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Wanted: Executive Director
Are you interested in community development in Calgary? Do you have a heart to see immigrants integrated into our society?
Consider volunteering with the ESL Cooperative. We are currently looking for a variety of volunteers including an Executive Director. For more details contact colleen@eslcooperative.ca.
Teacher Tech Training
NorQuest College will be holding hands-on workshops in Calgary and Edmonton in January and February.
Workshops will familiarize you with online tools, and teach you how to create lesson plans that integrate technology into classroom instruction.
The focus will be on interactive technologies and occupation-specific ESL content in the areas of engineering, healthcare and oil/gas sectors although the tools can be applied in any ESL/ELT class.
For info and registration contact: valeria.palladino@norquest.ca
or karen.berg@norquest.ca.
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Developing a Culture of Outreach Seminar
Dr. David Overholt of the the Billy Graham Evangelical Association will stir a passion in you for developing a culture of outreach - helping your congregation become increasingly mission minded and outward focused. This all day seminar will be held on January 16, 2012 at South Calgary Community Church. For more information click here.
Alberta Health Study Seeks Chinese & Mandarin Speaking Women
The department of Psychosocial Resources at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre, and the Department of Oncology at the University of Calgary is looking for 200 Chinese women (100 Cantonese speakers/100 Mandarin speakers) to fill out a questionnaire. If you know a woman who could participate contact May.Dunn@albertahealthservices.ca
Sow into Diverse-City
Our financial needs have never been greater, and your support is needed to reach immigrants with life giving community-building programs. To make a donation visit our website.
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December News
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Be Curious this Christmas
'Tis the season to be a good neighbor! Because many immigrants are a long way from family it's a great time to show a warm welcome. Here are some ideas for reaching out at Christmas:
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1. Be curious. For an immigrant, talking about life back home can help beat holiday homesick blues. Find information about their home country and holiday celebrations on Wikipedia to help you think of good questions to ask.
2. Ask about food restrictions. If you are hosting a meal you'll want to know if your new friends have religious or cultural food restrictions. If it doubt, serve poultry or fish with fruit and cooked vegetables.
3. Relax! In western culture when tend to rush. Most countries are unaccustomed to hurried meals. Different countries have different meal time customs so realize that your guest's silence doesn't necessarily mean he's uneasy.
From the board and staff of Cooperative ESL Ministries, we wish you a joyous Christmas as you celebrate Jesus, the Light of the World, with friends and family from near and far!
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Punctuating the Holidays
By Gisela Rohde, former board member
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Students often have trouble figuring out when a sentence should end. Some put a period after only a sentence fragment. Others go on and on, using only commas.
You can explain that a sentence is about one idea, and needs at least a doer (Subject noun) and an action (Verb), and maybe also some other extra information (like the object of the action, or where or when, why or how the action happened.) You could use the following excercise as punctuation practice.
This exercise will also give students cultural information and vocabulary about Christmas. You could write a similar set of sentences to talk about the real Christmas story.
Expand or combine these sentence fragments to make complete sentences.
Santa Claus lives
at the North Pole
Children write letters to
Postal Code H0H 0H0
because Santa always says, "Ho, Ho, Ho!"
Santa wears red
many helpers called elves
who make the toys....
read full excercise
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