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| Lesson 2 Family | Speaking | Instructions: Record yourself reading the following passage about family. Read slowly and be sure to say all the words properly! My Wonderful FamilyI live in a house near the mountains. I have two brothers and one sister, and I was born last. My father teaches mathematics, and my mother is a nurse... |
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| Lesson 3 Friends | Biggest Favor | Talk about the biggest favor someone has done for you. Write 2-5 sentences. Then comment on a classmate's post. |
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| Speaking- My Favourite Person | Record a 1 minute video talking about your best friend: Talk about :
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| Lesson 4 Daily Activities | Giving Compliments | Pick someone in your class. Write a compliment to them. If you receive a compliment from a classmate, respond to them in the comments. |
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| Speaking Practice | Watch this video as the speaker describes his daily routine. Record a 1 minute video, talking about what your daily life is like. Use the present tense to talk about thinkg ... |
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| Lesson 5 School | Family Day | Imagine you need to plan a special Family Day full of fun activities. What will you do? |
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| Lesson 7 An Introduction to Canada | My Country | Record a 60 second video telling your classmates two interesting facts about your country. Add as many details as you can about each factl |
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| Speaking Practice | What have you learned about Canada in this lesson?Instructions: Record yourself speaking for one minute talking about at least 4 new things that you learned in this lesson. Use complete sentences. |
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| Lesson 8 Canadian Symbols | Icebreaker | Describe an item that you own, that has a special meaning. What is the item? Who gave it to you? What does it mean to you? |
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| Lesson 9 - People in Canada | My Country | What is something that makes your country special? Write 4 sentences describing this thing and explaining why you think it is special. |
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| Speaking Practice | In this lesson you learned about Tom Longboat, a young Indigenous Candian man who did amazing things. Talk about a young person in your country who has done something great. You should say :
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| Lesson 11 Unit 2 Test | Icebreaker | Record a 2-minute video talking about the following topic: What is the best TV show ever made? Why do you think so? |
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| Lesson 12 - Visiting New Places | Icebreaker- Holidays | Instructions: Record a video of yourself talking about the following topic. Answer all the questions. Include as many details as you can.Talk about your favourite holiday or place to visit.Think About... • Was it in your home country or abroad? • What did you do there? • How did it feel to be away ... |
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| Lesson 13 - Vacations | Icebreaker | Speak for 1-2 minutes about the following questions.When you travel, do you prefer to stay in a hotel or with friends and family? Which do you think is more fun? Explain why you think so. |
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| Speaking Practice | Think about the last vacation that you took with your family. Record a 2 minute presentation talking about this trip. Answer the questions below:
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| Lesson 15 - Hobbies | Icebreaker | Record a video answering the following question. You should speak for about 1 minuteWhat is the most popular hobby done by people in your country? Describe the activity and say why you think people enjoy doing it. |
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| Lesson 16 - Sports | Icebreaker | Record a 1-minute video describing an animal that you would like to see in real life. Also explain why you would like to see that animal and where in the world you would go to see it. |
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| Speaking Practice | Record a 2 minute video talking about the folllowing topic. Use modals in your response. Why should young people play sports? |
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| Lesson 17 Unit 3 Test | Icebreaker | Record a 1 minute video describing your favourite childhood memory. |
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| End of Unit Reflection | In this unit you learned about many interesting places and activities. Record a 2 minute video talking about the two most interesting things that you learned in the unit. Also, is English hetting a bit easier for you? |
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| Lesson 18 - Ambitions | Icebreaker- Ambitions | Record a video talking about what job you wanted when you were younger. Why did you want this job? Have you changed your mind now that you are older? |
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| Speaking Practice | What are you going to do after you graduate from high school? |
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| Lesson 19 - Interesting Jobs | Icebreaker | Describe your favourite song .
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| Speaking Practice Unusual Jobs | Watch the video below about what is like to be a chefThen, choose one of the unusual jobs below. Find out what you can about it. |
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| Lesson 20 - Choosing a Job | Icebreaker | Would you rather have a job that you hate and be very rich or a job that you have and be a little poor? Why? Record a 2 minute video |
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| Speaking Practice | Look carefully at the picture below. The men are baristas. Do some research on this job then record a video talking about the following things.
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| Lesson 27 Elements of a Short Story | Icebreaker | Talk about a time you did something really fun with your friends.
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| Speaking | In the story, “Shadow,” Ethan was upset that Kyle always followed him around. However, with the help of his brother Ethan learned an important lesson about showing compassion, or kindness to others. Sometimes, people just need a friend. Have you ever had a shadow? Maybe it was a sister, brother, ... |
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| Lesson 28 - Writing Stories | Icebreaker | What do you think life would be like today, if dinosaurs were still alive? |
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| Lesson 29- Unit Assessment | Icebreaker | Record a video taking about somehing that you are scared of. |
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