Kompetenzerweiterung III, Key for Self-Check

For the punctuation exercise: https://www.lib.sfu.ca/system/files/28965/style_and_editing-advanced.pdf

See you at the exam!

Wirtschaftskommunikation Vertiefung, Homework for June 25th

For homework, please:

- have a look at the graphs distributed in class and decide a) how to contextualize them and b) how to report some of the respective data points

- watch this video on credit scores and answer the question posed in its title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0cmO6Feqi0

- watch this video on Madrid's revival after the Recession  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJxdR-S0LhU and read the article for homework on Eskilstuna (available here https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/18/eskilstuna-how-a-swedish-town-became-the-world-capital-of-recycling ), then:

- pretend you are on the city council for a town/city/neighborhood of your choice that has experienced an economic downturn (try to pick a real town/city/neighborhood; don't just keep it hypothetical). Which measures/policies would you suggest to implement to stimulate the local economy? Which ones from the video and article would apply to your context? Which ones wouldn't?

Kompetenzerweiterung II, Tuesday/Thursday Group, Homework for June 25th

Please review the remaining units of the textbook and make sure you have completed all of the accompanying exercises. Bring any questions with you to class.

In addition, please read the rest of the article distributed in class and highlight eight more adverbs. Decide whether these adverbs can move to other spots in the sentence.

Kulturraumstudien USA, Homework for June 24th

Investigate who is already running for president among the Democrats for 2020 and write down your sources. Who seems like the best contender to you and for what reason(s)?

Kompetenzerweiterung II, Monday/Wedesday Group, Homework for June 19th

For homework, please review Units 19-22 in the textbook (including accompanying exercises) and complete the exercises on the worksheet distributed in class. Furthermore, please review all of your written work for the class, review the corrections and bring in any questions you might have about grammatical principles.

Kompetenzerweiterung II, Tuesday/Thursday Group, Homework for June 18th

For homework, please review vocab units 14, 16, 18, and 20, make sure you've done all of the exercises and bring in any questions you might have. Review units 13, 19, and 21 for grammar, make sure you've done all of the exercises for them, and bring in any questions.

Complete the unreal time exercise and the grammar exercise on the back page.

The following websites might be helpful for Review:

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/
https://owl.purdue.edu/site_map.html
https://www.oupcanada.com/higher_education/companion/literature/9780195425154/student_resources.html

I will accept electronically submitted essays until June 27th at midnight.

Kompetenzerweiterung II, Monday/Wednesday Group, Homework for June 17th

Please review the grammar pages and accompanying exercises for Units 7, 9, 11, 15, and 17 (make sure you've done all of the exercises) and bring in any questions you might have about passives and causatives, modals, conditionals, adjectives and adverbs, and clauses. Make sure you have also done all of the vocab exercises for Units 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12. 

Please also complete the transitions and punctuation exercises distributed in class today.

The last day for submitting work to me electronically is June 27th by midnight.

Kompetenzerweiterung III, Homework for June 19th

For our next and last session, please complete the transition and punctuation exercise distributed in class. In the latter exercise, you should insert punctuation where necessary and indicate where new sentences should begin by capitalizing the first word of the sentences.

I will accept electronically submitted essays up until July 11th at midnight.

Here are some links that might help you in studying for the exam:

https://www.lexico.com/en/grammar/common-misspellings

https://www.learn-english-today.com/lessons/lesson_contents/grammar/faux_amis.html

http://mentalfloss.com/article/57195/50-spanish-english-false-friend-words

A correction from clas: "analyse" is the British spelling of "analysieren". My apologies for the confusion.

Kompetenzerweiterung II, Tuesday/Thursday Group, Homework for June 13th

Please review the grammar pages and accompanying exercises for Units 7, 9, 11, 15, and 17 (make sure you've done all of the exercises) and bring in any questions you might have about passives and causatives, modals, conditionals, adjectives and adverbs, and clauses. Make sure you have also done all of the vocab exercises for Units 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12.

Journals:
- essay prompt: Why ___________ doesn't matter
- 10 sentences using collocations from Units 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 from the textbook

Our next session on June 12th will be the last journal collection date.

Kompetenzerweiterung II, Monday/Wednesday Group, Homework for June 12th

For homework, please read through the "The joy of absence" once again and jot down notes for an essay approaching the topics of long work hours and working from home from another perspective (e.g. pretend you're Jack Ma!).

Please review the grammar pages and accompanying exercises for Units 7, 9, and 11 (make sure you've done all of the exercises) and bring in any questions you might have about passives and causatives, modals, and conditionals. Make sure you have also done all of the vocab exercises for Units 2, 4, 6, and 8.

Journals:
- essay prompt: If you were a boss, would you allow employees to work from home?
- 10 sentences using collocations from Units 2, 4, 6, and/or 8 from the textbook

Our next session on June 12th will be the last journal collection date.

Kompetenzerweiterung III, Homework for June 12th

For homework, please read the article distributed at the end of class (available here: https://www.economist.com/business/2019/05/16/the-joy-of-absence ) and take down some notes regarding how you would write a counter-argument coming from someone in favor of long(er) work hours and/or not providing the option of working from home.

Wirtschaftskommunikation Vertiefung, Homework for June 18th

For homework, please:

- watch one of the videos from this CNBC list of clips: https://www.youtube.com/user/cnbc/videos?disable_polymer=1

- complete exercise 2 on the back of the "Trade" vocab sheet

- read the article distributed in class on attracting skilled workers to Germany. Once you've finished reading, answer the question: What would be your policy on solving Germany's lack of skilled workers in certain fields?

- read the article on working from home and highlight the author's main arguments

- begin reviewing for the exam. Domain areas that will be drawn from on the exam include anything addressed topic-wise in class and in the blog posts for homework. These areas will be reviewed in our last two sessions. Good studying involves returning to these articles and exercises and using their vocabulary and arguments actively on the exam.

The last date for submitting optional analyses and advice to me electronically is June 27th by midnight.

Kompetenzerweiterung II, Tuesday/Thursday Group, Homework for June 6th

For homework, please:

- please finish the gap fill exercise "Nearing the endgame" by checking your work here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/16/hollywood-sequels-cinema-avengers-endgame
Make sure to highlight advanced vocabulary and to look up any unknown words.

- review the grammar points from Units 1, 3, and 5 (including your answers to the exercises) and bring in any questions you might have on general rules or specific examples (make sure that you have completed all of the exercises). The British Council website can be a useful supplement: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/english-grammar-reference
(If you are a more auditory learner, then try typing in a grammar concept into YouTube to see the concept explained in a audio-visual format.)

- review the word formation box for Units 2, 4, 6, and 8.

journals:
- Has Hollywood gotten lazy?
- sentences using gerund and infinitive (especially those that you are uncertain about concerning use)
- sentences using word formation from the aforementioned units

Your last journal collection date will be June 13th.

Kulturraumstudien USA, Homework for June 17th

For homework, please visit both Donald Trump's private Twitter account https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump and the official POTUS Twitter account https://twitter.com/potus and consider how you could use Trump's tweet as a data set. What questions arise as you read through them? How might you go about answering these questions?

Concerning review for the exam, please review all of the posts from the blog (can be easily accessed by typing "Kulturraumstudien" into the search engine at the top lefthand corner of the blog webpage) and your notes from homework and class. You should be familiar with the following terms and able to use them naturally in analysis: culture, text, discourse, collective consciousness, consensus, frames, scripts, localization, canon, oligarchy, democracy, capitalism, metonymy, conceptual metaphor, cultural memes, signs, symbols, indexes/indices, icons. You should be familiar with how the electoral college works, how US elections operate (and what campaigns look like in the US), the Bill of Rights, the context for the "space race", the role of the US in World War II and the US experience of/in World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, how the US does (and doesn't) talk about class, ways of dividing up the US, 9/11, comparing and contrasting the Bush, Obama, and Trump presidencies, the US trade war with China, and projections for 2020 (these last two points will be addressed in our last two sessions). Remember: I am predominantly interested in how this background knowledge feeds into your analysis of cultural artifacts on the exam. (Why are we seeing/hearing what we're seeing/hearing and how is it a product of its time and cultural context?)

Also consider submitting some sample answers to the practice exam to me electronically. These should be submitted to me by June 28th at midnight.

Kompetenzerweiterung II, Monday/Wednesday Group, Homework for June 5th

For homework, please:

- please finish the gap fill exercise "Nearing the endgame" by checking your work here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/16/hollywood-sequels-cinema-avengers-endgame
Make sure to highlight advanced vocabulary and to look up any unknown words.

- review the grammar points from Units 1, 3, and 5 (including your answers to the exercises) and bring in any questions you might have on general rules or specific examples (make sure that you have completed all of the exercises). The British Council website can be a useful supplement: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/english-grammar-reference
(If you are a more auditory learner, then try typing in a grammar concept into YouTube to see the concept explained in a audio-visual format.)

- review the word formation box for Units 2, 4, 6, and 8.

journals:
- Has Hollywood gotten lazy?
- sentences using gerund and infinitive (especially those that you are uncertain about concerning use)
- sentences using word formation from the aforementioned units

Your last journal collection date will be June 12th.