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.