A BBQ to meet the staff!

We will be at Linda Jeffrey's BBQ on September 11th!

Meet your provincial Member of Parliament.

Where?  Loafer's Lake Park at Conestoga and Sandalwood.

When?  starting at 2 p.m.

Exciting times!  Meet the staff of BEST, come for a BBQ, enjoy the last of the summer weather and get your kids' faces painted!

We look forward to seeing everyone there!

Listening Practise

All learners say that they need listening practise especially with Canadian accents.
Well, here are some websites that can help:
either cut and paste them into your search bar or retype them into the bar and then click

There are many different places to go to and these will help you in your spare time when you're not studying in a classroom.
As always, you can get plenty of listening practise when you watch t.v. or the radio.
For the television, go to CBC or CTV and watch the news.  CBC has a few Canadian comedies that are excellent:  Little Mosque on the Prairie and Corner Gas.  If you watch CBC, you know that you'll get Canadian accents.

Try these and let BEST know which you think is the best!
1.  www.esl-lab.com
2.  www.ezslang.com
3.  www.archives.cbc.ca  (this is organized by subject)
4.  www.nfb.ca (this is the National Film Board of Canada) click on animation

Learn English!

To learn English there are four (4) competencies or areas that each learner needs to think about:

speaking

listening

reading 

writing

Teachers create lessons that include each of these competencies in interesting ways so that a learner stays focused.

In order to remember new vocabulary you need to use the new word 12 times in important ways.

Which do you think is the most important competency?

Do you think it is possible to change your accent?

Which do you practise the most and how?

WE ARE AN NPO!

Here we are!  We are Brampton English Services Team.
We are an NPO.  NPO stands for Not for Profit Organization.
We are located in Brampton, Ontario Canada and will soon have a location to provide free English as a Second Language classes to residents of Brampton.  
We will be in the Springdale neighbourhood.


What is an NPO?  
Your English lesson for today.... it is an acronym.
Each first letter (initial) of the word is used as a short form.
N = non
P = profit
O = organization


You may know already that LOL in the computer means:
L = laugh
O = out
L = loud


Here are some other common acronyms..... try to think of what they mean.
ESL
DIY
BTW
and my favourite:  TGIF


We hope to see everyone soon!