After you've finished reading, get together with your group and make sure everyone understood everything they read. Also, go over the definitions for your vocabulary words together. Finally, come up with three discussion questions to share with the class.
You will be asked to tell the class about your story, to share your vocabulary words and definitions and to present your questions for class discussion afterward.
Keeping in mind your discussion from the classroom, watch this video.
Does it affirm your opinion about beauty? Has it changed your mind at all? Discuss the video and questions with your partner.
Now think of something (a song, a place, a person, etc.) that you find beautiful. Go to your own blog and write a post about your "beautiful thing". Write about what you find beautiful about this thing, and include a prediction about whether or not you think others will find your thing beautiful.
Your homework is to comment on at least one other person's blog post. Mention whether or not you agree that their thing is beautiful, and why you do or don't agree.
Here are some things I find beautiful to help get you started.
Paul Gauguin - Mohana no Atua
Frank Ocean - Thinking About You
William Shakespeare - Sonnet #130
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
Students in Quebec have been protesting proposed provincial tuition hikes since November, and they have recently been receiving a lot of media attention. Check out this timeline of the protests. Read the summary of each article, as well as the entire article from November 10, 2011, and answer the following questions with your partner:
1. Are the proposed tuition hikes fair? Why or why not?
2. Does it seem as if the protests are having any effect?
3. Have there ever been similar protests in your own country? If so, tell your partner what you know about them. If not, why do you think that is?
Now watch the videos below.
Michael Moore on Student Debt: "The Boot On Your Neck"
Write a blog entry (on your own blog) about something you wish you had done differently in the past, or something you wish was different now. Use the "I wish..." and "If only..." structures that we looked at in class. This is also an excellent opportunity to practice mixed conditional sentences. Make your post at least 200 words long, and add any videos or photos you want.
For homework, comment on someone else's post.
Here's a song from my childhood to help get you in the mood . . .
2. lecturing/to lecture 3. seeing/to see; watching/to watch; reading/to read 4. moving/to move; racing/to race; to move; to race 5. driving; taking 6. to drive; to take 7. to inform 8. not listening 9. to explain 10. crying; holding; feeding; crying/to cry; burping; changing
Exercise 35
2. to help; (to) paint 3. quitting; opening 4. to take 5. looking; to answer 6. watching; listening 7. to take; to pay 8. not to wait; to make 9. talking 10. to water 11. going skiing 12. not to smoke 13. not to know/not knowing 14. to renew 15. to tell; to call; going; swimming 16. to ask; to tell; to remember; to bring 17. doing 18. convincing
I'm not a lumberjack
Or a fur trader.
And I don’t live in an igloo
Or eat blubber
Or own a dog sled.
And I don't know
Jimmy, Sally or Suzie from Canada,
Although I'm certain they're really, really nice.
I have a Prime Minister, not a President.
I speak English and French, not American.
And I pronounce it “about”, not “a-boot”.
I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack.
I believe in peacekeeping,
not policing,
Diversity not assimilation,
And that the beaver is a truly proud and noble animal.
A toque is a hat. A chesterfield is a couch.
And it is pronounced “zed”. Not “zee”, “zed”!
Canada is the second largest landmass,
The first nation of hockey,
And the best part of North America!
My name is Joe, and I am Canadian!
What are some of the Canadian stereotypes mentioned in the commercial above? Did you believe any of them before you came to Canada? Do you believe any of them now?
Watch the videos below.
Great White North - Back Bacon & Long Underwear
Great White North - Using Snowshoes as Spatulas
Rick Mercer Report - Canada Explained
Rick Mercer On Annoying Canadian Stereotypes
Discuss some of the Canadian stereotypes mentioned in the videos with a partner.
Classified - Oh Canada!
Fill in the blanks on your paper while listening to the song above. What does the singer think about Canadian stereotypes?
Now, talk with a partner from another country. Tell them some stereotypes about your own country. Are any of them true?
The Kids in the Hall was a Canadian sketch comedy group formed in 1984. Their television show ran from 1988 to 1994 in Canada, and 1989 to 1995 in the United States. Below are three sketches from their show. Watch them and leave a comment. Which video do you like the most? Which do you like the least? Which is the funniest? Which is the most interesting?
