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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.