Monday, December 31

Homework: Review Unit 1 Vocabulary and finish Unit One Picture Dictionary
Resolutions
Happy New Year!

Friday, December 28

A UFO Story
Grammar Game
Virtual Dice
Conversation Cards

Thursday, December 27

Homework: Finish writing your letter.
Pen Friend
Personal Information
Error Analysis

Wednesday, December 26

Homework: Ask a NEW person six questions from Meeting new people. Write the answers in the google document you opened in class.
Sentence Sort

Wednesday, December 19

Homework: Practice: Present Perfect Continuous - Exercises 18.2 and 18.3
Notes: Present Perfect Continuous
Grammar: Present Perfect Continuous
Sports: Find someone who...

Tuesday, December 18

Homework: Vocabulary Diction - listen to the audio and write everything you hear here.
Christmas Cloze
Christmas Vocabulary

Monday, December 17

Homework: Finish Unit 12 Picture Dictionary
Unit 11 Quiz
Active/Passive Review

Friday, December 14

Homework: Study for Unit 11 Quiz: past and present passive, Unit 11 vocabulary
Listening: Colombia
Christmas Event

Thursday, December 13

Homework: True or False
BBC Learning English
Present Passive
Student A / Student B

Wednesday, December 12

Homework: Past Passive Practice
Famous Landmarks

Tuesday, December 11

Homework: Practice past participles and pronunciation.
Past Participle Speaking
Past Participle Practice
Past Participle Notes
Unit 11 Picture Dictionary

Monday, December 10

Homework: Read over vocabulary page (if you don't understand check in the dictionary NOT google translate)
Unit 10 Quiz
Laura's Dream
What did you do on the weekend?

Friday, December 7

Homework: Study for quiz (I wish/hope, 2nd Conditional / 1st Conditional, Unit 10 Vocabulary)
Writing Topic
Song: If I had a million dollars...

Thursday, December 6

Homework: 2nd Conditional / Wish - Exercises 35.1 and 35.2
15 Unmissable Christmas Events
Top 5 Xmas Concerts

Wednesday, December 5

Homework: Writing
Notes: 1st vs 2nd Conditional

Tuesday, December 4

Homework: Write 5 questions in the 2nd conditional for your classmates.
Example: What would you do if you won a billion dollars?Notes: 2nd Conditional
Hopes and Dreams

Monday, December 3

Homework: Finish Unit 10 Picture Dictionary
Unit 9 Quiz

Friday, November 30

Christmas Bus Tour - Groupon Deal

Thursday, November 29

Homework: Grammar Exercise #1
If clauses
Santa Claus Parade

Wednesday, November 28

Homework: Finish writing future sentences.
Tree Lighting Ceremony

Tuesday, November 27

Homework: Grammar Exercise

Future: Making Plans
Travel Near and Far

Monday, November 26

Homework: Vocabulary Exercise
Unit 9 Picture Dictionary
Unit 8 Quiz

Friday, November 23

Homework:
1. Writing: Advice Letter
2. Study for quiz - Must, Have to, Should, Unit 8 Vocabulary
Problems Page
Good Advice
Vancouver Aquarium - Luminescence 

Thursday, November 22

Homework: 1. Review grammar. 2. Finish writing the education paragraph.
Carol Cruise - Groupon Deal

Wednesday, November 21

Life of a Letter
Yaletown Candy Town

Wednesday, November 21

Homework: Have to / Must Practice - Exercises 31.2 and 31.3

Country Obligations
Notes: Have to / Must

Tuesday, November 20

Reading

Tuesday, November 20

Homework: Vocabulary dictation - Listen to the audio and write the sentences.
What type of learner are you?
Unit 8 Picture Dictionary
Yaletown Candytown

Monday, November 19

Homework: Vocabulary Exercise
Unit 7 Test
For and Since Practice
Groupon - Cheap Christmas Market Tickets
Vancouver Christmas Market

Friday, November 16

Homework: Writing - Favourite Musician
Study for quiz: Present Perfect, Simple Past and Unit 7 Vocabulary

Find Someone Who...

Past and Past Participle
Eastside Culture Crawl
Hopscotch - Scotch Festival

Thursday, November 15

Homework: Read the grammar notes and do Exercise #1
Notes

Wednesday, November 14

Homework: Present Perfect Practice: Exercises 4.1, 4.2
Irregular Verb List
Present Perfect Exercise
Present Perfect Listening

Tuesday, November 13

Homework: Vocabulary Exercise
Unit 6 Quiz

Friday, November 9

Homework:
1)  Grammar Exercise #1
2) Study for quiz on Monday (like, comparatives, superlatives, Unit 6 vocabulary)

Vancouver Reading
FSJ Reading

Remembrance Day Events
Record Fair
Christmas Craft Markets
Vancouver Aquarium

Thursday, November 8

Homework: Prepare Hometown Presentation
Plenty to do
Scan, Sort and Earn

Wednesday, November 7

Homework: Comparisons Practice - Fill in the chart and complete the sentences.
Comparisons
Picture Connections

Tuesday, November 6

Homework: Grammar Exercise #2
City Adjectives
City Listening

Monday, November 5

Unit 5 Quiz
Will and Going to
Future: Present Continuous

Thursday, November 1

Homework: Write a paragraph about your future plans for Monday.

Future Intentions
20 Unmissable Events in November
Vancouver International Improv Festival

Halloween!!! October 31

Homework: Verb Patterns B -  Exercise #1

Verb Patterns B
Monster Riddles
Halloween Vocabulary

Tuesday, October 30

Homework:
1. Vocabulary dictation - Listen to the audio and write the sentences.
2. Study Verb Patterns A - Start memorizing them.

Verb Patterns A

Monday, October 29

PM2: It should be banned!

Homework: Finish Unit 5 Picture Dictionary and be ready to present your words to the class tomorrow (pronunciation and meaning).
Unit Four Test
A, An, The

Friday, October 26

Homework: Study for Monday's quiz (all expressions of quantity, Unit 4 vocabulary)

Practice: Expressions of Quantity
Expressions of Quantity
Shopping
Urbanspoon
Yelp

Thursday, October 25

Conversation: How adaptable are you?
Culture Shock: Student 1 / Student 2 / Student 3 / Student 4 / Student 5

Homework: Grammar Exercises #3 and #4 and finish writing

PM2 - Wednesday, October 24

Conversation Cards

Pair Dictation: Student A / Student B

PM2

Conversation
Responses

Tuesday, October 23

Homework: Finish your paragraph about your partner's country. Write in a google doc and share it with me.
Much, Many, A lot of

Monday, October 22

Homework: Finish Unit 4 Picture Dictionary
Unit 3 Test
Time Expressions
Prepositions of Time

Friday, October 19

Homework:
1. Finish Halloween story
2. Study for quiz: Unit 3 Vocabulary, Simple Past, Past Continuous
Picture Sentences
Halloween Cloze

Thursday, October 18

Homework: Finish Past Continuous Practice (exercises 12.2, 12.3, 12.4)

Past Continuous

Vancouver Events:
Latte Art Competition
Vancouver Writers Festival
Savour at Lonsdale Quay
Greek Food Festival
Stanley Park Ghost Train
School Trip on Friday: Fright Nights at the PNE

Wednesday, October 17

Wine Tours
Science and Technology

Homework
Ed endings

Tuesday, October 16

Invention Discussion: Student A / Student B

Homework:  The Burglar's Friend - Grammar Spot (blue box)

Monday, October 15

Can you explain it?

Homework: Vocabulary Exercise

Unit 3 Picture Dictionary
Unit 2 Quiz
Find Someone Who

Friday, October 12

Homework: Study for Unit 2 Quiz (present simple, present continuous, state/dynamic verbs, vocabulary)
Writing
Present Continuous Picture
Science World is free this Saturday and Sunday!!
UBC Apple Festival
Granville Island Walkabout

Thursday, October 11

Stop Bugging Me!

Homework - Grammar: Exercise #3
Writing
What are they doing?: Student A / Student B
Word Stress
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Wednesday, October 10

Idioms: Student 1 / Student 2

Homework: Simple Present vs Present Continuous exercise 3.2

Discussion: Adverbs of Frequency

Tuesday, October 9

Homework: Complete vocabulary exercise.
Unit 2 Picture Dictionary

Thursday, October 4

Homework: Parts of speech worksheet
Grammar: Simple Present
Discussion: Routines

BBC Learning English
Elllo
Randell's Listening Lab

Wednesday, October 3

Marriage
Homework: Pronoun Practice exercise 4b. Read Parts of Speech notes and watch videos.

Notes: Pronouns
Pronouns
Personal Information
Reading: Thanksgiving
20 Unmissable Events in October

PM2

Disagreeing and interrupting

Tuesday, October 2

Homework: Finish paragraph about YOU.

Getting to know you
Notes

PM2

Paralanguage
Paralanguage Listening

Monday, October 1

Homework: Vocabulary Dictation - listen to the audio and write what you hear here. Please share with me.

Unit One Picture Dictionary
Breaking the ice

Thursday, September 27

Survivor
Sentence Sort
Passive Review
Error analysis

Vancouver International Film Festival
Moon Festival at Sun Yet Sen Garden

PM2

Group1
Group 2
Group 1 Test
Group 2 Test

Wednesday, September 26

Homework: Come to class with AT LEAST 1 review question for the test.
Picture
Improve your memory
Peer Editing
Hockey Song

Tuesday, September 25

Homework: Write the partner interview article. Use the Celebrity Interview as an example.

Word Game

PM2

Small Talk

Monday, September 24

Homework: The Hockey Song - Part A, think of questions and topics for review week.
Unit 12 Test

Friday, September 21

Homework: Study for Monday's test (present perfect, present perfect continuous, simple past, vocabulary from Unit 12).

Writing: Athlete Biography
Mystery Biography

Bio 1
Bio 2
Bio 3
Bio 4
Bio 5
Bio 6
Bio 7
Bio 8
Bio 9
Bio 10
Bio 11
Bio 12

Thursday, September 20

Homework: Present Perfect/Continuous - exercise 18.2 and 18.3

Which one?
What sports do you like?
Cambridge Dictionary
Longman Dictionary
Dynamic / State verb list

PM2

City Tour
Stress Patterns
Word Stress Guidelines

Wednesday, September 19

Homework: Write 5 questions with "Have you ever...?" for your classmates.
Present Perfect: Conversation
Today's Notes

PM2

Speaking 1
Speaking 2
Speaking 3
Speaking 4
Speaking 5
Speaking 6
Speaking 7

Tuesday, September 18

Homework: Part 2 of the reading exercise started in class.

Find someone who... Sports

PM 2

Animal Rights

Monday, September 17

Homework: Vocabulary dictation - listen to the audio, then write the sentence.
Unit 12 Picture Dictionary
Unit 11 Quiz

Friday, September 14

Homework: Finish writing country paragraph and
study for Monday's quiz (Unit 11 vocabulary, simple present passive and simple past passive).
Countries Listening

Thursday, September 13

Homework: True or False?
Present Passive
ED Endings

Wednesday, September 12

Homework: Past Passive Worksheet

1. Write your homework in a new google document.
2. Change the title to: Name Passive Homework.
3. Share the document with me (blue button) - jocelyne.lahaye@canada-english.com

Famous Artists: student A / student B
Famous Landmarks
Passive Notes

10 Free Things to do in September
Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
After Hours at Vancouver Aquarium
Vancouver Fringe Festival

PM2

Pronunciation - Odd One Out

Tuesday, Septemper 11

Homework: Study the Past Participles exercise and review the Irregular Verbs List

Monday, September 10

Unit 11 Picture Dictionary
Unit 10 Quiz

Wednesday, August 29

Making Plans

Tuesday, August 28

Homework: Vocabulary Dictation - listen to audio and write exactly what he says!
Unit 9 Picture Dictionary
Travel Near and Far

Monday, August 27

Extra Listening Practice:
British Council
ESOL

Monday, August 27

Unit 9 Picture Dictionary
Unit 8 Test

Friday, August 24

Homework:
1. Study for quiz (must, have to, should, Unit 8 vocabulary)
2. Finish your advice letter.
Problem Page

Thursday, August 23

Homework: Grammar 8-3 #2
Advice
10 Must Do Vancouver Summer Activities
Vancouver Trails

Wednesday, August 22

Homework: Have to / Must Exercise - Read the the first page and complete exercises 31.2, 31.3 and 31.4
Notes: Have to / Must

Tuesday, August 21

Homework:
1. Review Vocabulary
2. Finish Reading Exercise
Unit 8 Picture Dictionary

Monday, August 20

Homework: Simple Past vs Present Perfect Exercises 20.1, 20.2
Unit 7 Quiz
Practice: Present Perfect

Friday, August 17

Homework: For and Since part B

Have a good weekend!!

Thursday, August 16

Homework: Finish Favourite Musician Paragraph - Writing Topic (we're going to have a presentation on this topic tomorrow)
Find Someone Who...
10 Free Things to do in August
20 Unmissable Vancouver Events
Wendy

Wednesday, August 15

Homework:
1. Review the irregular verb list.
2. Do exercise 67a and 67b
Present Perfect
Present Perfect Conversation
Urbanspoon
Wendy

Tuesday, August 14

Homework:  Vocabulary Exercise
Present Perfect: Present Perfect
Unit 7 Picture Dictionary
Wendy

Monday, August 13

Homework: Reading Exercise
Notes: Comparisons with 'as...as'
Wendy
City Reading: Student A / Student B
Cambridge Dictionary
Longman Dictionary

Friday, August 10

Homework: 1. Read - Notes: Comparatives  2. Do Comparatives Exercise #1
Conversation: Student A / Student B
Speaking: Comparatives
Comparatives and Superlatives

20 Unmissable Vancouver Events in August

Thursday, August 9

Homework - Finish Writing: Hometown
City Listening
Describing a city
Wendy

Wednesday, August 8

Homework: Vocabulary Exercise - make a copy and write your answers in the Google Doc
What are your interests?
Unit 6 Picture Dictionary

Tuesday, August 7

Homework: Finish the Hockey Sweater questions.
The Hockey Song

Friday, August 3

Homework: Inversion - question #6
Register: Final Example
Pronunciation Poem

• StudioClassroom

I used this when I was in University.
They have a 30 minutes radio program or TV program everyday.
And if you don't speak Mandarin, you can also use this to learn some Mandarin.

• Australia Network

You could find living English, study English, and business English on this website.
I use it to learn English before I came to Canada.

Learning English with www.leo.org

leo.org is a german-english, french, spanish, italian, chinese and russian dictionary which I often use.
This dictionary also has language forums and a vocabulary trainer.
If you are looking for a word, it has more results so you can find the best one. In addition you can listen to the words if you don't know how to pronounce it.
I find it very helpful because I can see different ways to say one word and  it is very easy to use.

learning English with Randall's

Randall is a webpage that helps students to practice and improve listening and pronunciation. The listening lessons are divided in different levels so you can chose between easy, medium and difficult. Also, each lesson has some vocabulary activities such as sentence and vocabulary matching, ordering sentences and a lot more. The best part is that it is FREE! 

http://www.esl-lab.com/

Websites that are useful for learning English

http://www.engvid.com/

This website has a lot of English knowledge separated by topics such as, TOEFL, IELT, pronunciation, slang, grammar, and they also group them by a level of students.  You can search about the topic that you want to know in this website. They teach me some common mistakes in English and how different some words are.

http://www.gingersoftware.com/grammarcheck/

This website is used for grammar checking.  It's free website.  I use this website when I finish some writing for checking my grammar and learn what my grammar mistake is.

Learning english: a well-known dictionary.

In my opinion, having a good english-english dictionary is quite useful.
The one I've always used is the Cambridge Dictionaries Online.
Hopefully, soon I'll find a nice idioms dictionary too.

This dictionary is very helpful, because it offers me British and American definitions and shows the word's pronunciation. Moreover, it has related words and examples. Nevertheless, I usually don't use it.

Thursday, August 2

Homework: Finish the Register assignment and share it with me.
ELLLO
BBC Learning English
Alfresco Potluck Dinners
Picture Connections

TOEFL

Integrated Writing Rubric

Wells Gray

Well Grays is know as a place to canoeing, kayaking, rafting, fly-fishing, hiking, camping and horseback riding. Especially in summer, you can get their special packages, which include 2 nights accommodation, breakfast and dinner + picnic for lunch. The packages, in general, cost between $220 and $350. Some of the packages includes bear watching, guide hiking, Kayaking, canoeing, sightseeing and horse back ride.


In addition to this packages, you also can do rafting in clearwater’s rafting & fitness centre, go to the clearwater’s farmer market, fly fishing, biking, take the airstrip, golf, visit the trout hatchery, enjoy the salmon viewing and for kids they can have fun in the agriculture tourism, where they can play with animals and plants.

• group of friends
• weather
• transportation: RV (motor home), 5 hours drive

Salt Spring's natural beauty

Salt Spring Island 

This is a trip Special for a group of friends that want to have a good time in a charming and beautiful Island. Salt Spring is an island of enchanting beauty, Mediterranean climate (not too hot, not too cold) and friendly people. 

Schedule:

Depart from Vancouver on Friday at 2:00 pm arrive to Salt Spring Island at 3:30 pm.

Return on Sunday at 8:50 pm, arrive to Vancouver at 10:20 pm.

Price: 34.9 $ per person.

Accommodation: 

There you are going to stay in the Mowhinna Creek Campground. It cost $20-$35. It is centrally located and it includes showers and playground

Acctivities:

  Friday:

 you are going to enjoy the beautiful galleries, because Salt Spring’s reputation as one of the top small town arts destinations in North America.

Also, we will go to Hike up Mt. Maxwell one of the best scenic views of the Gulf Islands can be enjoyed from the top.

 Saturday:

The Saturday Market

Salt Spring artisans, farmers and creative types arrive early each Saturday morning to set up the 140 market tables and tents.

Sunday:

Saltspring Beaches – great for swimming and beachcombing, we will do activities on the beach, like sealing and kayaking.




http://saltspringtourism.com/

Vancouver Getaway

1st day vancover

100$ for accommodation
sight seeing
standley park - kayaking 2hrs 49$(2people)
Marble Slab Creamery (8$)Santouka (Raman 12$)
Salathai (Thai food 15~20$)
MoMo sushi (12$)
Sam gyeop sal (16.5$)

2nd day victoria

paliament building
$9 Craigdarroch Castle
$120 whale seeing 3.5 hrs
$40 ferry 1.35 hrs
$21.60 BC museum

3rd day whistler

$88 per person for transportation
$ 130 bungee jump

$139 zip lining + p2p gondola

Lillooet getaway!

Tired of wandering around Stanley Park? Sick of visiting the same museums over and over?
Let's try something new!! Who's in?

This weekend Maria, Marissa and I are going to Lilloet, B.C. (check it out!) 

Far away from the cities, overlooking the Fraser River and against the Coast Mountains, Lillooet is an ideal place to hike, fish, bird and bear watching, sightseeing and explore Canadian history and culture. Home of the St'at'imc First Nation, it offers everything we were looking for, and the best part is that it is quite cheap!

In this exciting 3 days, which start on Friday at lunch time and after a 4 hours drive, we will do a lot of activities. And don't worry, the forecast is really good!
Of course, you can join us for all the five meals, and at night in the Canada Best Value Inn Mile.

Below is all the information:

Forecast:

Friday

Sunny. Low 15. High 34.

Saturday

Sunny. Low 18. High 38.

Sunday

Sunny. Low 19. High 37.

Monday

Sunny. Low 15. High 31.

Transportation:  by a rent car, $130 each car in total.

Driving directions.

Acommodation:

Canada Best Value Inn Mile - Lillooet

Deluxe Double Room with two Double Beds

Total price for 3 nights: $300.04

For each person: $100

Activities: 

Xwísten Experience Tour

Kayaking in the Lake

Hang around at the Lakes and have a Picnic

Music at the Miyazaki Festival

Hiking at the closest mountain (examples: The Joffre Glacier Group and Mount Matier)

Jade Trail

Plants and animals will surprise us, we don’t like to have everything planned beforehand.

Marble Canyon Provincial Park

Where to eat: 

There are a lot of different restaurants there (chinese, japanese, greek, italian)

after having dinner → pubs

Cookhouse restaurant: regional cuisine> http://thecookhouse.com/

German-canadian bakery> http://www.lillooetbakery.theshoppe.com/

Groceries stores: familyfoods and buy-low foods.

Final price for Hotel, Car, Food, Drinks, Activities: $ 250 tops each person, including  $ 130 ( around 5 meals)  :)