January 14th and 16th

Flu Shots - to follow up on our work on health, try these activities about the flu.

Quick Facts About Canada - learn or review some facts about Canada.

In, At, or On? - Try this quiz

Man waits three hours for ambulance.
Listen to the story and complete your worksheet. You can listen to an American speaker or British speaker.

American speaker (normal speed)

British speaker (normal speed)   (slower speed)

Check your answers here.

Verb tenses - Look for the past progressive and try the exercises.

Learn and practice vocabulary with reading and listening.
Here is another site for learning and practicing vocabulary.

Here are the answers for the 'Ultimate Opposite Crossword.'

Ottawa's winter festival, Winterlude, will be starting soon. See what it looks like.

January 7th and 9th

Watch the video about a visit to a clinic. Answer the questions on your worksheet.



Practice your spelling of comparative adjectives.

Do you remember the provinces and territories?

Review the capital cities of Canada.        For something a little harder, try to spell them!

Watch the video. Try to identify as much of the man's clothing as you can, and how many of each he is wearing.




Now, watch the following video and complete your worksheet.




Making an appointment Listen and answer the questions. Then do the fill in the blanks exercise.



Talking about your nose! Learn how to talk about your nose.

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.

Christmas lights in Aylmer

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.

Watch the video and check your worksheet.

A bad day.

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)