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.

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

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?

Work and Home Safety

Hello everyone!
This is our last Friday in Computer lab!
Use it wisely

We have been looking at the hazards on this website
Click on "construction", "Health Care" or "Mining" for more activities.

Reading about Safety

Read more about bleach here.

Read about your Health and Safety rights as a worker here.

Some of you can read about construction safety in your first language. Click here. Scroll down to this section:

In Canada, you can get "compensation" if you are hurt at work. You can either have some of your pay, or a change in activity at work that you can do with your injury.
You can read about how to claim  ( ask for ) your compensation here.


Spelling

Practice spelling here.

Listening

Listen and read about a way to protect yourself from germs here.

Healthy Living and Phones

Hello Everyone!

Practice with Phones

If you want to learn more about leaving a message, watch this video.
What do you notice about Mrs Ming's message? What do you notice about Ms Ran's message and what Anthony writes?

This is a more modern example of many types of messages on the answering machine. Which ones are formal? Which are informal? Can you call the receptionist "babe" or "dear"?
Watch the video here.

Even more information about telephones can be found here. This is a long video.

Teacher Lucy's blog also has more information about using the telephone.
Visit it here.

Healthy Living

Healthy Eating
Read about Canada's food guide here.

Click on the "Quick Links" for more information.

Exercising and Being Active

The YMCA has many activities people can do for exercise.

Look at the schedule here.

What types of exercise do they offer?

Which ones would you be most interested in?

Studying at home

I have found some great resources you can use at home ( especially over winter break)

Duolingo has lessons in many languages.

Talk with people in English on Skype through My Language Exchange. Why would it be helpful? you can have an online dictionary open at the same time! I do recommend talking to your neighbours as well.

Hear many words and phrases pronounced her at forvo.com

Check your written work here at lang 8

Thanks to Benny Lewis for the ideas!

Health Continued

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.

Read about health

Talking with your doctor. Read it here.
Health for kids. Read it here
Last week's blog below has many good activities.
Including spelling activities for health. Scroll down.

You can also look at 

Teacher Jen is also discussing health. See her page here.
Teacher Lucy's page about health here.
Teacher Kelly has many activities about health here.

You looked at teacher Stephanie's blog last week. Here is her page about symptoms.

Health

This week we talked about health.

Body Parts

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

You can review the parts of your face here.


You might also want to learn about medicine here.

Spelling

Body parts spelling quiz .

Symptoms and illness spelling quiz.

All the quizzes.


Cold and Flu (Influenza)

Remember the difference between cold and flu by reading this and taking a quiz.

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
 Chinese, Arabic, Vietnamese, Spanish.

Telehealth Ontario

Learn more about telehealth ontario here

Grammar

Here is a chart with prepositions for places.

Practice place prepositions here.
Scroll down till you see this part:

Click on the exercises that say Place.