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Archive | May, 2012
1. Choose #3 – Adjectives with -ed and -ing
May 31 News
31 MayComputer Lab
30 MayFollow the instructions that I gave you in class an type your composition on GoogleDocs.
Don’t forget to save the mp3 file and send me the link. My email is esljenn@yahoo.ca. Alternatively, you can save the mp3 file and leave the link as a comment on the blog.
On this webpage, you will find a list of grammar quizzes. Please choose the following quizzes to help you review the grammar points we have studied in May. On the website, if you click “notes”, you can read an explanation as well.
1. Choose #3 – Adjectives with -ed and -ing
2. Choose #27 – be used to
3. Choose #76 – Embedded questions
4. Choose #90 and #91 – First Conditional
5. Choose #277 and #288 – Second Conditional
6. Choose #319 – Suffixes
7. Choose #328 – Third Conditional
8. Choose #340 – used to
9. Choose #360 and #361 – Zero Conditional
Rick Hansen goes bungee jumping
30 MayRick Hansen goes bungee jumping with Canadian comedian, Rick Mercer.
May 30 News
30 May
Click here to read about a suspect in an attempted murder case.
Related articles
- Double homicide under investigation at Burnaby restaurant (cbc.ca)
- Double homicide in Burnaby sushi restaurant shocks community (theprovince.com)
- Burnaby restaurant owner, woman, gunned down inside business (with video) (vancouversun.com)
- Double Homicide suspect shot (cbc.ca
- Global TV reports on armed suspect>
Sentence Stress
30 MayWatch this video about sentence stress. Remember to stress the content words and reduce the function words.
May 29 News
29 MayThe body of a Canadian woman who died on Mount Everest has been recovered.
Click here to read about why this woman wanted to conquer Mount Everest.
Related articles
- Climbers Crowd Mount Everest Despite Deadly Week (voanews.com)
- Canadian woman’s body recovered on Mount Everest by sherpas (news.nationalpost.com)
- ‘Traffic jam’ of climbers on Mount Everest being blamed for Canadian woman’s death (news.nationalpost.com)
- Mount Everest descent claims Canadian woman, 2 others (cbc.ca)
Grandma goes skydiving
29 May
An 80-year-old woman goes on a skydiving adventure that goes horribly wrong.
Related articles
- FAA probing senior’s skydiving accident (cnews.canoe.ca)
- 80-Year-Old Skydiver Laughs About Terrifying Fall (abcnews.go.com)
- On tape: Skydiver, 80, overcomes immediate mishaps (cbsnews.com)
- Skydiving Goes Wrong: 80-year-old woman almost falls out of parachute harness on video (news.nationalpost.com)
May 28 News
28 MayClick here to read about a shared “bucket list” in Vancouver.
(Photo image taken from CBC)
Related articles
- In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a glimpse into a stranger’s bucket list (theprovince.com)
- Bucket list Blackboard (metro news)
- Bucket list Blackboard (Global BC)
Watch a trailer of the movie, The Bucket List. It is about two terminally ill men who do the things on their bucket lists before they die.
Click here to read the script for the scene from The Bucket List
Watch the part of the movie when they go skydiving.
May 24 News
24 MayClick here to read about and watch a video about a young many who received a double lung transplant.
To register to be an organ donor, click here.
Please watch the videos and read the articles. Then share a piece of new information that you’ve learned by making a comment.
Related articles
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Helene Campbell gets Diamond Jubilee medal from PM (ctv.ca)
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Helene Campbell breathing a bit on her own after rare double-lung transplant (tsabiy.wordpress.com)
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Two lung transplant patient Helene Campbell out of hospital, back on treadmill (news.nationalpost.com)
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Hélène Campbell leaves hospital after double-lung transplant (cbc.ca)
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Double-lung transplant patient Helene Campell has a “very good prognosis” (theprovince.com)
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http://www.alungstory.ca/
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