Friday, January 22, 2016

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

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