Volunteering

Are you interested in doing some volunteering? These two upcoming events are looking for volunteers. Could be fun!

Car Free Vancouver Day - click here

 

St. Patrick's Day 5K - click here

Pronunciation - voiceless "th"

Tongue Twisters

Try these tongue twisters at home, in front of your bathroom mirror :)


Listen to the tongue twisters here.

1. Thelma and Theo have bad breath.
2. Thieves are thankless thugs who deserve our wrath.
3. Nothing is worth thousands of deaths.

What are you thinking/sinking about?

This funny commercial shows why it's important to pronounce "th" correctly.

Dentist Appointment

1. A Dentist Appointment
2. Teeth and Dentists (Vocabulary, modals and conditionals)
3. Podcast - Seeing a Dentist
4. Podcast - Going to the Dentist

ISSofBC eNEWS

Click here to read ISS of BC e-news Feburary Issue

Income Tax Time

1. Listening -  Canada's Taxation System
2. Listening and Vocabulary - Filing Taxes

At the Pharmacy

Field Trip to the pharmacy
Morning class - Monday, Feb. 18. Meet at school at 9:00 a.m. or meet us in front of London Drugs at Granville and West Georgia at 9:30 a.m.

Afternoon class - Tuesday, Feb. 19. Please meet at school at 1:00 p.m.

Reading and Vocabulary
1. At the Pharmacy
2. Consulting a Pharmacist

Happy Valentine's Day!

More Heart Idioms

Robert's Symptoms

1.  Listen to Robert talking to his doctor about his symptoms. Fill in the blanks.

Robert's Symptoms

Dr. Porter: _______________________________________?
Robert: I did something to my back yesterday.
Dr. Porter: _______________________________________?
Robert: I was shovelling snow for two hours. The snow was really heavy after that big snowstorm we had yesterday. When I woke up this morning, ________________________________.
Dr. Porter: _______________________________________?
Robert: I have a __________ in my __________________ and I can't ___________________. My wife had to put my socks on.
Dr. Porter: Oh, dear. On a ____________ of 1 to 10, and 10 is the ________________, what number would you give the pain?
Robert: Hmmmm... Maybe ____________.
Dr. Porter: __________________________________________?
Robert: ____________ is the worst. I didn't go to work today because of the pain.
Dr. Porter: ______________________________________________________?
Robert: Yeah, __________________ all night.
Robert: Nope. Only the usual ______________________________.
Dr. Porter: All right. _____________________________________.

2.   

Now go to the HealthLink BC website. Find the Symptom Checker. Check Robert's symptoms based on the reading and listening we did in class. What is HealthLink's advice?

_______________________________________________________________________

Telephone: Making a Doctor's Appointment

Listening -Medical Advice
Listen at least once first without reading the text. 
There are exercises near the bottom of the page:
- Mixed up sentence
- Sentence and Vocabulary Matching
- Text Completion Quiz

How to Celebrate Chinese New Year

Listen and number the steps in the order you hear them.

Organ Donation

1. Podcast -  Donating an organ

2.  Google "Organ Donation BC".
Find the video called "Eva's Story" Watch the video and answer the questions.

1. How old is Eva? _________

2. What disease does Eva have?

a)    kidney disease

b)   kidney stones

c)    cystic fibrosis

3. Which organ transplant does she need?  __________________

4. How long do doctors expect her to live?  _______________

5. Why does Eva carry a pager with her at all times?

 ___________________________________________________________________________________________

5. How did Eva meet her two friends?  _________________________________________________

6. Go to 1:30 on the video. Listen and fill in the blanks:
There are ups and downs to knowing other people with CF. The ups _______________________
____________________________________; The down is ______________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________

7. What does CF stand for?  C_________ F_________ (Hint: see question 1)

8. What do you think “ups and downs” means? __________________________________________

9. How do you think Eva feels when she hears her pager at the end of the video?

_________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Reading - Read three times, then answer the questions.
Save a Life - Be an Organ Donor 

Get Ready for Yoga

Hi Students!

Are you looking forward to trying yoga next week? 
Please remember to

• bring a large towel OR a yoga mat
• wear comfortable clothing

Participation is optional. If you do not want to do yoga, you can just watch the class or you can do a reading or writing activity instead.


Schedule:
Morning students -  Monday 11:00-12:00
Afternoon students -  Tuesday 3:00 - 4:00

Yoga

Next  week, yoga teacher Suzanne will be coming to our classroom to introduce us to easy, beginner yoga. Bring a yoga mat with you if you have one. If not, bring a large towel. Make sure you wear comfortable clothing.

Schedule:

Morning Class: Monday, Feb. 4  11:00 - 12:00
Afternoon Class: Tues. Feb. 5 at 3:00 - 4:00

Listening: Marion's first yoga class

Vocabulary: skeleton

arm

internal organs

leg

Grammar Review - Linking words for cause and effect

QUIZ - because or because of

 

What are you up to this weekend?

 
Bring your family down to Vanier Park for a day of music, history, science, and art - with performances at all venues by Vancouver Academy of Music students. Plus, enjoy local food vendors and enter to win memberships and other great prizes.

Best of all? It's only $5 and includes admission to:

• Museum of Vancouver
• H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
• Vancouver Maritime Museum
• Vancouver Academy of Music
• City of Vancouver Archives
• and Bard on the Beach

16 & under visit FREE.

Click  Weekend Wander to visit the website.

 

Annoying Telemarketers

Have you ever felt harassed by telemarketers?

Listening - Stop Bugging Me
Reading - National Do Not Call List FAQs

If you want to stop receiving annoying phone calls, you can register your phone number on the
National Do Not Call List Website

Money Idioms

Do you burn through money? Money doesn't grow on trees, you know!

Learn more idioms about money here.

Listening: ABCs of Money Matters

Banking - Listening

Chequing Account

First Mountain Bank

Automated Phone Menu 1 

 Automated Phone Menu 2

Using Indirect Questions on the Telephone

We often use indirect questions when asking for information on the phone. Indirect questions are considered more polite.

Click on the links below for some exercises to practise asking indirect questions.



Activity 1

Activity 2

Activity 4


**PLEASE NOTE - If you are using Firefox, these activities will not work properly. Try using another browser such as Safari or Internet Explorer.

Reading: A Weather Illness Myth

Does cold weather actually make people sick?

Here are four activities based on the reading we did in class today:
1. Reading Activity
2. Idioms related to being sick
3. Main idea
4. Supporting details

Newcomer Newsletter

 

Click this link for the latest issue of the Newcomer Newsletter.

Not sure how to get your Canadian citizenship?

Worried about catching the flu this winter?

Interested in some tasty Canadian holiday traditions?

Then keep reading... and whatever you're celebrating, Happy Holidays from all of us here at Newcomer Newsletter!