WEEKS 11 and 12: March 20-24; 27-31, 2023

 

Hello everyone,

It is springtime which also means that it's tax season! Thank you participating in the information sessions and asking great questions (written and spoken) about Filing Your Income Tax Returns. Special thanks to Jennifer and Indra from the OS Team for sharing the information with us.

This week, we're going to follow up and review some of that information.

AM and PM students, please click on the following links for some grammar and listening practice.

A. Grammar: Conditional Sentences Types 1 and 2 ONLY

    👉 Read the explanations and the examples. Make you sure you do the test at the bottom when             you're done reading. What's the difference between Conditional I and II?

    👉 Conditional I and II exercises

    👉 TEST Conditional 1 and 2

B. 1. Review the information about filing your taxes in Canada.

    👉 Get Ready to Do Your Taxes

    👉 Free Tax Clinics

    2. Watch the following videos:

    👉 What is CVITP?

    👉  What happens in volunteer tax clinics?

    👉 Collette's Story

   reminders:

ONLINE ONLY classes this week (March 27-31)for both in-person and online students! See you on Zoom. Check your email for links and attachments.

Spring semester starts Monday, April 3rd, 2023.

In-person classes only in the new semester (no more online classes).

WEEKS 9 and 10: March 6-10; March 13-17, 2023

 

NO CLASSES: March 13-17, 2023

For March Break activities that you and your families can enjoy: 

👉 March Break 2023 Windsor-Essex Activity Guide

👉 March Break Guide 2023

👉 Windsor Public Library March Break activities

AM Class (Reading/ Writing):

Here's some more practice for indirect questions. Your writing assessment is on Wednesday, March 22nd (in-person) and Friday, March 24th (online). Please check you email for homework.

1. Read and review the information. Take note of additional phrases used for indirect questions. 👉 Indirect Questions for ESL

2. Review the sentence structure and do the exercises. 

    👉 Review and practice indirect questions

    👉 Practice writing indirect questions

3. Embedded questions are identical to indirect questions. Read the information on this page and take notes of additional phrases that you can use for indirect questions. Don't forget to do the exercises at the bottom of the page. 👉 Embedded questions

PM Class (Listening/ Speaking):

Here's some more listening practice. Your listening and speaking assessment is on Wednesday, March 22nd (in-person) and Friday, March 24th (online). Please check you email for homework.

1. Learn about filing your income tax returns. Think about questions that you can ask about filing taxes. Change your questions to indirect questions. Use different indirect phrases. 👉 Doing your taxes

2. Listen to the conversations. Change the customer questions to indirect questions. 👉 Asking for Help

3. Listen to the conversation. Ask indirect questions questions for Anita. 👉 Personal Finances

Enjoy the March Break! See you on March 20th (online) and March 21st (in-person).

important dates:

March 30th -  last day of Winter semester (in-person)

March 31st - last day of Winter semester (online)

April 3rd- Spring semester starts (online)

April 4th- Spring semester (in-person)