Thursday's assignment

Vocabulary for Monday Morning's Session

Is this true?

In preparation for Monday morning's presentation by Lisa Ward of Toronto Region Authority, please study the following documents:

1. Solid Waste Management
2. Household Hazardous Waste
3. Green Bin
4. Recycling Bin

What are the 10 best or most useful words/terms you learnt today?

Thursday's Assignment

If an event, such as a class, begins at 9 a.m., what time do you show up?

In some cultures, you show up at 9:30 a.m. or even 10 a.m. In others you turn up no later than 8:50 a.m., bright eyed and bushy tailed, all ready to go. In still others, you may not show up at all, blaming the will of heaven.

Discuss the topic of punctuality for 3 minutes with a partner. What are the most common excuses? What are the worst ones?

Here are your tasks:

1. Do this dictation exercise.
2. Role play: Being Late to an Event

Monday's Assignment

We all make mistakes, but how we deal with them may be different in different cultures. Making an excuse is one of them:

Do dogs and excuses appear together in excuses in your L1? Here are more excuses in English.

Here are your tasks:

Pick a favourite.

1. Vocabulary & Pronunciation: Time Off from Work
1. Do not practise silently only. Speak aloud the new words, comparing the pronunciation carefully with the audio.
2. Make sentences using the new vocabulary.
2. Role play: Plagiarism
1. Listen. Then discuss with a partner.
2. Practise the dialogue by yourself and then with your partner.
3. Record your dialogue on Chirbit or Audioboom and place it, with these instructions, on your blog.
3. Write a brief trip report (no more than 100 words) for last Thursday's visit to TRL. 
1. If you didn't go, include your excuse and interview a classmate who did.
2. Add pictures (feel free to steal from my FB).
3. Have 2 classmates check your work before hitting the Publish button.

1. time off from work: I want to get a time off from work this weekend because I'm so tired.
2. maternity leave: Mary asked maternity leave yesterday. She will give birth for her son next week.
3. I can't come back to China in Chinese New Year. I will miss out on family reunion.
4. Bob told Selena his opinions straight out in the meeting.
5. My mother wasn't happy when I left her hanging on holidays.
6. We enjoyed a wild weekend last month.
7. The president signed off on the treaty of attacking the terrorists.

Friday's Assignment

So what else is left of Toronto Public Library? You have seen the stuff you can pick off the shelves. You have seen the stuff you can download. Now what?

What's funny? What's funnier? What's funniest?

Here are your tasks:

1. Click on Programs, Classes, & Exhibits. Identify and discuss ESL and Newcomer programs at 3 nearby venues.
2. identify 3 other kinds of programs (left column of programs home page) and discuss.
3. Write FAQs for the Museum + Arts Pass (how would you search for it?) using 3 WH questions and 3 Y/N questions. Do not include answers. Then respond to your classmates’ FAQs using blog comments 

1. Agicourt, Bridlewood, Burrows Hall Library
2. How can you get the MAPs?
3. What do you need to take if you want to get the MAPs?
4. How many persons are available one MAPs for once?
5. Can you get two MAPs of ROM in three month?
6. I can get MAPs of the Black Greek Pioneer Village at Fairview Mall. Is it true?
7. Is the rule of MAPs of Agicourt library is First come, First Served? 

Wednesday's Assignment

This morning you will all become mass communicators! With your blog post acting as an event poster, create an announcement of Thursday's library trip. You will work in pairs, first by asking all the relevant WH questions.

Do you have a library card?

Here are some of your tasks:

1. With your partner checking over your shoulder, Google for "Toronto Reference Library" and create a map with directions to get there from your home tomorrow, arriving no later than 9:55 a.m.
2. Embed the map in your blog.
3. Check the "posters" from other pairs.

Thursday January 7 : Field  Trip to Toronto Reference Library

Please meet before 9 a.m. at Don Mills Station so we can leave at 9:10 a.m.

9:16 AM

Don Mills

9:16 AM

1towards Line 1 (Yonge-University)

 19 min (8 stops) · Stop ID: 13860 · 

9:49 AM

Bloor Station - Southbound Platform

Walk

 About 1 min , 120 m

9:50 AM

Toronto Reference Library

789 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M4W 2G8

From Toronto Reference Library to ROM

Toronto Reference Library

789 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M4W 2G8

Head south on Yonge St toward Asquith Ave

180 m

Turn right onto Bloor St W

750 m

Turn left onto Philosopher's Walk

11 m

Royal Ontario Museum

100 Queens Park, Toronto, ON M5S 2C6

Dictation:

1. Hi, are you the librarian? Could you help me check out this book? What if there isn't a bar code orRF ID tag?
2. I don't know if this is fiction or non-fiction. It doesn't show in the online catalogue either.
3. It's supposed to open Monday through Saturday from 10 to 6 so I decided to see the new library for myself.

1. Hi, are you the librarian? Could you help me check out this book? What if there isn't a bar code or RFID tag?
2. I don't know if this is fiction or nonfiction. It doesn't show in the online catalogue either.
3. It's supposed to open Monday through Saturday from 10 to 6 so I decided to see the new library for myself.

Tuesday's Assignment

While much of our public library consists of clicks, we're going to make a visit this Thursday to the bricks:

What caption would you write here?

Here are your tasks:

1. Vocabulary and pronunciation: Visiting a Library
1. Identify 5 new/difficult words/terms
2. Make sentences using those words, and have a partner check your pronunciation of them
2. Do this listening exercise: Library Tour
3. Watch this video, and identify 3 things/places you hope to see.
4. Role play with a partner what you hope to see on Thursday’s field trip and make arrangements to meet. Practise once, and record your chirbit

     local paper

     check it out

     hours of operation

     librarian

     library clerks

     reference desk

     non-fiction

     fiction stacks

     collection

     catalogue

     check out

     right away

     right then

     step up to the counter

     due date

     three weeks from today

     scan the bar code 
No.1    TD Gallery                               No.2   Marilyn & Charles Baillie Special Collections Centre       No.3     Bram & Bluma Apple Salon         No.4  Norman G.Himton Learning Centre

     

Monday's Assignment

Welcome back! This week we are looking at one of the most important community and government services. Can you guess which one it is?

For the interactive map, click here.

Here are your tasks:

1. Locate "Toronto Public Library" using Google All, Google News, and Wikipedia. Post one interesting item from each search on yourFaceBook; don't forget to include links to sources.
2. Check out the Good Morning, Canada! Page of this blog, spending no more than 3 minutes on each item. Then identify:
1. the most surprising resource, 
2. the most difficult one, 
3. most useful one, and
4. the least useful.

Visit each others' blogs and add comments and suggestions on your classmates' blogs.

1. I find the most surprising resource is history ebooks and DVD, Persian Empire, The Rise and The Fall of China. The most difficult one is Business Softskills Series. The most useful one is Oxford English Dictionary. The least useful one? I don't think there is, because I should learn more and more.