Kompetenzerweiterung I, Study Pack for Exam

Answers to "Boughs of Jolly" (complete the exercises BEFORE consulting these answers): have become, earns, spent, notes, are buying, meander, are supplied, makes, strapped, dismisses, have lost, cringe

Study pack for the exam: (The following constitutes a list of exercises which can help you train for the exam. Please also consult the links from previous posts for explanations and additional exercises.)

Future and present forms

https://www.ef.com/english-resources/english-grammar/future/

http://oefeningenengels.classy.be/futuremixed3.html

http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/t059-homes-of-the-future.htm

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/will_going_to_future.htm

https://www.englishpractice.com/quiz/simple-present-future-tense/

Mixed tense

http://www.academia.edu/4349276/10_texts_to_revise_mixed_tenses_with_key

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/upperint/grammar/grammar_06_012e?cc=de&selLanguage=de

http://www.englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/the-christmas-mess-mixed-tenses-reading-exercise/

Gerund and infinitive

http://www.spraz-ila.de/grammar/gerinf1.htm

http://www.spraz-ila.de/grammar/gerinf3.htm

https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_5.htm

http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz97mkm.htm

https://languageavenue.com/advanced-english/advanced-grammar-exercises/gerunds-and-infinitives-1-advanced#take-the-quiz

Word formation

https://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_use_of_english_part3_test2.htm

http://www.dcielts.com/word-formation-exercises/

http://www.focus.olsztyn.pl/en-english-word-formation-exercises.html

https://www.grammarbank.com/word-formation.html

https://quizlet.com/103833447/word-formation-exercises-verbs-nouns-adjectives-flash-cards/

Cloze tests

http://www.englishdaily626.com/cloze_passages.php?001

(you will find at the bottom of this page a list of hyperlinked numbers; all of these are CLOZE exercises you can use for practice)

Register rewrite

http://www.ltn.lv/~markir/essaywriting/inform.htm

https://www.engvid.com/english-resource/formal-informal-english/

Relative pronoun gap fill

https://www.englishgrammar101.com/module-2/pronouns/lesson-7/relative-pronouns

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/3g14-relative-pronoun-gap-fill-exercise.php

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/3g61-relative-pronouns-gap-fill.php

http://www3.lernplattform.schule.at/anglisten/pluginfile.php/6813/mod_resource/content/4/Gap_filling_1.htm

Relative clauses rewrite

https://www.englishgrammar.org/joining-sentences-relative-pronoun/

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/relative-clause-exercises.html

Error correction

http://www.businessenglishresources.com/common-english-mistakes-english-error-correction-3a-advanced/

http://www.businessenglishresources.com/common-mistakes-in-emails/

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_55.htm

Active to passive voice

https://www.englishgrammar.org/active-passive-voice-exercise-8/

http://www.englishexercises.net/yypassive2.html

http://suz.digitaleschulebayern.de/english/grammar/passive6.htm

http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/passive-voice/pa006-active-passive.htm

Do/take/make/have:

http://www.tinyteflteacher.co.uk/learning-english/FCE/practice-make-do.html

https://learningapps.org/192576

http://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/general-vocabulary/gv002-make-and-do.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv2.shtml

Kompetenzerweiterung III, Study Pack for Exam

Study pack for the exam: (The following constitutes a list of exercises which can help you train for the exam. Please also consult the links from previous posts for explanations and additional exercises.)

If clauses:

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/quick-grammar/conditionals-1

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/quick-grammar/conditionals-2

https://english.lingolia.com/en/grammar/sentences/if-clauses/exercises

 Conditionals:

http://www.carmenlu.com/sixth/grammar/inversion-cond6.htm

http://www.englishtenses.com/exercise/inversion_exercise

Reported speech:

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/grammar-videos/reported-speech

http://www.learn-english-today.com/lessons/lesson_contents/exercises/reported-speech_online-quiz1.html

http://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/upper-intermediate/reported-speech

Inversion and fronting:

http://www.learn-english-today.com/lessons/lesson_contents/exercises/inversion-gapfill-1.html

http://www.learn-english-today.com/lessons/lesson_contents/exercises/inversion_quiz1.html

http://www.carmenlu.com/sixth/grammar/inversion61.htm

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/inversion-exercise-1.html

https://www.test-english.com/grammar-points/b2/inversion-negative-adverbials/

Participle clauses:

https://www.englishgrammar.org/joining-sentences-participles/

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/participles/exercises?12

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/participles/exercises?13

https://www.thoughtco.com/building-sentences-with-participial-phrases-1689653

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/participlephrase.htm

Kompetenzerweiterung I, Homework for Week 9

For homework, please:

1. Take this open CLOZE test: https://todayschool.es/advanced-cae-online-tests/advanced-open-cloze-test-2/
2. Bring the open CLOZE exercise on stress distributed in Tuesday's class with you on Monday as we will conclude our discussion of possible solutions then. 
3. Complete all of the exercises on this page on relative clauses: https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/relative-clauses-4
4. Review your notes on verbs that take the gerund or the infinitive as we will be continuing with these next week.
5. Complete this exercise on future perfect: https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/future_perfect_statements.htm

Your optional essay for this week is to write on a topic of your choice and to include relative and participle clauses in your text.

Kompetenzerweiterung III, Homework for Week 9

For homework, please prepare a debate question related to one of the two fields (topic areas, e.g. education, nutrition/health care, etc.) you and your partner are seriously considering for the exam. Make sure to use a variety of English-language resources in researching the question in advance.You will do this debate in class next week.

You and your partner should start formulating which debate question you would like to do for the prepared debate and which area you would like for the spontaneous debate. Send me this information via email when you're ready.

For your optional essay, you can write a response to any Guardian 5-minute debate or any question from a topic area you are seriously considering for the exam.

FYI: The spoken exam will be 20 minutes in length. For the 5-minute prepared debate, you cannot bring in notes and will need to launch immediately into the discussion. You can, however, take notes as your partner is speaking if you'd like. You get to decide what the question of the prepared debate is in advance (send me this question via email at least one week in advance of the exam). For the spontaneous debate, you will have 5 minutes in the exam room to prepare your respective side and can use these notes in the 5-minute debate. You get to decide the topic area (e.g. environment, economy/business, etc.) in advance but the specific question will be given to you in the exam. This general topic area cannot be the same as that of the prepared debate and also needs to be sent to me via email also at least one week in advance of your exam date. Please don't hesitate to ask me (both in class or via email) if you are unsure of anything.

Kompetenzerweiterung I, Homework for Week 8

***Attention*** Our Tuesday classes for the remainder of the semester will have to continue to start at 8 am sharp due to the fact that there is a 9:45 am class after ours and my colleague needs time to set up. Please try to be in class at 8 am. If for whatever reason you cannot arrive on time, please enter through the back door and take a copy of whatever we are doing (if I've handed something out in the first minutes of class) placed on the table in the back.

For homework, please:

1.       Read up on how to transform the active voice to passive in English here: http://www.ef.com/english-resources/english-grammar/passive-voice-active-voice/and how the passive voice is correctly used in English writing here: http://advice.writing.utoronto.ca/revising/passive-voice/

2.       Then complete the following exercise on passive and active voice (similar to the exercise "Hadrian’s Wall" from today’s class): https://www.englishlab.net/hp/quiz28_mixed_tenses_4_active_passive_story.htm

3.       Complete this quiz on gerund and infinitive: https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_29.htm

4.       And complete this CLOZE test on prepositions: https://www.englishlearner.com/intermediate/prepositions-1.shtml

5.       Finally, I recommend doing (ooo, a verb that takes the gerund!) all of these word formation exercises prior to the exam: http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/first-certificate-word-formation.php

Your optional homework for this week is to practice using both the passive and active voice by writing a short profile of a monument or work of art. ("X was constructed/painted/built in …, it features …") Please bear in mind that your submissions need to reach me via email by Friday night at midnight if they are to be corrected by Monday morning. If they are not submitted to me by this time, then they need to be handed in during Monday’s session in order to be graded by Tuesday. Typed submissions must have gone through a spell and grammar check prior to submission. Make sure that this is properly installed in your word processing program. (Merely seeing the words English (US) or English (UK) at the bottom of your screen does not mean that a spell and grammar check is automatically taking place. This must be separately selected within your spell and grammar check settings, in some cases each time you write if your default is another language.) A free spell and grammar check can be found here: https://spellcheckplus.com/

Kompetenzerweiterung III, Homework for Week 8

For homework, please have a look at this 5-minute and assess the performance and claims of the two debaters:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2013/nov/05/is-superstition-irrational-video-debate
Please also prepare a yes or no response to the question "Is superstition irrational?"

And complete the following exercise on inversion: http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/4g84-inversion-error-exercise.php

Answers to the questions on the participle clauses sheet:
1. Camped outside the movie theatre, we waited for the midnight Harry Potter showing.
2. Having already learned Spanish in high school, John decided to study abroad in Barcelona.
3. Engaged in deep conversation, the couple failed to take note of the approaching car.
4. Having not yet been straightened, the room resembled a pigsty.
5. We had a great time at Luise's birthday, singing and dancing.

Denglish:
1. You must submit the forms forwarded by the director by Tuesday.
2. The children happily playing in the sandbox are mine.
3. The brother living in Manchester is my nearest and dearest.

Your optional essay for this week is to respond to a debate question of your choice (you might use the NY Times Room for Debate for assistance) within a topic domain you are thinking of doing one of your exam questions in. If submitting electronically, please make sure to do a spell and grammar check prior to submission. Essays with basic spelling and grammar errors -- i.e. those that have not been proofed beforehand -- will not be corrected. You can use this site for help but please set your word processor's spell and grammar check for English for future work (esp. term papers and Bachelor's theses): https://spellcheckplus.com/