May 30

Task 1:

• Introduce yourself in 2 lines

• Specify your dream
• Give a short background on yourself
• Describe your family
• Describe your education
• Highlight two to three of your achievements in life
• Share a new goal you want to achieve in the future

    My name is Ashley Zhang, I came from China. I come to Canada when I was 39.
Before I came to Canada I was a Editor.
      I worked for one kind of magazine of Chinese government. 
      I had a dream as I was a child  - I want to a Costume Designer.I wanted designer dress for ladies. 
     My family believed my dream was impossible. I am is the eldest of three children. I have a old brother and a old sister. My father is a Officer. He was always stern and asked  three children study hard.
    I graduated from He Hai  University in China.  
    

Task 2:

Ask one of your peers to edit your work and give you a helpful suggestion on how to achieve your new goal.

Task 3:

After editing, publish your work for evaluation J

May 24

  Task 1:
Write one paragraph using simple present ONLY. Describe five or more routine or habitual actions that you practice.
I drink Green Tea every day,Tea makes i relax. I usually go to bed after 11pm and I like read  book on bed.
Every morning, I take my son to school by car.I eat lunch at 12pm every day.


Task 2:
Write one paragraph using present progressive ONLY. Describe your classroom and your peers.

I and my classmates are writing on Blogger now. Helen  is sitting on my left hand. Xiao is sitting on my right hand.

Task 3:
Write one paragraph using present perfect ONLY. Share five things that you have never tried, visited, eaten, or done and why.
I have never been to Africa, because i have no time to do that.
I have never eaten live fish, because   .
I have never tried to writ English poem, because my English words are poor.
I have never visited 
  


Task 4:
Write one paragraph using present perfect progressive ONLY. Share five things that you have started in the past and have been doing till the current time.

Good morning everyone, hope that you have had a great, productive, and relaxing long weekend. This week's theme is Presentations. Presentations help you develop confidence, build self-esteem, get more organized and learn to track your time.

Click on this link  and this link; these are two different presentations; play both and answer the following questions after.

Compare between the two links in the following table:

Criteria	First Link	Second Link
Useful Tips	Excellent presentation. It would be interesting to know if he met his objective.	Improve Your Public Speaking and Communication Skills
Dos	Well developed message, clear and to the point.This proves that training + practice + feedback + corrections makes for an exceptional presenter	it felt as if she was holding my hand, guiding and encouraging me that I can be successful. 
Don'ts	The masses have dreams, but they do another thing.
Engaging	His delivered was engaging and he connected very well with the audience.	Nice tips, but I would also suggest to not over do the body language.  The audience can get distracted if you are always talking with your hands.
Helpful	How many of the audience members took action and purchased his training material or signed up for his workshop? It will change their life in many positive ways.
New Vocabulary	Foundational phrase  Procastination Overrated  Axiom Eradicating

Task 1:

Listen to a radio interview with a communications consultant about giving presentations. Answer the questions below.

1. How does Melanie define a good presentation? 
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Well prepared and well delved

2. What three Ps of presentations does she mention? 


A lot of planing, presentation and practice

3. Why is it important to consider your audience when preparing a presentation? 


Consider your audience  when talk about topic and what they need learn from and you need audience  contact the talk

4. How can you start your presentation? Give examples. 


 Many try to begin presentation.

For example: you can start presentation with something  ice-breaker.something for relaxed or intrude a Mark or a jog.  

5. What is a presentation outline? 


Outline is a good plan of your want talk about  

6. How can an outline help you in giving a good presentation? 


You need have a idea and write down then flow it.

7. What are signposts? 


like first now for my next point

8. What other aspects of a presentation are important? 


Body Lagrange and Voice

 Task 2:

Listen to the interview again. Pay attention to the expressions below. Try to define each one based on your understanding, and then answer the questions below.

Idiom	Meaning
fall on deaf ears	keep in the dark/  not pay attention
be second nature	be habituated to /to be use to do sth
frame of mind	state of mind / mood
with someone in mind	impression
ice-breaker	beginning
attention grabber	the points /fouce
tried and tested	reliable

Task 3:

1. What does Melanie mean when she says a presentation can fall on deaf ears? 

If the presenter didn't have his audience in your mind when you plan your content, he will.

2. What is an ice-breaker? In what situations, other than presentations, would you use an ice-breaker? 
The action or the activity that help somebody to break the ice-break.
The situation the meet somebody who you are not very familiar, like colleague, neighbor, or other passenger in transportation.

3. What does Melanie mean by a good frame of mind for listening? 
Create a good report and relax atmosphere 

4. What does Melanie mean when she says to some people public speaking is second nature? 

Some peoples have talent of presentation.

5. What is an attention grabber? What example of an attention grabber does Melanie give? 
Some things that grabbing others' attention. A intro duct remark,  a jock, or an edict dolt.

6. When Melanie says you need to have your audience in mind when you plan your talk, what does she mean? 


Consider your audience and thing about how familiar they are with the topic, what they need to learn, what you think will interest them.

5. What is an attention grabber? What example of an attention grabber does Melanie give? 


6. When Melanie says you need to have your audience in mind when you plan your talk, what does she mean? 


May 6

         Before I came to Link class, I studied at other ESL class where is closing the Sunning Super Market. Marry is a serious woman who teach us English. She always scowled without smile in class. Every day she let us reading and writing but no listing and speaking. If someone wants to ask her any questions, she always answer:"No question, this is my class, just let me teach you" Nobody like her as a strong woman.
    Last Christmas, we heard a news about that other class will have a party to celebrate  Christmas. Then we asked her how about our class celebrate Christmas. She answered :"Same time, same place, same Marry, no programs".  
   We were disappointed when we heard this answer. But we still prepared  a gift to Marry for Christmas.
    20 December, 2015 was a sunny day. We went to the school  as usual, but Marry's mood was  bad. During our class, we could hear the sound of laughter come from other class. In the break time, I  gave a gift to her on behalf of my classmates. She stared because she did not think we would give gifts to her, then she was crying loudly as a child. I held her a few minutes waiting for her emotional stability. She told us this morning she hear other teachers have a party together, nobody asked her. She didn't know how to explain it to us and yesterday she refused our ask. 
   I told her don't worry about it, if she want we can have a great part celebrate Christmas.  Sunning Super Market is very closing to us, we can buy anything . She smiled and promised me to do this thing. Classroom cheering, we are happy. Wo bought a lot of snakes,candy and juice.  we dancing and singing . Of course Marry enjoyed it with us.

May 5, 2016

 5 Hill Street 
Toronto, Ontario M7P 3T1

May 5, 2016

3, 5343 Dundas St W,

Toronto, ON M9B 6K5


 Dear Sir/Madam:

 I am a newcomer, I need help. Last night my permanent 

card was stolen at  Pearson Airport , I want apply a 

replacement Permanent card. Would you tell me how 

can I apply this? 

    
Thank you so much!

 Have a good day!



Ashley.z





                                            

May 2

GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES

Task 1:

Click on this link to get more practice on the use of gerunds and infinitives. Finish two exercises; repeat them till you get them all right. 

Choose gerund or infinitive form of the verbs.

1. Belinda is looking forward to       have   having  (have) a reply from his friend.

2. Hey, you look tired! How about       to take   taking  (take) a break from work for a bit?

3. I can't afford       to have   having  (have) my Master's degree at a private university.

4. The criminal avoided       to confess   confessing  (confess) the truth.

5. The clients decided       to cancel   cancelling  (cancel) the contract.

6. If you don't give up       to talk   talking  (talk) too much, everybody will get bored.

7. Ken's lawyer advised him       to call   calling  (call) his wife as soon as possible.

8. Helen's boy friend asked her if he fancies       to grab   grabbing  (grab) a cup of coffee.

9. After the accident, the old man struggled       to stand up   standing up  (stand up).

10. The beautiful girl denied       being   to be  (be) in love with the suspect.

Correctness = 

Task 2: 

Complete the text using the correct form of the verb in brackets.

Farmer Jones met Jane when he was just a young man. He couldn’t help (1 falling) in love with her immediately and asked her to marry him. She said yes although she knew it would mean (2 getting) up early to milk the cows for the rest of her life. “Love means never (3 having) to get up early to milk the cows”, said Farmer Jones, and explained that he would continue (4 to get) up early to milk the cows so Jane could sleep late every day. Everything went well until they tried (5to increase) their profits by buying some chickens. The first night, a fox ate one of the chickens. Farmer Jones decided (6to build) a fence to protect the chickens. But the ground was too hard so he couldn’t. He tried (7 to use) an axe to break the ground but it was much too hard. So he went to the local shop and tried (8  to buy) a gun. But he didn’t have any identification so he couldn’t buy one. He tried (9 to borrow) one from his neighbours but they were all worried about the fox too. “I regret not (10 buying) one when I had those rabbit problems”, he told Jane. So Jane went to the shop and bought a gun. That night she tried (11to stop) the fox. At first she tried (12 to scare) the fox by shooting into the air but it didn’t work. So she tried (13to hit) the fox but she missed. She called her husband and he ran after the fox to try (14to catch) it but he wasn’t fast enough. They tried (15 shouting) at the fox and they tried (16 throwing) things at it and they tried (17 leaving) other food for the fox but nothing worked. Soon they had only 1 chicken left. They tried (18 asking) their neighbors for help and one of their neighbours told them to try (19 putting) tiger dung on the ground. So they went to the local zoo to try (20to buy) some tiger dung. They put the dung on the ground and they never saw the fox again. 

Task 3

Answer the questions based on the summaries below. Use either a gerund, an infinitive, or a simple form in your answer.

One Life to Live

Maggie, who teaches children at a school for the deaf, meets Max when she comes to Llanview to visit her cousin, Andrew. Max, a friend of Andrew’s, is a widower with one-year-old twins. After Maggie spends some time with the twins, she suspects that one of them, Frankie, is partially deaf. She tells Max that he must take Frankie for testing. Max refuses to believe that his son is deaf and tells Maggie to stay out of his family’s business. Maggie, who grew up with a deaf brother, pursues the matter, even setting up an appointment for Frankie without Max’s knowledge. When Max finds out about the appointment, he is furious at Maggie.

a. Why did Maggie come to Llanview?She came to Lianview to visit her cousin.

b. Why is Max angry at Maggie? Because Maggie booked an appointment for Frankie without Max’s knowledge.

c. What is Maggie determined to do?Maggie grew up with a deaf brother, pursues the matter, even setting up an appointment for Frankie without Max’s knowledge.

Task 4:

Follow the same pattern, now write a short paragraph with the same title and make sure to use either a gerund, to-infinitive or infinitive without to in your short story. Ask a friend to edit your work.

                                              One Life to Live

Ashley,who edits magazine at a book concern, she is used to write down what about her