Tuesday's Assignment

So, here's something to do before some of you move on to Workplace English ... Was it hard coming to Canada? Is it hard trying to become a citizen?

Here are your tasks:

1. Watch this video, and take dictation from 0:52 to 1:34. Then listen with a partner, and make corrections before publishing.
1. In the article, locate the six bullet points listing changes in immigration policy.
2. In a group of 3 or 4, discuss these points.
2. Create a short instructional on the appeal process for family sponsorship. Read and record a chirbit in your voice for your partner oftheir writing from Monday morning's assignment. Allow them to publish the audio link on their blog, and vice versa.

Dictation:

Canada is a part of the North American (Free) Trade Agreement.NAFTA is very important to us. Our relationship on this continent with the U.S.A and with Mexico has been soured over ten years of Stephen Harper who does not get along with the American president and who has strange relationship with Mexico to extremely high degree.We need to ensure that Canada is a country that is accepting refugees who are fleeing persecution from all sorts of different places around the world for all sorts of different reasons. We are committed to working to ensure that those applications process in responsible and in a speedy fashion. But we know there are other ways of doing that, then, simply slapping Mexican visa does hurt Canadian tourism and hurt the relationship with our continent partner and quite frankly hurt our economic growth with NAFTA. Canada needs to do right by our continental neighbors and part of that removing the visa restriction on Mexican citizens.