The Parksville Tutoring Program

Our year is coming to its last couple months. Thank you to all our wonderful volunteer tutors and dedicated students for a fabulous year of learning. 🌠 The Career Centre - Parksville is open in the summer so tutoring pairs and our ESL groups will still be meeting. Our coordinator will be on holiday for July and returning August 17. We hope you have a great summer! See you soon! ⛱️🌞

We will be back on Thursday, July 2nd. 🇨🇦 Please also note that our coordinator will be on summer holidays from July 4 until mid August.

United for Literacy, formerly Frontier College, is celebrating 125 years! 🥳📖 Check out their history timeline of delivering literacy programs to people all across Canada since 1899. This would be a fun lesson for English language learners who want some Canadian history too. https://www.unitedforliteracy.ca/About/Our-Story

United for Literacy - Important Moments in History | United for Literacy A brief history and timeline of United for Literacy.

Bob the Canadian is always a good YouTube channel to watch and learn some English. This week he is talking about the World Cup. Football to some, Soccer to Canadians. ⚽️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl2qSQPspzo

Let's Learn English! Topic: The World Cup! ⚽🏆🥇 (Lesson Only) In this English lesson, I will help you learn and practice vocabula...

We're having a potluck! Do you know what a potluck is? Check out this blog post from "allrecipes" 🍣🍔🍕 and then look at our current newsletter for information on date and location. All tutors and students are welcome to join. https://www.allrecipes.com/what-are-potlucks-8649814

What Are Potlucks—And Where Does the Word 'Potluck' Come From? Learn about the history of potlucks, including where the name comes from and how a potluck is different from a picnic.

Gardening is one of our favorite topics in our ESL Conversation Group. (Food might be the most common topic!) If you would like to join us, and practice your English, please contact us.

Did you know there's more than 1 kind of English? 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 Check out this blog post from Rosetta Stone: https://blog.rosettastone.com/english-dialects/
If you are interested in learning English from Rosetta Stone, The Tutoring Program can sign you up for access to their lessons.

Explore the Differences Between 24+ English Dialects - Rosetta Stone But what is an English dialect, and how many dialects of English are there? Learn all about the many English dialects spoken around the world, how a dialect

Have you got your 2026 Census in the mail yet? Have you completed the questionnaire? 🇨🇦 Here's a link to a great resource for people who are new to living in Canada. Perfect for a tutoring lesson! https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/census/census-engagement/educator/2026-adult-education-kit

Learning a new language can take a lot of effort, but there are a few things that you can do to achieve better fluency. We often tell our students to take time each day to only use your new language. Here's a video from Olly Richards, talking about how Jodie Foster learned French. Good tips!
https://youtu.be/HcM7_WXLqZs?si=8gSyonIVaBC4Yiyi

Olly Richards 2.8K likes, 257 comments. "How Jodie Foster Learned French Like a Native"

It's National Volunteer Week, and The Tutoring Program would like to thank all our wonderful volunteers for sharing their skills and time. 💜 From one-on-one tutors, to group facilitators, to the Career Centre - Parksville board, and PQALS board, we couldn't be here, to help our adult learners, without you.