Canada

Canada

Canada Discussion

Canada Leader eats raw seal heart

Maple Syrup

Making Laws in Canada

Terry Fox

The environment vs jobs

How well do you know Canada?

Comparing Canada and England

Polar Bears in Churchill Manitoba

How much do you know about Canada?

Everything Canadian

Writing Topics for August 31st, 2012

Here are the writing topics:

1.   What I did this Winter/Summer.
2.   My future plans.
3.   My advice to new students coming to Canada
   to study English.

Monthly Exit Test August

http://canada-english.com/englishleveltest

Writing Exercises/ Word order

Writing word order IELTS

First and Second Conditional

1st and 2nd Conditional

Missing words

Conditionals

Conditionals 1 & 2

Homework for August 30th, 2012

Please do the writing exercise describing the best and worst weather in your country.
Writing a paragraph describing weather in your country

Questions and Answers

Make as many sentences as you can (questions and answers are mixed together). Read out the complete dialogues:

WHAT / WOULD / YOU / SPEND / YOUR / MONEY / ON, / IF / YOU / WERE / VERY, / VERY / RICH?




I / WOULD / BUY / HOUSES/ FOR / ALL / OF / MY / FAMILY / AND / I / WOULD/ GO / TO / THE / BEAUTY/ SALON/ EVERY / DAY. /




WHAT / WOULD / YOU / DO, / IF / YOU / KNEW / THAT / A / METEOR / WAS / ABOUT / TO / DESTROY / EARTH? /

I / WOULD / RUN / INTO / THE / NEAREST / STORE / AND / EAT / ALL / OF /THE / CANDIES. /

WHAT / WOULD / YOU / DO, / IF / YOU / FOUND / A / WALLET / FULL / OF / MONEY / ON / THE / SIDEWALK? /

I / WOULD / TAKE / IT / TO / THE / POLICE / STATION. /

WHAT / WOULD / YOU / DO / OF / YOU / WERE / SUDDENLY / MADE / THE / LEADER / OF / YOUR / COUNTRY? /




I / WOULD / CHANGE / THE / TAX / LAWS.

Partner conditional sentences

Take turns making conditional sentences with the following:

What would you do? (find) a dead spider in your soup	What would you do? (meet) your teacher at a party
What would you do? (find) a mobile phone in the street	What would you do? (hear) a scream in the street outside at night
What would you do? (see) a scorpion in your bathroom	What would you do? (have to) dance on stage
What would you do? (get) a letter saying I love you from a stranger	What would you do? (lose) all your money and documents in a foreign country
What would you do? (see) an alien spaceship landing	What would you do? really (need) to get some money in a hurry

Homework for August 29th, 2012

9-2 second conditional #1 and #2 for tomorow...thank you and have a good evening....Craig

If I were a boy

Beyonce
If I Were A Boy
If I were a boy
Even just for a day
I’d roll out of bed in the _______________
And throw on what I wanted and go
Drink beer with the guys
And chase after ________________
I’d kick it with who I wanted
And I’d never get confronted for it
Because they’d stick up for me

If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man
I’d listen to her
Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted
Cause he’s taken you for granted
And everything you had got destroyed

If I were a boy
I would turn off my __________________
Tell everyone its broken
So they think
that I was sleeping alone
I’d put myself first
And make the __________________as I go
Cause I know that she’d be faithful
Waiting for me to come home (to come home)

If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man
I’d listen to her
Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted (wanted)
Cause he’s taken you for granted (granted)
And everything you had got destroyed

It’s a little too late for you to come __________________
Say its just a mistake
Think I forgive you like that
If you thought I would _________________for you
You thought wrong


But you're just a boy
You don’t understand (yea you don’t understand)
How it feels to love a girl
Someday you’ll wish you were a better man
You don’t listen to her
You don’t care how it hurts
Until you lose the one you wanted
Cause you've taken her for granted
And everything you had got destroyed
But you're just a boy…

2nd Conditional Quiz

2nd Conditional Quiz #2

2nd Conditional time clauses

• If you won the lottery what would you do?
• If you could try any extreme sport what would it be?
• If you had 24 hours to live, what would you do?
• If you could be any animal, what would you be?
• If you could be any superhero, which would you be?
• If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
• If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
• If you could meet anybody, who would it be?
• If you could go back in time where would you go?
• If you could only have one book/CD/DVD, what would it be?
• Would you rather be blind or deaf?
• If your house was on fire what two things would you save first?
• If you could have any super power what would it be?
• What food would you never eat?
• Would you rather have no money or no friends?
• Would you rather be able to fly or swim under water?
• If a classmate asked you for an answer to a question on an exam and the teacher could not see, what would you do?
• If you crashed your car into a parked car and no one saw, what would you do?
• What would you do if you found a wallet?
• If you had one wish what would you wish for?
• If someone gave you a lottery ticket as a gift and you won a million dollars, would you share it with them?
• If you didn’t have to sleep like everyone else, what would you do at night?
• Would you rather live in a place with warm weather that is dark all the time, or cold weather and always sunny?
• When would you wake up if you didn't have school?

First Conditional song

The future teaches you to be alone
The present to be afraid and cold
So if I can shoot rabbits
Then I can shoot fascists

Bullets for your brain today
But we'll forget it all again
Monuments put from pen to paper
Turns me into a gutless wonder

And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
Will be next
Will be next
Will be next

Gravity keeps my head down
Or is it maybe shame
At being so young and being so vain

Holes in your head today
But I'm a pacifist
I've walked La Ramblas
But not with real intent

And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
Will be next
Will be next
Will be next
Will be next

And on the street tonight an old man plays
With newspaper cuttings of his glory days

And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
Will be next
Will be next
Will be next

Homework for August 28th, 2012

Please do review exercises

9-1 Definite and Indefinite Articles 

Unit eight quiz

Here you go!

Unit 8 quiz

Homework for the weekend

Please do the grammar review and bring in any questions you have for Monday....thank you Craig

Grammar Review

Travel lesson

Conversation

Video

Lonely Planet Travel Guide

Listen a minute

Cruise Reading gap fill

Websites for English

Websites

Website Conversation

Webquest Reading

Action Maze 1

Action Maze 2

Action maze 3

Action Maze 4

Dictation exercise

Phrasal Verbs

Choose three verbs and add as many particles as you can to make correct phrasal verbs to use in a sentence:

• Take
• Get
• Make
• Put
• Bring
• Turn
• Be
• Carry

Present Perfect / Present Perfect Continuous

Present Perfect Explanation

Present Perfect Continuous Explanation

Exercises

Exercises #2

Exercises #3

Exercise #4

Homework for August 23rd, 2012

Please do 8-2 #2 for homework...thank you and have a good evening....Craig

Frog Game

Frog and Fly

Mobile Madness

Click

Headway Exercises

Headway exercises

Past Simple or Present Perfect?

Choose Past Simple or Present Perfect 1
Change the verb into the correct form of the past simple or present perfect
1) Last night I  (lose) my keys – I had to call my flatmate to let me in.. 2) I  (lose) my keys - can you help me look for them?. 3) I  (visit) Paris three times.. 4) Last year I  (visit) Paris.. 5) I  (know) my great grandmother for a few years - she died when I was eight... 6) I  (know) Julie for three years - we still meet once a month... 7) I  (play) Hockey since I was a child - I'm pretty good!.. 8) She  (play) hockey at school but she didn't like it.. 9) Sorry, I  (miss) the bus - I'm going to be late.. 10) I  (miss) the bus and then I  (miss) the aeroplane as well!... 11) Last month I  (go) to Scotland.. 12) I'm sorry, John isn't here now. He  (go) to the shops.. 13) We  (finish) this room last week.. 14) I  (finish) my exams finally - I'm so happy!.. 15) Yesterday, I  (go) to the library, the post office and the supermarket... 16) I  (go) to the supermarket three times this week.. 17) She  (live) in London since 1994.. 18) She  (live) in London when she was a child.. 19) I  (drink) three cups of coffee today.. 20) I  (drink) three cups of coffee yesterday..

Homework for August 22nd, 2012

Please do exercise 8-1 Grammar #1 Results of finished actions exercise #1...thank you and have a good evening.....Craig
Homework

Please do the vocabulary exercise

Please do the vocabulary homework:
Here

Quiz-click here

Unit 7 Quiz

https://docs.google.com/a/canada-english.com/document/d/1lFniDeD2y_7yqb4HNtG_Atl8d_iDlg7Xwvc3KFiQU7M/edit

Present Perfect

http://www.grabandgolessons.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/classroomhero_presentperfect_questioncards.pdf

Present Perfect 2

http://elt.oup.com/student/naturalenglish/int/a_grammar/unit03/neint_grammar03?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

Past Participles/ Present Perfect

Past Participles:
http://elt.oup.com/student/naturalenglish/int/e_games/nepre_games_gotoschool03?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

Been or Gone?
http://elt.oup.com/student/naturalenglish/int/a_grammar/unit01/neint_grammar01_exp?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

Present Perfect and Past Simple:
http://elt.oup.com/student/naturalenglish/int/a_grammar/unit01/neint_grammar01?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

Present Perfect Time expressions

Click on this link:
http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/int/a_grammar/unit07/?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

Reading

Find a famous artist to read about and paste the reading in here:
http://www.shaks.ws/program.html?2
http://www.famouspeoplelessons.com/

Present Perfect at its best!

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/ppvpast.htm

Homework for August 17th, 2012

Please look at a reading exercise on an artist you like and paste it in here to read.
http://www.shaks.ws/program.html?2
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Munch

Present Perfect

1. English study
1. How long have you been studying English? How many hours have you spent in English classes in that time? How much money have you spent on English lessons this month/ this year/ in your life?
2. How much has your level improved recently?
3. How long have you been studying English in this school? Where did you study English before?
4. What do you think about the classroom you are sitting in now?
5. How many new words have you learnt this week?
6. How many new words did you learn last week? How many of those new words from last week do you think you can remember now?
2. Home 
1. Where are you living now?
2. What kind of place are you living in now?
3. How long have you been living where you live now?
4. Are you thinking about moving? How long have you been planning to move?
5. Where did you live before?
6. How many different places have you lived in your life?
3. Friends
1. Have you made any new friends recently, or are all your friends old friends?
2. How long have you known your best friend?
3. Where did you first meet your best friend?
4. How did you first meet your best friend?
5. How many times have you met your best friend this month?
6. How long have you been going out with your present boyfriend or girlfriend?
4. Free time
1. How have you been spending your days off recently?
2. What did you do last weekend?
3. What do you usually do at the weekend?
4. How long have you been interested in the things you are interested in now?
5. How did you spend your days off when you were still at school?
6. Have you decided what you are going to do in your next long holiday? If not, have you been thinking about it recently?
5. Communications
1. How many text messages (=SMS) have you written this week?
2. Have you recently been writing more or less emails than usual? Why?
3. How many of your emails and texts in the last month have been in English?
4. How long have you been using a mobile phone? How have mobile phones changed in that time?
5. How many hours do you spend a week writing emails/ texts/ letters?
6. How many hours have you spent writing emails/ texts/ letters so far this week?
6. Work
1. Are you working at the moment?
2. How long have you been working in your present job?
3. How long have you been working in your present company?
4. Are you looking for a job? Why/ why not? How long have you been looking for a job? What have you done to try and find one?
5. What job would you like in the future?
6. What was your last job?

John Lennon Imagine

Imagine John Lennon

Imagine ________ Heaven 

It's easy ________

No hell below us 

________ only sky 

Imagine all the people 

Living _________ 

Imagine _________ 

It isn't hard to do 

Nothing to ________ for 

And no religion ______

Imagine all the people 

Living life in ________

You may say I'm a dreamer 

But I'm ________________ 

I hope someday you'll join us 

And the ________________ 

Imagine no _____________

I wonder if you can 

No need for ________or hunger 

A brotherhood of man 

Imagine all the people 

___________all the world 

You may say that I'm a dreamer 

But I'm ________________

I hope someday you'll join us 

And the ________________

Homework for August 16th, 2012

Here you go! See you tomorrow...Thank you...Craig

http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/upp_intermediate/a_grammar/unit02/hwy_upp_unit02_2?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

http://faculty.qu.edu.qa/ahalwani/PresentPerfect%20VS%20P%20PCont.htm

Present Perfect Songs

Here you go!
http://www.luizotaviobarros.com/2010/12/present-perfect-songs.html

Present Perfect/ Present Perfect Continuous

http://smrtcraig.blogspot.ca/2012/05/present-perfect-present-perfect.html

Homework for August 15th, 2012

Please make 10 questions. 5 in the present perfect and 5 in the present perfect continuous...have a good evening....thank you.....Craig

Present Perfect Present Perfect continuous

Please do these exercises
http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/int/a_grammar/unit07/?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

Homework for August 14th, 2012

Please do the vocabulary exercise for homework.....thank you and have a good evening.....Craig

Unit 6 Quiz

Make a copy....
https://docs.google.com/a/canada-english.com/document/d/1-qM3WFn9_KqPXeSrOsw2m9xnj_ZDBMxUnoLjTl6-Qws/edit

Infinitives and Gerunds

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/gerinf.htm

Homework for August 10th, 2012

Please do Grammar 6-2 verbs + infinitive #4.......thank you and have a good evening....Craig

Here are some games to keep you motivated

http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/int/e_games/?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

Homework for August 9th, 2012

Please do Grammar Gerunds 6-1 #4 ....Yes!!!....take care and have good evening....Craig

Gerunds or infinitive

Gerund Game En Garde

Play this fun game and practice gerunds....1,2,3...Go!
http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/grammar/En%20garde/gerunds%20infinitive/gerunds%20or%20infinitive.html

Homework for August 8th, 2012

Please do the vocabulary exercise for this unit....thank you and have a good evening....Craig

Sports Vocabulary/ Conversation

Sports Vocabulary/ Conversation
http://iteslj.org/questions/sports.html

Unit 5 Quiz

Here you go! Please look at Unit 6 Vocabulary when you finish...
https://docs.google.com/a/canada-english.com/document/d/1T2jMbCl83phi67cxq8ArM1L_7InGG9Fpz-792pNDBBk/edit

Homework for the weekend

Please do Grammar 5-4 Adverbs #3....thank you and have a good weekend....Craig

Adverb Speaking Exercise

How fast do you eat?

Do you think bus drivers and taxi drivers in your city drive well or badly?

Do you sing well?

Have you ever met someone who eats very loudly?

What is something that you do very cautiously?

Do you work hard at studying?

What is something you do quickly?

What is something you rarely do?

Have you ever accidently hit someone really hard or accidently pushed someone down?

What is something that you have successfully completed?

Do you own anything that was poorly made?

What is something you really hate? How about something you really love?

What is something of yours that you have gladly given to another person?

What is something you can do easily?

Adverbs and Adjectives

Adverbs and adjectives:
http://elt.oup.com/student/naturalenglish/int/b_vocabulary/unit05/neint_vocabulary05_exp?cc=global&selLanguage=en

http://elt.oup.com/student/naturalenglish/int/a_grammar/unit05/neint_grammar05_2?cc=global&selLanguage=en

Everyday English:
http://elt.oup.com/student/naturalenglish/int/c_naturalenglish/neint_naturalenglish05?cc=global&selLanguage=en

Homework for August 3rd, 2012

Please do Gramar 5-3 Adjectives #2 this evening....thank you.....Craig

Link for board game

https://www.google.ca/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=be+going+to+will+speaking+activity&oq=be+going+to+will+speaking+activity&gs_l=serp.3...1921.4195.0.4497.9.9.0.0.0.0.73.441.9.9.0...0.0...1c.NFkikHtjqoo&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=c53f52b43bdc3012&biw=1236&bih=584

Future Board Game

http://www.esl-galaxy.com/boardgames/future%20tense.pdf

Homework for August 2nd, 2012

Please do the structure 5-1 and 5-2....thank you and have a good evening.....Craig

Future Plans

http://elt.oup.com/student/naturalenglish/int/a_grammar/unit08/?cc=global&selLanguage=en

I think / I don't think + will will / going to

http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/int/a_grammar/unit05/?cc=ca&selLanguage=en

Speaking/ Making Plans

Weekdays-on

Streets-on

Time-at

Questions-Would you like to

Refusing-Sorry I can't, I have to...

Asking for directions-How do I get to

Cities-in

Questions-Where can we meet, Would you like to go to/for dinner

At Granville and Georgia-Location

I'm free-no plans

Let's meet at/ on/ in

What are you doing on?