The Flu Shot

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/29/reason-get-flu-shot-why_n_6194600.html

Whatever you think about the flu shot, here are some points to consider.

Please read for Thursday

A colleague brought this article to my attention.  Please read it for Thursday.


http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/a-voice-of-authority-people-can-recognize-high-power-voices-study-finds-1.2118494 

Reading for Tuesday

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/distracted-driving-is-the-new-drunk-driving/article21680846/


Read the article, and come prepared to discuss main points and details.
Take note of collocations.
What is your opinion on this issue?

Please read this article for Thursday

 OPINION


 

 This article includes vocabulary that will be challenging; I encourage you to read carefully, and look up words that impede your ability to grasp main points.

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/11/17/margaret-somerville-the-ethics-of-egg-freezing/

Frugality: some tips

http://business.financialpost.com/2014/11/15/i-once-made-my-own-laundry-detergent-tips-from-canadas-most-frugal-bloggers/

Interesting article

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/11/13/magie-dominic-new-york-by-way-of-newfoundland/

Opinion Essay: vaccines and vaccinations

What's the difference?
from the Longman Dictionary:

vac‧cine [uncountable and countable]

a substance which contains a weak form of the bacteria or virus that causes a disease and is used to protect people from that disease:

a polio vaccine

Doctors worried that there would not be enough vaccine for everyone who needed it.

 

vac‧cin‧ate [transitive]

to protect a person or animal from a disease by giving them a vaccine [= immunize]

vaccinate somebody against something

All children should be vaccinated against measles.

—vaccination noun [uncountable and countable]

a flu vaccination

 

 

 

Here is some suggested reading regarding vaccinations.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm
http://www.ontario.ca/health-and-wellness/flu-shot-safety
http://www.immunizebc.ca/diseases-vaccinations/chickenpox
http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/public/programs/immunization/myths.aspx
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/im/index-eng.php

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

 

 Computer Lab
1. Use the program intended to help you increase your reading speed.

2. FACT or OPINION?

Please record your results.
Read first, then try the quiz:
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/~steuben/factopinion.htm

This one is a little more challenging:

http://users.dhp.com/~laflemm/RfT/Tut2.htm

3.Vocabulary Study:
http://www.testmagic.com/toefl/gramm_quizzes/181_190/toefl_q181_frameset_copy%281%29.htm

4. Here is a musical rendition of the famous Canadian poem, "In Flanders Fields"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcPUpjIFI9o
There are many available on youtube, as well as many videos related to Remembrance Day.

Behaviours in an academic context OR elsewhere...

 

Watch this video and be prepared to discuss the points made.
Have you tried these strategies?
Do you recognize the validity of the premise that punctuality is important?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bow7q-pfXkY


This next video examines cultural variations in the understanding of time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fz6pl5xo5M&spfreload=1

Remembrance Day, November 11, 2014

Why is it important to you?

Check out this art installation in England:
 http://poppies.hrp.org.uk/







    
http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng  
click on Remembrance

This is a collection of historic photos and a famous poem written by a Canadian, followed by a song by Bryan Adams. Try the quiz after you watch the video.
http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_intermediate.php?id=2804

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

  
Do you recognize these characters? They are Winnie-the-Pooh, and Tigger, made famous by A.A. Milne. There is an interesting story behind their creation--see if you can find out what it is.

Please come prepared to discuss literature on Thursday. This is an important component of your studies.
Thank you to those of you who volunteered to do the vocabulary study for Sublist 4.
Remember to study and review. One tool is: http://www.englishvocabularyexercises.com/AWL/id24.htm

If you have been absent, ask your peers about work you missed.

This morning we will be looking at tense shifts. http://www.chompchomp.com/presentations.htm
Click on the presentation for tense shifts. We will be working on these later again.
Then try some exercises:
http://www.chompchomp.com/frag05/frag05.htm
http://www.chompchomp.com/handouts/csfs05.pdf