March 22 2016 Assignment

This week we consider a child's education in Canada. How different is it from your childhood experience?

Here are your tasks:

1. Listening: A Day at School
1. What words or phrases were hard to understand at first?
2. What surprising pronunciation rules did you discover?
2. Vocabulary: Naming Kids
1. What new words did you learn?
2. What new ways can you use those new words in?
3. Role Play: Types of Students
1. What new meaning and pronunciation items did you learn?
2. What do your partners say when you check your reading with them?
3. How did your Audioboom.com recording with your partner go? What about your classmates'?

Vocabulary: Naming Kids

What new words did you learn?

shortlist,  tease, appease, alternate, odd, 

  

What new ways can you use those new words in?

1.shortlist

• He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize for literature several times.

2.tease

• He teased May with a jest.
• Tom teased his mother for ice-cream.
• My hair was teased until it stood out and around her face.

3.appease

• Water appeases thirst and fruit appeases hunger.
• Mother tried to appease her son with some soft words.

4.alternate

• Alternate jogging and walking is very useful for your health.
• She alternated between hope and despair.
• My classmates alternated in reading the essay.

5.odd

• Tom had always been odd, but not to this extent.
• How much is this, $50 odd?
• Amy has been the odd girl.