Inside this issue: Welcome New Students 2 ELTOC Executive Director 2 ELTOC Spring Tea 2 Welcome New Tutors 3 Student Submissions: Saying Good-Bye 3 Congratulations 3 Quarterly Quote 3 Tips from Our Tutors 4 Thank You! 4 August 2018 Attention! Get this newsletter by email! Just send an email to [email protected]to ask and you’ll re- ceive the full-colour electronic version. Thanks! - The ELTOC Staff ELTOC News Your News - August 2018 Page 1 English language tutoring for the Ottawa community
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Inside this issue:
Welcome New Students 2
ELTOC Executive Director 2
ELTOC Spring Tea 2
Welcome New Tutors 3
Student Submissions: Saying Good-Bye
3
Congratulations 3
Quarterly Quote 3
Tips from Our Tutors 4
Thank You! 4
August 2018
Attention! Get this newsletter by email! Just send an email to [email protected] to ask and you’ll re-ceive the full-colour electronic version. Thanks!
- The ELTOC Staff
ELTOC News
Your News - August 2018 Page 1
English language tutoring for the Ottawa community
Your News - August 2018 Page 2
After 24 years of dedication and leadership, ELTOC’s Executive Director, Mita Basu, retired this summer in June. Mita will be greatly missed and we wish her all the very best in her well-deserved retirement. In July, we welcomed a new Executive Director, Giselle Leduc, who has a background in management, language instruction, and the not-for-profit sector. Giselle most recently worked at World Skills, an organization devoted to helping newcomers develop Canadian job skills and find employment - a mission well aligned with ELTOC’s own mission. Please feel free to drop in and meet her if you are in the neighborhood.
Ji Yeon Lee
Asmaa Alkedai
Zebib Araya Gebreslase
Marzieh Rafsanja-
ni Sadeghi
Safoura Daneshfozoun
Gerardine
Mbazumushaha
Fadwa Ibrahim
Maisaa Mohammad Falah
Khaled Mustafa
Mohamad
Adib Nakkar
Soo Jung Hong
Yasmin Almostafa
Sanaa Bakkour
The staff at ELTOC would like to extend a
most heartfelt welcome to our students who joined us for the first
time between May 2018 and July 2018:
New Students
ELTOC’s Executive Director Announcements
Mita’s retirement was celebrated at our Spring Tea Fundraiser in May 2018 and we are grateful to City Councillor, Tobi Nussbaum, who delivered a heart-warming speech to honour her work with ELTOC and the community. Thank you to everyone who came to support us. A very special thanks go to our board member, Elizabeth Heatherington, who was the lead organizing force behind the event. We also thank St. Bartholomew's Church for the venue and Susan Sweeney Hermon who played beauti-ful music. We had over 100 guests and raised just over $4,000. A big thank you to those who volunteered at the event, donated items for the silent auction, and brightened the event with their presence!
ELTOC Spring Tea Fundraiser a Great Success!
On January 11, 2016, I was having the hardest fight in my life. My heart was full of emotions and it was fighting my mind and my thoughts. I could not
side with either. The choice between them was very hard. My heart was broken to leave my family. My mother could not come to see me at the airport because she was really poor. Only my father and my brothers came to say goodbye Amina… I felt like going back with them, but I couldn’t. My mind was pushing me to go, saying “It’s your opportunity Amina. You will have a better life. You will have a good place for your children and you can continue your education. What do you have here? Nothing.” I went on my way to the plane. I never turned back. I was afraid to change my mind. I just stuck to my husband’s hand and went.
New Tutors
The staff at ELTOC would like to extend a most heart-felt welcome to our tutors who joined us for the first time between May 2018
and July 2018:
Brenda Smith
Cathy Bonnah
Beatrice Severien
Joan Young
~ And a very BIG thank you to all
returning tutors who’ve
taken on a new student! ~
ELTOC Inspirational Quarterly Quote
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to fish and you feed them for a lifetime.
- Proverb
Your News - August 2018 Page 3
Congratulations!
Alla had a baby boy!
Priscilla had a baby boy!
Nasir became a Canadian
Citizen!
Moez got his G2 driver’s
license!
By: Amina Mohamad
Saying Good-Bye
Student Submission
Tips from Our Tutors
Your News - August 2018 Page 4
We need submissions!
Our Next Issue will be published in November 2018
ELTOC’s NEXT ISSUE: Tell us about your summer, or your back to school experience!
We are also always looking for more yummy recipes!
Please send us your submissions by November 16th, 2018
A special thanks
to all those
students and tutors
who contributed
to this newsletter!
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Susan: Susan ’s student loves reading about actors and musicians, so she has rewritten and
simplified some stories taken from newspapers or magazines to make it easier for her student
to read. The stories keep the student motivated to read and learn. Susan also uses music
videos to accompany the simplified stories on various musicians.
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Norma: Norm a found a great w ebsite that cam e in handy w ith her level 3
student.
www.headsupenglish.com
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Adele: Playing scrabble and doing crossw ord puzzles are a great w ay to challenge
a student who is at a higher level.
Dominique: www.perfect-english-grammar.com - This website has grammar explanations
and some exercises for higher levels – intermediate/advanced students. The information is
also great for tutors who are looking to learn more about some grammar points.
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Jean: On Channel 16- Omni television, there is a program called “Let’s Talk English”. It
might be good practise for students who want to do some extra work between sessions.
