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ESL in Canada Study Tours

The Study Tour Program begins with Pre-Tour English instruction for a special purpose. The program participants will be provided with the vocabulary, definitions, history and culture of the Canada locations, events and activities. The pre-tour English instruction will prepare tour participants to understand and communicate in English during the Canada events and tours.

This Study Tour group program (for 10 to 250 participants) consists of interchangeable tours, study programs and event attendance. This allows the study tour participants maximum flexibility for price, time or location considerations.

Example Study Tour Options:

Pre-Tour English instruction (from one month to six months)

Arrival in Canada

Event attendance (from 1 day to 6 week programs)

Tour program (from 3 day to 45 day programs)

Study program (from 3 day seminars to 9 month credit courses)

Departure to home

Example Study Tour Programs:
1. One month pre-tour English, arrive - 1 week event, 1 week tour - depart
2. Two month pre-tour English, arrive - 2 weeks events, 21 day tour - depart
3. One month pre-tour English, arrive - 1 week event, one month study - depart
4. No pre-tour English, arrive - 1 week event, 1 week tour - depart

"Media MBA" Executive Study Tour Program

Canada is a world leader in several multi-media sectors with hardware, software, technology, methodologies and facilities integration.

The "Media MBA" tours several leading-edge technologies and exhibits government, education and private sector cooperation to research, develop and integrate products, processes and systems. The ESL in Canada "Media MBA" program is a 5 day seminar and facilities study tour program in Toronto, Canada. The following are example seminar topics and facilities.

National Film Board Programming Priorities

Priorities will be weighted, and adjusted periodically to ensure that overall goals are being met. In order of importance, the programming priorities are:
- Focus and treatment of major social issues unique, necessary, and relevant
- Focussing on key audiences, especially youth, the educational sector
- Innovating the audiovisual narrative form
- Advancing the documentary ethic, and media literacy
- Creative vision: strength of story
- Working with filmmaking talent in all regions of Canada
- Nurturing emerging filmmakers
- Championing intercultural and Aboriginal voices
- Promoting social cohesion through examination, debate and dialogue
- Increasing audiences

CBC Technology Review

CBC Technology is dedicated to ensuring that the technological environment of Canada's national broadcaster continues to evolve and improve in anticipation of Canada's changing needs. From HDTV production, satellite distribution, transmission, signal compression and enhancement, to online sharing of production elements across the country, the tour covers the challenges and triumphs as Radio, Television, New Media and emerging broadcast technologies evolve.

Interactive Broadcast Learning Lab

WebTV+ - Currently the Interactive Broadcast Learning Lab has the Philips Magnavox MAT976 WebTV+ and SONY INT-W200 WebTV+.

As part of the labs OpenTV Target Decoder a PACE TP3 is connected via a serial port to emulate OpenTV applications. OpenTV is one of the worlds most widely deployed iTV systems and is currently implemented by a number of MSO's and used globally in over fifty countries.

AOLTV ? Because of America On-Line's dominant position in the US market as an Internet provider many feel they have the market position to develop their service given that they own the Time-Warner content vault. The Interactive Broadcast Learning Lab was among the first places in Canada to have this service. The box contains a 4 gig hard drive and may eventually emulate a personal video recorder.

The Motorola DCT-5000 is the highly touted next generation set-top that can run both a variety of operating systems. The box contains a faster processor, more memory and larger hard drives than the current generation of installed set-tops in the marketplace.

Advanced Computer Animation Technology

Introduction to scripting, expressions, shader networks, organization of data and practical applications of the MEL scripting language will be used to drive particle and dynamics applications within the Maya animation environment. Also presented more advanced scripting to encompass interface building, more advanced dynamic systems control and rendering management.

Union Training Programs

Trainee Program list of responsibilities

- how to build various cameras in different working modes with all the accessories
- how to load film for motion picture cameras
- how to mark actors
- how to slate (single, multi and high speed cameras)
- how to keep accurate paperwork which includes camera reports, daily film inventory, petty cash, equipment rentals and returns.

Professional Development Seminars

Professional Development Seminars includes intensive training on all the camera systems: Arriflex, Aaton, Moviecam, and Panavision including HDTV, Vista Vision and other specialty equipment. Additional HDTV information sessions for Producers, Directors, ADs and Production Managers is being developed. Look for our new seminars for PACE and Hydroflex (underwater camera housing systems).

Spectacular Canadian Tour Locations

Banff - See the spectacular Canadian Rockies, visit to Sulphur Mountain for a thrilling gondola ride, complete with panoramic views of Banff's mountain scenery and a stop at the sparkling Bow River Falls.

Cape Breton Highlands National Park - The Cabot Trail on Cape Breton will reveal Nova Scotia's coastal beauty at its best. Alexander Graham Bell said: "I have traveled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty Cape Breton out rivals them all"

Columbia Icefield - Located on the boundary of Banff and Jasper National Parks. The icefield covers an area of nearly 325 square kilometers. The continuous accumulation of snow feeds eight major glaciers including the Athabasca, Dome, and Stutfield Glaciers and all are visible from the Icefields Parkway. The Columbia Icefield is a true "continental divide," as it feeds streams and rivers that pour into the Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific oceans. Tour the Athabasca Glacier and you will travel to the middle of the glacier, on a 5 kilometer round trip journey. Your driver/guide will explain how glaciers are formed and point out interesting geological features.

Columbia Icefields Parkway - The view of waterfalls, emerald lakes, alpine meadows and snow-capped peaks makes this one of the most scenic highways in the world. From Lake Louise to Jasper the Parkway winds along the shoulder of the Great Divide and passes by the spectacular mountains of the Eastern Canadian Rockies. It crosses the headwaters of the Bow, Mistaya and North Saskatchewan Rivers exposes spectacular sights as Lake Louise, Bow Lake, Peyto and Crowfoot Glaciers, Mistaya Canyon and the Weeping Wall. From Jasper, the parkway passes Athabasca Falls and the Sunwapta Canyon. It is a majestic wilderness habitat for elk, bighorn sheep, moose, mountain goats and grizzly bears.

Dinosaur Provincial Park - one of the richest fossil beds in the world. In Drumheller visit the Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology and journey through time into the era of the great dinosaurs. The museum houses the worlds' largest collection of dinosaur skeletons.

Fraser River white water - Ride over the wild white water of "Hells Gate". See the Fraser Canyon and understand why he named this area "Hells Gate". View the International Fishways to assist millions of salmon per year make it to their spawning grounds.

Grouse Mountain - The Grouse Mountain Skyride takes you on a one-mile journey to the mountaintop. Grouse Mountain has the World Famous Lumberjack Show, the Refuge for Endangered Wildlife, Birds in Motion Demonstrations and mountain top nature trails. Grouse Mountain has winter adventures including 25 ski and snowboard runs, 10km of snowshoe trails, an outdoor skating pond and sleigh rides.

Niagara Falls - Join the sightseeing excursion to Niagara Falls, with a Maid of the Mist cruise for an up-close view of the falls.

Toronto CN Tower - The CN Tower is Canada's most recognizable icon. At a height of 553.33m (1,815 ft., 5 inches), it is the World's Tallest Building. Visitors can enjoy "To The Top: The Movie" a 15 minute documentary of the building of the engineering marvel that created the CN Tower.

Canada Business English Study Programs

Programs 1, 2, 3 or 4 weeks in length

Average Study Day Schedules:
Breakfast
9:00 to 12 English Classes
Lunch
1 to 5 PM Tour or Activity
Supper
7 to 9:30 Evening program

English Skills

Writing introduces the purpose of the work, expresses main ideas and gives details, conveys essential information to the reader, uses format and content appropriate for intended audience, demonstrates adequate vocabulary for the topic. Student can reduce information to main points with accurate supporting details and no major omissions of important points or details, can also demonstrate good use and control of complex grammatical structures, vocabulary, spelling and punctuation.

Speaking effectively in most daily practical and social situations, and in familiar routine work situations; participate in conversations with confidence; speak on familiar topics at both concrete and abstract levels; can provide descriptions, opinions and explanations.

Reading identifies main ideas, factual details and inferred meanings in text, identifies organization of text, topic sentences and logical relationship including links between paragraphs; follows the sequence of narration or process even when events are out of sequence; distinguishes facts from opinions; infers meaning of words from context clues; hypothesizes how something works; evaluates ideas in text, draws conclusions and expresses own opinion; interprets key information in a diagram or graph as verbal text; transfers key ideas from a chart or diagram. The student can follow an extended set of multi-step instructions for established process or directions.

Listening can comprehend main points, details, speaker's purpose, levels of formality and styles in oral discourse in moderately demanding contexts; follow most formal and informal conversations, and some technical work-related discourse in own field at a normal rate of speech; follow discourse about abstract and complex ideas on a familiar topic; comprehend an expanded range of concrete, abstract and conceptual language; determine mood, attitudes and feelings; understand sufficient vocabulary, idioms and colloquial expressions to follow detailed stories of general popular interest; follow instructional texts and directions; follow clear and coherent phone messages on unfamiliar and non-routine matters; identifies the component parts of the presentation: introduction, topic development, topic shift and conclusion; identify and respond to formal welcomes, farewells, toasts, congratulations on achievements, awards, sympathy, condolences and questions. Student can follow an extended set of multi-step instructions on technical and non-technical tasks for familiar processes or procedures, and identify stated and unspecified meanings in extended suggestions and recommendations.