Kompetenzerweiterung I (Monday/Wednesday Group), Homework for December 9th

 For homework, please prepare the following: 

- read pp. 138-139 (the first pages of Unit 17) in Destination, paying particular attention to difference between defining and non-defining relative clauses. Bring any questions from these pages with you to class. (The file "intro to relative clauses elementary" in the "Resources for participle and relative clauses" folder on Ilias Inhalt might be of help.)

- complete exercises A-H on pp. 140-141. Self-check your answers with the key and bring any questions with you to class. 

- do number 8 from the file entitled "relative clauses ariane grande exercise" in the "Resources for participle and relative clauses" folder on Ilias

- read the filed entitled "closer look participle clauses 1_2" and "closer look participle clauses 2_2" in the "Resources for participle and relative clauses" folder on Ilias. Bring any questions about this content/the examples with you to class. 

- complete exercises 3.1 and 3.2 on the "closer look participle clauses exercises 1_2" sheet in the "Resources for participle and relative clauses" folder on Ilias. 

- self-check the remaining exercises from the "Grammar for CAE and CPE not using the passive" sheet started in class: 

2) 1. The lights dimmed during the last dance. 2. Darren's performance in the 100 metres/meters improved by a tenth of a second. 3. The Titanic sank in 1912. 4. His eyes filled with tears. (This is like the "the hole filled with water" example discussed in class.) 5. The plan gradually developed. 

3) 1. Initially, I think the plot unfolds very convincingly. 2. The tension increases in the third scene. 3. But then you change everything. 4. Melodrama replaces real drama, doesn't it? 5. But the first act finishes with only a vague suspicion of murder in the air. 6. You're crazy to/It's crazy that you start the second act with the actual killing. 7. And you end the third act with such an anticlimax. 8. It's difficult to see tickets selling for a play like this. 

4) d,b,a,c,d,b