Hope you have been enjoying October and all the fun activities around Thanksgiving and Halloween. Speaking of Halloween, there's plenty to do with your students. Anyone carving pumpkins this year? If you're looking for some ideas or links to Halloween worksheets and activities, you can visit here!
It won't be long until we hit November, so here's a link to a teaching calendar here as well as a list of some similar / different teaching ideas for you to do with your students here! There's lot to do...Remembrance Day, Movember "moustache" month, shopping and sales (yes, we ride on the back of those Americans - Black Friday and Cyber Monday), and don't forget about Daylight Savings Time which ends on November 3rd!
What we've uploaded to the blog this month:
Grammar Worksheets - in one whole package! - Marina Sibio
Classroom Etiquette 2019 - Marcella Jager
PBLA - LANGUAGE COMPANION WORKSHEETS - revised
*any input / feedback on making use of the Language Companion binder or doing the Weekly Reflection with your students this month? We'd love to hear from you and /or your ideas and suggestions.
Teacher Created Worksheets for October - Thanks Haleema for the Everybody Loves Raymond activities!
For those teaching CLB 4+ - Everybody Loves Raymond is a great listening activity for your students. You can find complete seasons on Amazon here. See Haleema's overview of this popular sitcom above. The English is fairly easy and students can pick up on some cultural expressions relating to family and relationships and all that's in between. Not to mention, it's full of laughs!
Last but not least...here's Kate Maven and what she's been up to...(and she's ALWAYS up to something!)
I wrote this book because there are many unwritten rules in Canada that newcomers and their families need to know to succeed here. With a lifetime of experience in Canada as an educator, a mother of three, and as a worker in banking, computers, marketing and employment counselling, I discovered that a lot of the social rules in Canada aren’t clearly explained anywhere. In my 30 years of teaching ESL, I have shared many of these secrets with my ESL students, who told me that because this information has really helped them to integrate into Canada, I should write a book! Keep in mind, however, that these are MY OPINIONS about things you should know about “Canadian” culture.
Check it out at Amazon here!
Way to go Kate! Students and teachers alike will enjoy this!
Keep sending those worksheets and activities and we'll get them uploaded next month!
Enjoy November!