Saturday 10 October 2015

9 October 2015  Friday’s assignment

Task 1:

Article to be read in class:

Watch these videos

Write a quick summary about both the article and the videos; try to elaborate on what Thanks Giving mean from the Canadian's point of view and include some idioms that were mentioned.

Video1:
This video gave us the brief introduction about the history of the Thanksgiving Day in Canada. It started at 1578 but didn’t celebrate it regularly after a certain period and it took time to note that date at second Monday of October. The mean of Thanksgiving Day also have some change from beginning. Traditional meaning should be celebrated harvest season but nowadays people celebrate for family, for health and for one day off.

Video2:
This video just like a TV show, a Canadian people show us how to cook a typical food eaten on Thanksgiving Day in Canada -Turkey.  The cooking process can be described as following:
1). Getting the turkey ready;
2). Getting stuffing ready -Mixing the small pieces brides, onion, celery and some poultry seasoning together;
3). Push the stuffing into cavity of turkey and sew it together.
4). Roast in oven.

Task 2: 

Now comes our time for our field trip report writing. As we used to do, please write one/two paragraph(s) describing your experience on yesterday's field trip.
Try to include the following ideas in your writing:
·                  Some background information about the field trip--> location, place's name, history (if you know it)...etc
·                  Things you liked, and why
·                  Things you didn't like, and why
·                  Things that you have learnt
·                  Things you would like to learn more about

A Wonderful field trip to AGO

The day before yesterday our Linc school students had a wonderful field trip to The Art of Gallery of Ontario (AGO), which was planned and organized by our English teacher.

AGO is a famous place in Canada which located at 317 Dundas St. West of Toronto. It was founded in 1900 by a group of private citizens as the Art Museum of Toronto, then renamed the name Art Gallery of Toronto in 1919 and finally got its name “Art of Gallery of Ontario (AGO)” in 1966. AGO is one of the largest art museums in North America, it holds more than 80000 works in its collection, which spans from 100 A.D. to the present.

We enjoyed many paintings in AGO and the painting named ‘The Wooden Shoes’ is the one I like most because the painter used the bright color and fluid strokes which makes me feel peaceful and pleasant. In fact I like nearly all of them and the only one I don’t like is the art piece made from golf bags. Though it try to embody the meaning in a special and creative way it couldn’t arouse me any aesthetic feeling.

This is the first time I visit AGO and most of arts are new to me, it helps me to understand Canadian culture well. Because of time limited we have no chance to look some arts in a detailed way, but by this field trip the teacher has opened a door for me, I would like to learn more relative things in the future. 

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