NEWS photo Neil Lucente

REPRESENTATIVES from French Immersion classes at Cleveland, Larson and Ross Road elementary
schools in North Vancouver, and from Programme Cadre classes at Larson, met in the Larson gym recently
to talk it cut in a public speaking contest called Concours d'art oratoire. The students demonstrated their
skills before a panel of judges and interested parents, teachers and friends. The Grade 6 and 7 winners from
the contest go on to compete at the provincial level at Simon Fraser University March 7.

English
teachers
meet
locaily

PROFESSIONALS involved in the
teaching of English as an addi-
tional language around the world
will gather in Vancouver for the
first international conference of
Teaching English as a Second
Language.

Presented by B.C. TEAL
(Teachers of English as an Addi-
tional Language), the conference,
with its Pacific Perspectives theme,
is expected to draw between 1,200
and 1,500 participants from across
North America, from Britain, and
from around the Pacific, including
presenters from the U.S. west
coast and Alaska, Hawaii, Guam,
the Philippines, Japan, China, and
New Zealand.

The three-day conference opens
Thursday, March 12 at the Hyatt
Regency Hotel.

A special feature, a first for ESL
conferences, will be an on-line
computer conference which will
include hardware and software
displays and an international elec-
tronic bulletin board enabling
users throughout the Pacific Rim
and North America to discuss con-
ference topics. In addition, video
links are planned between the con-
ference site and off-site locations
including Hawaii and Japan.

Other conference highlights are:
more than 100 workshops and
paper presentations, panel discus-
sions, publishers’ exhibits, British
Council Exhibit, exhibit of Cana-
dian publications and materials,
informal discussions with experts,
institutional visits, ethnic com-
munity visits, informal sharing
sessions, meetings of special inter-
est groups, TEAL and TESL
Canada business sessions, and
Multicultural Canada Night.

Opening-day symposium topics
include: ESL in Early Childhood
Education, ESL in Elementary and
Secondary Schools, Assessment for
Kindergarten to Grade 12, Materi-
als and Resource Centres,
Aboriginal Education, English in
the Workplace, Literacy, English
for Specific Purposes, Discourse
Analysis in EAP, Computer
Assisted Language Learning,
English Around the Pacific,
Cross-Cultural Communication,
and Teacher Training.

For further information, con-
tact: TESL Canada ’87, P.O. Box
82344, Burnaby, B.C. V5C 5P8,
telephone 294-8325.

Chevy’s new fun car is going
your way.

The new Chevy Sprint is priced to
be affordable. The way you wanta
car to be today. But don’t be fooled
by the low price. Chevy Sprint's a
loaded value.

Made for Chevrolet in Japan, this
hi-tech, front-drive’s equipped witha
slick 5-speed.

A zippy 1.0 Litre engine with
high-revving OHC, independent
MacPherson-strut front suspension
along with rack-and-pinion steering
for sporty handling.

Anavailable intercooled turbo for
quick performance.

space galore.

1.0 Litre L.3 engine and 5-speed manual transmission. Your actual mileage may vary.

But what's incredible is Sprint’s
fuel economy. 55 MPG (5.1 L/
100 km)**. Unbeatable in Canada,
The Chevy Sprint. It's how Chevy

23 - Wednesday, March 4, 1987 - North Shore News

THE PITCH-IN clean-up and
beautification campaign has been
re-introduced to B.C.

Community groups, service
clubs and schools are being urged
to start thinking now about plann-
ing their spring clean-up campaign
by ordering their supply of free,
especially imprinted garbage bags
before the March 31 deadline.

The Pitch-In campaign is spon-
sored by Outdoors Unlittered and
the B.C. Wildlife Federation in
cooperation with several British
Columbian municipalities, the
Ministries of Tourism, Recreation
and Culture, Environment and
Parks, Transportation and High-
ways, and the B.C. Lotteries Cor-

With room for four and cargo

_teceipt

poration,

“We will have thousands of
colorful free garbage bags
available but we expect an over-
whelming demand and, therefore,
encourage groups to plan and app-
ly early," states Ald. Stella
Jo Dean, chairman of the Pitch-In
‘87. Advisory Committee and a
director of Outdoors Unilittered.

A detailed information package
about Pitch-In has been mailed out
to more than 8,000 groups in the
province, according to Dean who
states that any organization not in
of an information kit
should contact Pitch-in  coor-
dinators at #502 - 455 Granville
Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 1V2.

Because Chevrolet's always going

your way. So see your Chevy dealer.
Go sprinting now.

TODAY’S

CHEVROLET
GONG
YOUR WAY

*MS.R.P, Freight, PST and license not included. Dealer may sell for less. **Combined fuel economy based on ‘Transport Canada approved test methods for 1987 Chevy Sprint equipped with