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