- 7 Facts About Poppies: Match these questions to the correct information on your worksheet:
- How many are made?
- Weren't the centres of poppies green for a while?
- Where are they made?
- Where does my poppy donation go?
- When did the poppy campaign start in Canada?
- Why the poppy?
- When should poppies be worn?
- Do more practice with adjective clauses. Go to the blog's grammar page for more. Also click here for the worksheet that we did in class today. I will bring more hard copies for you on Wednesday.
- Finish listening to the ESL news and try to answer the questions on the worksheet. Click here for the audio - you must click on 'ESL News for Nov. 10, 2014 - listen' to hear the correct news. I'll post the answers on the blog's homework page later this week.
- Think about Ryan Arcand's story. Come to class on Wednesday with your ideas and you will write an in-class paragraph as a group to prepare for your final writing test on Monday November 24.
for Monday, November 17:
- Journal: write about your thoughts on our field trip on Wednesday to the voting station, or your opinion about voting in Canada, or what you've learned about municipal elections.
- Bring a news article to talk about on Monday.
for Monday, November 10:
- Journal: "During my first year (month, week...) in Canada, I felt like a fish out of water."
- News article summary and sharing: Sara will email you with a selection of news stories that are appropriate for your level. Choose one and prepare some notes (main ideas and key details ONLY, not full sentences) to use when you talk about the story. You can't show your classmates the original article. Please come ready to talk about your article on Monday, but do NOT write out and memorize what you want to say.
- Review the figures of speech that we discussed on class on Wednesday. See the 'answer key' section of the blog.
- Click here to for a list of transition words and phrases. These words are very useful for writing and speaking. Also, click here for a list of conjunctions (connecting words).
- Think about whether you want to go vote in the elections as a class on Wednesday, or have another field trip. We will discuss and decide in class together.
- complete the vocabulary questions for the reading we did in class today (Monday), "You can't a judge a book by its cover".
- work on subordinating conjunctions - and adverbial clauses - on the blog's grammar page.
- read the story about Ryan Arcand on the blog's home page, and watch the videos too.
- journal writing: an experience (yours or someone you know) with discrimination
- news article summary and sharing: choose an article that is not too difficult for you. Use the instructions that I gave you on Wednesday to guide you. On Monday, you will not be able to show your article, because I don't want everyone to just read the article. Instead, prepare some notes (main ideas and key details) to use when you tell your group about the news story. You can show any photos and headlines that come with the article, but that's it. Please come ready to talk about your article on Monday.
- Also, you will do a listening mid-term quiz on Monday!
for Wednesday, Oct 29:
- Review the vocabulary words from today's listening, 'The Art of Storytelling'. Make new sentences with the words.
for Monday, October 27: (my apologies for not posting this earlier! I think I left my brain in New York...)
- Journal writing: "If you could create an organization to help your community, what would you create?"
- If you want to write about a different topic for your journal, feel free to do so.
- Finish the vocabulary work on the 'homeschooling' reading quiz from a couple of weeks ago and check your answers (I will post the answers in the answer key section of the blog later...)
for Wednesday, Oct 22:
- Bring your 'Do's and Dont's' list about etiquette and cultural taboos in your first country to class. We brainstormed a list of things two weeks ago, and on Wednesday you will use this list to write an email to someone.
- If you haven't already done so, please complete the 'Midterm Personal Progress Report' and hand it in so I can review it. Please put your name on it.
for Wednesday, October 15:
*remember, no class on Monday October 13. Happy Thanksgiving!
- Read the 'informal email - polite request' and answer all of the questions. Complete question #10, which is writing an informal email of request. Bring your first draft to class.
- Listen to the vowel sounds recording (see the 'pronunciation page' of this blog) and repeat.
- Read, read, read! Your novel, a magazine, newspaper, online sites...
- Eavesdrop and observe people in conversation. Pay attention to their body language, use of rejoinders & follow up questions.
- Bring your 'Do's and Dont's' list about etiquette and cultural taboos in your first country to class on Wednesday.
- Bring your news or magazine article to class, since we didn't get to discuss & share our articles on Monday.
- Make sentences using the new vocabulary words from the 'Cultural Taboos' reading. You can hand in your sentences (or email them) to me if you want me to check them.
- Finish your 'Do's and Don'ts' list about etiquette and cultural taboos in your first country.
- Check the blog home page for the 'Conversation Do's and Don'ts' video. Watch it and read the tapescript, and check your notes with the answer key - click here for an example of notes for this video.
for Monday, October 6:
- Freewriting/journal: Share an experience about a cultural taboo, or write about your opinions about politeness and etiquette in Canada.
- Find a news or magazine article (online or print) that is of interest to you and is at your reading level. Bring it to class and be prepared to talk about it.
- Complete the vocabulary exercises for the 'Cultural Taboos' reading that we did in class. Check back for the answer key...soon.
- Complete your second/final draft of your email to Minister Virk, and send it (if you wish). Feel free to 'Bcc' me.
- Observe people talking. Watch their expressions, gestures, and listen for tone.
- Read the vocabulary strategies handout (yellow paper) that I gave you. Develop a vocabulary strategy and use it every day.
- Complete your second draft of your letter to Minister Virk, if I gave your first draft back to you on Monday.
- Finish the exercises on reported speech and check your answers here.
for Monday, September 29:
- Before Monday, finish or revise your first draft of your letter to Minister Virk. You can email it right away to Minister Virk or email it to me for editing.
- Look around the blog and do some of the activities. Try to post a comment.
- Find a news or magazine article (online or print) that is of interest to you and is at your reading level. Bring it to class and be prepared to talk about it.
- Practice pronunciation: linking and 'th' sounds. Click on the pronunciation page for links and practice.
- finish your ideas brainstorm about the funding cuts to adult ESL in B.C. Here are some guiding questions for you to think about:
- Why is adult ESL important for you? (for immigrants/newcomers? for B.C.?)
- How do these cuts affect you?
- Why should the BC Liberal government continue to put funding into adult ESL at VCC?
- How has studying ESL at VCC helped you? Tell your story.
- Look around the blog and do some of the activities. Try to post a comment!
for Monday, September 22:
- journal writing: "What are your learning goals for this term and what are you going to do to reach these goals?"
- find a news article (online or print) that is of interest to you and is at your reading level. Bring it to class and be prepared to talk about it.
- buy a small notebook for your journal freewriting. I will give you more information about journal writing on Wednesday
- email Sara (see the homework information sheet for her email) a 1 or 2 paragraph self-introduction.
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