Friday, 8 May 2015

Hello students!
If you are studying at home today please look at the last two week's blog posts (below) and do activities you haven't done.

Secondly, you can look at Canada's Food Guide in your language.

For more healthy eating practice look at Teacher Jen's blog.

Have a great day!

Thursday, 30 April 2015

Prescription and Pharmacy

This week we learned about prescriptions

Reading
Here is a quiz to practice reading prescription labels.

A second quiz is here.

The quiz about side effects is difficult, look up the word "swelling", "hives" and "emphysema" before taking it. Do you want a challenge? It's here.

Practice 

In this game you go to a pharmacy and fill out a form. Drag and drop the words onto the form.

In this game you must read the chart to know how many pills to put on the tray.

Listen and Read

Watch a video about the pharmacy and fill in the blanks here.

What should you say when you call the pharmacy?
Practice here.


More practice reading labels is here.

Here is an easy reading with listening.

Questions

Questions about family at the doctors are here.


As usual, you can look at blogs from last week. Or practice questions about Canada at 
http://citizenshipcounts.ca/guide


Thursday, 23 April 2015

Health and Questions

Body Parts

Listen to the parts of the body by moving your mouse over each part here.

You might also want to learn about medicine here.

Spelling

Body parts spelling quiz .

Symptoms and illness spelling quiz.

More about symptoms


Video: Symptoms

Video: Symptoms Phrases

Video: Symptoms Phrases 2


People at the Doctor's Office

 Here is a video of an injured/hurt person at the doctor with a fill in the blank activity.

You can watch a similar video here about someone at a clinic.

A third video shows new patient information. You can find it here. This is the most difficult activity and video.

Useful Phrases

Here are phrases you might use at the doctor's 
in English and
 ChineseArabicVietnamese

Telehealth Ontario

Learn more about telehealth ontario here

Medical Forms practice

Answer questions about this medical form.This link has a medical form to practice with. Find it here.

Family
Learn about family here.

Take a quiz about family members here.


Grammar

If you weren't here on Monday, take a good look at this chart. Ask your neighbour to see their notes.

Quizzes about Wh questions

Question Words (Multiple Choice)

Question Words (Type in Word)


Questions with Do

When do you use do? Learn here.





Friday, 27 March 2015

Jobs

Welcome to the Computer lab!

We have been learning about jobs.

Here are some people describing their jobs. Listen here.

Here are some activities about job ads. Start listening here.

Classified ads

We have been reading classified ads.
Here is an activity to practice.

Here is another activity about classified ads.

My favourite activity for today is a story game about job ads. Find it here.

Look at job ads on Kijiji and Indeed. Try reading the ads.

Job applications

Classified ads and a job application. Try it here.

 Another story game about job applications is here.

Here is a challenging reading with a quiz about job applications.


We have been talking about ways to find a job. Here are some conversations about that.

Spelling

Practice spelling here.

Here is some more practice at Teacher Stephanie's blog.




Friday, 27 February 2015

Banking

Hello Students!

We have been learning about banking.

Practice using an ATM
Here is a video lesson on using ATMs

Here is one online practice ATM. The PIN number is 1234 (shhh its a secret!)

Using a debit machine is almost the same as using an ATM. Practice here. The PIN is also 1234.
Is that a good PIN, or is it obvious?

Practice your spelling here.


Listening Practice

Some conversations about reporting wrong charges are here. How are they different? How are they the same?

Here are some conversations about opening an account. How are they different? How are they the same?

Here are many conversations at a bank. Listen to them and practice some conversations.

Real banks

TD's newcomer package is here. There are different topics to learn about here.
RBC has tutorials in different languages here.
BMO banking for Newcomers is here.

WFCU (Windsor Family Credit Union)
has their website here.

Banks versus Credit Unions
Reading


One easier article explains the difference here.
A more difficult article about banks and credit unions is here.


Canadian Money
See this fun video about Canadian history and Canadian money.





Sunday, 8 February 2015

Black History Month

Hello Students!

If you are in the computer lab today, please look at this website with listening and reading about Black History: here

Look at the "Pre-Intermediate" lessons

Windsor has many historical sites.
Choose one from this website and write 5 sentences inviting someone to come. Tell them what it is, and why they should come.

Watch these two videos.
This one is about a black baseball player.
This one is about the underground railroad.
How do you think the people in these videos felt?
Write about it in your journal.

Complete a crossword here.
Read more about Black History Month here.


Can you tell me why we have a special month for black history in Canada?

Other Websites

When you are finished reading and listening and writing the things above, you can:

Practice Canadian History with these games.

Go to citizenshipcounts.ca/guide to practice lessons about Canada.

Look at Friday's websites. Practice Present perfect. 
Try the News website here. 

See you tomorrow!


Friday, 6 February 2015

Feelings and Present Perfect

Grammar Practice


Read about present perfect here. When do you

use it?



Practice the present perfect with activities here.

Scroll to the bottom.




Play a game to practice present perfect and past simple.

Here is a quiz. You must use present perfect or past simple.

Feelings

Practice your spelling here.

Play some games to practice feelings vocabulary here.
When you open the page, click on the word Feelings like the picture below:

After playing one game, you can go back and choose another.


Videos about Feelings

Learn more about different phrases to use to talk about your feelings here.


The next video is difficult, but interesting. It's about faces. Try it here.



Extra listening practice

Read and listen to news here.