Tuesday's Reading Assignment

Monday, November 14, 2016

Tuesday's Reading Assignment

Here are your tasks:

1. Read this article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-jobs-october-1.3836222
1. Identify and share with a partner 10 new words/expressions.
2. Listen to your partner and check for meaning and pronunciation.
2. Ask 3 questions based on the article, and answer them on your blog.

Answers:

2.1 What is the title of this article?

The title of this article is Canada adds 44,000 jobs in October.

2.2 What is the Statistics Canada reported?

Statistics Canada reported Friday that most of the jobs came from Ontario and British Columbia, which added 25,000 and 15,000 new jobs, respectively. Most other provinces were largely unchanged.

2.3 Which departments added the jobs in the past month?

During the month itself, the construction, wholesale and retail trade, "other services," educational services, natural resources and public administration sectors added jobs.

10 new words: respectively; expectations; flip; Opposition; note; recovery; softens;  tighter ;mortgage;

NOTE:

Statistics Canada = Stats Can