Kompetenzerweiterung I, Homework for Week 8

***Attention*** Our Tuesday classes for the remainder of the semester will have to continue to start at 8 am sharp due to the fact that there is a 9:45 am class after ours and my colleague needs time to set up. Please try to be in class at 8 am. If for whatever reason you cannot arrive on time, please enter through the back door and take a copy of whatever we are doing (if I've handed something out in the first minutes of class) placed on the table in the back.

For homework, please:

1.       Read up on how to transform the active voice to passive in English here: http://www.ef.com/english-resources/english-grammar/passive-voice-active-voice/and how the passive voice is correctly used in English writing here: http://advice.writing.utoronto.ca/revising/passive-voice/

2.       Then complete the following exercise on passive and active voice (similar to the exercise "Hadrian’s Wall" from today’s class): https://www.englishlab.net/hp/quiz28_mixed_tenses_4_active_passive_story.htm

3.       Complete this quiz on gerund and infinitive: https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_29.htm

4.       And complete this CLOZE test on prepositions: https://www.englishlearner.com/intermediate/prepositions-1.shtml

5.       Finally, I recommend doing (ooo, a verb that takes the gerund!) all of these word formation exercises prior to the exam: http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/first-certificate-word-formation.php

Your optional homework for this week is to practice using both the passive and active voice by writing a short profile of a monument or work of art. ("X was constructed/painted/built in …, it features …") Please bear in mind that your submissions need to reach me via email by Friday night at midnight if they are to be corrected by Monday morning. If they are not submitted to me by this time, then they need to be handed in during Monday’s session in order to be graded by Tuesday. Typed submissions must have gone through a spell and grammar check prior to submission. Make sure that this is properly installed in your word processing program. (Merely seeing the words English (US) or English (UK) at the bottom of your screen does not mean that a spell and grammar check is automatically taking place. This must be separately selected within your spell and grammar check settings, in some cases each time you write if your default is another language.) A free spell and grammar check can be found here: https://spellcheckplus.com/