Language Skills I, Homework for Week 6

For homework, please: 1. Read pgs. 31-32 of the reader and complete exercise a) on pgs. 42-43.
2. Check your answers for exercises 1-4 from pgs. 99-100 below:

exercise 1: of subsidizing, enforcing, on drawing, to stop, to sustain, of buying, of watching, booking, of travelling, from using, to cover, 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: buying, to buy, to visit, working, giving, to win, working
exercise 4: working, to do, writing, to do, to read, asking, to cheat, to see, copying, to believe, writing

3. Complete exercise 6 on pgs. 101-102 and continue to review the gerund and infinitive rules and tables on pgs. 93-98 throughout the semester.
4. Check your answers from exercise 4 from pg. 51 below:
intelligence, enforcement, leadership, security, Relations, resilience, disruption, resilience, ability, deformity, damage, terrorists, objective, terrorism

**My apologies for the confusion with resilience! The spelling is of course resilience**

5. Complete exercise 5 on pgs. 51-52.
6. Read the information on modal verbs from pgs. 76-80 and complete exercise 1 on pg. 81. (You will notice that even the verbs that take the infinitival "to" are categorized as modals on pgs. 76-80. Bear in mind that some grammars classify modals that take "to" as semi-modals. More information can be found here: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/modals-and-modality/modality-forms )

7. Please have a read through the material on this page concerning how the -ed past participle ending manifests in IPA (the standard for both GA and RP is featured here; please learn these rules for the exam):  http://www.grammar.cl/english/pronunciation-ed.htm
8.  IPA chart for GA: http://www.onestopenglish.com/skills/pronunciation/phonemic-chart-and-app/interactive-phonemic-chart-american-english/

My translation of our translation text from class (compare with your own ideas):
Marginal notes: Drinking cocoa with two hands
Is it OK to...?
By Maren Keller
When the world turns cold and the winds rough, droves of women lapse into the same pose: they stretch the sleeves of the (cashmere!) cardigans far past their wrists and clasp their cups of hot cocoa (with whipped cream!) with both hands. Were there an international symbol for coziness, then it would most likely be a cup clasped by two hands. Because holding cups this way is a magic spell that, for a moment, has the power to transform the loneliest and most sterile of airport waiting areas into a French cafe with antique-market porcellan and homemade tartes.

But beware: we're talking about black magic here. Because women often don't notice that this magic changes not only the world, but also them: namely, into little girls. You needn't have been to Hogwarts to know that the single transformation spell similar in power is posing knock-kneed for photos, by which every woman looks like a spindly doe.

From strong to fragile and weak in seconds. Abracadabra.

Lookie here, the gesture says. I'm so weak, I need two hands to lift up my cup. Lookie here -- I'm so cold that I have to warm myself with the steam from a ginger tea.

So for the fiery ones among us: no, it's not at all OK to lift our drink with both hands. Unless we're slamming back a beer and chaser with the boys.