Thursday 22 October 2015

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Thursday's Assignment

So, does the thought of exercise cause you to sweat?
Let's talk about exercise today.
Here are your tasks:
  1. Share your notes from this morning's talk on your blog.
  2. Role Play: Walking or Running as Exercise
    1. Practise speaking aloud by yourself.
    2. Get a partner to practise it with you.
    3. Make a chirbit recording of your conversation.
  3. Listening and vocabulary: Exercise Program
  4. Listening and comprehension: A Healthy Lifestyle
    1. Listen first without CC.
    2. Then click on CC and follow, checking for comprehension.
How many mistakes can you find in the following:

1. AIDS, Parkinson's, and cancer aren't ancient but modern diseases. Physicians think these are caused by unhealthy lifestyle. Many people don't keep fit. They live sedentary life in front of a computer playing internet games. 

2. The Annual National Job Fair was held at Metro Toronto Convention Center in September. The main exhibitors included IBM, Loblaws and Federal Express. Because turnout was low last year, fewer people attended this year . Most people emailed their resumes as an attachment. However, some still submitted by hand or regular mail.

3.Among the thirty exhibitors at the job fair are McDonald, Toronto Police, Micro skills, Basics food, No Frills, Shoppers Drug Mart,Burger King, Toyota, Dragon Pearl Buffet, Toys'R'Us, Walmart, Ford, CIBC, Canadian Tire, American Express, and Visa.
  

1. preposition 2. SVA(subject-verb agreement) 3. CS(comma splice)
4. Fragment 5. run-on sentence 6. tense 7. proper nouns 8. spelling
9. Formatting(periods/commas/caps/spaces)

use a period after---a complete sentence, a command, most abbreviations (an acronym)

punctuation: comma, period, colon, dot, question mark, exclamation mark,

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