January 30th

-INDIVIDUAL GRAMMAR PRACTICE WORKSHEET (see file below named WS jan 30th)

 

-WARM UP SPEAKING

*Canada stat holiday

*survey #6

 

-CANADIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE : AFTER CONFEDERATION, INTRODUCTION TO THE MAIN EVENTS IN MODERN CANADA

*reading +questions

*video “immigration” +questions

 

-EMPLOYMENT GOALS “EMAILS”

*review email style (formal/informal)

*writing an email (practice for binder, interacting with others)

WS jan 30th – KEY

WS jan 30th

after confederation questions

after confederation

email style review

EMAIL WRITING PRACTICE

immigration questions

SURVEY 6

CANADA STAT HOLIDAYS

 

 

 

next

-SPEAKING IN SMALL GROUPS

*what’s my job (word cloud)

*problem solving discussion

January 28th

-INDIVIDUAL GRAMMAR PRACTICE WORKSHEET (see file below named WS jan 28th)

 

-NUTRITION /HEALTH “HEALTH AND LFIESTYLE” : SPEAKING/INFORMATION EXCHANGING TASK IN SMALL GROUPS

*guess the disease

*injuries

*healthy lifestyle

 

> break

 

-EMPLOYMENT GOALS “TELEPHONE CALLS”, TAKING DOWN INFORMATION FROM TELEPHONE MESSAGES (WRITING PRACTICE for binder, interacting with others)

*example together

*taking necessary information from recorded phone messages

 

WS jan 28th – KEY

WS jan 28th

health-and-lifestyle-american-english-teacher-ver2-bw (1)

STUD guess the disease

taking messages example

taking messages PRACTICE

 

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January 27th

-INDIVIDUAL GRAMMAR PRACTICE WORKSHEET (see file below named WS jan 27th)

 

-FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH, EMPLOYMENT GOALS “INVITATIONS” (READING AND WRITING PRACTICE, FOR BINDER-understanding info)

*written invitations practice: reading and identifying WHAT, WHERE, WHO, WHEN

*writing an invitation

 

-FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH, MAKING REQUESTS

*review  (writing practice, reproducing info)

 

-FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH, EMPLOYMENT GOALS “REQUESTS AND INVITATIONS”

 

SPEAKING PRACTICE

*excuses

 

Invitations_and_excuses_red

STUD Making_requests__asking_for_permission_1355931538

WS jan 27th – KEY

WS jan 27th

Written invitations practice

January 26th

-INDIVIDUAL GRAMMAR PRACTICE WORKSHEET (see file below named WS jan 26th)

 

—> WELCOME MAY! SHE IS GOING TO OBSERVE OUR CLASS FOR SOME TIME AS SHE IS STUDYING TO BECOME AN ESL TEACHER!-

 

-EMPLOYMENT GOALS, TELEPHONE CALLS: TAKING DOWN INFO ON THE PHONE. “VOICE MAIL MESSAGES”

*listening and taking down the message

*audio 7.7

 

–> break

 

-VOCABULARY FOCUS  “TELEPHONE TERMINOLOGY”

*in small groups or pairs

 

 

-CONTINUING THE SPEAKING PRACTICE IN SMALL GROUPS/PAIRS

*discuss health survey

 

WS jan 26th – KEY

WS jan 26th

discuss_health

phone messages

STUD telephone terminology

 

next

-HEALTH/ NUTRITION THEME “HEALTH AND LIFESTYE”

*guess the disease from the symptoms (speaking in small groups or pairs)

January 25th

-INDIVIDUAL GRAMMAR PRACTICE WORKSHEET (see file below named Ws jan 25th)

 

-FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH “INVITATIONS USING MODALS”

*3 dialogues with questions

*expressions

 

 

– MAKING REQUESTS WRITING PRACTICE (practice for binder, interacting with others)

*requests/invitations

 

WS jan 25th – KEY

WS jan 25th

92_Accepting-and-Declining-Invitations_Can

basic expressions for invitations

invitations intro

STUDrequests-fun-activities-games_48803

 

 

next

-SPEAKING IN SMALL GROUPS, VOCABULARY FOCUS

*excuses

*help me out

January 23rd

-INDIVIDUAL GRAMMAR PRACTICE WORKSHEET (see file below named WS jan 23rd)

 

-WARM UP SPEAKING

*animals in Canada

*work mini survey

 

-CANADIAN CULTURE AND HISTORY: FOCUS POINT “THE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH”

*video (listening) and questions

*extra video “The West Rush”

 

-EMPLOYMENT GOALS “EMAILS”

*email parts and layout, review (+sample)

*email style: subjects practice

*language style in emails : formal and informal

 

-WRITING PRACTICE FOR BINDER “EMAILS” (getting things done)

*2 emails: one formal and one informal

 

 

WS jan 23rd KEY

WS jan 23rd

emails sample practice

history focus point KLONDIKE

STUD animals Canada-for-Kids 5 –

work mini survey

74_Email_Can

STUDPages from email-style-american-english-teacher-ver2-bw

STUDPages from Canada-for-Kids

 

EXTRA READING (OPTIONAL) THE CHINESE WORKERS DURING THE RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION

Chinese-canadian-life-on-the-railway

 

 

next

-SPEAKING IN SMALL GROUPS

*what’s my job (word cloud)

*what’s my job (descriptive)

 

January 21st

-INDIVIDUAL GRAMMAR PRACTICE WORKSHEET (see file below named WS jan 21st)

 

-7pm: HARKIRAT WILL JOIN US TO BRIEFLY GO OVER GGP CLIENT SURVEY 2021 (IT WAS POSTED ON FACEBOOK AND ON OUR GROUP. IF YOU HAVE ALREADY COMPLETED IT, PLEASE BE PATIENT. IF YOU HAVE NOT COMPLETED IT YET, PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK THAT WILL BE PROVIDED AND COMPLETE THE SURVEY. HARKIRAT WILL HELP WITH SOME TRICKY QUESTIONS)

 

-EMPLOYMENT GOALS, TELEPHONE CALLS-LISTENING PRACTICE FOR THE BINDER (GETTING THINGS DONE, UNDERSTANDING OPINIONS, SUGGESTIONS)

 

*Radio Program about PET PEEVES (NUISANCES) ON THE PHONE +questions

 

WS jan 21st – KEY

WS jan 21st

pet peeves on the phone

pet peeves transcript

 

 

 

NEXT

 

-DICTATION EMAILS, NUMBERS, NATO ALPHABET

-HEALTH AND NUTRITION THEME: “HEALTH AND LIFESTYLE”

*guessing the problem by the symptoms (small groups/pairs)

*injuries

*reading a prescription drug label (small pairs/groups)

January 20th

-INDIVIDUAL GRAMMAR PRACTICE WORKSHEET (see file below named WS jan 20th)

 

-FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH, EMPLOYMENT GOALS “ASKING FOR PERMISSION WITH MODALS ”

*3 dialogues +questions

*choose correct response

 

Ws jan 20th – KEY Ws jan 20th 92_Asking-for-Permission_Can permission-requests

 

 

 

 

January 19th

-INDIVIDUAL GRAMMAR PRACTICE WORKSHEET (see file below named WS jan 19th)

 

-EMPLOYMENT GOALS, TELEPHONE CALLS

*sentence review:  listening + task (identifying sentences and expressions)

 

-TELEPHONE MESSAGES: TAKING INFORMATION AND EXPRESSIONS

*leaving a message

*dialogues 1-2

*taking down information

*checking information on the phone:videos (email dictation), phone numbers

 

 

taking information

telephone calls review

telephone-messages-american-english-intermediate-group-american-english-teacher-bw

WS jan 19th – KEY

WS jan 19th

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 18th

-INDIVIDUAL GRAMMAR PRACTICE WORKSHEET (see file below named WS jan 18th)

 

-FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH +EMPLOYMENT, MAKING REQUESTS (REVIEW)

*3 videos to review requests

*dictation practice (3 requests)

 

-SPEAKING PRACTICE FOR THE BINDER , MAKING REQUESTS

*making polite requests

*classroom requests

 

-WRITING QUICK PRACTICE “MAKING REQUESTS”

*asking for info

 

 

WS jan 18th – KEY

WS jan 18th

 

Classrooom_requests___with-answers-2018

Making-polite-requests-2018

requests review