Jocelyne's Class Blog: August 2012

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

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

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) :)

Wednesday, August 1

Hyperpolyglots
Weekend Getaway

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