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A Christmas Carol
                     Here is the version we watched in class, from 1984. The actor is George C. Scott. Enjoy!

Will the world end on Friday? Listen and check your worksheet:    (Answer here)

UK Male voice

US Female voice

Feliz Navidad - a rewrite of the Christmas carol (the lyrics are here)

Update and video on our news story from this morning.

The Sweater

Watch the video about 'Britain's big freeze' and do the quiz.

Listen to two people talk about their different versions of Santa

Swiss Santa

Canadian Santa

Try some of these Christmas song activities.

Work on your phrasal verbs

Last-minute Christmas shopping - Watch and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Would you like to come over? At this season, people often invite each other over for parties. Learn about making invitation with these activities.

Simple past or past perfect?

Simple past, present perfect, or past perfect?

Here's a short video biography of Charles Dickens.

Wednesday and Friday, December 5th and 7th

Bread that stays fresh - Listen and complete your worksheet.  You can check your answers here and do some other related activities.

How do you like your eggs? A follow up activity to our nutrition activity.

Honey - A Superfood!

Reading food labels - listen and try it out.

Verb tense practice

Stative and Dynamic (action!) verbs - read the explanation and try the exercises.

Jingle Bells (Diana Krall)
Jingle Bells (lyric video)

Deck the Halls (Bing Crosby)
Deck the Halls (karaoke)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

The Little Drummer Boy (Bing Crosby and David Bowie)

December 5th is International Volunteer Day. Listen and complete your worksheet.

Frank's check-up - Listen to Frank and his doctor and answer the questions.

At the hospital - listen to the conversations and choose the correct picture.

Determiners - choose the best answer for each question

Before you do any shopping, make sure you know the difference between these words!

Volunteer Ottawa - Take a look at the website. What are you interested in doing? Complete the questions on your worksheet.

The Lives of Three Volunteers - Listen and read about three volunteers and why they did it.

Articles - easier
Articles - harder
Ordering breakfast - choose the best answer.

Winter clothing - layers: If you haven't seen this video before, don't worry. You don't have to dress as warmly as he does! How many items of clothing can you identify?

How to shovel snow - Do you have to shovel this winter? Here's how to do it safely.

Black Friday - Watch the story and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Buy Nothing Day - Listen to the speaker. Answer the questions on your worksheet. (Click here for the script)

Verb+object+infinitive - Complete the sentences using the correct structure.

Here is a good short self-study lesson on 'small talk.'

The hidden job market

Workplace conversations

Wish or hope? Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb.

For Friday

The Word of the Year - Listen and complete your sheet.

Buying a new house - listen and answer the questions.

Homebuying information for newcomers in eight languages from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp.

Maple Syrup - Watch the news story and answer the questions on your worksheet

Reading ads for housing - Complete the activities

Types of housing in Canada - Review some descriptions of types of housing in Canada.

Listening - renting an apartment

Video lesson - 2nd and 3rd conditionals

If I Had a Million Dollars - listen and do the quiz

Health-card bureaucracy - Watch the video about this morning news

Ontario photo card - information about the Ontario photo ID card

Watch the video and answer the questions on your worksheet

Conditionals quiz

What is open, closed, and happening on Remembrance Day: click here  and  click here.

Watch the videos and complete your worksheet.

Conditionals - choose the best answer

Sir Sandford Fleming - Watch the video and answer the questions on your paper.

Bob and Susan - Listen to Bob and Susan and answer the questions.

-ing and -ed adjectives review

Video lesson and quiz on order of adjectives.

Halloween at 24 Sussex

Changes to Garbage Pickup - Watch the videos and answer the questions on your worksheet

Check your collection day here.

Find out about garbage services here.
Greenbin
Blue box
Black box

National Do Not Call List - FAQs

National Do Not Call List - Filing a complaint

Winnipeg's friendly Masonic Temple ghost - watch the video and check your worksheet.

'More bang for my buck.' Listen as a customer calls and asks for information about changing her phone service.

'All the lines are busy.' Review our listening activities from earlier this week.

-ing or -ed? Type the correct form of the verb.

Order of adjectives quiz

Watch these videos and answer the questions on your worksheet.
Professional phone etiquette for answering phone calls

Professional phone etiquette for taking good phone messages

Professional phone etiquette - what NOT to do when leaving a phone message

Count-Non Count quiz - Choose the correct answer

Lovely Winter - Review last week's story "Lovely Winter"

Answering machine - Listen and check your worksheet.

Count/Non count quiz 1
Count/Non count quiz 2
Count/Non count quiz 3
Count/Non count quiz 4

Dress for winter - He's really prepared!

Airline launches child-free zone - listen and check your paper.

Nouns - review count and non-count and singular/plural

Irregular plurals - read the sentence and choose the correct answer.

Job Application - completing an application

He did it! A successful jump.

Phone bill mistake - Listen to the story and complete your worksheet.

Winter Scenes - Listen to the descriptions and choose the best picture. You can take a look at the transcript after.

Large number quizzes

Listen and find the matching number  Quiz 1       Quiz 2

Read the words. Can you find a matching number?  Quiz 1      Quiz 2

Job Interviews - Listen and complete your worksheet.

Listen to and read the conversation. Do the quiz at the bottom of the page.

Employment activities from Settlement.org

Place names with and without 'the'.

Ordering breakfast - using 'a, an, some'

Thanksgiving - take a look at the slideshow and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Canadian superfoods - Take a look at these activities about 'superfoods.'

Employer expectations - review of our lesson from Wednesday.

Gatineau Park in the fall

Listen to the story about mobile phones. Complete your worksheet.

Phobia List - What are you afraid of?

Canadian Thanskgiving - Next weekend is Thanksgiving in Canada. Listen to the short conversation and answer the questions.

Tag Questions - tutorial and quiz
Tag Questions - quiz

The Learning Edge is an online newspaper with information for newcomers. Take a look at issues 5 and 8 and try some of the activities about searching for jobs.

Questions - Choose the best verb to complete the questions.

Auxiliary verbs - A video lesson with a short quiz.

Fake Pilot - Listen to the story and complete the worksheet.

Verb tense review - look for the quizzes reviewing question forms.

Conversations about housing (including home repairs)

Apartment problems - A conversation with quiz about dealing with the superintendent.

Things to do this weekend:
Culture Days

Carleton University Annual Butterfly Biology Show

How a bill becomes a law.

Here's a link to the story about phone call fraud targeting new immigrants.

Anne Murray "Snowbird" - Listen and do the quiz for the song.

Canadian Trivia 1 practice 

Canadian Trivia 2 practice

Changing families - Look at the information in the tables and answer the questions on your worksheet.
Family ties - Look at the photos and compare families in 1961 and 2011.

Gerunds after prepositions - explanation and practice.

The Library of Parliament - review and practice from yesterday.

Gerunds and Infinitives - Try the quizzes. We haven't looked at this in class yet, but give it a try and see how well you do.

Canadian Politics - Steve is explaining to Todd how the Canadian political system works. Listen and look at the transcript. There are two quizzes to do on the right side of the page. Can you find any spelling mistakes in the transcript?

Because and because of - quizzes to help review.

Gas and dash - Watch the story from CBC TV news about gas thefts.

A very good practice Citizenship test.

Other practice Citizenship tests

The Queen's Diamond Jubilee

Because or because of quiz

Preposition combinations - Look at the examples  and then do the lessons.

Introductions to Canadian Government

More abbreviations

Organic food no more nutritious - Listen and complete your worksheet.

Watch the video about the penny. Listen for the following expressions. What do you think they mean?

"penny-pinching"

"to be nickeled and dimed"

"to be penny-wise and pound-foolish"

Some good quizzes on prepositions.

More abbreviations.

Welcome back!

Watch the video about the new $20 bill and answer the questions on your worksheet.

How to give directions in English - Watch the video and then try the quiz at the bottom.

Phrasal verb exercises - lots of quizzes to help you practice.

Dictations - Good listening practice.

Pronunciation/Listening lessons

A great pronunciation website

The sounds of English

Ottawa Museums

Grammar and vocabulary exercises to practice

English video lessons

I Am Canadian - Watch the video and complete your worksheet.

Plural nouns - what is the correct spelling?

Subject verb agreement - A little harder - Can you write the sentence correctly?

Canada Day in Ottawa

I played / I was playing - type the correct form of the verb.

comparative adjectives quiz

try some pronunciation exercises

some other good pronunciation exercises

This weekend is the Ottawa Dragonboat Festival at Mooney's Bay - Free concerts and lots of other activities.

The Community Cup - soccer tournament and activities for newcomers

Sparks St. Chicken Rib cook-off

Summer - A short listening about summer - listen and complete your worksheet

Paying a bill - Listen and answer the questions.

Past Progressive - Practice our grammar from this week.

Summer safety video link

Father's Day - Listen and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Quiz on prepositions.

How much is food in the North? Take a look!

Asking for and receiving help - Review from yesterday

Buying a sweater - Listen to the conversation and answer the questions.
Returning an item - A little bit harder! Listen and answer the questions.

Grammar - Imperatives - Look at the examples and then try the quizzes.

Let's go shopping - Phrases to use when you're shopping.

Nik Wallenda

The Sandwich - Listen and complete your worksheet

How to ask permission in English - Watch the video and try the quiz at the end.

Did you get the message? - Try these activities to review listening to messages.

This weekend is Westfest .
 

The new $20 bill - watch the video and answer the questions on your worksheet

See how the Queen has changed on our money.

Test your knowledge of the Queen.

Can/Could quiz - Choose the best answer and then check.

Have to/Must quiz - Choose the best answer and then check.

Short Dictations - Pick one and practice!

The Queen's diamond jubilee

Listen and choose the correct phone number
Listen to more phone numbers

Find the phone number - Read the questions, listen to the speaker. Find the phone number and type it in.

Have or has - quiz

The dirtiest places in the office - listen and complete your worksheet

must or mustn't - True or False

Have (got) to, must - video lesson with quiz

A video showing Terry Fox and his run

Listen and complete your worksheet.

Watch the video about two people at a garage sale.

What's the comparative?                 What's the superlative?

Comparative or superlative?

Birds attack Ottawa joggers

Job Interviews - listen to some advice about job interviews and complete your worksheet.

Learn some words for school subjects and practice comparisons.

Grammar basketball - Try to answer the questions and score points.

It's good for you! Listen and complete your worksheet.

Count/Non count quiz 1
Count/Non count quiz 2
Count/Non count quiz 3
Count/Non count quiz 4

This weekend in Ottawa...
Sheep festival

Ottawa Tulip Festival - Fireworks on Sunday

Victoria Day Festival - Look at the website and complete your worksheet.

Do you know the plural spelling?

Jobs - vocabulary and listening   After you have looked at the dictionary, try the quizzes
               Quiz 1
               Quiz 2
               Quiz 3
               Quiz 4

Canada's provinces - Can you put the provinces in the correct place?

Mother's Day

Ordering Breakfast - a, an, some

A, An, or no article - a video and quiz

Choose the correct preposition.

Gardening - Listen and find the mistakes. Check your answers here.

My Family - review vocabulary for family.

In At On for time

Telephone Fraud - Review our activities from yesterday.

A Debit Card Problem - Review our activities from yesterday.

The end of the penny - from CBC News

The Ottawa Tulip Festival - Take a look at the site for this year's festival.

A Balcony Garden - Listen and answer the questions.

Emergency - Listen to the phone call and answer the questions.

Making questions - Read the answer. What is the question?
More making questions

Quick facts about Canada - teach yourself some basic information about Canada.

Simple Past

Simple Past -ed pronunciation

Present simple and Present continuous - learn about jobs and review our grammar from this week

The Ottawa Tulip Festival - The Tulip Festival starts next week. Take a look at the website and see what's happening.

America's smallest town sold online - Listen and complete your worksheet.

Present simple or present progressive?

Renting vs. Owning - Listen to each speaker and complete your worksheet.

Apartment problems - Listen to the conversation and answer the questions

Future tense in conversation - Watch the lesson and try the quiz. (Take a look at the lesson on April 11th)

Can you fix it? Start with the first activity and review some of our work from this week.

Tools - A good vocabulary resource

Tools          Quiz 1
                   Quiz 2
                   Quiz 3
                   Quiz 4

Be going to questions
Will questions

Self-cleaning clothes - Listen to the story and complete your worksheet.  Answer

Dream House - Listen to each speaker and answer the questions.

Will and Going to - Explanation and exercise

Activities - A review of our reading about bees and wasps.

Creepy Crawlies - Insects - listen to three people talk about insects and answer the questions.

Verb Tenses - Take a look at simple past and simple future.

Future Tense - Will and Going to: Watch the video and learn about the two ways to talk about the future.

Canadian maple syrup - watch the video and check the answers on your worksheet

What's the silent letter? Listen to the word and type the silent letter.

Irregular verbs list

Irregular verbs - Listen and repeat

Past simple or past perfect?

Verb tense quizzes, including past perfect.

Warmer weather causes headaches - Listen and fill in your paper.

Verb Tenses - take a look at present perfect and present perfect progressive.

Town transport - Listen as they talk about transportation in their town. Answer the questions.
Listen and read here.

What's your favourite season? Listen to the speakers and then answer the questions.   Listen and read here.

Pronunciation - s endings. Watch the video and try the quiz.

Grammar - Simple past or present perfect? Lesson and quiz.

Summer Pests - Mosquitoes - Some more exercises to review our work from last week.

St. Patrick's Day - try these activities, including reading, listening, and videos.

Modals quiz - choose the best answer.

General grammar quiz - This is a good review of different kinds of grammar.

Coke, Pepsi change colour over cancer risk

Good old home remedies - Exercise 1
Good old home remedies - Exercise 2
Good old home remedies - Exercise 3

Word order - Put the words in the correct order to make a sentence. Don't forget punctuation!

Have to, Must, Mustn't (must not) - Read the sentence and check the best answer.

Sandford Fleming - Watch the video and answer the questions on your paper.

Asking about restaurants - Listen and answer the questions at the bottom of the page.

-ed endings - A video and quiz.               Here is another video and quiz  on past tense pronunciation
-ed endings - Listen to the story and choose the correct sound. When you're finished, do the next quiz.

Prepositions - to or at?

IN AT ON for time
IN AT ON for place

Penguin on the run in Tokyo - Listen to the story and complete your worksheet.

Will or going to? Which do you think is the best answer?

Where is the mouse? Study the prepositions and then play the game.

Student finally passes driving test - Listen and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Simple Future - Look for the exercises about future tenses.

Prepositions of time - choose the best answer

Maple Syrup - Watch the video and answer the questions on your page.

And/But/Or/So - more practice
So/Neither - more practice

And so... - choose the best verb to complete the sentence

G1test - a test to help you get ready for driving in Ontario.

Driver's License - Listen to the conversation and answer the questions.

Driving age - Listen to two people talk about driving. Answer the questions.

Practice your car vocabulary, then test yourself.

And/But/So/Because -  Choose the best answer.

Practice listening to numbers

Expensive Hospital Bill - Listen to the story and complete the activities on your worksheet.  Answer

How to use IN/AT/ON for time - watch the video and then do the quiz.

How to use AT/ON/IN for place - watch the video and then do the quiz.

Canada's Flag - Listen to the story about Canada's flag and answer the questions on your worksheet.

How to get a flag from Parliament Hill

And/But/So/Because quiz

And/But Quiz

And/But/Or/So - click Start to begin

Comparing Canada and England - Listen and fill in the blanks.

Present perfect or simple past quiz 1

Present perfect or simple past quiz 2

Listen to the story about Queen Elizabeth and answer the questions on your worksheet. Check your answers here.

Try some listening and pronunciation.

Verb Tenses - look for the exercises about Present Perfect.

Winterlude - Read the information and answer the questions on your worksheet. The teacher will correct your paper.

Winter food for skiing - Listen and read the text. When you're finished, do the quiz.

Put the place names into the correct box.

Large numbers - Listen to the numbers. Drag the correct number into the box.

Watch the video above and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Here's another video of skating on the canal.

Ordering Breakfast - choose the best answer (a, an, some, or nothing)

Missing Work - Watch the presentation and do the activities about missing work.

Changing weather - Listen to Tim and Jeff and read their conversation. When you're finished, do the quiz.

Changing weather - Listen to the conversation and choose the best answers.

Preparing for a doctor's appointment - Read and listen to the article, then do the learning activities.

The best weather - Listen to each speaker and then answer the questions.

Numbers and letters dictations - Try them out!

Telephone dictations - More dictations to try!

Mobile phones - listen and complete your worksheet.

Children and mobile phones - listen and read the conversation.
After you listen to the conversation, try the quiz.

Parts of the body - listen here and more parts here
Body parts quiz

Past progressive - take a look at the exercises about the past progressive (past continuous)

Learn the provinces and territories of Canada.
When you think you know them, try this quiz.

Paying rent - Listen to someone complain about paying rent. Complete your worksheet. Here's the answer.

Great apartment living.  Listen and answer the questions.

Past tense verb pronunciation.

Try this quiz on prepositions - At In On

Review comparisons with this quiz.

Watch the video and check the answers on your worksheet.

Look at this map and Canada and review the capitals. Map of Canada

What is the capital? Choose the correct province or territory.

Listen to your friend's message and answer the questions. Message

Dictation - numbers and letters

Learn how to skate. Put the instructions in order.

January 13th

Watch and listen to the CBC report and answer the questions on your worksheet - The 1998 Ice Storm

Irregular verbs - Listen and repeat - http://www.manythings.org/repeat/

Week of January 9th-13th

Listen and choose the best answer as people talk about their dream home:

Quiz - Dreamhouse

Housing advertiesments - match the advertisement and the description

Home Sweet Home

What's the best apartment? Home Sweet Home exercise 2

Take a look at the quizzes about 'simple past:' EFLNet.com - Verb Tense Exercises

House words: Vocabulary about the house

What are the silent letters? Silent Letters Quiz

Canadian coins - read and quizzes Canadian coins - reading and quizzes