A note from Darcy MacCallum who presented this matter to us at Gathering III: Great News: Bill 124, the Fair Access to Regulated Professions Act, has passed! Thank you for your help in promoting this significant piece of legislation. It is an important (and landmark) step toward facilitating the smooth entry of newcomers into the […]
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6 Ideas for ESL Christmas Lessons
A Christmas Lesson Using the Jesus Film To use this lesson you will need a copy of the “Jesus” Film produced by The Genesis Project and distributed by Campus Crusade for Christ. Click here to see the lesson. Santa Clause is coming to town! See this document here ESL Conversation Guides: Christmas Lessons ESL Conversation Guide […]
Season’s Greetings! We’ve received some wonderful ESL Christmas ideas. THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO RESPONDED!! Make sure you read over all the great ideas to see how various churches are celebrating with their ESL learners. We are still in need of more ideas so hurry to send them in. We want to share even […]
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Czeching-in
At Gathering III we had prayed for two of the participants, Len and Russ, who were going to be involved in an evangelistic English Weekend in the Czech Republic. Below is a brief report of that event: Thank you for your prayers regarding the evangelistic english family weekend November 16-19,2006. There were 180 people altogether […]
Please make a note of the following dates and times: Dec 5th and Jan 9th @ 7:30-9:00pm We welcome all to join us for prayer at TICC. Prayer items will be listed as and when they come up, please check regularly.
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The English Centre
Paul and Mabel were at Nicole Graham’s The English Centre book store last evening and took in a brief presentation by English author of “Just Right” grammar series, Jeremy Harmer. He spoke about helping students to learn and remember using: Repetition, Retrieval and use, Cognitive contact, Arousal and affect, the “cuddle” factor and a word list […]
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Gathering III: Program
October 21st, 2006 Milliken Chinese Community Church, 390 Bamburgh Circle, Scarborough, Ontario M1W 3X3 Tel: 416-498-3399 8:15 — Registration and Coffee 8:45 — Devotional and Introduction 9:05 — Beginners’ Course (all day; led by Colin Brewster and others; see page 3) This track is for people who are thinking of getting involved in an ESL Ministry […]
Do you ever feel you are out of your depth and wish there was someone more qualified to advise one of your students on a particular matter? Click this link to go to the Christian Sourcebook site Christian Resources
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ESL Ministries Prayer Meeting
As you can see from this photo of our last prayer meeting we have room to grow, so please join us! Date: Tue, Sep 5th Time: 7:30 – 9:00 Location: Toronto International Celebration Church 109 Railside Road, Toronto, Ontario Prayer for ESL Ministries in Southern Ontario. Come and share your prayer requests.
By Greg Thomson, Version .9, December 2006 LANGUAGE LEARNING IN THE FIRST DIMENSION For school-educated people around the world, understanding language learning from a socio-cultural viewpoint requires quite a change in thinking.[1] So get ready! In fact, I find the issues in this dimension of language learning much more difficult to grasp initially than those connected […]