Thursday's Field Trip

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Thursday's Field Trip

This Thursday's field trip is to a free concert at Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre in the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts above Osgoode Station.



Please meet at 10:00 a.m. on the Westbound Platform of Bayview Station or 11 a.m. at the entrance of Four Seasons. The itinerary includes Queen Station, PATH Underground City, Nathan Phillips Square, the former and present City Halls, and Osgoode Hall.

Here are your pre-trip activities, to be answered in Comments, below:

1.What are three rules of etiquette at any concert?

       get suit or dresses, keep quietness, do not   food and drink.

2.What instrument or performance would you expect to see at the concert?

     piano  cellos violin saxophone 

3.What time does the concert begin?

    On April 14, 2016, 12 p.m.

4.Who's the performer?

   Kaea Huber , piano

5.What do you hope to take away from the free concert?

6.Who's leaving from Don Mills Station on Thursday, and at what time?

    Ling  LI

7.Which of the other places on the itinerary interests you, and why?

8.What's the weather going to be like on Thursday?

    as warm as spring 

9.What would you advice your classmates to bring on Thursday?

   

10.Who's your lunch partner on Thursday?

Monday, April 11, 2016

Tuesday's Assignment

Good morning! Do you like private treatment at the bank rather than lining up for a teller with everybody else? What do private bankers deal with?



Here are your tasks:

1. Rearrange each sentence, and then put the sentences in the correct order to find out what it's all about:
1. Abuyahya Yusuf
2. St., Toronto 8Y9 M2J Yonge 660-145 ON
3. cheque registered Please address. the to my send 
4. holder account I'm a policy of RRSP investment #90245, and I cancel would away. like to the policy right
5. 2016 12, April
6. you. Thank 
7. CANCELLATION RRSP WITHDRAWAL AND
8. Broker, Dear
9. regards, Best 
10. Home a I need under Buyers' Plan. it for deposit the
2. Now write a note to an insurance company to cancel or change a policy and to request a refund.
3. Check your classmates' notes before and after they publish.

Monday's Assignment

Monday, April 11, 2016

Monday's Assignment

Good morning! Which way do you think the market will go this week? What's this picture all about?
   I think the market going down this week.



This week's theme

                                       Did you laugh? What's the meaning of "to break even"?  收支平衡

This week's theme is on Banking and Finances--Loans, Mortgages, and Investments. To begin with, we're going to have a look at sentence structure and an article on online brokers

本周的主题是——银行和融资贷款、抵押贷款和投资。首先,我们要看一看句子结构和文章在网上经纪公司。

Here are your tasks:

1. Watch this simple and harder video on sentence diagramming

       1.Outline the 1st sentence of this article, "It's not ...."

It’s not a beauty contest, but the 17th annual Globe and Mail ranking of online brokers does put a lot of emphasis on looks.
It is contest.
It is not  contest

       2.Outline the 2nd, “The dozen …."

The dozen firms in the ranking have converged on cost to a point where sub-$10 commissions for all are near universal.

Firms have converged.

       3.Compare your sentence outlines with at least 3 partners.

       4.Looking at the table of “Broker and Final Grade,” learn all new words/expressions and write 5 T/F statements

 

         2.Role play: Stock Market

         1.Listen, and then practise out loud in pairs.

         2.Publish your audio recording on your blog.

Heather: What’s the matter? You look terrible.

Paul: Haven’t you seen the paper? The stock market went down a lot yesterday. The NASDAQ is down 100 points and the Dow is down 30! My portfolio is in big trouble.

Heather: I knew you had some stock options in this company, but I didn’t know you were so heavily invested in the market.

Paul: I’m invested in the bond market, in derivatives, and I have shares in a lot of companies that took a nosedive yesterday.

Heather: I’m sure you have a good stockbroker who has made sure that your portfolio is diversified and you have different kinds of securities.

Paul: That’s my problem. I don’t have a stockbroker. I decided to invest on my own and to go for less secure stocks hoping for a better return. I thought I could tell the difference between a bear and a bull market as well as the brokers. I guess I was wrong.

Heather: The drop in stock prices won’t last. I’m sure the market will rebound. Just don’t panic and sell everything. The old saying, “buy low, sell high,” is still a good idea, I think.

Paul: I know, I know. I won’t do anything stupid— that is, I won’t do anything even more stupid. I’ll wait to see what happens before taking any action.

Heather: That’s a good idea. Come on. I’ll buy you lunch.

Paul: Thanks. Now that I’m poor, I won’t say ‘no’ to your charity.

Friday's Assignment

Friday, April 8, 20

Friday's Assignment

After you see today's assignment, you might exclaim, TGIF!

Think about your view of Canada before coming here. How was it similar or different from this:

Here are your tasks:

1. Role play: Reading a World Map

Greg: What are you doing with that map and that globe?

Julianna: I’m trying to keep track of Carmen as she travels from country to country. I just got another postcard from her today.

Greg: I’m not sure I like the idea of my daughter traveling around the world with a group of people for three months. It’s not safe.

 

Julianna: She can take care of herself. You know she’s the adventurous type. Give her a compass and she can find her way around anywhere. Help me find Nauru on this map. I don’t even know what continent it’s on. I was never any good at geography.

 

Greg: All right. You look above the equator and I’ll look below it, but couldn’t you just look it up on the Internet? It would be easy to find the latitude and longitude of this place.

Julianna: This is more fun. I sort of feel like I’m on an adventure myself.

 

Greg: I can’t make heads or tails of this map. It’s not to scale and this legend is all wrong!

 

Julianna: It doesn’t matter. We just need to find the place name, and then I can put a pin in this map showing where’s she’s been.

 

Greg: I have a better idea. I’ll look it up on the Internet and get you all of the vital statistics you’d want, like its location, okay? 

Julianna: Forget it. Sometimes it’s more fun doing things the hard way.

Script by Dr. Lucy Tse

 

      2.Read this article, and in your own words write down 10 facts that you learnt from it.
 

DAHLIA: Would You Like Canada To Adopt Turks And Caicos As Our 11th Province?

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada / 680 CJOB - Winnipeg's News & Information Leader

Dahlia Kurtz

Posted: April 06, 2016 11:27 am

Panoramic view of an ocean, Turks and Caicos Islands

You can be sitting on a Canadian beach, sipping a beverage in a coconut, on a hot, sunny day – in the winter – if Canada adopts Turks and Caicos.
The federal NDP may debate this is at its upcoming convention, but this a conversation that started all of the way back in 1917 when former prime minister Robert Borden asked Great Britain to give us the little piece of paradise.

 

Turks and Caicos is a British Overseas Territory comprised of 40 low-lying coral islands in the Atlantic, southeast of the Bahamas … basically located in heaven.
Back in 2014, the Caribbean island’s Premier, Rufus Ewing, was open to this, but Canada’s former foreign affairs minister John Baird sunblocked the idea of a tropical Canadian province.
Oh, by the by, right now in Turks and Caicos it’s sunny and 26 degrees Celsius.

 

      1).Turks and Caicos is hot in the winter.

      2).Turks and Caicos is coral islands.

      3).There are 40 islands in the Turks and Caicis.

      4).Robert Borden is former prime minister .

      5).Rufus Ewing is Caribbean island's premier.

      6).John Baird is Canada's former foreign affairs minster.

      7).The temoerature of Turks and Caicos is 26 degrees celsius right now.

      8).The weather of Turks and Caicos is sunny right now.

      9).The writer of this crticle is Datlia Kurtz.

     10).Location of Turks and Caicos is Southeast of the Bahamas.

     11).Turks and Caicos is a British overseas Territory.

      3.   Scanning: Looking for patterns

       1).Google and then click News for "Canada" and "USA." Look at the results on the first page and tell a partner what's most prominent.
         United States beats Canada for gold at women's hockey worlds.

       2)Google and then click News for "Canada" and the name of another country. Look at the results on the first page and tell a partner what's most prominent.
         Conflicting reports on Canada-China launching FTA( free-trade agreement ) negotiations.

       3).Google and then click News for "Canada" and "United Nations." Look at the results on the first page and tell a partner what's most prominent.
        Canada Gains United Nations Seat on Status of Women.

       4).Google and then click News for "Canada" and "mountains." Look at the results on the first page and tell a partner what's most prominent.
       Classic Canadian Hiking Trails.

       5).Google and then click News for "Canada" and "lakes." Look at the results on the first page and tell a partner what's most prominent.
       Goldfish are invading Canada’s lakes and ponds.

       6).Google and then click News for "Canada" and "oceans." Look at the results on the first page and tell a partner what's most prominent.
       Oceans North Canada calls for Inuit input on Canada's Arctic shipping corridors.

       7).Google and then click News for "Canada" and any other search item! Look at the results on the first page and tell a partner what's most prominent.
       Canadian House Prices 40% Too High For A Reason, The Economist Says.

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