Important Announcements

Remember to write 3 to 5 sentences using the environment vocabulary and hand your homework in tomorrow.
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Also, Monday, May 5th is a short day because the teachers have a meeting.
The morning class goes from 8:50 to 10:30, and the afternoon class goes from 11 to 12:40.
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Garage Sale    Garage Sale   Garage Sale
 When: May 1st, 2014
What: Garage Sale
Who: LINC 6 students
Where: in Classroom 3554
What Time: 9 to 11:45 and 12:30 - 3:15
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Monday May 5^th 9am-1pm, and 4pm-8pm [This Monday!]

Room B1228 (Next to the event space in B Building)

This Monday (May 5^th), Stephen Wade, one of our LINC teachers,will be hosting multiple slideshows showcasing our students' answers to these questions and inviting visitors to reflect, engage in discussion and add more comments.

5 Questions to immigrants about Canada

1.    What can Canada learn from your country?

2.    What can your country learn from Canada?

3.    What is good about Canada?

4.    What is bad about Canada?

5.    How do you feel about Canada?

 Answers were collected in February and March from ELSA students.

 

Learning English with CBC

 Listening: Environment
 Action on Climate Change
 Listen to the radio talk show as many times as you need to and answer the questions on your handout.
http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/eal/media/may10_2008.mp3



 Transit Pet Peeves
http://www.translink.ca/en/Rider-Guide/Etiquette-on-Transit.aspx

 Video: Transit Etiquette
http://bc.ctvnews.ca/spitting-seat-hogging-smells-annoying-transit-pet-peeves-1.1185049

Van Dusen Botanical Garden

 Hassan went to Van Dusen Garden on Saturday and took these gorgeous pictures. Thank you, Hassan.
 Have you been to Van Dusen Boranical Garden?

Click on the link below to find out more about this Vancouver attraction.
http://vandusengarden.org/

Reminder

Go to the homework page to see what your homework is.

How Big is Your Carbon Footprint?

 In the Computer Lab
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/reduce-your-carbon-footprint/four-places-to-cut-your-carbon/


Homework: Extra Reading: How to Reduce your Carbon Footprint
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/what-you-can-do/reduce-your-carbon-footprint/


If you'd like to know how big is your carbon footprint, click on the link below to answer some questions. Do your best to answer as many questions as you can. You might need about half an hour to do it if you're using a dictionary.
http://www.ge.com/ivillage/calculator/

Vegeterians

Today in class, we talked about why people want to become vegetarians. Click on the link to read about some reasons.
http://www.naturalnews.com/030890_vegetarian_reasons.html

Click on the link to read an article about what food  vegans do not eat
 https://shine.yahoo.com/green/10-foods-that-vegans-cant-eat-2443353.html

Vocabulary: Environment

Click on the link to practice the vocabulary. 
Environment

Tulip Festival in Agassiz, BC

Tulip Festival 2014 in Agassiz, BC 

Thank you for sharing these photos with us, Evelyn. The tulips are beautiful, aren't they?
 Click on the link to find out more about the festival.
 http://www.tulipsofthevalley.com/Tulip%20Festival.html

Reminder

I hope you had an enjoyable long weekend. We have a computer lab tomorrow, so I'll see you in Computer Lab North (morning class) and Computer Lab South (afternoon class). There is no need to go to the classroom first.

Community event: Green Living Fair at VCC

April 22nd is Earth Day. There is a special event in the event space at VCC. We might go for a little bit to check it out. Go to http://www.vcc.ca/ 
Follow the instructions:

Click on “About” and then “Events”. Find the April 22 listing. Answer the following questions. 

What is the event? _____________________________________________________________

Where will it be held? __________________________________________________________

What can you learn at this event? _________________________________________________

What can you save? _____________________________________________________________

Click on the link.  What time is this event? __________________ Where? __________________

What companies will participate in the event?

Vocabulary Practice

To practice the vocabulary from the previous couple of weeks, click on the links below.

 Click on the link to practice Easter vocabulary.
Easter

Click on the link below to practice and review some words for feelings.
Feelings

Click on the link to practice and review the vocabulary for inviting.
 Inviting
 Click on the link to practice some phrases for inviting. This link is from English in Vancouver, which is a blog that Susan Bates has. Susan Bates is a LINC 3 teacher. Some of you might know her.
http://englishinvancouver.blogspot.ca/2012/06/inviting-phrases.html

Click on the link below to practice and  review the vocabulary from the listening about Small Talk.
Vocabulary from listening about Small Talk and small talk dialogues

Answer Key for the Idioms Homework

1.walking on eggshells - to be very careful about what you say and do with a person or in  a situation
2. a chicken - someone who is afraid of something
3. crack up - go crazy
4. don't count your chickens be fore they hatch - wait until you actually have something before you say it is yours
5. a nest egg - money that you have saved for the future
6. get cracking - hury up
7. running around like a chicken with its head cut off - to be very busy
8. don't put all your eggs in one basket - don't put all your money or effort into one thing
9. egg on your face - to look foolish
10. crack me up - make me laugh

Reminder

Please go to the Homework page to remind yourselves what you need to do for Monday.

Meet new people and practice your English

Click on the link below if you are interested in checking out what kind of groups exist and meet in your community and close to where you live. You need to sign up first and then explore. Type in English conversation clubs and see what is out there. If you have any special interests, for example painting, playing table tennis, dancing, take a look if there are any groups you would be interested in.

http://www.meetup.com/

Cherry Blossoms in Vancouver

 Thank you for sharing your beautiful cherry blossoms photos with us, Fanny.

Reminder: Homework and ESL News Pages

If you forgot what your homework is, click on the Homework page above.
Remember to go to the ESL News and Community Events page if you want to listen to the ESL news.

Question Tags

www.settlementatwork.org/lincdocs/linc5-7/03-interact.w.others/LINC5/social_interact/07.gramm_tag_qs_rdg/07.gramm_tag_qs_rdg_act1_comp.htm

LINC 5 - 7 Audios and Online Material

http://wiki.settlementatwork.org/wiki/LINC_5-7_Classroom_Activities:_Volumes_1_%26_2

 Chapter 3: Interacting with Others
http://www.settlementatwork.org/lincdocs/linc5-7/03-interact.w.others/index.html


LINC 5-7 Classroom Activities
http://www.settlementatwork.org/lincdocs/linc5-7/

Important Announcement

To: LINC 5 Part 1 morning and Part 1 afternoon classes 

 From: Vesna

 

 Our classroom number has changed.From tomorrow on, we are going to be in B2227. This room is in the same building, but it is on the second floor close to the security office. 

This is not an April Fool's joke.  

 

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