How does Vancouver compare to your home city?

What are the similarities between your home city and Vancouver? The differences? Do you think that globalization is making every city the "same"? Why/why not? Use some of the vocabulary you have learnt this week and some of the phrasal verbs from p.4 in your phrase builder.

Tough Times In Vancouver

Write about a challenge you've faced here in Vancouver. How did you handle it? Did you learn anything from it? Make sure to check your verb tenses!

Eavesdropping

Find a comfortable spot in a public place (cafe, restaurant, bus, skytrain), hide behind a newspaper and listen to the conversations around you :) Take notes! Report what you heard using reported speech. You don't have to tell us word-for-word, just summarize.

It's a question of taste.

Look in your textbook at p.77, Question 4. Look at the Would you...? list. Find at least one thing that you would never do, and one thing you would (secretly) like to do and why. Now explain at least one thing you've already done and give us all the juicy details.

If you could do anything in the world....

...what would you do and why? Give us all the juicy details!

Vancouver News

Find an interesting newspaper article about something that has recently taken place in Vancouver. Summarize the article telling only the most important information. Use the passive with reporting verbs where appropriate. (See your textbook p.132 B2&3 for useful grammar points).

What do you do in your free time?

What are your favourite things to do to relax? Do you have any hobbies? Do you practice any sports? Are you an artist of some kind? Give a detailed description of what you do and why you like to do it. Use some vocabulary from your phrase builder if it's appropriate.