Thursday, November 12, 2020

Kompetenzerweiterung I (Tuesday/Thursday Group), Homework for November 17th

 For homework, please prepare the following:

- complete both sheets uploaded to Ilias on continuous forms in the "Grammar for CAE and CPE" folder. Bring your answers with you to class. 

- complete exercises F-J of Unit 3 (pp. 26-27, posted on Ilias) and self-check your answers. Bring any questions regarding these exercises with you to class.

- learn the topic vocabulary and the word formation words for Unit 4 and complete exercises A-E (pp. 30-31) and M + N (p 35). Self-check your answers and bring any questions with you to class.

- in the spirit of learning words pertaining to science and tech, visit Wired magazine's YouTube page and watch two tech-related videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/WIRED/featured Write down the new/interesting/noteworthy vocabulary you hear in these videos. 

- on that same main page, find the "5 levels" playlist and watch one of its videos. Then pick a new topic that you know a thing or two about and prepare some notes for explaining it to a 1) fifth grader and 2) a college student. 

Here is a nice resource on when nouns are singular or plural (based on the examples of police, government, etc. referenced in today's session): https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv358.shtml

Answers: 

Collocations, exercise 3: gaining, dead, dying, dim, peak, minute, broken

Unit 4, Exercise N: changeable, maturity, modernized, persistently, endurance, processed, persistently, endurance, processed, rearrange, renewable, conversion, irreplaceable

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