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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

December 17th and 19th

Swiss Santa - Listen and answer the questions.

Canadian Santa - Listen and answer the questions.

Christmas book - lots of vocabulary and activities.

Lots of exercises to help you practice over the holidays. Explore!

Information about the multi-cultural health navigators (from our news this morning) can be found here. Listen to a story about it from CBC.

Researcher's work out Santa Claus' salary. Listen and complete your worksheet.

North American English 

British English

Check your answers here.

Nouns - lots of exercises to review nouns, articles, and pronunciation of the final -s/-es.

English video lessons: Don't make these mistakes in English!
                               
                                  Five common English learner mistakes.

Looking for a Doctor? The Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons has a registry of all family doctors and specialists in Ontario.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

December 10th and 12th

The North and South Pole "The Arctic vs. the Antarctic"

Watch and answer the questions on your worksheet.



Present perfect or past perfect? Type your answers.

Bet you didn't know - Christmas

Listen to the speaker talk about Christmas and complete your worksheet, then, watch the video below and check and complete your worksheet.




Here's another link to the video from the History Channel website.

Look for the past perfect activities and give them a try.

Learn some slang/idioms related to job hunting.

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

December 3rd and 5th

Families sharing homes in Vancouver.




Home buying information in eight languages, from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Here is part three of the Kobar Family activity. (This works best in Internet Explorer)
(Part two, which we did in class, is here.)

More on tag questions - explanations, examples, and exercises at the bottom.

Buying a home - watch the video about one family's experience buying a home.




Relocating - Listen as someone looks for a place to rent in a new city.

How to use tag questions, from engvid.com (It includes a link for another tag questions lesson)