Kulturraumbezogene Wirtschaftsthemen, Work for Week Two

Welcome to Week Two! I hope you're well.

Thank you to those of you who have already submitted your signed Teilleistung form to me. For those of you who haven't done this yet, please submit that to me via email by April 10, 2020. The form is available on our Ilias page.

You will find two new folders on the Ilias page: one containing new listening and reading comprehension tasks for this week (on the topics of trade deals and pricing) and the other containing articles that might be useful for you in completing your Teilleistung (don't forget: the deadline is April 20, 2020 at 10 am). You'll also find an interesting ad from the company Groupon posted on Ilias, which might be of interest for those of you writing anything pertaining to marketing for your Teilleistung.

I have also posted a exercise (and its answers) for vocabulary on trade. Another great vocab exercise can be accessed here: https://www.businessenglishebook.com/Business-English-International-Trade-Quiz-One.htm

This week's optional writing task can be found in the article on Brexit. This is due by Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 5:00 pm. Unfortunately, there have already been instances of plagiarism in the written assignments for this class. Your Teilleistung MUST be free of plagiarism, otherwise you will fail the task. If you are in doubt, take the following quiz on avoiding plagiarism: https://web.williams.edu/wp-etc/acad-resources/survival_guide/CitingDoc/QuizAPA.php This is part of the reason why you are practicing paraphrasing and putting ideas into your own words in the weekly comprehension assignments. If you still have questions or concerns regarding what constitutes plagiarism, please contact me.

Sample answers for the reading comprehension tasks from last week can now be found in the Week One folder on Ilias.