Kompetenzerweiterung I (Tuesday/Thursday Group), Homework in Week Four (October 26-29)

Unit 5, exercise I: 6. was...leaving, 7. was, 8. were...would/could/might, 9. were, 10. to

In preparation of next Tuesday's session (11/2), please do the following:

Please complete the exercises (i.e. A-J) for Unit 7 that have been posted on Ilias and read through the grammar details for Unit 7. I have posted an answer key for these exercises to the Unit 7 folder and would like you to consult this key to check your work AFTER you have given the exercises a go on your own. Bring any questions you have regarding rules/these solutions with you to next Tuesday's session.

Please read the file "Grammar for CAE  Future p 24" and complete the check exercises on that page and complete exercises 1, 2, and 4 in the file "Grammar for CAE Future p 25" as well. (For exercise 1 on pg. 25, I would like you to also come up with contexts in which the form that you did not select for the book's sentence could work. An example for sentence 1 (whose answer is "she's going to") would be "I think she'll faint if you tell her that." Will-future works in this sentence because the if-clause construction takes us into the hypothetical. Going to-future is used in the book's sentence because one sees concrete evidence in the form of the pale face.) You'll find the answers to these exercises at the bottom of the post (but please do the exercises BEFORE checking your answers!). 

In preparation of this Thursday's session (10/28) please do the following (I recommend you complete these exercises during "study hall", i.e. Thursday 9:45-11:30): 

- watch the following video 8 Artists: Advice to the Young - YouTube (Patti Smith drops an f-bomb about 10 seconds before the end of the video, so if you prefer to avoid such language, just stop it earlier) and 

a) identify which advice resonates with you most

b) see if you can identify some salient features of the first language English speakers' speech

c) see if you can detect some errors in the non-first language speakers' speech

- read the article in the file "Missing apostrophe" on Ilias and do the following:

a) make sure you can summarize what the case was about and what its ruling was

b) look up all of the words you don't know (there is quite a bit of legal language used in this article which will prove useful for you to know in your later studies)

c) summarize the basic rules of how apostrophes are used in English (this might require outside research/consultation with other English grammar/language books you own)

Optional essay assignment: In an essay of 250-350 words, answer the question, "What is best advice you've ever received?" (I would encourage you to respond to this question not solely from an art perspective.) Make sure that your essay a) doesn't exceed the word limit, b) is sent as a MS Word document, and c) is submitted to my email address by Thursday, October 28th at midnight. Submissions that do not abide by these guidelines will not be read. 

Answer Key: check: 1 fixed plans/arrangements, 2 a personal intention, 3 an unalterable arrangement or fact, 4 an immediate decision, 5 an action that will happen because it is regular or decided

exercise 1: 1 she's going to, 2 I'll, 3 I'm going to be, 4 I'll, 5 am leaving, 6 is not, 7 would, 8 will be doing, 9 will have gone, 10 are 10

exercise 2: 1 supposed/due/required/obliged, 2 just, 3 point, 4 unless, 5 be, 6 to, 7 left, 8 leaving/going/off, 9 be, 10 move

exercise 4: 1 the point of, 2 would do his/was doing his, 3 as we've paid, 4 is going to have (or: will have) an, 5 will have been studying, 6 to be taken/being taken/going to be taken