Wednesday, April 6, 2016

April 6

Look at the map of Toronto. Can you find where you live?



Now go to google.com and type in your address.
Find your neighbourhood, maybe your house.
Identify places of interest in your neighbourhood.

1) Find a partner!
Where does your partner live?
My partner Gasia lives Grayda Holl Dr .
Write down the information in 4 or more sentences.
She lives close to Don Mills near Fairview Mall. There are many Hight School around her home. She came to Canada only 2 months, so she can't give me more information.

2) Remain in pairs.
Let's go outside your neighbourhood. Think of a place of interest you have visited in Toronto.
Find the place on google.com. Describe your experience.There have so many Cultural relic of the world. Special  Chinese wall paintings. If you want to there, you can buy ticket.

I have visited Roy ON Museum. Royal Ontario Museum adress is 100 Queens Park  Toronto, ON. It is no 5 museum of the world.

3) Interview some of your fellow students. See if you can come up with 5 interesting places in Toronto. Write them down.
Present to the class.

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

April 5

Here are your tasks:
Check out the grammar in the first paragraph of this Wiki article.
Identify all the passive verbs there.

bounded
trisected
covered


Discuss with your partner why the verbs are in the passive.

Because they were passive not  initiative

Compare them with the actives.

Now identify all the prepositions there.
 of   by  to in the

Discuss what each preposition is used for.

What verbs are associated with each preposition?

What nouns come after each one?
Check out the meaning and pronunciation of the paragraph.
Write down and discuss your list of the 10 hardest words to read/understand with a partner.
trisected
respectively
recreational 
ambitious
 proposals
Approximately
percentage 
concentration 
tributaries
fairly


Write down and discuss your list of the 10 hardest words to pronounce.
trisected
respectively
recreational 
ambitious
 proposals
Approximately
percentage 
concentration 
tributaries
fairly

Take turns reading it to each other.
Write a True/False quiz of 5 statements on your blog.

1. Is Toronto a city of Cananda?     (                )

2. Toronto is bounded by Lake Ontario to the north. (             )

3. Toronto city is trisected by three minor rivers and their tributaries.  (            )

4. Approximately 26–28% of Toronto is covered with over 30 million trees.(               )

5. Toronto is the  largest  city in North Americ. (            )

Have your partners put their answers in the comments.

April 5

Monday, April 4, 2016

Make dumplings

April 4 Asking for Directions

Here are your tasks:
Vocabulary: Asking for Directions
For each utterance, practise saying it in your L1, and quickly follow that by saying it in English.
Then do it again, all in English.


https://audioboom.com/boos/4385777-asking-for-directions?t=0

https://audioboom.com/boos/4385794-asking-for-directions




Role play: Getting Directions and Parking Instructions
Practise it by yourself, and then with a partner.
Repeat, taking turns having one partner not looking at the words. You may paraphrase using correct equivalents.
Record it with one or both partners not looking at the words, but make sure to introduce yourselves and what you're doing before role playing.

 directions ( explanation)

exit ( export)

head (side)

bend( curve) 

dead end( no way)

one way street ( one way )

street parking (park over street)

valet parking ( publice parking)

validate( check)

meters( rice)

side street( over street)

to circle the block (  circle)

to count on ( estimate)

to hunt (pick up)




Write a short list of directions on how to find Wally.



Wally is in the middle of the ground. He is stand right of  a man who is wears  a red scarf . He is stand left of the woman who wears green dress.







Friday, April 1, 2016

April 1

Here are your tasks:

What tense would you expect to use to make your report? Complete and answer the following questions with a partner:

Click to watch the MicroSkills and Bayramov families in action!
1. Who came to the Durdy Bayramov Art Museum?
2. How long did you spend in the Museum?
3. When did you arrive there?
4. What did you intresting in?
5. What did your partner fell  about the pictures?
6. Which painting or photograph made you inspire ?
7. Would you recommend   Durdy Bayramov Art Museum to your friends?
8. Would you visit other Museum last week?
9. How could Durdy Bayramov Art Museum
10. In what way has your view of the art in




https://audioboom.com/boos/4376387-durdy-bayramov-art-museum


Record report of the field trip on audioboom.com, and publish it on your blog. DO NOT type or write it out. Just speak out your answers. You may use the above questions to guide your speech.
Listen to at least 3 classmates' reports. For each report, write a comment that includes:
Three facts they mentioned
Three facts they did no mention
What you liked about their report
What they could work on to improve

March 31