Friday 30 January 2015

Canadian History

Canadian History

There are many videos about Aboriginals in Canada here.


The picture shows where you can click for more videos

Explore a website about First Nations in Ontario here.



Practice History facts
Citizenship Counts reading and listening quizzes about history can be found here.


Spelling

Practice Spelling vocabulary from this week here.


Grammar

Practice for, since and ago here.
The writer refers to using these words in this story. It has many new words, but notice how she uses time words to tell the story.

Practice using for and since here.

Thursday 22 January 2015

Weather!


Today's weather

Find the weather for today.
weathernetwork.com




Or you can check the weather forecast with Environment Canada here.

A video forecast for Canada is here, remember the canadian cities. 

Listening

Try listening to this conversation about the winter weather report.

Listen and read a message about frostbite here.
Answer these questions about the message:
What clothing do they recommend?
What is exposed skin?

What signs should you watch for?

Review some winter words here.

Watch a video about how to shovel here.

This video quiz is about safe winter driving. Find it here.

Check out this website for more information on winter driving.

Spelling

Practice spelling winter weather words here.

Grammar

New students to my class might want to review comparative adjectives here.

Pronunciation
Remember intonation for lists here.

Friday 16 January 2015

Education

Review

Taking messages is sometimes tricky. Its a good skill to practice. Imagine you are the school secretary for an elementary school.

Click here.

Spelling 

Train to be a spelling champion like Yueh Hua Lin in Toronto. Click here.

Practice Do Questions and other Yes/No questions

Take a quiz on Do questions here.
Take a quiz on Yes/No Question in the dimple past here.
Here is another quiz for choosing do, does, am or are.

Your Education

Learn about learning styles, take this quiz. 

SMART goals. Learn about making goals here.

A Child's Education in Canada

Stephanie's blog has many videos about Parent teacher interviews and the school system.

Look at them here.


As alswyas, if you'd like to practice for citizenship, you can got to: citizenshipcounts.ca

Friday 9 January 2015

Introducing People and Small Talk

Review
Practice the activities again about Small Talk here.

Spelling
Practice your spelling here.

New
Introductions Here is a funny video of people introducing themselves and others.

Do they talk about where they are from? Do they talk about their jobs? 

Here is an introduction video with subtitles.

What do people say when they introduce other people?

Small Talk
1. An example of small talk is here.

What taboo subject do they talk about when they meet someone in the third video?

What key words did you hear from this week?

2.Here  are some neighbours making small talk.

3. Here are two moms making small talk at the park. 

In video 2, what common Canadian topic do they discuss?

In video 3 what small talk topics do they two women discuss?