Language Skills I, Homework for Week 7

For homework, please the following exercises from the reader:
1. Exercise 2 on pg. 82
2. Read pgs. 22-26 and complete exercise 4 on pgs. 34-35
3. Exercises 1-3 on pgs. 53-54
4. Make sure you have completed both IPA exercises on pgs. 143-144. I want to discuss the rest of these answers (and variations between varieties) with you in class next week.

Check your answers to the following exercises below (and bring any questions you have with you to class):
pgs. 101-102 (Exercise 6)
1. Some employees want their employers to emphasize reducing stress on the job.
2. Correct
3. We have to find ways to use mobile data selectively.
4. Fred didn't look forward to going through more than a hundred emails after his off-site meeting.
5. It's worth considering how to use/considering using mobile technology humanely.
6. Correct
7. The staff understood the importance of being available and ready to work.
8. We would like to have more time for work, and if we spent les time using mobile technology, we would.
9. Employers are often responsible for their employees having so much stress/for their employees' stress.

pgs. 51-52 (Exercise 5 and 6)
1. justify/embarrassment/historically
2. desparately/irresistable
3. to adjust
4. medical diagnosis

presidential, aggressive, involvement, resistance, specific, emissions, polluters 

Question concerning number 6 from the exercise on pg. 42
"For years he refused to disclose where the money had come/had been coming from" and "For years he had refused to disclose where the money came from". The first sentence is correct and although you will hear the second sentence, there is a nicer option for it (many thanks to the student comment about this in class). Both sentences have a different aspect (a term you will come across when we are discussing tense and semantic nuance). The first sentence implies a distinct order: suspicious funds appeared in an account in, say, 1999 and for, say, a decade thereafter he refused to provide information concerning its origins. The second sentence should actually read "For years he had refused to disclose where the money had come/had been coming from" and implies that his refusal to disclosure and the appearance of the funds worked hand-in-hand. The variation "For years he refused to disclose where the money came from" is of course also acceptable.