Monday's assignment

4. Post-Listening Exercises [Top]

How often do you text and drive at the same time? Have you ever had an accident (or near accident) because of it? Describe the situation?
I can't drive, so this question is no meaning for me.
If I can drive, I will never do both that.

Task 2:

Did you benefit from this task? Fill in the following table with new words/expressions that you have learned and put each in a sentence.

Word	Synonym	Sentence
pull over	stop	My friend pulled over the car and check its horn.
pro	agree	Parent should pro your kids to do sport.
smash		I need smash garlic for my cooking.
drag over	pull	My son feel cold, because he drag over a blanket to cover him.
honk		A roared car with a big honk passed the street.
hint	suggest	If I annoyed you, please give me a hint.
wrestle	tumbling	I don't like the sport about wrestle.

Thursday's assignment

Good morning everyone,

Hope that all who attended yesterday have enjoyed the day and learnt something new.

Let’s start with our famous trip report writing activity.

Write a report describing yesterday’s experience for you.

• What did you learn that was new to you?  Yesterday, we had a good field trip to Toronto's University. I learned that there is a stream across this school before European settlers arrived. During the spring, the stream that once ran through this site would have been teeming with wildlife and native fishermen would have lined the banks with gill nets and fish weirs to partake of this bounty. For them,the stream would have been a sacred site - a place of powerful and audible spirits.
• What impressed you the most?  The student's Restaurant is impressed me the most. Because it is  very special and quite.  It looks very beautiful, a little bit dark, classical ,decorated with   many famous person's portraiture. I would like to enjoy food there.
• What was something somehow similar to your home country?
• I think all famous university is old which have many big trees and classical old building.
• Was there anything that you felt uncomfortable with? If yes, what is it? And why?
• I think some narrow room there made me feel a few uncomfortable.Because they are too small and narrow to make me feel unbreathable.
• Would you like to have the same trip again in the future?
• yes
• Do you have any other suggestions to different venues/field trips/ locations?
• I would like to go to cinema for watching movie, haha:)

For the ones who could not make it yesterday, you need to write a different report.

• What made you miss yesterday’s trip?
• Were there any other solutions you could have done?
• Have you been to UfT before? What did you like there? Or what would you like to see if you haven’t been there before?
• Interview one or more of your peers who have attended and ask them of the day’s highlight.

Tuesday's assignment

Tuesday's assignment

Parenting Self-Analysis

In your journey to become a positive, more effective parent it is important to honestly evaluate your needs and strengths as a parent.

Complete the following exercise by filling in the blanks.

1. I want to become a better parent because _

I am my kid's most important realationship in his childhood. 

Good relationship depend on wise parent. It can make children more happiness, more 

successful , make them how to think about their daily life. 

2. What areas do I need to improve in to become an effective parent? (For

example: being more compassionate, organized, etc.) List at least 3 ways

you would like to improve as a parent.

a.being confidence.

b.Don't lost temper.

c.Encourage and praise family member .

3. Everyone has strengths, things they do well, that can be used to help

them improve. (For example: budgeting, buying wholesome food, etc.)

Realizing that you are responsible in one area can motivate you to be

responsible in others. List at least three strengths you have as a parent.

a.cooking wholesome food .

b.decorating room.

c.making a memo for my kid's growing up.

4. How do you think improving your character and skills as a parent will

improve your family? 

It is a important thing to improve my character and skills. Because It will help my 

family more positive.

Monday's assignment

’I wish I were’ 

In modern, spoken English both ’I wish I were’ and ‘I wish I was’ are accepted as being grammatically correct, but usually and in formal contexts it is more appropriate to use ‘I wish I were’.

• Example: I wish I were as young as you.
• Example: I wish I were in a sunny place.

Write a short paragraph starting with "I wish I were................." and the reason for your wish and how you can achieve this dream if achievable. 

I wish I were back to 16 years old. Recently my friend contact me again from internet. we have lost each other alomost 15 years.I noticed he became a stranger for me, looks not very good, no more handsome, no more full of energy. I remembed he was a handsome guy with a beautiful voice. he was a singer and got a big success in his 18 years old. I wish I were back to 16 years old, and tell my 18 years old friend to live more beautiful in your life, because you are the best!

Wednesday's assignment

Projecting a professional image on the job

Task 1:

In order for us to come across as professionals, we need to project this mage. Click on this link for the Dos and the Don’ts. Write one sentence on each Do and Don’t you have read about.

DO:

1.Do dress to impress - your image matters: abandoning T-Shirts for dress shirts, sneakers for closed-toe, work-appropriate shoes and your backpack for a briefcase or briefbag.

2.Do sharpen your social skills: The guaranteed result is improved personal and professional effectiveness and self-confidence. Sharpening your people skills helps you avoid the behaviors that may be perceived as disrespectful, discourteous or abrasive. 

3.Do get a mentor or sponsor: Be prepared to choose another mentor if the relationship is not helping you achieve these goals.

4.Do build your personal brand - stand out with distinction: Begin by clearly defining what makes you unique, your career goals and what success means to you and what are your strength and weaknesses

5.Do grow and nurture your network: Create a strong profile with a good business photo, send invites to other professionals who share your views and also join groups focused on topics of interest. 

6.Do be likeable - adopt a positive attitude: Being pleasant, courteous and using positive, open body language increases your approachability factor by easing your interactions with others.

Don't:

1.Do not overlook the unwritten rules: There are rules of conduct that will not be written in any performance manual, your job description or code of conduct.

2.Do not be inflexible:  Roles and responsibilities are constantly being juggled and employees therefore have to be more flexible and adaptable to change. 

3.Do not misrepresent yourself:  You are as good as your word, so do what you say and be who you are. 

4.Do not shirk responsibility or point fingers:  Make sure you are clear about your responsibilities and performance expectations.

Task 2:

Watch this video and write down the main idea(s), suggestions, and strategies the presenter wanted to offer.

Task 3:

Compare the reading and the video together; write down the similarities and the differences between them. Ask two of your peers on their findings and again compare them to yours. 

Tues,Noember.29.2016

  Myth or fact

The idea that cold weather causes a cold or flu is a common myth. Many people believe it, but it is not in fact true. Write a short email to a friend or a family member telling him/her other examples of common beliefs about health that have been proven to be untrue.

Ask one of your peers to check your writing before publishing.

Hi, Weiwei:

Today I learned from my class and understand cold weather is not a reason for a cold or flu, even though many people think it is a true fact. It make me remember another fact is what people always think to eat sweet potato can cause a diabetes. It has been proven to be untrue. Because not all of sweet things or sugars can cause a diabetes. the sugar can have different kinds, but the sugar in sweet potato is not harmful for  diabetes. I am so sorry I can't tell you the more details. I only remember you like to eat sweet potato, but worry about his sweet. so I advice you to consult doctor again.

hope you have a good day.

Emma

Wednesday, Nov 23, 2016

recored by Yucho and Emma:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1e0whTsGfwC

Friday's assignment

We have been attending JSW for two days so far. Now, you need to use the SAR strategy to apologize to a co-worker for a mistake made. Click on this link to record your answer. 

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1jqWmCwuIq9

Wednesday's assignment

Good morning everyone,

Today we will start with a different speaking task. Read the following dialogue once and then click on this link and follow the following steps: 

First, record yourself reading the following dialogue without looking up any words.

Cheng and Emma record the following dialogue:

 http://vocaroo.com/i/s0HoqqTTJ6Si

Second, find out the meaning of the underlined words and use each one in a sentence.

1. snobbish: of, characteristic of, or like a snob(snob:a person with an exaggerated respect for high social position or wealth who seeks to associate with social superiors and dislikes people or activities regarded as lower-class.)
2. keep up appearances: maintain an outward show
3. nouveau riche: new rich
4. FOBs: a recent immigrant, especially regarded as being unassimilated  (unassimilated: especially of a people, an idea, or a culture not absorbed or integrated into a wider society or culture.
5. integrated: in particular.
6. elitists: a person who believes that a system or society should be ruled or dominated by an elite.
7. hypocrites: a person who indulges in hypocrisy

Uesing above words to make a new sentence:

1. snobbish: If someone want to get a big success, he must give up snobbish.
2. keep up appearances: A shallow person always only keep up appearances.
3. nouveau riche: I think a poor country easy to creat nouveau riche.
4. FOBs: I have been Canada more than three years, I am not sure I am a FOBs or not.
5. integrated:
6. elitists: Many elitists of the world work in a small street, the street is Wall street.
7. hypocrites: We should keep kindness to everyone, don't to be hypocrites.

Third, record a second time reading the same dialogue.

Cheng and Emma record the following dialogue again:

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0dWHG8WW3f4

Fourth, copy both links to your blog for your teacher’s feedback.

Wednesday's assignment

Wednesday's assignment

Task 1:

The following words/phrases come from the radio show you will listen to. Write down what you think the phrases mean. Then listen for the phrases in the recording and revise your definitions based on what you hear.

• create rapport: realationship.

• interaction: interplay

• no-no’s: The topic was prohibited

• casual friends: general friends

• break the ice : makes bad situation better

• robotic: means a numb people

• engage in (a conversation):  follow(a conversation)

• colleagues: The people who work with you

Task 2:

Listen to a radio show guest talk about small talk. Underline true or false below.

1. Small talk is mainly used to get things done and to provide information. T F

2. When someone asks, How are you? they are asking for information about your health. T F

3. In Canada, people always expect you to ask about their family. T F

4. People use small talk in the workplace to keep their work relationships friendly. T F

5. An example of small talk is giving a compliment to someone. T F

6. Couples who have been together for a long time often engage in small talk. T  F

7. People in Canada talk about the weather all the time because they love it so much.T F

This week, we will try to know ourselves better to be able to decide our career goals and our next steps in Canada.

Task 1:

About me: Write a short autobiography about yourself.

Express what your first language is, you former country, professional background, things that you like or dislike to do, your hobbies, and why you need to learn English.

My name is Emma. My first language is Manerain .I am a Chinese. I lived in Singapore before immigrated in Canada. In Singapore I was a part-time tuition teacher. Chinese course is very important for Singapore students to apply university. so they need many tuition teachers and my friends to encourage me to do that. I enjoyed that very much. Before 7 years ago, I was a designer for Tv program in Shanghai Television station. I don't know how to describe my job in English. I like to enjoy my family time; enjoy chatting with my best friends; like beautiful views and take pictures; like trekking and hiking; like planting and cooking; like reading and listening music etc. I study English because I try to live here like a real Canadian. I have several friends who only speak English. They are very nice to help me very much. I always imagine one day I can communicate with them easy. Another important goal is that maybe I will apply a college for me. I want to know which difference between Canada and China in education. 

Task 2:

Read this short inspiration story about goals and prepare a short example of a time you have used the strategy mentioned in the story to share it with your peers. Click here for the full story.

There was a once time, I bought three potted flowers from flower fair. I prepared to lift their home. They were very heavy to me without any help. When I thought a long distance to my home I felt very tired. so I decided to set many signs too. I set three signs on my road. when I got there I would have a short rest. because that I could insisit to lift them to my small destination and refresh to insisit another one. so when I got home I felt not very difficult.

Short term goal

In our real life, we all want to achieve many things. And we have both short term goal and long term goal. What is the difference between them? Short term goals are ones that you will achieve in a day, within a week, or possibly within a few months. Long term goals usually take longer period of time: one year, five years or even ten years.

To understand the relationship of them, here I will tell you a famous story. In 1984 of the Tokyo International Marathon, one Japanese athlete Yamada unexpectedly won the world championship. When reporters asked what make him such a startling success, he said that:" Use wisdom to defeat opponent." Many people don't believe him. Marathon is the sport requires both physical strength and endurance. He said that wisdom led to his success seems reluctantly.

Two years later, in the Italian International Marathon, Yamada won the championship again. A reporter asked him:" You have won the championship again. Can you talk about your experience?" Yamada answered the reporter the same as last time:" I use wisdom to defeat opponent." Everyone was puzzled by his so-called wisdom.

Ten years later, the mystery is finally discovered. Yamada write his autobiography and he says:" Before each game, I will travel the whole route and check it carefully. I will mark some important signs alone the road, such as the first mark is a bank, the second mark is a tree, and the third mark is a red house, thus mark to the end. When the race begins, I run as fast as I can towards the first goal, the bank. When I arrive at the bank, I will strive for the second goal, the tree. I break the whole marathon route into many small goals and finish them one by one easily. At first I don't know this method and set my goal at the end of the 40 kilometers marathon. Usually I get exhausted in the first 10 kilometers because I am frighten by the remote distance."

This story gives us a lot of inspiration. You can learn a lot from it. A great dream can be achieved through many small goals. These small goals are your short term goals. Sometimes we fail not because the goal is too hard, it is that we don't break the long term goal into several small goals. So we feel thatsuccess is too far away.

Many of us will set only short term goal and ignore the long term goal. Are you busy working on many small goals and don't even have a long term goal? This will not lead you to success either. Because these small goals group together can't give you a good result. They are not relevant and can not contribute much to your future success.

Now we know the relationship between short term and long term goal. We will start from long term goal and break the long term goal into several small goals, and these small goals are our short term goals. 

hihihi

I am so happy to study in LINC school.After studying one year, My English improved too much.I almost can understand teacher's speaking. Joseph is a very good teacher. He is not only a professional English language teacher, but also is a sportsman. He is good at playing sking and skateboard etc. Every week he guilds us to visit many places. Everyone in LINC has the same equal right to enjoy Canada.It makes us feel like a really Canadian. so I Thanks to our teacher; Thanks to LINC school and Canada;Thanks to God!

Monday's assignment

Write an email inviting a lawyer friend to play a round of golf.

Dear Tina:

I am Emma. I would like to invite you to play a round of Golf  this weekend with me. If you have not time , please feel free to let me know.
Monday  Octomber 25 10am
Address: Chiden's Birthday Club

Best reagards.

Emma

Birthday invitation

Dear Friends:
I am so happy to invite you to attend my son's  birthday party next monday .We will serving good quality roast beef at our favorite spot. Hope everyone will come and take a small birthday gift under 5 dollores.

Monday  September 19
7 pm
Address: Chiden's Birthday Club

Emma

Write an FAQ of your top 5 questions for a poster in a community development centre, based on this page.

1. My child want to change school, whether I must change home address or not? if I write my friend's home address , whether my child can go to the school in her district or not?

record by olivia and Emma

1. Yesterday's conversation-extending Dictation Triptych exercise

First part:  http://chirb.it/9JFrr4
Two parts: http://chirb.it/CP1Asv

Here are your tasks:
Read and list the eligibility requirements.
Which of the requirements is/are the biggest barrier to your getting Canadian citizenship.
I think the biggest barrier for me is that China doesn't permit to have two citizenships.I feel very difficult give up China citizenship.
Tell a partner what your plans are in regard to citizenship--when, how, and why.
I give up to think about this question.because I really confused about it. maybe when I love Canada too much, I will consider that.
Write an email to a relative overseas about those plans.
Hi,Wei wei:
Long time no mail to you. I have been moved in Canada for three years. I overcomed the most difficult beginning time and renewed my Pr card successful.My many friends applied Canada citizenship .but i still haven't idea to apply too.because i sitll difficult give up china citizenship.I m a chinese, when I must apply a Visa for back china. It mybe cause my bad feeling.so far, I still dont know what is getting a Candadian Citizenship's benifit. 
However, maybe as time goes on, I will change my plan. 
I hope you will give me more advise.
Best regards
Emma.
Read and comment below on this letter to the editor: Too Easy
What does the author think of Canadian citizenship?
List the reasons given in the letter.
Respond briefly with your position and reasons.

1.Google for arts, recreational, social, and adult education programs in Toronto.
List 1 program suitable for you and 1 program for a friend, giving brief reasons for each.
I find this dance program about belly dance for me.the link website is : https://efun.toronto.ca/torontofun/Activities/ActivitiesDetails.asp?ProcessWait=N&aid=10002. why I choose this one for me? Because this dance program need big challenge for me. I feel difficult to show my dance in public.and worse yet, showing my belly is more difficult.hahaha.:)

2.Give directions to a program venue, and make a chirbit.com recording of it.

Our Field Trip to Centre Island

Two weeks ago, Linc School orgnized a field trip to go to Centre Island. I m look forward to there long time. unfortunately. my fiend would move to Quebec, I had to attend farewell meeting to say bye with her.

Today I heared from my classmates to introduce their trip process. They met together at front of Coffee shop of Donmills station . They taken subway and transfer ferry to the destination.I think they had a excited trip there. They saw beautiful view and played many games.such as Frisbee, Football, Soccer, swimming, riding bike etc. important of all, They had a very good potluck there. they must  taste many kinds of food. Certanly, some of students felt very tired, because they need take care their kids and need do more stuffs for kids. so they couldn't enjoy relax very much.

The trip sound perfect, I hope to join it next time.:)

Monday's assigenment

Check out this FAQ.
Write and record on chirbit.com 5 T/F statements, including the answers at the bottom of your post.

1. There are three Aboriginal groups in Canada:Inuit,First Nations and Metis.
2. While there are many differences between First Nations, Métis and Inuit, these names refer to the three main groups of peoples who are the traditional inhabitants of this land. 
3. The word "culture" means a way of life or way of living
4. There are more than 50 Aboriginal languages that have been spoken in Canada for centuries
5. Many First Nations members, as well as Métis, still live on reserves today.

Write 3 questions you would like answers to.

1. what is Métis? why this world is not english?

Q.1 What does « Aboriginal » mean?
1. The word "Aboriginal" refers to the peoples who first lived in an area before European explorers first arrived at that place. In what we now call Canada, there are three different Aboriginal groups who lived here long before this country was formed: Inuit, First Nations and Métis.
 Q.2 What is the difference between First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada?
2. While there are many differences between First Nations, Métis and Inuit, these names refer to the three main groups of peoples who are the traditional inhabitants of this land. 

First Nations are those peoples who historically lived in North America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, below the Arctic. Inuit historically lived along the coastal edge and on the islands of Canada’s far north. The Métis descend from the historical joining of First Nations members and Europeans. 

It is important to remember that First Nations, Inuit and Métis each have their own culture, based largely on the environment they traditionally inhabited.
 Q.3 What does « culture » mean?
3. The word "culture" means a way of life or way of living. Culture includes the food a group of people eats, the language they speak and their beliefs about the world around them. Canada has been home to many rich and beautiful cultures for thousands of years.
 Q.4 Do all Aboriginal groups in Canada speak the same language?
No. There are more than 50 Aboriginal languages that have been spoken in Canada for centuries! Some of these languages have common roots, so they can be understood by several different Aboriginal groups. For example, Michif, the language spoken by many Métis, is mostly a mixture of French and Cree (as well as English, Ojibwe and Assiniboine) that dates back to the late 1700s.
Q.5 Where do these Aboriginal groups live now?
A.5. When Canada was first being formed the British government signed treaties with many First Nations to settle the land. These treaties set aside areas of land, called reserves, for First Nations. Many First Nations members, as well as Métis, still live on reserves today, but every year more and more individuals move off these reserves to live in cities and towns across Canada.

Most Inuit in Canada live in the country’s youngest territory, Nunavut, but many individuals have also moved south to cities and towns in other provinces. Did you know that Nunavut means "our land" in Inuktitut, the language spoken by Inuit?
 Q.6 What does the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development do?
A.6. Our Department, which is more commonly known as Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC), is one of many departments within the federal government that are responsible for maintaining Canada’s special relationship with Aboriginal peoples in this country, as well as Canadians who live in the North. We work with our many different partners in communities across Canada to build a future in which First Nations, Inuit, Métis and northern communities are healthy, safe, self-sufficient and prosperous places in which to live.