The Business English vacation Study Program begins with Pre-Vacation English instructions. ESL in Canada provides vocabulary, definitions, history and culture of the Canada locations, events and activities. The pre-tour English instruction will prepare the business English participants to understand and to communicate in English during the Canada events and tours.
Business English Skills
Writing introduces the purpose of the work, expresses main ideas and gives details, conveys essential information to the reader, uses format and content appropriate for intended audience, demonstrates adequate vocabulary for the topic. Student can reduce information to main points with accurate supporting details and no major omissions of important points or details, can also demonstrate good use and control of complex grammatical structures, vocabulary, spelling and punctuation.
Speaking effectively in most daily practical and social situations, and in familiar routine work situations; participate in conversations with confidence; speak on familiar topics at both concrete and abstract levels; can provide descriptions, opinions and explanations.
Reading identifies main ideas, factual details and inferred meanings in text, identifies organization of text, topic sentences and logical relationship including links between paragraphs; follows the sequence of narration or process even when events are out of sequence; distinguishes facts from opinions; infers meaning of words from context clues; hypothesizes how something works; evaluates ideas in text, draws conclusions and expresses own opinion; interprets key information in a diagram or graph as verbal text; transfers key ideas from a chart or diagram. The student can follow an extended set of multi-step instructions for established process or directions.
Listening can comprehend main points, details, speaker's purpose, levels of formality and styles in oral discourse in moderately demanding contexts; follow most formal and informal conversations, and some technical work-related discourse in own field at a normal rate of speech; follow discourse about abstract and complex ideas on a familiar topic; comprehend an expanded range of concrete, abstract and conceptual language; determine mood, attitudes and feelings; understand sufficient vocabulary, idioms and colloquial expressions to follow detailed stories of general popular interest; follow instructional texts and directions; follow clear and coherent phone messages on unfamiliar and non-routine matters; identifies the component parts of the presentation: introduction, topic development, topic shift and conclusion; identify and respond to formal welcomes, farewells, toasts, congratulations on achievements, awards, sympathy, condolences and questions. Student can follow an extended set of multi-step instructions on technical and non-technical tasks for familiar processes or procedures, and identify stated and unspecified meanings in extended suggestions and recommendations.
For additional information go to: Registration Information
Optional Toronto Attractions and Activities
Dinosaurs Alive! – the largest display of animated, life-size dinosaurs in the world, only at the Toronto Zoo. Get up close and personal with sixteen moving, roaring and startlingly realistic dinosaurs, featuring such prehistoric playmates as Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops and many others, complete with authentic sounds and special effects.
Link to Toronto Zoo
Toronto's CN Tower is celebrating 30 years as the Worlds Tallest Free-Standing Structure. About 2 million visitors soar to the top of the Towers incredible 1,815 feet (553.3 meters, or 181 stories) each year. Recognized as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers along with the Panama Canal and Golden Gate bridge, the Towers record has gone unchallenged. Visitors can enjoy the breathtaking view from three observation levels, as well as dining at the award-winning 360 restaurant – which boasts the worlds highest wine cellar. The CN Tower was opened to the public on June 26, 1976 after 40 months of construction
Link to CN Tower Portal
Toronto Reference Library Tour. The new Toronto reference library officially opened, 2 November, 1977 at 789 Yonge Street, at the northeast corner of Asquith Avenue. This library features several collections, many services, virtual and computer learning stations including language learning labs.
Link to Toronto Reference Library (TRL)
University of Toronto Walking Tour. Walking tours on the St.
George campus depart from the Nona Macdonald Visitors Centre, located at 25 King's
College Circle.
Link to University of Toronto Walking Tour
The Gardiner Museum is the only museum in Canada entirely
devoted to ceramics. Whether your interest is in contemporary work like Picasso’s Large Vase with Veiled Women, Maiolica dishes from the Italian Renaissance or 18th century European tea services, the museum has something that will interest you. The collection, which exceeds 2900 pieces, is often described as a “jewel box of ceramic treasures.
FREE Friday from 4–9pm at the Gardiner Museum
Caribana at Ontario Place Ontario Place is proud to be the new home of Caribana! Join us over 5 days to celebrate the spirit of Caribana. Ontario Place will host events and entertainment leading up to and after the world-renowned parade.
Link to Ontario Place
Ancient Peru Unearthed: Golden Treasures of a Lost Civilization. The mysteries of the pre-Incan Sicán culture are revealed through a collection of elaborately crafted objects excavated from an undisturbed gold-filled tomb in the Batan Grande site on the northern coast of Peru. The tomb was uncovered by archaeologists in the 1990s. Over 100 artifacts will be on display, including gold crowns, elaborate headdresses, masks and jewelry, as well as pottery and metal objects.
Link to Royal Ontario Museum Peru Exhibit
Hockey Hall of Fame Tour - Much more than simply a standard
sports museum, the Hall offers a vibrant, entertaining and interactive journey. The world's most comprehensive collection of hockey artifacts, displays and memorabilia with state-of-the-art exhibitory and interactive games. Try and stop the pucks of Messier and Gretzky or fire real pucks against a life sized computer-simulated goalie. Have your picture taken with the Stanley Cup.
Link to Hockey Hall of Fame
Come to the CBC Museum and Graham Spry Theatre to experience first-hand the history of Canadian broadcasting... and the shared stories of Canadians!
Link to CBC Museum
Discover the gardens, and natural areas including wetlands,
woodland and meadows of the West Humber River valley. Learn about the history and ecology of this beautiful urban area in north west Toronto.
Humber Arboretum and West Humber River Valley Discovery Walk.
Taste of the Danforth - celebrates Hellenic culture and cuisine. Stroll beautiful Danforth Ave. while you taste and savour some of the finest Greek food this side of paradise. Always a must see and do event. Every year more and more people flock to enjoy this bastion of great food, music and Hellenic pride.
Link to Taste of the Danforth
Art Gallery Tours of Toronto. Art Gallery of Ontario Gallery: Tours, Exhibits and Courses Family Programs: Off the Wall! For Kids Pop Photography: Objects in Everyday Life 1842-1969. Tom Thomson: More than 140 of the artists oil sketches, paintings and works on paper, along with works by his contemporaries.
Directory of Ontario Art Galleries
The Beach or the Beaches Tour of Toronto's East end. It's three km long with nice scenes and the area is a park in itself, beautiful with picnic tables, biking and roller-blade trails and sandy beach on Lake Ontario.
Link to Beaches Tour
The Canadian National Exhibition. There are a thousand things to see and do: the International Marketplace; the Coliseum's horse shows; the Midway; the Food Building; the Horticultural Building; the Automotive Building; the petting zoo; the sports complex; and much more!!! My favorite Toronto annual event is the Canadian National Exhibition held each summer.
Link to This is last year's
CNE article.
Link to the Canadian National Exhibition
Additional Toronto Attractions and Activities
Centreville Amusement Park is nestled in over 600 acres of parklandwith over 30 rides and attractions.
Fort Yorkreconstructed after the battle, today's Fort York is Canada's largest
collection of original War of 1812 buildings and a designated National Historic Site.
Canada's Walk of Fame Presents the Annual Tribute Gala
Honoring Canada's Biggest Stars.
The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition is underway for the summer. The event includes sculpture, painting, original prints, ceramics, glass, metal, wood, fibre, photography and mixed media. The 42nd annual Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition will take place at Nathan Phillips Square
Black Creek Pioneer Village a restored 19th-century rural Victorian community is located in northwest Toronto. The Village re-creates the past with over 35 carefully restored 1860s shops and homes, interpreters in period dress who help guide you through Canadian history.
Paramount Canada's Wonderland is Canada's premier theme park and features over 200 attractions, more than 60 thrilling rides, North America's greatest variety of roller coasters, and Splash Works, a 20-acre water park.
The Toronto Aerospace Museum's most ambitious project is the construction of a full-size replica of the magnificent Avro CF-105 Arrow supersonic interceptor that first flew at Toronto's Malton Airport in 1958.
Allen Gardens Conservatory
Features six greenhouses comprising over 16,000 square feet of colourful seasonal plants which supplement the permanent plant collection. Of botanical importance since 1858 the conservatory boasts the "Palm House" (1910) modeled after similar structures in the United States and England.
Ontario Science Centre
Experience over 800 interactive exhibits, daily demonstrations and programs. Visit Ontario's only dome theatre and see a large-format films under the giant IMAX dome screen.
The SkyDome
The tour begins with a visit to the renovated museum area and a short film about the construction of the SkyDome. It continues with a 45 minute guided walking tour of areas not usually accessible to the general public.
Toronto Blue Jays Baseball
Special group programs include: play baseball/softball on the same field; take to the mound, throw a pitch; all summer camp groups of 20 or more are invited to watch the Blue Jays; a buffet picnic in the stands and catch all the behind-the-scenes action in the Blue Jays Bullpen
Riverdale Farm
Located within the historic Cabbagetown area, Riverdale Farm replicates a small, turn of the century Ontario farm. Cows, pigs, horses, goats and chicken provide lots of fun and learning opportunities for informal demonstrations including milking, cream separating, egg collecting, sheep
shearing and wool spinning.
Toronto Argonauts Football Club
Formed as part of the Argonaut Rowing Club using the double blue colours of Oxford and Cambridge for club members who were rugby football enthusiasts. The Argos celebrate 130 years of history including 14 Grey Cup championships.
Optional Day trips and Tours
- Niagara Falls
- Thousand Islands
- Algonquin Park
- Blue Mountain
- Bruce Trail
- Montreal, Ottawa Quebec City tours
*********
English Vacation Study Blog URL
http://english-vacation-study.blogspot.com/
ESL in Canada has a 20-year history of providing ESL programs in Canada, USA, Mexico and Korea. ESL in Canada has provided Business English teaching services to a wide variety of executives, students and vacation campers. Clients include Mercedes, Siemens, L'Oreal, KOTRA, Samsung, Daiwoo, Dongbu, Deakyo, Schnieder Electric, Klabine, KPMG, Anderson Consulting, SBS, KBS Media-I-Best and others. For additional information Go to http://www.eslincanada.com
No comments:
Post a Comment