Wednesday's Assignment

Wednesday, 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!

Reading: First 2 paragraphs of this Toronto Star article

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

1. to strike=when worker decide to stop work.
2. Appealed=make a serious or urgent request.
3. Superior Court=a court of appeals or a court of general jurisdiction.
4. essential=extremely important.
5. request=an act of asking politely .

Tuesday's Assignment

Tuesday, 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:

1. Learn the meaning and pronunciation of the words in bold.

got it covered= under control.

 Segway=a two-wheeled motorized personal vehicle.

fess up =confess.

 commute=travel some distance between one's home and place of work.

ulterior motive= intentionally hidden.

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

 No big thing=not important.

scooter = motorcycle.

In the meantime= meanwhile.

Monday, April 25, 2016
Monday's Assignment

the video above, write down a list of adjectives and nouns.

1-Customer_Custom.
2-Safety_ Safe.
3-professional_Profession, Professor.
4-Accountable_  Account, Accounting.
5-Pride_ Proud.
6-Modernization_ Modern.
7-Performance_ Perform, Performing, Performer.
8-Expansion_ Expansionism,Expanse, expansive.
9-Evolution_ Evolutionary
10-Values_  Valued.

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."

1-I'm proud because I'm from Mesopotamia.

2-Canada has the best service in the world.

3-TD Bank offers better services to its customers.

4-This book is an expansion of a lecture series.

5-Honesty, trust increases the value of rights.

6-Justin Trudeau take the lead in Canada and make it the best country in the world.

7-Butterfly life transitions from eggs, larva, pupa  finally butterfly.

8-Apple Store has always sought to modernize phones.

9-Joseph professional in teaching English grammar.

10-The employee stopped working because of the salaries of few.

Wednesday's Assignment

Wednesday, 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?

Vocabulary: A Visit to the Doctor

1. Pick 5 words or expressions to learn for meaning and pronunciation.

1-study grammar is never particularly entertaining for me.

2-In July my son had an appointment with his doctor for the annual examination.

3-Every year I visit the family doctor one time to check my health.

4-When the doctor put the stethoscope on my chest I feel tickle.

5-The doctor asks me a blood test every six months to check the cholesterol.

1. Practise saying them in sentences, and record your sentences on Audioboom.com.

Role play: Doctor-Patient Confidentiality

1. Pick 5 new pronunciations you never knew before.

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1. Practise saying them, and read them to a partner, who will check your pronunciation.

Tuesday's Assignment

Tuesday's Assignment

Now that we've taken a bite at dieting, let's chew on the t

pic of dental hygiene.

https://audioboom.com/boos/4452801-sally-david

1. Work in pairs, with a partner.

Sally:Welcome to the hygienist center! what can I do for you.

David:Oh I'm glad finally I found hygienist dental.

Sally:I think you've come to the right pleas, how can I help you.

David:I feel pain in the jaw and swelling of the gums. I brush my teeth twice every day .

Sally:When was the last visit to the dentist.

David:Last year.

Sally:Last year? No this is not enough, you should see the dentist every six month. Let me see what

your problems.

David:OK.

Sally:Oh, you have inflammation of the gums and some battling plaque. You should be use flossing 

every day and rinsing your mouth with mouthwash to keep your teeth and gums healthy.

David:OK,  I will do that Thank you.

Sally:your welcome.

 

Monday's Assignment

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

1_ don’t look so hot

She look so hot,maybe she is sick.

2_grouchy

Jason was grouchy today.

3_ dieting

If you want to lose excess weight, you should follow the dieting.

4_lose weight.

Dr. Poona has new fad diets to lose  weight.

5_ slimmer.
Ali is slimmer  than Khalid.

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6_pounds.

I lost 20 pounds lest year after I birth my son.

7_make fun of it. 

I hope you will make fun of it.

1-What are three rules of etiquette at any concert?

Sit quietly,  turn off the cell phone,  and wait for the concert to begin.

2-What instrument or performance would you expect to see at the concert?

I would to see piano performance and jazz.

3-What time does the concert begin?

The concert begins at 12:pm

4-Who's the performer?

American pianist Kara Huber.

5-What do you hope to take away from the free concert?

   I hope to will enjoy to the music with classmates,  and Take some photos.

6-Who's leaving from Don Mills Station on Thursday, and at what time?

Chen,Emma,Hamed and I will leave from Don Mills Station   at 9:45 am.

7-Which of the other places on the itinerary interests you, and why?

I'm interested in the museum, because I like know more about the history and old Various ancient civilizations.

8-What's the weather going to be like on Thursday?

I hope Sunny and warm day.

9-What would you advise your classmates to bring on Thursday?

 I would to advice my classmates to bring camera.

10-Who's your lunch partner on Thursday?

of course Hamed.

Rearrange each sentence, and then put the sentences in the correct order to find out what it's all about:

1. Abuyahya Yusuf. Yusuf  Abuyahya.
2. St., Toronto 8Y9 M2J Yonge 660-145 ON.660-145 Yonge St. Toronto ON, M2J 8Y9.
3. cheque registered Please address. the to my send . Pleas send the cheque to my registered address.
4. holder account I'm a policy of RRSP investment #90245, and I cancel would away. like to the policy right  I'm a policy of RRSP holder, and I would like to cancel the investment#90245 right away'
5. 2016 12, April.  April 12,2016
6. you. Thank. Thank you
7. CANCELLATION RRSP WITHDRAWAL AND.CANCELLATION AND WITHDRAWAL RRSP.
8. Broker, Dear.Dear Broker.
9. regards, Best .Best regard
10. Home a I need under Buyers' Plan. it for deposit the.I need a Buyers' Home Plan for the deposit under it.

IRAQ. Hanging Gardens of Babylon..

Friday's Assignment

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:

1.Role play: Reading a World Map
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.
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.

1.What did you like about the exercise?
I like the exercise,i learned new idioms.
2.What did you dislike about the exercise?

Nothing.

3.What did you learn from the exercise?
I learnt some new words.
4.If you had a chance to do the exercise again, what would you like to do/learn?
I would like to learn more idiom and how ask and answer.
5.Would you like to do the exercise again? If so, what other topics would you like to do it on?
Of course, i would like to improve my speaking,writing.

1) Find a partner!

Where does your partner live?

My partner Angelica live in Leslie st at 985 old Cummer  Av.

Write down the information in 4 or more sentences.

Angelica's house is far from my apartment she lives near the Willesden park.

her house close the sunny chines supermarket plaza she can walk to there and on the opposite side there is another plaza that has  a Italian supermarket,gas station,bank,tim hortons, and Leslie station.

2) Remain in pairs.

Let's go outside your neighbourhood. Think of a place of interest you have visited in Toronto.

Find the place on google.com. Describe your experience.

Niagara falls i know a lot  about this place  because i go there every summer with  my family its a really nice place to go to at summer it has a nice view and and many different things to do in there so i spent interesting time.

3) Interview some of your fellow students. See if you can come up with 5 interesting places in Toronto. Write them down. 
Present to the class.

1.Angelica visited royal Ontario museum with her family.She went there in the winter the weather was very cold so she never forgot this day.

2.Cheng visited Ontario Science Center he enjoyed  there .

3.Emma like the zoo she spent interesting time.

4.Gasia likes Fair view mall.