she’s been. 

Greg: I have a better idea. I’ll look it up on the Internet and get you all of the vital statistics you’d want, like its location, okay? 

Julianna: Forget it. Sometimes it’s more fun doing things the hard way. 

2. Read this article, and in your own words write down 10 facts that you learnt from it.

Turks and Caicos are in the tropics.
Turks and Caicos is 26℃ right now.
I think most of the Canadains want to adopt Turks and Caicos.
If Canada adopt Turks and Caicos we will have 11 provinces.
Turks island and Caicos island are all in the Atlantic. They belong to British now.
Robert Borden was prime minister in 1917.
Robert Borden was the first prime minister who asked Great Britain to give Canada Turks and Caicos.
Canada’s former foreign affairs minister was John Baird in 2014.
John Baird seemed to disagree with this decision.
I really would like Turks and Caicos become Canada's Territories.

vocabulary

sip: a small mouthful of liquid.

adopt: legally take another's child and bring it up as one's own.

debate: a formal discussion on a particular topic in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward.

upcoming: forthcoming; about to happen.

convention: a way in which something is usually done, especially within a particular area or activity.

former: having previously filled a particular role or been a particular thing.

comprised: consist of; be made up of.

tropical: near the equator

low-lying: at low altitude above sea level.

affairs: an event or sequence of events of a specified kind or that has previously been referred to.

sunblock: I don't know. like block?

3. Scanning: Looking for patterns

1. Google and then click News for "Canada" and "USA." Look at the results on the first page and tell a partner what's most prominent.
2. Google and then click News for "Canada" and the name of another country. Look at the results on the first page and tell a partner what's most prominent.
3. Google and then click News for "Canada" and "United Nations." Look at the results on the first page and tell a partner what's most prominent.
4. Google and then click News for "Canada" and "mountains." Look at the results on the first page and tell a partner what's most prominent.
5. Google and then click News for "Canada" and "lakes." Look at the results on the first page and tell a partner what's most prominent.
6. Google and then click News for "Canada" and "oceans." Look at the results on the first page and tell a partner what's most prominent.
7. Google and then click News for "Canada" and any other search item! Look at the results on the first page and tell a partner what's most prominent.
1. USA beats Canada in overtime to win women’s world hockey championship on Monday. Alex Carpenter scored the golden goal in overtime. The score was 1-0.
2. Trudeau government want to improve Canada-China relations. Canada needs to "grow up" on China: Experts. Canada need to “grow up” and recognize that there’s an “urgent” need to engage more aggressively with China, and not just because it might make us richer, say experts who are weighing in on the Trudeau government’s Canada-China policy review.
3. Canada Gains United Nations Seat on Status of Women(UNCSW). Canada will be at the table to shape the Commission’s work to advance the rights of women and girls around the world.
4. It's an old news. Parks Canada issues Easter weekend avalanche warning for Rocky Mountain parks.
5. Ontario takes issue with Wisconsin city’s Great Lakes water diversion plan. Lake Michigan and the City of Milwaukee, Wis., are on the right; the city of Waukesha to the west would like to bring water from the lake and return treated wastewater.
6. Oceans North Canada calls for Inuit input on Canada's Arctic shipping corridors. federal government to re-work its Arctic shipping corridors initiative to include environmental protections and engagement with Inuit groups.
7. Google News for "Canada" and "economic". Economy adds 41,000 jobs in March. Posted: Apr 08, 2016 8:37 AM ET. Canadian dollar flirts with 77 cents US as jobs figure blows away expectations.  Canada's economy cranked out an impressive 41,000 jobs last month, more than four times what economists were expecting.