Here are your tasks:

1. Take dictation of this excerpt from the video here: 0:27 - 0:49.
1. Publish your first draft.
2. Check with at least 2 partners, and update with a second draft.
3. Discuss with a partner where the differences and difficulties are.
2. Read at least 3 areas of government involvement and discuss which areas to: 
1. Stop, 
2. Start, or 
3. Continue.
3. Check out CHRIO’s causes and decide whether you could volunteer with them. State reasons. Then make a chirbit recordingof those reasons.

By any measure there is a very strong risk that these light armoured vehicles in the hands of Saudi security services would be used to violate international human rights, and humanitarian law standards. It is civilians in Yemen or protesters and dissidents in Saudi Arabia who would pay that $15 billion price tag.

Field Trip to AGO

 Field Trip to AGO

  It's time again to raid our beloved Art Gallery of Ontario!

Please be at the entrance by 10:30 a.m. for free entrance. Be sure to acquaint yourselves with the Gallery Guidelines beforehand.

For those who are coming by TTC, here are your directions. Feel free to car pool and find streetside or Green P parking in the vicinity.

Plan B is that we will have a walking tour of the neighbourhood, possibly including Grange, Chinatown, and Kensington Market! In any case, we'll be meeting at the entrance of the AGO at 10 a.m.!

    Last Tuesday,the LINK classmates and teachers went to AGO. Though it is my second time,I still felt exciting.

About 10:30 a.m,all classmates gathered at the gate of AGO.Our teacher ,Mr.Joseph bought tickets for us,then we

went into the gallery.

    A nice guide was leading us to visit every part of level one.She spoke in a low voice,slowly and clear.We saw ev-

ery painting,and looked for William Kurelek' paintings,but could not find.There are lots of  famous paintings,but I did

not know them well.

     

Here are your tasks:
1.Role play: Limiting free speech
Practise listening and speaking out loud by yourself.
Then practise role playing with a partner.
2.Canadian Charter: Questions PDF
Publish your answers to the questions.
Leave a comment on two of your classmates' answers.
Learning about Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms

A. 1. Does your home country have freedom of speech?                                YES
B. What does freedom of speech mean in Canada?
1. You can say bad things about the government to your friend.                       YES
2. You can say bad things about the government to a group in a public place.   YES
3. You can write bad things about the government in the newspaper.                YES
 4. You can write bad things about a person you know in the newspaper.         YES
5. You can write bad things about a group of people in the newspaper.             YES
C. Can freedom of speech be dangerous sometimes?                                        YES
 D. Does your home country have freedom of religion?                                      YES
E. How are Canada’s speech laws different from your home country?
    I do not know the detail,maybe Canada's speech laws are wider.

3.Do this exercise: Audio and MCQ.
Find a website containing the text of the Charter, and copy out the first 5 points. (If you have asked a partner and still cannot find it, click here.)

CANADIAN CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

 Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law:

Guarantee of Rights and Freedoms

Marginal note:Rights and freedoms in Canada

1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

Fundamental Freedoms

Marginal note:Fundamental freedoms

2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:

• (a) freedom of conscience and religion;
• (b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
• (c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
• (d) freedom of association.

Democratic Rights

Marginal note:Democratic rights of citizens

3. Every citizen of Canada has the right to vote in an election of members of the House of Commons or of a legislative assembly and to be qualified for membership therein.

Marginal note:Maximum duration of legislative bodies

• 4. (1) No House of Commons and no legislative assembly shall continue for longer than five years from the date fixed for the return of the writs at a general election of its members. (81)

• Marginal note:Continuation in special circumstances

  (2) In time of real or apprehended war, invasion or insurrection, a House of Commons may be continued by Parliament and a legislative assembly may be continued by the legislature beyond five years if such continuation is not opposed by the votes of more than one-third of the members of the House of Commons or the legislative assembly, as the case may be. (82)

Marginal note:Annual sitting of legislative bodies

5. There shall be a sitting of Parliament and of each legislature at least once every twelve months. (83)

Here are your tasks:
Role Play: Breaking Bad Habits
Write an email to a friend struggling with an unhealthy habit like smoking or alcohol, and suggest a hobby as a replacement, e.g. painting.
Use the lessons you learnt from this week.
Publish your writing artefact on your e-portfolio.

Dear brother:
     How long have not see,how about you recently?
Three months ago, I came  to Canada.I have already broken smoke, I  feel very nice.So I think that you might consider to breaking smoke.Smoking is a bad habit,it makes a lot of illness,so you might to quit .
How about gardening ?I remember that you  very love plants,so you must be enjoy gardening.I have bought several books about gardening.I will send to you next week.Hope you like it.

        cheers,
         liu
         Sep 23,2016

Here are your tasks:

1.             Role play: Eating Unhealthy Food

2.             Read the labels on this page, and make a list of items you would buy, giving reasons.

BUY	WHY
	whole grains no high fructose corn syrup
	less high fructose corn syrup than tomato, natural flavoring , vitamin A and vitamin C
	no artificial no high fructose corn syrup natural flavor
	no high fructose corn syrup no artificial sweet
	organic 100% pure maple syrup

Wednesday's Assignment

Wednesday's Assignment

Here are your tasks:
1.Check out some examples of invitations, and share two favourites with a partner, giving reasons.
                                       
I like this picture,because its color is bright ,and its illustration is brief and easy.

2.Write a formal invitation for a group function (such as a company picnic, BBQ, or potluck).
Have two partners check your writing.
Add a nice picture that enhances your invitation.

   Moon festival Potluck

bring something to share
Tuesday,September 15th
5:00pm to 10:00pm
owen's house
111 kingslake road
rsvp by  september 12th
to owen at owen1234@gmail.com

Here are your tasks:
1.Look for at least 5 new words about Governor Simcoe here.
coincidence:a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection.
resonate:produce or be filled with a deep, full, reverberating sound.
curriculum:the subjects comprising a course of study in a school or college.
abolishment:to do away with; put an end to;
initiated:cause (a process or action) to begin..

2.Listen to the story using a free TTS (Text-to-Speech) website online.
3.Find the meaning of those words.
4.Read the sentences containing those words to a partner to check for pronunciation.
5.Wait for class take up.
6.Write a dialogue using those words.
7.Read your classmates’ stories and identify their words from Simcoe’s story under Comments.

Here are your tasks:
1.Identify the tenses used in the chairman’s message.
Here are barbecue ,family fun, food and entertainment on the summer calendar



2.Then identify 10 useful adjectives.
largest,proud, annual , favourite,long, small,charitable,Organized ,over,raised


Click on all the links at the site and tell a partner what the top three thing are that you’d like to do there.
Under Comments below, list your proposed field trip itinerary for Friday, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

ere are your tasks:

1. Scan this report for 5 minutes, and then discuss with a partner before class take up.
1. What is the huge problem mentioned?

 "Indian problem,to eradicate a people's sense of themselves and their rightful place in the history of the country.

1. What are some things the author's grandmother learnt?

 she learned how to cook, sew, clean, launder and take care of a home. 

my first day in Canada

When I arrived Pearson international airport,I find that the sky is clear and the air is fresh,so I love Canada immediately. In my past thinking, Canada was a very cold country,The winter was very long and chill.