Homework for Week 14, Language Skills II, Mo 14-16, Thurs 14-16, Thurs 16-18, Fri 10-12

To my Thursday classes: yes, I will be holding class in Room E on Thursday, Feb. 4th as well as Feb. 11th. I recommend that you come to at least one of those sessions before the exam. 

1. Read the article in the reader for Week 14.

2. Review the blog posts and your class notes from the semester. Please bring in anything you'd like cleared up before the exam.

Here are some links for the order of adjectives:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adjectives-order

and the order of adverbs:
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/word-order/adverb-position

Homework for Week 14, Language Skills I, Mo 10-12, Mo 12-14, Fri 12-14, Fri 14-16

For homework, please complete the following exercises:
- pg. 53
- pg. 62
- pg. 91
- pgs. 95-96
-pgs. 123-124

Check your answers to the exercises below:
pg. 79
the, --, the, --, --, the, --, --, the, the, the, the, --, --, the, --, the, the, the, --, --, --, --

pg. 81
1. OK 2. OK, 3. the lorry driver 4. OK 5. the great philosophers 6. OK 7. the Alps 8. the prison, the bricklayers 9.the home 10. OK

pg. 82
--, the, --, --, the, --, --, the, --, the, the, the, the, the, --, --, --, --, --, --

pg. 114
1. Prize 2. journey 3. freedom 4. consciousness 5. economic 6. policy 7. economical 8. politics 9. definitive 10. defective 11. derisory, derisive 12. laudable, laudatory

Homework for Week 13, Language Skills I, Fri 12-14, Fri 14-16

There was an interesting student question regarding the difference between "on time" and "in time". The first response on this forum is a solid explanation about the subtle difference: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/17436/in-time-versus-on-time

Check your answers for last week's homework:
pg.119
1, comfortably, 2. greenish, 3. childish, 4. unpronounceable, 6. thoughtless/unthoughtful, 7. unsuccessful, 8. overcrowded, 9. championship. 10. likelihood, 11. weaknesses, 12. mathematician, 13. economist, 14. handful, 15. overslept, 16. widen, 17. falsifying, 18. tranquilize, 19. regulate, 20. reconsider, 21. stoppage, 22. combination, 23. impractical, 24. uneconomical, 25. arrival, 26. reflection, 27. receptive, 28. intention, 29. familiarizing, 30. disappointment, 31. journalism 32. surprisingly, 33.a majority government 34. unsatisfactory, 35. employees, 36. inefficient, impolite, 37. mistaken, 38. employment, 39. magnanimous, 40. highly divisive, 41. disastrous, 42. insufferable, 43. jeopardize, 44. extraordinary, 45. proficient, hugely profitable, 47. totally disorganized, 48. ministerial appointments, 49. overslept, 50. imprecise

pgs. 106-107
exercise 1
1. of subsidizing, 2. enforcing, on drawing, 3. to stop, 4. to sustain, 5. about/of buying, 6. of watching, 7. booking, of travelling, 8. from using, 9. to cover, 10. to save
exercise 2
using up, polluting, to set, using, to treat, regarding, to become, slowing down, introducing, to conserve, to be, re-thinking
exercise 3
1. buying, 2. to buy, 3. to visit, 4. working, 5. giving, 6. to win, 7. working

pgs. 121-122
exercise 1
entirely, strikingly, inability, residents, competition, industrial, development, economic
exercise 2
economical, density, relevant, inconvenient, environmentally destructive, systematically, compels
exercise 3
perilous, severe, frantically, visual, activate, efficiently, capability, compete

For homework, please do:
1. exercises 1-3 on pgs. 110-111
2. read pgs. 74-78 and do exercises 1 (pg. 79), 3 (pg. 81) and 4 (pg. 82)
3. read pgs. 112-114 and do the exercise on pg. 114
4. read pgs. 84-88 and do the exercise on pg. 89

Message for Monday Students (both Lang Skills I and Lang Skills II)

I just asked the secretary about Rosenmontag and she told me that the university will be closed this day. Consequently, the last class for my Monday classes will take place on Feb. 1st.

Homework for Week 13, Language Skills II, Mo 14-16, Thur 14-16, Thur 16-18, Fri 10-12

1. Read the article in the reader for Week 13.
2. Review your materials from the semester and bring in any concrete grammar or vocab questions you might have (please also bring your reader and class notes to class next week).
3. Complete the following exercises on comma splices:
http://www.chompchomp.com/csfs01/csfs01.htm
https://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/exercises/comma_splices_ex1.htm
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_47.htm

4. Complete these exercises as well:
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_75.htm
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_55.htm

Note to the Thurs 14-16 class: sorry for spelling "to have the gall" incorrectly on the board (it's "gall" not "gaul")

Homework for Week 13, Language Skills I, Mo 10-12, Mo 12-14

Check your answers for last week's homework:
pgs. 162-164
1. conversation, 2. marriage, 3. pressure, 4. indigenous, 5. Caribbean, 6. prestigious, 7. separate (adj.), 8. towards, 9. condolence, 10. interaction, 11. record (v.), 12. legislate, 13. determine, 14. identify, 15. deviate, 16. Japanese, 17. Arabic, 18. variable, 19. opposite, 20. bilingual, 21. apparent

pgs. 106-107
exercise 1
1. of subsidizing, 2. enforcing, on drawing, 3. to stop, 4. to sustain, 5. about/of buying, 6. of watching, 7. booking, of travelling, 8. from using, 9. to cover, 10. to save
exercise 2
using up, polluting, to set, using, to treat, regarding, to become, slowing down, introducing, to conserve, to be, re-thinking
exercise 3
1. buying, 2. to buy, 3. to visit, 4. working, 5. giving, 6. to win, 7. working

pgs. 121-122
exercise 1
entirely, strikingly, inability, residents, competition, industrial, development, economic
exercise 2
economical, density, relevant, inconvenient, environmentally destructive, systematically, compels
exercise 3
perilous, severe, frantically, visual, activate, efficiently, capability, compete

For homework, please do:
1. exercises 1-3 on pgs. 110-111
2. read pgs. 74-78 and do exercises 1 (pg. 79), 3 (pg. 81) and 4 (pg. 82)
3. read pgs. 112-114 and do the exercise on pg. 114
4. read pgs. 84-88 and do the exercise on pg. 89

Homework for Week 12, Language Skills I, Fri 12-14, 14-16

1. For phonetics and phonology, complete the exercises on pg. 149 (homophones) and pg. 166 (stress).

2. Complete the word formation exercise on pg. 119. 

3. As a review of gerund and infinitive, complete exercises 2 and 3 on pgs. 106-107. As a review of word formation, complete exercises 1, 2, and 3 on pgs. 121-122.

Homework for Week 12, Language Skills I, Mo 10-12, Mo 12-14

1. Read through the comma rules in the reader (pgs. 17-19) and complete the exercise on pgs. 20-21.

2. Read the grammatical information on pgs. 33-37 and complete exercise 7 on pgs. 48-49.

3. Complete the phonetics exercise on pgs. 162-164.

4. As a review of gerund and infinitive, complete exercises 1, 2 and 3 on pgs. 106-107. As a review of word formation, complete exercises 1, 2, and 3 on pgs. 121-122. The answers for the word formation exercise from class are featured below:

21. stoppage 22. combination 23. impractical 24. uneconomical 25. arrival 26. reflection 27. receptive 28. intention 29. familiarizing 30. disappointment 31. journalism 32. surprisingly 33. majority 34. unsatisfactory 35. employees 36. inefficient, impolite 37. mistaken 38. employment 39. magnanimous (if you don't know what this means, look it up!) 40. highly divisive 41. disastrous 42. insufferably 43. jeopardize (look this up too!) 44. extraordinary 45. proficient, hugely profitable 46. (missing) 47. totally disorganized 48. ministerial appointments 49. overslept 50. inaccurate, imprecise

Homework for Week 12, Language Skills II, Mo 14-16, Thurs 14-16, Thurs 16-18

1. Read up on the subjunctive mood here:
http://grammarist.com/grammar/subjunctive-mood/
https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/grammar_subjunctive.html

2. Complete the following exercises for subjunctive mood:
http://www.learnamericanenglishonline.com/Orange%20Level/Exercises_for_the_Orange_Level/Exercise_10_subjunctive_mood_1.html
http://usefulenglish.ru/grammar/subjunctive-mood-exercise-five
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_67.htm

3. Read up on the conditional here: http://www.edufind.com/english-grammar/conditional/

4. And make 2 sentences of each if-clause type listed under the link above (this is a review of the table we created in class today).

5. Read the article for Week 12 in the reader and use the method we used in class today for the vocabulary (i.e. find synonyms and antonyms for the words when appropriate).

6. Finally, if you are interested in checking your work on the prepositions from the Harper Lee article distributed in class before Christmas, you can do that here: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/12/harper-lee-my-christmas-in-new-york

Homework for Week 11, Language Skills I, Fri 12-14, Fri 14-16

1. Read through the comma rules in the reader (pgs. 17-19) and complete the exercise on pgs. 20-21.

2. Complete the prepositions gap-fill distributed in class (Harper Lee's story) and read the remaining text. Look up any words you don't know.

3. Read the grammatical information on pgs. 33-37 and complete exercise 7 on pgs. 48-49.

4. Finally, complete the phonetics exercise on pgs. 162-164.

5. You might also be interested in this political cartoons website: http://www.cagle.com

6. Here are the answers to the proverbs exercise from class: https://benjamins.com/sites/linguistic_structure_of_modern_english/exercise_2.5_answers.html

Homework for Week 11, Language Skills II, Thurs 14-16, Thurs 16-18, Fri 10-12

1. Have a look at the "Homework for Week 10" post if you haven't already done so. There are important review exercises for the exam on it.

2. Please read the article in the reader for Week 11, paying particular attention to vocab.

3. Complete the IPA proverbs exercise that we began in class. Look up three other proverbs to bring to class (there will be an award for weirdest proverb :) ).

4. To my Do 14-16 group: complete the preposition exercise distributed by the group today.

5. Pick 20 verbs and determine whether they take the gerund or the infinitive. With those verbs, make advanced sentences that describe your holiday traditions or your resolutions for 2016. (For example, "Christmas for Sally always entails driving for 5 hours to her inlaws and enduring a verbal thrashing for her sub-par culinary talents.")

6. You might be interested in checking out this political cartoon website: http://www.cagle.com/

7. Finally, complete this cloze test: http://www.examenglish.com/ECPE/ECPE_cloze.htm
and this phrasal verb exercise: http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasalverbs5.htm