LINC at VCC: Homework

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself" -Chinese proverb

Homework for the Week of June 23rd, 2014
Don't forget to go to Room # 1231 on Monday.
Speaking: Leave a message to Vesna to invite me to a community event.
Grammar: Phrasal Verbs
Check out the grammar page and do the exercises on phrasal verbs.
National Aboriginal Day: Check out the post on the home page about National Aboriginal Day.
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Homework for the Week of June 16th, 2014

Speaking: Practice your presentations

Make sure you're following the criteria I gave you. Also, decide if you'd like to be filmed while presenting.You will be doing self-evaluation, so it would be good to go back to the video when you're assessing yourself.

Call your partner and describe a picture.

Vocabulary: Father's Day

Complete the sheet.

Review the vocabulary from the last week. Click on the link below.
http://quizlet.com/44661962/vradivojevic-flash-cards/

Grammar: Optional

Watch the videos about Phrasal verbs, and complete the worksheet.

Optional: Watch and read the news.

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Homework for the Week of June 9th, 2014
Vocabulary: Review the Telephone vocabulary (quizlet link)
Writing: Write about the field trip to Deep Cove
Listening: In the post on presentations, there is a listening about learning vocabulary (Audio: 5.5) and three questions about the listening. If you do the listening, it will give you an example of a presentation with a good introduction, middle and conclusion.
Speaking and Writing: Prepare your presentation outline and practice your presentation. On Monday, you will practice your presentations in small groups.

Homework for the Week of June 2nd, 2014
Listening: ESL News
Listen to Stop Bugging me and What's the Message
Optional: Check out the links for Library Vocabulary
Human Libraries Project: Plan your presentation
Write what you would like to say. Find visuals (pictures, Power Point, poster) or realia (real things you can bring to show us). I will give you some time on Tuesday in class to talk/work on your presentations. We will work on a presentation schedule and assessment criteria next week. Plan to talk about two minutes and then leave about 8 minutes for questions/demonstrations... To talk for two minutes you don't need to write more than 300 to 400 words, which is about two typed paragraphs or two hand written letter-size pages. In your introduction, tell us what you're going to talk about. In the middle, tell us about why this topic is important to you and give us some specific details. Remember to choose a topic you like to talk about.In the conclusion, tell us what you talked about and what we should remember. If you have any questions about the project, please ask me.
I'm looking forward to hearing your presentations and learning from you.
Reading: Cell-Phone Yakkers Need Manners(for Thursday)
Vocabulary Review: Library vocabulary and telephone vocabulary from the listening dialogues: Stop Bugging me and Seinfeld. I'll create a quizlet by Saturday evening and post it. Sorry I didn't have time ot post the vocabulary earlier.
Here is the link.
http://quizlet.com/44090475/vradivojevic-flash-cards/

Remember to think about how you're planning to get to Deep Cove on Wednesday and talk with the other classmates about that.

Homework for the Week of May 26th, 2014

Vocabulary: Use the following words in the sentences: outstanding, take someone under your wing, passionate, take after, university graduate, and talented
Community Centre vocabulary
Grammar: Review Embedded questions
Listening: Listen again to the two dialogues you had on the listening test: Would you like to Come? and I Found your Ring

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Homework for the Week of May 20th, 2014

Speaking: Phone your partner to practice asking for information
Go to http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/community-and-cultural-centres.aspx and find information about your community center. Prepare to share.
Optional: Phone a community center in your neighborhood to ask a question, or go to a community center, pick up some brochures and ask a question.
Vocabulary Review: Click on the link to review the vocabulary from the ESL News and Mother's Day.
http://quizlet.com/43175327/esl-news-and-mothers-day-flash-cards/
The same link is on the vocabulary page and the home page.
Grammar: Complete the worksheet
Optional: Watch the videos and do the exercises on the grammar page on the blog.
Reading: Human Libraries (for Thursday)
Optional: Check the post on the home page about Human Libraries
Listening: Find the following post on the Home page. Or click on the link below.

Listening exercises on healthy lifestyle

Click on the link to listen to a short audio about staying fit. Then go to part four to do more listening exercises.
http://www.dailyesl.com/health-club.htm

Go to the Holidays in Canada page and listen to the audio about Victoria Day.

Writing: Write about your weekend

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Homework for the week of May 12th, 2014

Speaking: Small Talk with a stranger (any day next week)
Vocabulary: Mother's Day (words and expressions) for Monday
Vocabulary: ESL News vocabulary for Monday
This link is also on the vocabulary page.

http://quizlet.com/42668119/vocabulary-for-the-week-of-may-12th-2014-flash-cards/

Listening: Mother's Day (This listening is on the home page. The name of the post is Mother's Day.) OR You can click on the link bellow.
Listening Homework:Mother's Day
http://www.eslholidaylessons.com/05/mothers_day.mp3
Grammar: Unit 37 Reason, purpose, and result (for Tuesday)
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Homework for the Week of May5th, 2014

Remember it's a short class on Monday.

Morning class: 8:50 to 10:30 At the end of the class,we're going to Stephen's presentation in Room 1228.

Afternoon class: 11 - 12:40 At the end of the class, we're going to Stephen's presentation in Room 1228.

Reading: David Suzuki (for Thursday)

Grammar: Complete the grammar workheet(s) on expressing reason/result. I'll give you a short quiz next week. Check the links on Expressing reason result on the grammar page on the blog.

Vocabulary: Review the vocabulary from the ESL news and CBC news. Look at the ESL news script on the Community events and ESL news page. Click on the link below to practice the vocabulary.
ESL News for the Week of April 28 and CBC news

If you have time, you can check out the video on Transit Etiquette and reading on Transit Pet Peeves.

Writing: Write a paragraph about what you learned this week. Here are some questions to help you.

What activity/exercise helped you learn?
What activity/exercise didn't help you learn?
What would you like to do more of in class?
How is this class for you? (easy, so so difficult)
Is there anything happening in your life that makes it hard for you to come to class and/or study (Answer these questions only if you feel comfortable sharing this information with me.)

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Homework for the Week of April 28th, 2014

Organize your binders and make sure all your assessment tasks are divided according to the four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing. You can add grammar and vocabulary because from time to time, I'll give you those kinds of quizzes as well.)

Reading:Too Much Garbage

Grammar: Compound Sentences

For extra practice, click on the link below.

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/sample/beginner/unit2/u2_l3a.htm

Vocabulary: Compound Nouns

Click on the links below to learn more about compound nouns and do some exercises.

http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/nouns-compound.htm

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/391.html

Vocabulary:Environment (We'll review the vocabulary on Monday, and you'll do a short quiz on Tuesday).

Click on the link below to practice the Environment vocabulary. The same link is on the vocabulary page.

http://quizlet.com/22609055/vocabulary-for-the-week-of-april-27th-2014-flash-cards/

Homework for the Week of April 22nd, 2014

Reading: Global warming (for Wednesday)

Listening: ESL News (Listen to the news you are interested in and it's not too hard for you. On Tuesday or Wednesday, I'll ask you which news interested you most and why.)

Vocabulary: Easter Idioms(Look at the Home page to check if you understand the meanings of the idioms and then do the Fill in the blanks exercise.) To check the answers, click on the link below. Easter

Easter: Watch the videos about Easter on the Holidays in Canada page on the blog.

Grammar: If you haven't finished the Question Tags sheet, complete it.

Vocabulary Practice: To practice the vocabulary for Easter, inviting, emotions, go to the Vocabulary Practice post or 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 below to practice and review the vocabulary from the listening about Small Talk.
Vocabulary from listening about Small Talk and small talk dialogues

Next week, our topic will be environment. I'll give you a reading assessment and probably one short writing assessment.

Happy Easter, everyone!

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Homework for the week of April 14th, 2014

Small Talk:
Making Introductions
Reading: Making Introductions 1, 2, 3
Making Introductions: Common Phrases 1, 2, 3

Click on the link to watch the video, practice the vocabulary, and if you have a mike, you can record yourself and get some feedback. I highly recommend it.
http://www.englishcentral.com/video/13480/social-etiquette-how-to-introduce-yourself

Reading: Click on each number to go to a reading exercise on Chatting with Strangers 1, 2, 3, 4.
Reading: Using Courtesy Expressions (text reconstruction) 1, 2, 3
Listening: Using Courtesy Expressions 1, 2, 3

All the links above are on the Small Talk page.

Speaking: Call your partner to practice small talk and inviting. Next week, I'll assess you on making, accepting, declining invitations, making suggestions, and making arrangements.

Grammar: Do the exercises on Tag Questions on the Grammar page.
Vocabulary: Review the vocabulary from the last week.
IMPORTANT:
Next week, you will do one speaking assessment and probably one reading assessment.

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Homework for the Week of April 7th, 2014

Reading: Oldest, Youngest, or in the Middle (for Monday)
Grammar: Complete 6-15 TAG QUESTIONS (for Monday)
Listening: ESL News (for Tuesday)
Click on the ESL News and Community Events page . Click on the ESL News link. Listen to the news and complete the exercises.
Vocabulary: Review the vocabulary from the last week (for Monday)
Speaking: On the weekend, try to make small talk with someone

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Homework for the Week of May 27th, 2013

ELSA 4B morning class

Grammar: Worksheet with If Clauses -Present Unreal (for Monday)

Reading for Tuesday: Expressing Emotions and Seeking Help (from the last week)

Vocabulary for the week of May 27th, 2013

Click on the link to practice. You'll have a quiz on Tuesday.

Expressing hopes, worries, fear, and suggestions

Idioms: Solving problems: Unit 47 for Monday

Homework for the Week of May 27th, 2013

ELSA 4A evening class

Grammar: Worksheet with If Clauses -Present Unreal (for Monday)

Reading for Tuesday: Expressing Emotions and Seeking Help (from the last week)

Vocabulary for the week of May 27th, 2013

Click on the link to practice. You'll have a quiz on Tuesday.

Expressing hopes, worries, fear, and suggestions

Idioms: Solving problems: Unit 47 for Monday

Homework for the Week of May 21st, 2013

ELSA 4B morning class

Vocabulary:

Click on the link below to practice the election vocabulary or go to the vocabulary page.

Election vocabulary

Vocabulary from the Listening: Eduardo and Erico

Click on the link below to practice the vocabulary from the listening. I'll give you a quiz on this vocabulary on Wednesday or Thursday next week.

Listening: Eduardo and Erico (Attitudes and Emotions)

Reading: Chris Hadfield Returns to Earth Safely

You can also watch the videos about him on the blog if you have time.

Reading: Seeking Help (vocabulary sheet and reading) There a re a lot of new words in that reading. Read it first just to get an idea what it is about and then do the vocabulary exercise. We'll talk about it on Thursday. If we don't have time, we'll leave it for the following week.

Listening: Review the ESL News

Homework for the Week of May 21st, 2013

ELSA 4A evening class

Vocabulary:Click on the link below to practice the election vocabulary or go to the vocabulary page.

Election vocabulary

Vocabulary from the Listening: Eduardo and Erico

Click on the link below to practice the vocabulary from the listening. I'll give you a quiz on this vocabulary on Wednesday or Thursday next week.

Listening: Eduardo and Erico (Attitudes and Emotions)

Reading: Chris Hadfield Returns to Earth Safely

You can also watch the videos about him on the blog if you have time.

Reading: Seeking Help (vocabulary sheet and reading) There a re a lot of new words in that reading. Read it first just to get an idea what it is about and then do the vocabulary exercise. We'll talk about it on Thursday. If we don't have time, we'll leave it for the following week.

Listening: Review the ESL News

Writing: Write an email.Hand it in by Thursday.

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Homework for the Week of May 13th, 2013 ELSA 4B morning class

Vocabulary: Vocabulary for the Week of May 13th, 2013

Homework for the Week of May 13th, 2013 ELSA 4A evening class.

Vocabulary: Vocabulary for the Week of May 13th, 2013

Click on the link below to practice the vocabulary for this week. We'll review the words on Monday, and I'll give you a quiz on Tuesday.Read the listening script to remember the vocabulary.
Impact Listening 3 Test 1- Part 1

Reading and vocabulary: Mother's Day

Reading and Vocabulary: Stress and Anger

Grammar: Complete the worksheet on Adverb Clauses of Degree Result. Go to the Grammar page to check out some videos on Adverb Clauses of Degree/Result.

Click on the link to read the explanation about Adverb Clauses of Degree Result.After you read the explanations, if you scroll down, there is an exercise.
http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/8-8.html

Listening: ESL News
Go to the ESL News and Community Events page and click on the ESL News link.

Homework for the Week of May 6th, 2013

ELSA 4A and 4B

ESL News: Listening: Review the ESL News and watch the authentic news videos clips on the blog.

Vocabulary: Quizlet for the ESL News.

Vocabulary: Complete the vocabulary sheet with the environment vocabulary.

Pronunciation: Go to the Pronunciation page to listen to Summer Time. On the worksheet I gave you, mark the sounds you hear (s, z, sh, zh, tch, dz). There are some videos and links if you want to practice your pronunciation.

ESL News for April 29th, 2013

Homework for the Week of April 29th, 2013

ELSA 4A and 4B

Listening: ESL News

Go to the ESL and Community Events page. I'll post the answer key on Sunday.

Vocabulary: Unit 86 Environmental problems

Vocabulary for the week of April 29th, 2013

Click on the link to practice the vocabulary. you'll have a quiz on Wednesday.
Environment

Grammar: Complete the worksheet on Tag questions

ELSA 4B morning class: Write an e-mail and do the vocabulary quiz

Bring a copy of Metro on Monday if you remember because there will be a lot of articles on Earth Day.

Homework for the week of April 22nd, 2013

ELSA 4A evening and ELSA 4B morning class

Grammar: Complete the worksheet on Tag questions. For more practice go to the Grammar page to watch the video and do online exercises if you have time.

Reading: Too much Garbage (for Thursday)

Speaking: Make small talk with someone. Watch the video: The Middle: Meet Sue's boyfriend on the blog.

Vocabulary: Review the vocabulary from the last week.Click on the link below to practice the vocabulary or go to the vocabulary page. I'll give you a quiz on Tuesday.

Small Talk and Socializing the Introvert

Listening: Review the ESL news

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ELSA4B morning class

Homework for the week of April 15th, 2013

Listening: Complete the ESL News (for Monday)

Reading: Are you an extravert or introvert? (for Wednesday)

Listening and Speaking: Make small talk and record your experience on the sheet I gave you (for Monday)

I put the transcript for the longer small talk dialogues on the small talk page. If you have time, check out the Small talk page, I'll be adding some videos and exercises on Saturday.

Vocabulary:

Click on the link below to practice the vocabulary for the week of April 15th, 2013.

Small Talk and Conversational Ball Games

ELSA 4A evening class

Homework for the week of April 15th, 2013

Listening: Review the ESL News and vocabulary from the news(for Monday)

Grammar: Complete the worksheet (for Monday)

Reading: Are you an extravert or introvert? (for Wednesday)

Listening and Speaking: Make small talk and record your experience on the sheet I gave you (for Monday)

If you have time, check out the Small talk page, I'll be adding some videos and exercises on Saturday.

Vocabulary:

click on the link below to practice the vocabulary for the week of April 15th, 2013.

Small Talk and Conversational Ball Games

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ELSA 4B morning and 4A evening

Homework for the Week of April 8th, 2013

Speaking: Try to strike up a conversation (make small talk) with someone.
Vocabulary: Review the April Fool's day words, flowers, and emotions.Click on the link below to practice the vocabulary for the week of April 2nd to April 4th, 2013. You can also go to the Vocabulary page to review this vocabulary. There is another link with additional vocabulary.

April Fool's Day, flowers, emotions
Grammar: Complete the worksheet (for Monday)
Go to the grammar page to practice agreeing with "so", "too", "neither", "either". Watch the video to review the rules.

Below is one link from the grammar page. If you like this exercise, go to the grammar page to do some more.

So - Too - Either - Neither, by Andrea Fernandes

English Exercises .org
Reading: Conversation Ball Game (for Wednesday)
Go to the Small Talk page to watch some videos about small talk.

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Remember!

There is no school on Monday because it's a holiday. It's Easter Monday. Tuesday is a short day.

Morning class goes from 8:50 to 10:30.

Evening class goes from 6:40 to 8:30.

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ELSA 4A evening class: Homework for the week of April 2nd, 2013

Vocabulary: Ester Idioms
Click on the link below to practice Easter vocabulary.
Easter vocabulary
Go to the Holidays page on the blog and look at the videos about Easter to review what you learned about this holiday.
Reading: Chocolate
Listening: Review the ESL News
Grammar: Go to the Grammar page on the blog and practice Sentence structure or click on the links below.

Explanations and Quiz:Simple, compound, and complex sentences

Quiz on Sentence structure

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ELSA 4B morning class: Homework for the week of April 2nd, 2013

Go to the Holidays page and look at the videos about Easter to review what you learned about this holiday.
Vocabulary: Easter Idioms
Click on the link below to practice Easter vocabulary.
Easter vocabulary
Click on the link below to practice the vocabulary from I'm Canadian (commercial for Canadian Molson Beer)
Commercial for Canadian Molson Beer: I'm Canadian
Reading: Chocolate
Writing: (optional) Write a paragraph about advertising.

What do you think?

Do you think we need advertisements in our lives? Are advertisements important for newcomers?

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Announcement

We're going on a field trip to the Vancouver Art Gallery on Tuesday evening with ELSA 4B (Tracy's class). The admission is by donation on Tuesday evenings. We suggest $2 to 5. We're going to see Emily Carr's paintings and the work of BC carvers.

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Homework for the Week of March 25th, 2013

Reading: Emily Carr (for Monday)

Vocabulary from Advertising Strategies and The Power of Advertising (for Monday).

Click on the link to practice the vocabulary for the week of March 25th, 2013 (advertising).

Advertising strategies and the power of advertising

We'll review the vocabulary, and I'll give you a test on Wednesday.

Grammar: Connectors (for Wednesday)

Listening: ESL News for March 11th, 2013

Click on the link below to practice the vocabulary for the week of March 11th, 2013.

Newspaper vocabulary

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ELSA 4B morning class: Homework for the week of March 25th, 2013

Writing: Thank you email to Randy Keats

Reading: Being Beautiful

Listening and Speaking: Call your partner and describe your picture

Vocabulary: Advertising strategies and The Power of Advertising. You'll review the vocabulary on Monday, and I'll give you a quiz on Tuesday.

Click on the link to practice the vocabulary for the week of March 25th, 2013 (advertising).

Advertising strategies and the power of advertising

4A Morning class: Homework for the week of March 18th, 2013

The visitor from the government cancelled the morning visit, so we won't have a guest on Monday.

Reading: Advertising

Listening: Complete the ESL news

Vocabulary: ESL News

You'll have a quiz on these words on Tuesday.

Writing: Write about what you learned by watching the Justice Theater Play about bullying.

How did you like it?

How much did you understand?

Do you have any questions about it?

4A Evening class: Homework for the week of March 18th, 2013

Writing: Write a letter to your friend to ask him/her some questions. Hand it in by Thursday next week.

Listening: Do the ESL news (for Monday)

Vocabulary: Click on the link to practice. Bullying

You'll have a quiz on Tuesday.

Article sharing: Read all the articles and find the meanings of the new words. Prepare to share on Monday

4B and 4A

Vocabulary for March 11th, 2013

Click on the link below to practice the vocabulary. I'll give you a vocab quiz on Tuesday.

Newspaper vocabulary

4B Morning class: Homework for March 11th, 2013

Listening: Review the ESL News and finish News # 5

Writing: Write a story about an embarrassing, exciting, or funny experience. You can email it to me or hand it in by Thursday next week.

Listening and Speaking: Phone your partner and describe the picture.

Prepare to retell the story (for Wednesday)

Vocabulary: Review the newspaper vocabulary. I'm going to create a quizlet on Sunday.

Reading: Advertising (for Thursday)

4A Evening class: Homework for March 11th, 2013

Listening: Review the ESL News and finish News # 5

Vocabulary: Unit 74: Newspapers Do only exercise 74.2 Think about the answers for 74.1.

Reading: Bring a newspaper story to share on Monday

Speaking: Prepare to talk about your newspaper story

Writing: If you haven't emailed me a paragraph about yourself, please do so by Sunday.

4B Morning class

Melissa and Tom

Click on the link below to answer the questions about yourself. The answers will help me to get to know you a little bit better and plan my lessons to suit your needs. In addition, write a paragraph about yourself and your family and email it to me. My email address is vradivojevic@vcc.ca .

Survey: About you

ELSA 4A evening class

Survey: About you

Remember:

The answer key to Cyber bullying is available under the post titled Bullying. When you og to that post, scroll down to the listening on Cyber bullying.
We are going to talk about telephone etiquette and practice talking on the phone.

Homework for March 4th, 2013

Listening: Complete the ELS News #5 and 6

Writing: Write an email and journal Questions for your journal: Did you accomplish your goal for this month? What did you learn? What helped you learn? What activities did you enjoy? What can be improved? Do you have any suggestions for the teacher?

Listening and Speaking: Call your partner and describe the picture.

Reading: Oldest, Youngest or in the Middle

Vocabulary: Click on the link below or go to the vocabulary page.
Vocabulary for March 4th, 2013
Work on Unit 13 Telephone language.

Homework for February 25th, 2013

Grammar: Complete the worksheet (for Monday)

Listening and Speaking: Call your partner and describe the picture. Listen to your partner and draw the picture. Bring it to class on Monday.

Leave a message on my answering machine. My phone number is 604 519 0290.

Reading: Telephone Etiquette (for Wednesday)

Vocabulary: Complete the telephone idioms units. Unit 12 for Monday, and Unit 13 for Tuesday.
Vocabulary for February 25th, 2013
Click on the link below to practice the telephone vocabulary.
Telephone vocabulary for the week of February 25th
We'll review it on Monday. You are going to have a quiz on Tuesday.

Writing: If you haven't handed in your paragraph about your name, bring it on Monday.

Homework for February 15th, 2013

Reading: Valentine's Day around the World ( questions and vocabulary)

Listening: Go to the Holidays page on the blog. Click on The History of Valentine's Day. Answer the questions below the video. The listening is difficult, but the questions are not.

Extra Listening: Seven as a Baby Name ( questions and script: Fill in the missing words)

Writing: Write about your name. Email me your paragraph or hand it to me next week by Thursday.

Vocabulary: Click on the link below to practice. We'll review it on Monday, and the quiz is on Tuesday.
Make sure you watch the video about the History of Valentine's Day because I'll be asking some questions about the video.
Vocabulary for the Week of February 12th, 2013

Grammar: Complete the worksheet

Homework for February 12th, 2013

For Tuesday:

Click on the link below to practice the vocabulary for this week. You'll have a quiz on Wednesday, February 13th, 2013. You can access this link on the vocabulary page as well.
Vocabulary for the week of February 4th, 2013
Listening: Review the ESL News
Grammar: Complete the worksheet I gave you.
Find the answers in the script for What's in a Name? For Wednesday:
Reading: Naming Traditions
By Thursday:
Writing: Write an email about the class

Tom
Click on the link below to answer the questions about yourself. The answers will help me to get to know you a little bit better and plan my lessons to suit your needs. In addition, write a paragraph about yourself and your family and email it to me. My email address is vradivojevic@vcc.ca .

Survey: About you

How to sign in to your my.vcc.ca account and VCC student e-mail account:

Your VCC e-mail address is firstname.lastname@student.vcc.ca (example: joe.smith@student.vcc.ca) so that's what you should put in the 'login' box. I'm guessing your password is your birthday - MMDDYY

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Homework

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself" -Chinese proverb

Homework for the Week of May5th, 2014

Remember it's a short class on Monday.

Morning class: 8:50 to 10:30 At the end of the class,we're going to Stephen's presentation in Room 1228.

Afternoon class: 11 - 12:40 At the end of the class, we're going to Stephen's presentation in Room 1228.

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Homework for the Week of April 28th, 2014

Organize your binders and make sure all your assessment tasks are divided according to the four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing. You can add grammar and vocabulary because from time to time, I'll give you those kinds of quizzes as well.)

Reading:Too Much Garbage

Grammar: Compound Sentences

For extra practice, click on the link below.

Vocabulary: Compound Nouns

Click on the links below to learn more about compound nouns and do some exercises.

Vocabulary:Environment (We'll review the vocabulary on Monday, and you'll do a short quiz on Tuesday).

Click on the link below to practice the Environment vocabulary. The same link is on the vocabulary page.

Homework for the Week of April 22nd, 2014

Reading: Global warming (for Wednesday)

Listening: ESL News (Listen to the news you are interested in and it's not too hard for you. On Tuesday or Wednesday, I'll ask you which news interested you most and why.)

Vocabulary: Easter Idioms(Look at the Home page to check if you understand the meanings of the idioms and then do the Fill in the blanks exercise.) To check the answers, click on the link below. Easter

Easter: Watch the videos about Easter on the Holidays in Canada page on the blog.

Grammar: If you haven't finished the Question Tags sheet, complete it.

Vocabulary Practice: To practice the vocabulary for Easter, inviting, emotions, go to the Vocabulary Practice post or click on the links below.

Next week, our topic will be environment. I'll give you a reading assessment and probably one short writing assessment.

Happy Easter, everyone!

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Homework for the week of April 14th, 2014

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Homework for the Week of April 7th, 2014

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Homework for the Week of May 27th, 2013

ELSA 4B morning class

Grammar: Worksheet with If Clauses -Present Unreal (for Monday)

Reading for Tuesday: Expressing Emotions and Seeking Help (from the last week)

Vocabulary for the week of May 27th, 2013

Click on the link to practice. You'll have a quiz on Tuesday.

Idioms: Solving problems: Unit 47 for Monday

Homework for the Week of May 27th, 2013

ELSA 4A evening class

Grammar: Worksheet with If Clauses -Present Unreal (for Monday)

Reading for Tuesday: Expressing Emotions and Seeking Help (from the last week)

Vocabulary for the week of May 27th, 2013

Click on the link to practice. You'll have a quiz on Tuesday.

Idioms: Solving problems: Unit 47 for Monday

Homework for the Week of May 21st, 2013

ELSA 4B morning class

Vocabulary:

Click on the link below to practice the election vocabulary or go to the vocabulary page.

Vocabulary from the Listening: Eduardo and Erico

Click on the link below to practice the vocabulary from the listening. I'll give you a quiz on this vocabulary on Wednesday or Thursday next week.

Reading: Chris Hadfield Returns to Earth Safely

You can also watch the videos about him on the blog if you have time.

Reading: Seeking Help (vocabulary sheet and reading) There a re a lot of new words in that reading. Read it first just to get an idea what it is about and then do the vocabulary exercise. We'll talk about it on Thursday. If we don't have time, we'll leave it for the following week.

Listening: Review the ESL News

Homework for the Week of May 21st, 2013

ELSA 4A evening class

Vocabulary:Click on the link below to practice the election vocabulary or go to the vocabulary page.

Vocabulary from the Listening: Eduardo and Erico

Click on the link below to practice the vocabulary from the listening. I'll give you a quiz on this vocabulary on Wednesday or Thursday next week.

Reading: Chris Hadfield Returns to Earth Safely

You can also watch the videos about him on the blog if you have time.

Reading: Seeking Help (vocabulary sheet and reading) There a re a lot of new words in that reading. Read it first just to get an idea what it is about and then do the vocabulary exercise. We'll talk about it on Thursday. If we don't have time, we'll leave it for the following week.

Listening: Review the ESL News

Writing: Write an email.Hand it in by Thursday.

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Homework for the Week of May 13th, 2013 ELSA 4B morning class

Vocabulary: Vocabulary for the Week of May 13th, 2013

Homework for the Week of May 13th, 2013 ELSA 4A evening class.

Vocabulary: Vocabulary for the Week of May 13th, 2013

Homework for the Week of May 6th, 2013

ELSA 4A and 4B

ESL News: Listening: Review the ESL News and watch the authentic news videos clips on the blog.

Vocabulary: Quizlet for the ESL News.

Vocabulary: Complete the vocabulary sheet with the environment vocabulary.

Pronunciation: Go to the Pronunciation page to listen to Summer Time. On the worksheet I gave you, mark the sounds you hear (s, z, sh, zh, tch, dz). There are some videos and links if you want to practice your pronunciation.

Homework for the Week of April 29th, 2013

ELSA 4A and 4B

Listening: ESL News

Go to the ESL and Community Events page. I'll post the answer key on Sunday.