Christmas book - lots of vocabulary and activities.

Quebec City Ice Hotel - video of the making of the hotel

Ottawa Winterlude - See what happens at Ottawa's winter festival

Swiss Santa - Listen and answer the questions.

Canadian Santa - Listen and answer the questions.

What is Boxing Day? -Listen to the speaker talk about her Boxing Day.

Christmas vocabulary games

Airline forced to change logo because of superstition         Check your answers here.

Listen to the story and check your worksheet.

Doctor's office - Listen and check the answer   Listen and read   Listen and fill in the missing words.   

Travel - what places is he talking about? Listen and choose the correct picture.

Some new grammar - give it a try!

Amazon testing drone delivery service - listen to the story and complete your worksheet. Then, watch the video below to see how it works. Check your answer here.

What's the correct word order? Click the words in the correct order.

Housework and adverbs of frequency (always, usually, sometimes, never).

Watch some swimmers at a polar bear swim in Ottawa.

Go to my Christmas page to see some Christmas song videos and practice your singing.

Review our listening exercise from yesterday. Listen to the messages and fill in the missing words.

Another activity review - listen to someone call her landlord about fixing her house.

How to pronounce -s endings.

How to pronounce -ed endings.

Christmas lights spectacle in Calgary - answer the questions on your worksheet.

Telephone numbers - Listen to the speaker, read the question, then read the ads and find the correct phone number.

Present continuous or simple present (quiz 1)? Choose the best answer
Quiz 2 
Quiz 3 

Some fun Christmas light displays here  and  here.

Buy Nothing Day

Listen and complete your worksheet

Black Friday - watch and answer

Emergency! - Listen and answer the questions.

                  - Listen and type the missing words.

Question words - read the question and answer. Choose the right question word.

If... - Choose the best answer.

Watch the video comparing Canada and England. Complete your worksheet. (Check your answers here.)

Some weather vocabulary to practice.

Quick facts about Canada (this may work better in Firefox or Internet Explorer).

Watch this video about someone who took a job helping others. Answer the questions on your worksheet.

This weekend is the Santa Claus Parade.  Click 'Information' to see the parade route.

Ask the pharmacist - review our listening yesterday about talking to the pharmacist

Where can I find toothpaste? - review of our activity about items in the pharmacy

Simple Future exercises - Try the exercises about the simple future.

Try Ellis Intro - Going to the doctor number 6 (Start-->Programs-->ELLIS-->Academic-->Intro-->-->Guest-->Going to the doctor)

First, watch this video showing a new kind of bike helmet. Then, do the listening below.

Invisible bike helmet - listen to this story about a new kind of bike helmet. Complete your worksheet. Check your answers here.

What are they buying? What are they doing? Choose the correct store or business.
Listen and read along with the conversation here.

I used to... - Watch the video and answer check the answers.

Listen to the speaker and guess the job.

The Learning Edge - Take a look at the activities about Classified Ads and Paying a Utility Bill.

Jobs - vocabulary and activities reviewing jobs.

Here's a video showing how John McCrae wrote 'In Flander's Fields.'



Job Interview - Listen and check the answers.

Job Interview - Listen and type the missing words.

A Disastrous Day - Read the sentence and choose the best answer.

In Flanders Fields - Listen to the poem and complete your worksheet. Check your answer here.

Verb Tenses - Go down to Past Progressive

Listen to the story. Complete your worksheet.

This weekend we change our clocks. Listen to these conversations about time.

When do you get up and when do you go to bed? Listen to each speaker and answer the questions at the end.

Numbers, Months, Days of the year. Listen, read, and try the exercises.

Halloween book - click the top corner of each page when you are finished.

Another Halloween book - click the top corner of each page when you are finished.

Occupations - picture vocabulary - read and listen

Grammar - Simple Past Tense exercises to practice.

What is he wearing? Check the items on your sheet. How many of each is he wearing?

Count or non-count? Here are 4 quizzes

Quiz 1

Quiz 2

Quiz 3

Quiz 4

Ordering breakfast - some of you have done this quiz before, but it's good review of a/an/some

Listen to the recipe for 'Gazpacho Soup.' Complete your worksheet. Then, listen and check the recipe.

Check the original activity here.

Fruit - picture dictionary and listening, and quizzes

Vegetables - picture dictionary and listening, and quizzes

Food - picture dictionary and listening, and quizzes

World's largest building opens in China - listen and complete your worksheet.

Grammar:
Practice with superlatives (most, -est)
Review of comparatives and superlatives

Getting Fit - Listen to the conversation and answer the questions

Canada's food guide - review our activity from this morning.

Mr. Bean goes shopping

Thanksgiving - try these reading and listening activities about Thanksgiving

Too and enough - Try this exercise to practice

Clothing styles - Listen to the conversation and answer the questions

Fall festivals - Next weekend is Thanksgiving. Later this month is Halloween. Learn about these fall festivals.

Matilda gets a smoke alarm - Review our activity from yesterday.

Questions and answers - Choose the correct answer.
Questions and answers 2 - Choose the correct answer.
Questions and answers 3 - Choose the correct answer.

Qatar World Cup - Listen to the stories and complete your worksheet.   Check your answers.

Emergency! Listen and complete the exercises.

Practice your comparatives here

Learn about the (old) Canadian $50 note.

Since or for? Select the best answer.

Take a look at Wednesday's activities if you haven't completed them.

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

For or Since - Try this quiz and see how you do.

at, on, in for time - Read the sentence, choose your answer and then check.


Buying a sweater (easier) - Listen and complete the exercises.

Shopping for a fridge (harder) - Listen and complete the exercises.

Apartments for rent - watch the short video, complete your worksheet, and answer the questions next to the video.

Breakfast - a, an, some, or nothing?

Using 'the' and places - drag the words into the correct box.

The Canadian Moose - vocabulary and listening activities

The Learning Edge - issue 2 - Take a look at the story about emergencies.

Picture dictionary with listening

Practice with count and non-count nouns and articles

How is your driving? Try this free driving test.

Luck - listen to the speaker talk about luck. Complete your worksheet. Check your answers here.

Vocabulary and listening exercises

Eli goes to the doctor - Do the vocabulary, and then do the activities that follow.

Present continuous - Try the exercises from this page.

Vocabulary and listening exercises

Provinces and capital cities

                  Click on each province or territory to learn its capital city

                  Choose the correct province or territory for each capital city

Watch the video and answer the questions on your worksheet.

What is the correct verb? Choose the correct answer.

Possessives -  Watch this video lesson and learn more about possessives.

More pronoun exercises.

Welcome back to school.

School - listen to the speaker and answer the questions below.

The verb 'to be.' - Try the exercises to practice.

What's the weather like today? Watch and listen and answer the questions.

The body - listen and repeat.

English pronunciation exercises from BC's Okanagan College

Everyday English conversations

The Real Canadian Songbook - Watch and listen to Canadian music with exercises

eflnet.com - a good collection of exercises for review and practice

CBC Ottawa - keep up with the news!

Have a great summer!!

RCMP Musical Ride part 1 part 2

Canada and England - Listen and complete.

Map of Canada - Use this map of Canada to check the capital cities and important waters.

Canada Quiz 1 Canada Quiz 2 (this quiz includes spelling and typing)

Pronouns

Bus fares and World Cup costs fuel protests - Listen and complete your worksheet.

American speaker
British speaker

simple present and present continuous

What's happening on Canada Day this year? Check this out.

Flooding in Alberta - Watch the story about flooding in Alberta and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Simple past and past progressive - click the words in the correct order.

This weekend in Ottawa

Ottawa Jazz Festival  (en francais)      

Dragonboat Races at Mooney's Bay

Chicken and Rib festival on Sparks St.

Cricket - Watch the video and answer the questions on your worksheet.

I played/I was playing - try this quiz to practice the simple past and past continuous

Look for the 'past progressive' exercises.

Train drivers in skirts
American speaker                   Check your answers here
British speaker

Listen to the speaker talk about the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Quiz

Fill in the blanks

Learn some Canadian vocabulary in this video lesson

I Am Canadian - watch the video and complete your worksheet

Look for exercises about Present Perfect Progressive

Irregular verbs quiz

Occupational Conversations

Canadian culture - Tim Hortons

Job interview - listen and answer the questions.
Job interview - listen and fill in the missing words.

Job Interview skills DOs and DON'Ts

Occupations - vocabulary and quizzes

Verb tense - present perfect practice

A big birthday party - Listen and complete your worksheet.

American speaker
British speaker

Simple past or present perfect? Drag the correct answer into the box.

Have you ever video lesson

Some video from Queen Elizabeth's coronation celebration.

This weekend is the annual 'Carnival of Cultures' festival in front of City Hall. A weekend pass is $10.

Warning signs of heat stroke - watch and check the answers on your worksheet.

How to treat heat exhaustion - Watch the video and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Dialogues - I was burnt to a crisp
                 I slathered her in sunscreen

Video lesson - already and yet

Pronunciation - lots of great exercises to help you with your pronunciation.

This week is the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest. Watch how one person celebrated.

Word order - Click the buttons in the correct order to make the correct sentence.

Already, yet, still, anymore - Choose the correct answer.

Garage Sales - jump to 1:15. Listen to the speaker at slow speed and complete your worksheet. Jump to 16:00 to hear the speaker at fast speed.  Check your answers here.

A video review of countable and uncountable nouns, and 'bad' and 'good' nouns.

Expressions and conversations about health.

Expressions and conversations about weather.

Hospitals - Listen to the speaker talk about his experience with hospitals. Complete your worksheet.

Comparative and superlative adjectives quiz

Comparisons quiz

Parts of the body - lots of vocabulary and quizzes

The UN says we should eat insects. Listen and complete your worksheet.

British male speaker

US female speaker

Insects - picture dictionary

Making plans - listen and complete the activities

Indefinite pronouns - read the sentence and choose the best answer

Indefinite pronouns - type the correct answer

Victoria Day - watch the video, listen carefully, and choose the best answer.

If... - type the correct word in the box.

Video lesson - conditionals

Missed signals - practice your listening as you listen to phone messages.

Tulip Festival website

Call to the doctor - Listen to the conversation and answer the questions

Now, listen again and fill in the missing words.
Read and listen to the conversation here.

Two lessons on reading and saying numbers:

First lesson

Second lesson (with a quiz)

Pesticides stop bees learning - Listen to the speaker and complete your worksheet.

British speaker (male)
American speaker (female)

Count/Non Count nouns - Quizzes to practice

Making an appointment - Listen to the phone call and do the quizzes

The Ottawa Tulip Festival - Some information from last year's festival

Canada's new bank notes - made to last - Watch the video and complete your worksheet.

Shopping - listen to the speakers talk about shopping, then answer the questions.

Gerund or infinitive? - Choose the best answer.

Here is the website for the Tulip Festival. We'll take a look at the festival next week.

New Dutch King - Watch the story and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Try this quiz on infinitives and gerunds - Can you guess where the verbs go?

Another quiz on infinitives and gerunds

Returning an item - listen to this conversation and do the quiz on returning something.
Fill in the blanks

Smartphone pickpockets - Watch the story and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Directions - listen to the instructions. Where are you?

Follow this link and look for the activity "A New Traffic App." Click on it, listen, then try the activities.

Bees, wasps, mosquitoes, blackflies - take a look at all of the pests we've learned about this week.

Frank's checkup - listen and check the correct answer.

Frank's checkup - listen and again and fill in the missing words.

Blackflies - Reading exercises about another summer pest.

(enjoy this video after trying the exercises)

Four provinces - reading and listening about four Canadian provinces.

Pronunciation - listen to the pairs of words. Which one do you hear?

Might/May - examples and exercises

Can - examples and exercises

Could - examples and exercises

The cost of owning a car - Listen to the story and fill in the missing words on your worksheet.

The Canadian Moose - Reading and listening about this Canadian animal.

Going to or will? Look at the examples and then try the exercises.

Canadian geography quizzes - Quizzes about capitals, provinces, and regions

Learn a little bit about Canada's smallest province. Watch the video and complete your worksheet.

Will or Going to? - Watch this video lesson to find out which is correct!

Simple Future - take a look at the exercises for 'Simple Future'

Who's responsible - review our listening activity from this week.

1998 Ice Storm  - Watch this video from CBC about an ice storm in 1998. Answer the questions on your worksheet.

Can you fix it? - Reading and vocabulary

Dream home - Listen to the Mark talk about his dream home and answer the questions.

Now, listen and read along with the interview.

An interesting holiday - Listen to the speaker and complete your worksheet.

Apartment problems - Listen to the conversation and answer the questions.

Listen again and fill in the missing words.

Try some prepositions - this is tricky!

Tools - A good vocabulary resource

Tools          Quiz 1
                   Quiz 2
                   Quiz 3
                   Quiz 4

Calling about an apartment - Listen to the conversation and check the correct answers.

Calling about an apartment - Listen again and type the missing words.

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

A, an, or nothing - Choose the best answer.

Much, many, a lot of - Examples and quiz, and links to count/non count practice.

Watch the video and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Learn about the $50 bill with these exercises.

Read about and quiz yourself on Canadian coins.

A, an, or some: choose the best answer.

My email:

johnm_is_here AT yahoo DOT ca

April Fools Jokes

Westjet airlines - How are they planning to save money?

Unique penguins - What is different about these penguins?

Another Westjet April Fools joke.

From 1957 - the Swiss spaghetti tree harvest

A really big list of phrasal verb quizzes!! Don't try to learn them all at once.

A selection of idiom and phrasal verb quizzes.

The Vanier Sugar Shack

Pandas coming to Toronto - Watch the story and answer the questions on your worksheet.

A/An/Some - Ordering breakfast

This one is tricky! Place names with or without 'the.'

Lululemon recall - watch the news story and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Some more causative verbs practice

count/non count nouns and articles

Learn a bit about some unusual spring festivals

A Bad Day - Watch the video and complete your worksheet.

Fruit - vocabulary review and quiz (includes spelling)

Vegetables - vocabulary review and quiz (includes spelling)

Food                    more food

Causative verbs quiz

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Here are some activities, including vocabulary, listening, and videos.

Sir Sandford Fleming

James Naismith

 Watch the videos and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Past tense passive - read the sentences and put the verb in the past tense passive (was/were + past participle)

Directions - listen and find the speaker's house.

How to make maple syrup (video)

Information about income tax help in Ottawa
(Please do not print out the whole document at school since it is very long.)

Cycling is bad for the environment - listen to the story and complete your worksheet.

American speaker
British speaker

Good old home remedies-  a review of last week's listening exercise.

Prefixes and suffixes - Look at the pictures and choose the best prefix. When you're finished, you can check your answers and go to the next exercise.

"Suspect steals van with kids inside." Here is the story including video from the CBC Ottawa website.

This week's news - watch, listen, and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Passives - look for the activities about passives.

Phrasal verbs - keep studying!!

Various health dialogues

Tim Hortons Roll Up the Rim contest - watch the video and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Frank's checkup - Listen and answer the questions

Frank's checkup - Listen and fill in the missing words

How do you like your eggs? vocabulary and listening activities about this popular food

The day of my birth - read and choose the best answer for each sentence

Another quiz on prepositions

The dangers of hypothermia - watch the video and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Paying a bill

• Listen and answer the questions

• Listen and fill in the missing words

Conversations and expressions about money

Try to guess the correct answer for these phrasal verbs.

Meteorite hits Russia, thousands injured - Listen and complete your worksheet.

American speaker
British speaker

check your answers here

"More Bang for my Buck" - Listen and do the activities.

'out' phrasal verbs quiz

Flag designer recalls controversy

Some conditional exercises

St. Valentine's Day interactive book

phrasal verbs practice

Listen to this morning's news and complete your worksheet.

First conditionals - lesson and quiz.

Here is a another quiz about conditionals. Some of the grammar we haven't looked at yet, so make your best guess!

Telephone conversations - Try to put these conversations in the correct order.

Listen to a phone call about renting an apartment

Listen and answer the questions.

Listen and fill in the missing words.

What would you do if you had a million dollars? Listen to the song and complete the quiz. Notice the conditionals.

What's the message? Review of yesterday's exercise.

Groundhog day 2013 - Punxsutawney Phil           Wiarton Willie

Wish practice
mix and match

complete the sentences

put in order

video lesson and quiz

France shuns use of Twitter's 'hashtag'
Listen to the story and complete your worksheet.

USA male speaker
UK male speaker

Listen and spell - check your spelling with this dictation. Don't look at your paper!

Practice using 'wish' - look at the examples and try the exercises.

Conversations and vocabulary for using the phone.

Did you get the message? Listen to the messages and complete the exercises

Job options - review some of our vocabulary about jobs. Listen and answer the questions.

Find out about this year's Winterlude festival!

Watch the video about the end of the penny. Answer the questions on your worksheet.

Verb tense exercises - Past perfect.



2-1-1 Review our lesson from yesterday.

Three-Day Weekend - Listen to the speaker and complete your worksheet.
British speaker
American speaker

A Dream Job - Do the activities and listening.

Minimum wage in Ontario - Read and answer the questions.

Working Man - Listen to the song and check the correct answers.

Read this story about cheating and complete with the correct gerund or infinitive.

Rideau Canal skating conditions.

Cold Calling - Listen to the interview and answer the questions on your worksheet.  Transcript

Gerunds and Infinitives - four quizzes to help you practice.

Do you remember what we read yesterday about the Government of Canada?

Want to know what the Citizenship test is like? Try some practice questions.

The Rideau Canal is open for the first time this season. Watch this story from CBC Ottawa.

Here is the website for the Rideau Canal.

On this cold day, listen to a talk about winter in Sweden.

'have something done' - review and some good exercises to practice.

Watch the video and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Here are some other videos you might be interested in watching
-Security features of the new bills.
-Taking care of the new bill.

Have/get done - Read the sentences and choose the best answer.

"I'll have John clean his room!" Read the situation, and type the correct answer - have someone do something.

"I'll have the room cleaned!" Read the situation and type the correct answer - have something done.

Listen and practice again with the weather forecasts.

The Noise Factor - Listen to two people talk about what they don't like when they're looking for a place to live.

Activities in winter - listen to Lisa talk about what she likes to do in winter. Check the correct answers.

Conversations about housing problems.

English Video lessons
Polite answers - Yes or no - Some good tips and a quiz about answering questions politely.

How to understand questions - here is a good lesson about understanding English speakers who speak too fast!

The blizzard in St. John's - Article and video about today's storm in Newfoundland. (Be patient!! Sometimes the video is very slow to load.)

2013
This week we talked about New Year's resolutions. Listen to the speaker (British or American) and complete your worksheet.

British speaker
American speaker                             
Check your answers here and try other activities based on the listening

Listen to someone calling about an apartment for rent. Answer the questions. When you're finished, do the fill in the blank exercise.
Fill in the blank exercise.

Verb tense review exercises - take a look at the exercises about Yes/No and information questions.