Kompetenzerweiterung I (Monday/Wednesday Group), Homework in Week 8 (November 29-December 3)

In preparation of next Monday's session (12/6), please do the following:

Please complete the exercises (i.e. A-O) for Unit 2 and learn the vocabulary for Unit 2(pp. 12-13). Do Review 1 for Units 1 and 2 on pp. 20-21 of your book as well. Please consult the key at the back of the book to check your work AFTER you have given the exercises a go on your own. Bring any questions you have regarding the vocabulary/these solutions with you to next Monday's session.

Please also do exercises 3.2-3.5 from the files "present tenses exercises 1_2" and "present tenses exercises 2_2" posted on Ilias. Check your answers using the "present tense exercises answer key" file (the first set of 3.2-3.5 answers in the first column on the page) and bring any questions you have with you to Monday's session. 

(It would be a good idea to review Unit 1 this week as well just so that you don't save all of your studying for January.)

In preparation of this Wednesday's session (12/01) please do the following (I recommend you complete these exercises during "study hall", i.e. Monday 11:30-13:00): 

- read at least two essays from the following page and do the following: Is School Reform Hopeless? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com

a) identify how the writer either lived up to or did not live up to delivering an argument suggested in their title

b) identify the most impactful/strongest point made in either of the two essays

c) consider how the points made in these essays could be used or inspire arguments for this week's essay prompt

- find a YouTuber who has made a video in English about studying at an anglophone university you would be interested in attending/are curious about. As you listen to their account, do the following:

a) jot down where the student is from and what university/college they attend (make notes concerning their English accent: what are its most distinctive features?)

b) compare and contrast the student life at their university with yours. 

c) compare and contrast their list of courses/reading lists/assignments with yours. 

d) write down one interesting detail/fact mentioned in the video that stuck out to you. 

e) summarize their video in three sentences (see if you can incorporate vocabulary and expressions from Unit 2 in doing so).

Optional essay assignment: In 250-350 words, answer the following question: What is currently not included in your school's/university's curriculum that you think should be? Make sure that your essay a) doesn't exceed the word limit, b) is sent as an MS Word document, and c) is submitted to my email address by Wednesday, December 1st at midnight. Submissions that do not abide by these guidelines will not be read.