Kompetenzerweiterung III, Homework for Week 5

For homework, please:

1. Review your points for the "should we abolish grades at school and uni" debate. If your support does not include quantitative data (e.g. stats, percentages), look up data that supports your position and pay attention to the language you use to describe this data.

2. Have a look at the vocabulary used on this page for describing graphs and trends and be ready to use it with data distributed in class next week:

http://www.stgeorges.co.uk/blog/how-can-i-describe-a-graph-ielts-writing-task-part-1-business-english

3. Check out the "Versus Debates" page and watch at least 30 minutes of one of the debates https://www.youtube.com/user/versusdebates/featured . Paraphrase the weakest point and strongest points made in the debate.

4. Finally, take quizzes 3 and 4 on this page, which resemble exercises on the exam (do quizzes 1 and 2 first if you need the practice):
http://random-idea-english.blogspot.de/2011/05/negative-inversion-practice-exercises.html

Your optional writing assignment is to visit the NY Times Room for Debate page https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate  and select a contribution to a debate question you categorically disagree with. Your essay is a counterargument to that contributor's position and argumentation.