Five lovely tasks

1, Five antonyms from ''So this is Christmas''
 old and  young; weak and  strong;  rich and  poor;  black and r white; over and begin


2, Find words in the songs that mean:

Battle: fight; Terror; fear; Beloved: dear; Wish: hope


3,  (1) boughs of holly; The bough of holly was hung on the front of door by Canadian marks Christmas iscoming.
apparel; I need to buy a suit of thick sport apparel for skiing.
troll: We practiced this song by trolling and switching with man and woman.
blazing; I dreamed a wolf was looking on me with blazing eyes, so I woke up from this scared   dream.
(2) Yule-tide carol is a traditional discretion for Christmas carol.
       As a instrument, Harp can be used with Chorus.

Meetings

Task 1:

 Now answer the following questions:

1.What type of meeting is the agenda for?

School meeting

2. Who are the participants?

Parents

3. What is the purpose of the meeting?

To plan fundraising activities for spring term

4. How long do you think it is going to be?

2 hours

5. How can the participants prepare for the meeting?

 Prepare the fundraising activities

Task 2:

To: Jessie, Human Resource Department

From: Iris, Accounting Department

We are going to have a meeting about budget of graduation ceremony this year at 9:00 am, December 11^th in the conference room.  We are going to discuss the participant range, ceremony decoration spending and consumption in the ceremony. This is the mandatory meeting, please attend on time.

Dec 10

Meeting Agenda

Accounting Department of Micro skill

When: Thursday, December 11^th, 9:00am

Where: Conference room

Objective: Budget discussion of annual graduation ceremony in Link School

1, Discuss the participant range for the graduation ceremony

2, Discuss the decoration spending for the graduation ceremony

3, Discuss the consumption in the graduation ceremony

Report of Employment Standards

This report  a part of employment standards include minimum wage rates of Ontario; Hour of work in Ontario; Public holidays and pregnancy leave, parental leave in Ontario.


 1, The general adult minimum rate of  Ontario is $11.00 per hour; The student minimum wage is $10.30 per hour; The Liquor Servers Minimum Wage is $9.55 per hour.


 2, The maximum daily hours of work is 8 hours a day; The maximum weekly hours of work
is 48 hours a week..


 3, Ontario has nine public holidays: New Year's Day; Family Day; Good Friday;   Victoria Day ; Canada Day; Labour Day ; Thanksgiving Day ; Christmas Day ; Boxing Day (December 26). Most employees who qualify are entitled to take these days off work and be paid public holiday pay. Alternatively, they can agree in writing to work on the holiday and they will be paid.


4,Employees are entitled to two weeks of vacation time after each 12-month vacation entitlement year. Ordinarily, a vacation entitlement year is a recurring 12-month period beginning on the date of hire.


5, Pregnant employees have the right to take pregnancy leave of up to 17 weeks of unpaid time off work. In some cases the leave may be longer. Employers do not have to pay wages to someone who is on pregnancy leave. New parents have the right to take parental leave--unpaid time off work when a baby or child is born or first comes into their care. Birth mothers who took pregnancy leave are entitled to up to 35 weeks' leave. Birth mothers who do not take pregnancy leave and all other new parents are entitled to up to 37 weeks' parental leave.




Iris.Wang
Dec.9. 2014

Presentation skills

Similarities: Proper dressing; appropriate  gestures; The topic is very specific, not too wide and complicated.

 Differences; First one seems more formal than the other, there was board behind the presenter, presenter showed information on the board, she informed to audiences what she wanted to talk about at the beginning and presented the topic step by step directly  and clearly. All the words she used that around professional field. The presentation style was very formal and seriously. The second one came with interaction first to attract audience with asking questions and gave suggestions. Presenter picked up a personal story to explain the main thing he would like to talk and impress the audiences. The presentation style was very inform and humorous and used so many slang and idiom.

Five things that you have learned:

From the first presentation: Direct shows main contain on the board that you want to present on the board and divide them to different group; Put them in order, explain step by step; Using simple words and sentence to explain professional Vocabulary in order to make audiences understand clearly; Have brief summarization and conclusion, makes audiences follow the topic easy; When explain the similar vocabulary, give some example to compare with and distinguish the differences.

From the second presentation; Sense of humours; Interaction; Use so many gestures to impress audiences; Change different tone of voice to attract audiences; take about personal live story to show resonance.