Video about building words (advanced)
-en suffix Quizlet deck
Conversation lesson Quizlet deck: encouraging
BBC article on optimism and pessimism (preparation for assessment)
Gattaca movie on YouTube
Sharing problems Quizlet deck
Today's listening activity
Expressions to give advice video
Cause, reason, purpose and result Quizlet deck (use password I gave you in class)
Conversation lesson: the state of things Quizlet
A blind man explains how he uses echolocation video
A different way to learn phrasal verbs video
Video review of passive voice
More passive exercises: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Ways of talking about the future
Future continuous tense video
Future perfect tense video
Elon Musk vocabulary Quizlet deck
Future perfect and continuous Quizlet deck
Had better/it's time Quizlet deck
Burnout vocabulary Quizlet deck
CBC story on burnout
Would for past habits video
Groundhog Day review
CBC The National (watch it every day)
Spadina Bus song
Engvid giving advice
"Stop saying very" video
Gradable and ungradable adjectives video
Quiet quitting video
Embedded questions video
Embedded questions Quizlet deck
Crime in the neighbourhood vocabulary Quizlet link
Video with lots of examples of compound noun stress
Sentence stress video, and another one, and one more
Prefixes, suffixes, abstract nouns and roots big Quizlet deck
Roots review in Quizlet
Crime in Toronto
Law and order vocabulary Quizlet deck
Emergency and non-emergency phone numbers in Toronto
Common abbreviations on the internet
CBC Marketplace videos
Pronunciation tips
How to say the date in English; the year
Conversational expressions for remembering Quizlet deck
Why do we forget video
Videos about formal and informal language: 1, 2
Video about giving a presentation
Passive voice Quizlet deck; more basic deck
Some great Canadian musicians:
Attributive and predicative adjectives video
Linking verbs video
Heritage Minutes videos for presentations
Citizenship vocabulary Quizlet
Negotiating in business video
Conditional sentence review video
British accents video
Canadian English Wikipedia entry
Big-ticket item vocabulary Quizlet deck
Buying big-ticket items video
Consumer Reports Online on TPL website (you need to sign in with your library card to access it). Use this to research products before buying them.
Generations video
Documentary about the Mennonites
Settlement.org resume tips
Keywords for resumes video
Word stress on suffixes video
Resume tips website
CBC story about young people looking for work (audio and text)
Pronouncing "ch" video
Pronouncing words that end in "-ate" video
When not to use an article video
Visiting Niagara-on-the-Lake video
Canadian spelling website
Gradable and ungradable adjectives video
Compound adjectives and hyphens video
Negotiating a salary at an interview
Glassdoor.ca (to research Canadian companies)
Researching a company before a job interview
Videos about preparing for a job interview: behavioral questions, situational questions
Non-defining relative clauses (the ones with commas):Â
Reduced relative clauses, examples and exercises
Potential employers and your social media
Interview small talk: video, website
Sentence stress video
Contrastive stress video
Body language dos and don'ts for interviews video
Grammar practice Quizlet: verb+preposition+ing
-ing forms after prepositions video
More phrases for business emails
Video about indirect questions
Quizlet deck to review writing professional emails
Video on how to write professional emails
Check your credit score and history (Settlement.org)
Business email etiquette video (there are also some useful tips in the comments below the video)
Meeting minutes (we didn't cover this in class, but you may find it useful if you will be in meetings at work and are responsible for taking minutes):
Responding to customer complaints video
Handling customer complaints: 1, 2
Call centre English video
The Metaverse: interview, video (interesting!)
Expressing sympathy videos: 1, 2
Using an SRS to review vocabulary: websiteÂ
Video about remembering new vocabulary
Toronto Public Library Museum and Gallery passes
Wordle (one per day)
Telephone skills for better service video
Practice taking messages
Telephone English:
Sample essays (these essays are for the IELTS, but are good general examples of academic essays)
Video about writing TOEFL/IELTS essays (this is more advanced than our class, but if you are level 8 already, this type of essay will be your next step).
Video about essay conclusions
Tips for creating a thesis
Videos about writing introductions: 1, 2, 3
Shakshuka recipe video
Podcast about automation and human connections
Essay about automation and human connections
See vocabulary in ESL Library
Quizlet deck for vocabulary on burnout
See ESL Library for homework
Technique for remembering vocabulary
Video to review facts and opinions
Also: see exercises in ESL Library
Ergative verbs explanation, and video
Sentence fragments
Also: be sure to see "Complete Sentences" in ESL Library if you didn't do it before (check the "late" tab if it doesn't appear).
SVOMPT video
Three places for adverbs video
Verbs followed by -ing/to-inf: webpage, video, another video
Video about parallel structure, another video
Introduction to writing a paragraph about reasons
Introduction to Google Keep videoÂ
Gradable and ungradable adjectives video
Video about although, despite, etc.
George Orwell's Six Rules for Writing
100 most common proverbs in English video
List of 50 common proverbs
Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
FANBOYS video
Longman dictionary
Using "though"
Also: see the homework on ESL Library (if you don't have an account, see the instructions in the Zoom invitation email that I send you before each class).
Article about the flu shot
Parts of a paragraph video (basic)
Paragraph structure video (more advanced)
Transition words video
Second video about Cornell note-taking method
Engvid about note-taking technique
Example templates for the Cornell note-taking technique
Test your knowledge of spelling differences
Job scam vocabulary Quizlet deck
Countable/Uncountable Quizlet deck
Basic review of countable/uncountable video
Salary negotiation vocabulary Quizlet deck
Salary negotiation video
Reading practice on salary negotiation
Video about refurbished products
Video about choosing a career
Video about tax-free savings accounts
Video about retirement savings accounts
Settlement.org guide to RRSPs
Dropped syllables: list, video
Learning English pronunciation (lots of links)
Videos with tips to improve your pronunciation: 1, 2
Ontario government website about your rights at work
Information about apprenticeships and trades in Ontario
Vocabulary for employment unit Quizlet deck
See homework in ESL Library (about Quebec Referendum only)
Video about writing a summary
Grammar
Unreal past conditional
History of Canada in 5 minutes
Video about car-service scammers
Beginners guide to winter tires
What you need to know about winter tires
Grammar
Video about irregular plurals (review of basic points)
Quizlet deck to review irregular plurals
Collocations: general introduction video; adjective and preposition video,Â
Video introducing idioms
Canadian culture:
Explanation of risk aversion
Article about street food in Toronto (this article is from 2014, so things have loosened up a bit since then)
Toronto food trucks article
"Buy now, pay later" and debt article
Video about the marshmallow test
Article about deferring gratification
Video about "y'all" (but remember that this word is mostly used in the American South, not so much in Canada)
Video about thou, thee, thine, y'all, you guys, etc.
Vocabulary Quizlet deck