Friday, December 11, 2015

Articles
1. We use a/ an when we are talking about something for the first time.
   *He is wearing a suit and a tie.
   *They have a cat.
   *I saw a good movie last night.
   *She took a glass of water and started to drink.
   *I need to see a doctor.

2. We use the when we are talking about a specific person or thing, or if there is only one, or if it is         clear which one we are talking about.
   *She took the glass of water beside her.
   *Can you turn on the TV.
   *I have to see the doctor tomorrow.
   *How many people have walked on the moon?
   *The best film I've ever seen is Top Gun.
   *The carrots growing in my garden are almost ready y good for you.
   *English people drink a lot of tea.

3. We use no article when we are talking about people or things in general.
   *Carrots are good for you.
   *English people drink a lot of tea.

4. We use a/an to say what kind of person or thing someone or something is (often with an adjective),     or to say it belongs to a particular group.
5. With school, university, prison, hospital, church, bed, work and home we use the when we are             talking about a particular one, and no article when we are talking about the idea of school,                 university...
6. W use the with singular countable nouns to talk about a type of thing.
7. We use the + adjective to talk about a group of people(including nationalities)
8. We use a/an to talk about someone's job or nationality or religion.
9. We use no article with continents, countries, regions, cities, streets, mountains, lakes and parks.
    We use the if the country contains kingdom, republic, state, union.
10. We use the with plural names of people and places.
11. We use the with oceans, seas, rivers and canals.
12. We use the with north, south, east and west to talk about the location of a place inside another             place, but no article to compare the location of two places. We  use no article with northern,             southern, eastern and western.
13. We normally use the with buildings, except if the first word is the name of a place.
14. We use no article with names of sports or academic subjects.

Common First Names of Adults

Beef Stew Recipe

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Capitals
1. use a capital for the first word in every sentence.
2. Use capital letters for titles.
3. Use capital letters for the names of people and places. These are called Proper Nouns.
4. Use capital letters for the names of streets, cities, provinces, postal codes, countries and continents.
5. Use a capital letter for the word, I.

Period
1. Use a period at the end of a sentence.
2. Use a period after abbreviations.

Comma
1. Use a comma in a list of more than 2 things.
2. Use a comma after the name of a person you're writing to.
3. Use a comma after the yes or no in a sentence.
4. Use a comma when you use and to connect two sentences.

 Apostrophe
1. Use an apostrophe to write contractions.
2. use an apostrophe to show possession.

In at on Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Prepositions of time

in
a month(in July)
a season (in spring)
a year (in 2013)
part of a day (in the morning)
 on
a day (on Friday)
a date (on May 2nd)
a holiday with DAY (on Canada Day) / on my birthday
on the weekend
at
at a time (at 10 o'clock) / at rush hour
A holiday without DAY (at New Year's)
at noon / at midnight / at night
at lunch time / at coffee time

Nothing
 yesterday/last night/today/ this morning/ tonight/ tomorrow/  next week/ every day

Prepositions of place

in
a country (in Canada)
a province (in Ontario)
a city (in Toronto)
a room number (in apartment 5110 / in suite 406)
in church / in the house /in school / in class / in glade 5 /in the 3 row
in the picture/ in the photograph
in the mountain
in the armchair
in the car
in the grocery business
in accounting

on
a street (on Consumers Rd.)
a lake, river (on the shore of) on Lake Ontario, on the St. Lawrence River
a floor (on the 5th floor)
on the wall
on the front(back) of the bus
on the chair /on the table
on the bus/ subway/ streetcar
on the side of a house
on page 18
at
an address (at 200 Consumers Rd.)
at work
at home
at the retirement home
at 416-555-6729
at Fairview Mall/ at Pearson Airport
at school
at the lights
at the top (bottom) of the stairs
at the bus stop
at the corner
at the door
Nothing
He is going downtown/ inside/ outside/ upstairs/ downstairs

Monday, December 7, 2015

Friday, December 4, 2015

Friday 4th, Field Trip to CBC Sounds of the Season

Presentation

Hello, I'm Yucho . Today I'd like to share a little article I read before. As everyone knows, we need words, more words to express what is happening to us, our feelings and our thoughts. Although everything comes from our brain, we seem to separate our thoughts from our feelings. We place all our thoughts in the head and all our feelings in the heart. This can be seen in the expressions describing the brain and the heart. Our brain is complex and mysterious, too difficult to understand. But our heart is a simple muscle that pumps blood through our system. 
What more can be said after saying that a man has a good brain, a sharp one or a great one? But we have the large colorful of expressions for a poor brain, such as pinhead, fathead. thickheaded, knucklehead, bonehead, beetle-head, hammerhead, leather-head, mutton-head, blockhead, loggerhead, lunkhead, noddle-head, dimwit, nitwit--there are dozens of them. Our language is so negative when we forget that everything comes from our brain. 
Compare with the expressions that speak for the brain, we have created  a vast wealth of special phrases to express our feelings. They cover every kind of emotion, such as heartache, heartbreak, heart to heart talk, straight from the heart. A man of courage is stout-heart, brave-heart, great-heart. A gentle man is tender-heart, soft-heart. A good man has his heart in the right place. A fearful man has his heart in his mouth. A distrust man has his heart in his sleeves.  what is love, the poets told us that two hearts beat as one. Affection always comes from warm heart. 

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Thursday's Assignment

Good morning! Having seen the historical and popular Christmas, how about the commercial one?

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play: Boxing Day Sales
1. Do it aloud.
2. Practise with a partner aloud.
3. Record a chirbit.
2. Group writing of 3 sentences each: 1. Graph 1 2. Graph 2.
1. Make sure to discuss in a group of 3 or 4.
2. One person will write down a list of 6 points.
3. One will talk about Graph 1 while the others help.
4. Another will talk about Graph 2 while the others help.
5. If there's a fourth team member, that person will check the writing by sitting next to the writer.
3. Copy out the headline and subheads of this article.

1. http://chirb.it/sw25Pc

2.
According the Graph 1 we can find something.
Firstly, the sales on line increased continually year by year.
Secondly, the peak hour in the cyber Monday usually appeared around 9 am to 2 pm.
Lastly, more and more people prefer to buy on line after 7 pm.
According the Graph 2, there are 3 points.
Firstly, the sales were similar before 8:30 am between Monday and Friday.
Secondly, the sales on line decreased after 8;30 am on Black Friday.
Lastly, compare with the sales on line on Friday, people prefer to go out for shopping.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Wednesday's Assignment

So, besides Christmas, which we've looked at over the last couple of days, what else do Canadians celebrate? Imagine being Santa Claus and arriving in a home that doesn't celebrate Christmas:

Why is this picture funny? Identify some of the objects you see in this picture.

1. Role play: Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa
1. Learn the vocabulary, using a good online text-to-speech resource. Can you recommend one? How about any of the following?
1. From Text to Speech: speed, voices
2. ReadSpeaker TTS + accents
3. Text2Speech: simple choices
2. Then do the usual, practising speaking aloud and getting a partner to practise with.

1. Do you think it's ok to mix up various traditions? With your partner, write a 10-line dialogue using the vocabulary you have learnt. Feel free to include a chirbit.
2. Listen and take notes: Hanukkah for Kids.
1. Discuss in groups of 4 or more how historical Hanukkah is.
2. Publish your findings.

Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa

diverse/ custom/ religious observance/ Advent wreathes/ Midnight Mass/ in-laws/ purely/ secular/ 

exchanging gifts, stockings, a Christmas tree/  carols/ Nat King Cole/ eggnog/ under the tree/ Santa Claus

Hanukkah/ festival of lights/ spins the dreidel/ Chrismukkah/  Kwanzaa/ African- American/ heritage

1-Hi, Ann. Long time no see. Is everything Okay?

--Hi, Yucho. I'm so glad you get here in one piece. Would you like to go shopping with me?

2-Of cause, Ann. What would you like to buy?

--You know it's December. I should prepare gifts for my families and my friends. By the way, I'd like to invite
  you to my home to celebrate Christmas. 

3-Great! It's my honor. Do you invite some other guys? I do like Christmas carols and the eggnog.

--Yes. Liza, she is Jewish. Stephanie, she is African-American.

4-So we will have a Chrismukkah instead of a religious observance. 

-- I decorate my home with a Christmas tree, poinsettia, mistletoe, holly and stockings. I already prepare a big

  Midnight Mass.

5-Sounds good. Diverse customs get together, let's do it. We can exchange our gifts under the Christmas tree.

--I hope all of you guys like that.

Thursday, December 1, 2015

Thursday's Assignment