Thursday 11 July 2024

Lethbridge Alberta Canada Travel and Education Information

Lethbridge Education Listing

Lethbridge Public Education, Elementary and Secondary Schools

Lethbridge School Division

Phone: (403) 380-5300
Address: 433 15th Street South, Lethbridge, Alberta T1J 2Z4

Instructional Services is responsible for the identification of foreign born and refugee students who qualify for English as a Second Language (ESL) funding (codes 301 and 640) and supports. Schools shall provide a continuum of support (universal, targeted and specialized) for students identified as English Language Learners. Alberta Education ESL benchmarks shall be used to assess language proficiency and identify necessary supports. The principal or designate is responsible for coordinating ESL supports within the school. Coordinating responsibilities shall include ensuring: Alberta Education ESL benchmarks are completed; and an annual ESL assessment is completed and placed in the student record.

Universities

University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge is a public comprehensive and research university, founded in the liberal education tradition, located in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, with a second campus in the city of Calgary, Alberta.

The English Language Institute (ELI) offers ESL language programs including English for Academic Purposes. The University of Lethbridge also offers language support to current EAP students through the English Language Partner and Writing Tutor programs.

The English Language Institute offers up to 80 hours of instruction and activities by fully-accredited English instructors, uLethbridge students and community members. Immerse yourself in the English language and Canadian culture for four weeks in the summer. Classes focus on the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This course is designed to improve students' confidence, fluency, and accuracy with English while enjoying a fun-filled month of Canadian culture!

Colleges

Lethbridge College

You can learn English in one of the most beautiful settings on earth: Canada. Walk out of your classroom and you’ll be surrounded by the natural beauty of the prairies. You’ll even see the Rocky Mountains in the distance. Every year, students like you travel from over 40 different countries to experience all this and learn English. You’ll study ESL in our award-winning, Languages Canada-accredited English Language Centre. The friendly and experienced Lethbridge College instructors are TESL-certified and dedicated to helping you learn the English language.

Online Education Services Apps Teaching Lessons Resources

English Language Grammar Lessons

How to Write & Writing Exercises

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Friday 5 July 2024

Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Travel and Education

travel video by Crissiepops:

00:00 Introduction 00:18 Day 1 (hotel, coffee, izakaya dinner, crêpe) 03:06 Day 2 (bistros, pastries, old quebec, chateau frontenac, cathedral, poutine, pâtisserie, coffee, albacore dinner) 11:24 Day 3 (breakfast sandwich, montmorency falls, parliament, citadelle, dinner le pied bleu) 17:24 Day 4 (breakfast crêpes, french onion soup, gare du palais via rail train station) 19:42 

Quebec City, a wonderful city to visit

Quebec City is the second-oldest existing European settlement in Canada and lies on the Saint Lawrence River. This historic city is seperated by steep bluffs into Upper Town which includes the old quarter and Lower Town.

The old quarter is the only walled city in North America and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Citadel, Chateau Frontenac, Plains of Abraham and the Quebec Parliament are all attractions located in Upper Town.

Lower Town contains the Naval Museum of Quebec, the Old Port of Quebec and Place-Royal, the site of the first permanent settlement in New France.

Quebec City is also famous for the Quebec Winter Carnival, which showcases world-class ice sculpture and Ice Hotel the first hotel of its kind in North America. Constructed out of thousands of tons of ice at Station ecotouristique Duchesnay. The hotel has an art gallery, an ice chapel, an ice bar and an ice reception hall.

Quebec City, an excellent collection of historical buildings and museums

Musee du Fort

This museum recreates the six sieges of Quebec City. The highlights of Quebec City's history are presented using a spectacular model of the city as it was in 1759.

Musee naval de Quebec

The Naval Museum of Quebec allows visitors to hear the stories of Quebec's naval veterans.

Musee de la Civilisation

Near the historic site of Place-Royale Musee de la Civilisation presents four permanent and six temporary thematic exhibitions and emphasizes learning through participation and interaction.

Musee de l'Amerique Francaise

The Musee de l'Amerique Francaise traces the history of Francophones in North America. The Musee de l'Amerique Francaise is the oldest museum in Canada, having exhibited its first collection in 1806.

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Wednesday 3 July 2024

St John's, Newfoundland, Canada Travel and Education Information


                                                    Video by: Lawrence and Airiel

For more than 500 years St. John's has been visited by European explorers, adventurers, soldiers and pirates. St. John's, the provincial capital, is the economic and cultural centre for Newfoundland and Labrador.

The Rooms is a state-of-the-art cultural centre that preserves and protects the Newfoundlands heritage, history and culture. The Rooms houses the Newfoundland Museum, Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador. The Newfoundland Museum proudly displays three galleries which examines the natural history and native peoples of the Province. Check out Tales from the Vault, a changeable gallery where there's always something old that's new to see.

The former train station, a magnificent heritage building, now a museum exhibits the 100 year history of the Newfoundland Railway and Coastal Boat services.

Signal Hill has been the site of countless military endeavours over the centuries, and in 1901, was on the receiving end of the first transatlantic wireless signal by Marconi.

ST. John's Newfoundland Education

Universities

Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's

Memorial University is Atlantic Canada's largest university with six faculties: arts, science, education, medicine, engineering applied science, business admin and seven schools: graduate studies, nursing, physical education/athletics, social work, continuing education, music and pharmacy.

Over one-third of our talented graduate students at Memorial are international students coming from over 90 countries. Memorial has 134 student programs, exchanges and research partnership agreements in 40 countries.

Memorial University offers full-time intensive English programs that prepare students to enter degree programs. ESL programs are offered at three levels. In the Intensive English Bridge Program (levels 1 and 2), students are permitted to take one or two academic courses as part of their program of English language study.

Public Education, Elementary, Secondary Adult Continuing Schools

Ministry of Education, Confederation Building, West Block
P.O. Box 8700, St. John's, NEWFOUNDLAND, A1B 4J6

English as a Second Language and Newcomer Programs Adult

English as a Second Language and Newcomer Programs Students

Online Education Services Apps Teaching Lessons Resources

English Language Grammar Lessons

How to Write & Writing Exercises

Community Educational Organizations

  • Literacy Development Council of Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Arts & Culture Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland A1E 3A3
    Tel: 709-737-3964, fax: 709-737-3009

Newfoundland Immigration Settlement LINC Services

  • Citizenship and Immigration Canada,
    P.O. Box 13667,St. John's, Newfoundland A1B 4G1
    (709) 772-5521
  • Association for New Canadians,
    144 Military Road, St. John's, Newfoundland A1C 2E6
    (709) 722-9680