Kompetenzerweiterung I (Monday/Wednesday Group), Homework for January 4th

 For homework, please: 

- complete exercises B-J on pp. 188-191 of Destination. 

- self-check your work to the Grammar for CAE and CPE singular/plural uncountable exercise using the key below: 

1) 1. OK, 2. The scissors in the sewing box need sharpening. 3. This pair of binoculars has been in this drawer for as long as I can remember. 4. OK, 5. I can't say that economics is a subject I've ever been interested in. 6. There's one potato and two onions in the recipe. 7. Where have those kitchen scales gone that we used to have?

2) 1. OK, 2. After an interesting trip/journey to Los Angeles, he wanted to live in the USA. 3. An undiagnosed illness in his twenties has left him with virtually no hair. 4. We learn many things throughout life. 5. OK

3) ...in the dim and distant past...by a man called...but the impact he had in the sixties and seventies was incredible. ...'Blowing in the Wind'...must a man look up before he can see the sky?' I mean, a question like that...'How many times must a white dove fly before it sleeps in the sand' And then the answer to the profound questions: 'The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind'. The generation after mine...'The very thought of you', 'Just the way you look tonight', 'The night they invented champagne'...can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea?' And there was a whole generation singing along to the song...I say it's a funny world we live in. 

4) 1. Thank goodness that she has escaped without harm to life or limb. 2. In times gone by, marriage was often a matter of luck. 3. It was love at first sight that brought the couple together. 4. Man has always struggled with the dichotomy of the security of permanence and the quest for change. 5. Being on duty seventy hourse certainly gives you a taste of what life as a doctor is like. 

5) 1. from/of, 2. the, 3. has, 4. the, 5. Earth, 6. our, 7. deep/deeper/sound/better, 8. past, 9. the, 10. is/remains, 11. instruments, 12. climate, 13. lakes/rivers, 14. allow/enable, 15. periods/times/eras

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