Kulturraumstudien USA, Homework for January 8th

***Please be advised that, due to Winter Break, our next class session will take place on Monday, January 8, 2024.***

 For homework, please: 

- get caught up on any assignments/readings you didn't have time to complete in October, November or December. 

- read two letters from US authors on the webpage "Letters of Note" and bring in details about how these letters are products of the times they were written in (use the magnifying glass to search for key terms that will take you to letters on certain topics): https://lettersofnote.com/

- watch one full episode of the documentary program Frontline on a topic area of personal interest and bring in three pieces of data you learned in the episode: https://www.youtube.com/@frontline/videos

 

Links of interest: 

John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQvc-Gkwhow

Biography of Sojourner Truth: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sojourner-truth

Biography of Harriet Tubman: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/harriet-tubman  

Origin of the term "Jim Crow" (2 links): https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/origins.htm

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/discover-6.html

Kompetenzerweiterung I (Monday and Tuesday Group), Homework for First Session in January + Study Pack

For homework, please get caught up with any assignments that you did not complete in our 2023 sessions. I recommend reviewing as much as possible for the exam so that you can dedicate your time to other subjects. The study pack of links below might help you. Bring in any questions you might have to our first January session. Happy Holidays!

This study pack is meant for your personal enrichment and is in no way required. 

Future and present forms

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

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

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.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


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.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 (Thursday Group), Homework for December 21st

For homework, please: 

- visit the following website and read an English-language article from at least three different countries' pages (see drop down menu in the upper left-hand corner of the homepage) and take notes on that quality of the writing for each article. Also, jot down some notes concerning what types of English-language articles are available on the respective websites you draw your articles from: https://theconversation.com/europe

- revisit the file "PhilosophyPastPapers", pick a question and sketch a quick outline for an essay in response to it.

- bring in an excellent piece of writing (500-1000 words) for your partner to read in class in our last session of the year (either printed out or as a file).

Kompetenzerweiterung III (Wednesday Group), Homework for December 20th

 For homework, please: 

- visit the following website and read an English-language article from at least three different countries' pages (see drop down menu in the upper left-hand corner of the homepage) and take notes on that quality of the writing for each article. Also, jot down some notes concerning what types of English-language articles are available on the respective websites you draw your articles from: https://theconversation.com/europe

- revisit the file "PhilosophyPastPapers", pick a question and sketch a quick outline for an essay in response to it.

- bring in an excellent piece of writing (500-1000 words) for your partner to read in class in our last session of the year (either printed out or as a file).

Kompetenzerweiterung I (Tuesday Group), Homework for December 19th

For homework, please: 

- bring in at least 10 laugh-out-loud jokes and practice delivering them (i.e. saying them out loud). We'll be having a dad joke/pun festival in groups in our next session :-). 

- review Units 17 (clauses) and 21 (noun phrases) in your book and complete exercises 3.3 and 3.4 in the scanned file "nouns agreement and articles exercises", exercise 6 from the file "place name exercise", and exercise C from the file "relative clauses quick check"

- learn the topic vocabulary and word formation vocabulary from Unit 22 (quality and the arts) and complete exercises A-D and K-M from your book. 

- as always, I recommend doing supplementary exercises from the review pages in your book, the extra exercises in the back, and targeted exercises you seek out from links featured on the blog and other grammar sites you find on the Web.

Kulturraumstudien USA, Homework for December 18th

For homework, please find a feminist/womanist text from the US, listen/read/watch it, and be able to define in our next session what makes this work a feminist/womanist text. 

(Example: "A Room of One's Own" is considered a classic feminist text by British/English writer Virgnia Woolf. We see echoes of her work (i.e. intertextuality) in Beyoncé's Super Bowl performance (slide 23 in the December 11 slides) when Beyoncé sings "best revenge is your paper," referring to cash. (Woolf writes, "That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.") Music videos, individual performances, song lyrics, ad campaigns, political cartoons, and photographs are examples of texts you might have a look at for this assignment.)

Links of interest: 

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution

Kompetenzerweiterung I (Monday Group), Homework for December 18th

 For homework, please: 

- bring in at least 10 laugh-out-loud jokes and practice delivering them (i.e. saying them out loud). We'll be having a dad joke/pun festival in groups in our next session :-). 

- review Units 17 (clauses) and 21 (noun phrases) in your book and complete exercises 3.3 and 3.4 in the scanned file "nouns agreement and articles exercises", exercise 6 from the file "place name exercise", and exercise C from the file "relative clauses quick check"

- learn the topic vocabulary and word formation vocabulary from Unit 22 (quality and the arts) and complete exercises A-D and K-M from your book. 

- as always, I recommend doing supplementary exercises from the review pages in your book, the extra exercises in the back, and targeted exercises you seek out from links featured on the blog and other grammar sites you find on the Web.

Kompetenzerweiterung III (Thursday Group), Homework for December 14th

 For homework, please: 

- access the opinion pages on the Guardian's website (https://www.theguardian.com/uk/commentisfree) or another English language newspaper/periodical's opinions. Read two articles, one of which has a thesis you fundamentally disagree with and another article that you consider to be extremely well written (whether you agree with its thesis or not). Take concrete, specific notes on both articles in the following five areas: 1) word choice, 2) sentence structure, 3) organization, 4) thesis statement, 5) examples/data/details

- discover a new English language news outlet this week and read at least one article from it. Bring the name of this news outlet and the title of the article with you to class.

- read the file "supporting and opposing views" on ILU and complete exercises 24.1, 24.3, and 24.4 from the "supporting and opposing views exercises" file

Kompetenzerweiterung III (Wednesday Group), Homework for December 13th

 For homework, please: 

- access the opinion pages on the Guardian's website (https://www.theguardian.com/uk/commentisfree) or another English language newspaper/periodical's opinion pages. Read two articles, one of which has a thesis you fundamentally disagree with and another article that you consider to be extremely well written (whether you agree with its thesis or not). Take concrete, specific notes on both articles in the following five areas: 1) word choice, 2) sentence structure, 3) organization, 4) thesis statement, 5) examples/data/details

- discover a new English language news outlet this week and read at least one article from it. Bring the name of this news outlet and the title of the article with you to class.

- read the file "supporting and opposing views" on ILU and complete exercises 24.1, 24.3, and 24.4 from the "supporting and opposing views exercises" file

Kompetenzerweiterung I (Tuesday Group), Homework for December 12th

***In our next session, we will have our third in-class essay from 16:15-17:15. Please come to class with paper and writing utensils.***

In advance of our next session on 12/12, please:

- review units 5 and 7 on future time and passives and causatives, respectively, and learn the topic vocab and word formation words for unit 8. (It is recommended that you complete the review on pp. 68-69 as well.) Complete exercises A-D and L-O in Unit 8 and bring in any questions you might have to class.

 - have a look at the following video Hydrogen cars: a greener future for London? - BBC London - YouTube and answer the following question: are hydrogen cars (part of) the future? (Bonus challenge: can you catch any collocations in the speech featured in the video?) 

- read the word formation suffixes scan (file name: "word formation suffixes") and complete exercises 2 and 3 from the file "word formation suffixes exercises". Bring your answers with you to class.

- the following exercises are recommended for reviewing passive voice:
https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/3g20-passive-active-exercise.php
https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/passive-voice/pa002-incident-in-the-sky.htm
https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/passive-voice/pa006-active-passive.htm
https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-23159.php

Kulturraumstudien USA, Homework for December 11th

***If you signed up for the excursion on December 8th (Friday), please be at the venue by 10:00 am as our tour will begin at 10:15 sharp.***

In advance of next week's session, please: 

- read as much as you can from Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau (read at least the last two slides from today's presentation): https://www.gutenberg.org/files/71/71-h/71-h.htm  Identify at least one statement in the text that surprises and/or interests you (bear in mind that this text inspired a number of leaders in more recent history such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi).

Links of interest:

Unknown | Sojourner Truth, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance" | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)

1491s sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdy5XSdCkz0

https://medium.com/@micheleanderson/der-spiegel-journalist-messed-with-the-wrong-small-town-d92f3e0e01a7

 

 

Kompetenzwerweiterung I (Monday Group), Homework for December 11th

***For those students who received essays back on December 4th, please make your hand-written corrections/additions to your essay and place them in my letterbox at the Institute by Thursday, December 7th at 11:30 am (electronic submissions will NOT be accepted). My letterbox is located in the wing of the Institute with the women's restrooms (to the the right when you come up the stairs on the side with the elevator).***

In advance of our next session on 12/11, please:

- review units 5 and 7 on future time and passives and causatives, respectively, and learn the topic vocab and word formation words for unit 8. (It is recommended that you complete the review on pp. 68-69 as well.) Complete exercises A-D and L-O in Unit 8 and bring in any questions you might have to class.

 - have a look at the following video Hydrogen cars: a greener future for London? - BBC London - YouTube and answer the following question: are hydrogen cars (part of) the future? (Bonus challenge: can you catch any collocations in the speech featured in the video?) 

- read the word formation suffixes scan (file name: "word formation suffixes") and complete exercises 2 and 3 from the file "word formation suffixes exercises". Bring your answers with you to class.

- the following exercises are recommended for reviewing passive voice:
https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/3g20-passive-active-exercise.php
https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/passive-voice/pa002-incident-in-the-sky.htm
https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/passive-voice/pa006-active-passive.htm
https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-23159.php

Kompetenzerweiterung III (Thursday Group), Homework for December 7th

 ***Due to Project Week, our next class session will be on December 7th.***

TEILLEISTUNG EXAMS WILL TAKE PLACE ON ZOOM DURING PROJECT WEEK. PLEASE BE ON TIME FOR YOUR APPOINTMENT.

For homework, please:

- watch/read at least five other materials in preparation of debating your prepared debate question during your Teilleistung exam

- watch this video Co-housing for London's ageing population - BBC London - YouTube and be ready to debate the question “Is co-housing/co-living the future?” in our next session

- read the article "Cohousing" (schedule enough time for it, please, as it is 9 pages long) and provide your personal answer to the question in its title after reading it

Kompetenzerweiterung III (Wednesday Group), Homework for December 6th

 ***Due to Project Week, our next class session will be on December 6th.***

TEILLEISTUNG EXAMS WILL TAKE PLACE ON ZOOM DURING PROJECT WEEK. PLEASE BE ON TIME FOR YOUR APPOINTMENT.

For homework, please:

- watch/read at least five other materials in preparation of debating your prepared debate question during your Teilleistung exam

- watch this video Co-housing for London's ageing population - BBC London - YouTube and be ready to debate the question “Is co-housing/co-living the future?” in our next session

- read the article "Cohousing" (schedule enough time for it, please, as it is 9 pages long) and provide your personal answer to the question in its title after reading it

Kompetenzerweiterung I (Tuesday Group), Homework for December 5th

 

 ***Please note that there will be no class session in the last week of November due to Project Week.***

For homework, please: 

-complete the exercises (i.e. A-O) for Unit 6 and learn the vocabulary for Unit 6 (pp. 44-45). Do Review 2 for Units 5 and 6 on pp. 52-53 of your book as well. Please consult the key at the back of the book to check your work AFTER you have given the exercises a go on your own. Bring any questions you have regarding the vocabulary/these solutions with you to our next session.

- review Units 1 and 3 and bring in any questions you might have. I would recommend doing exercises from the reviews on pp. 20-21, pp. 36-37 and pp. 265-266 from your book for extra practice. (Bear in mind that some of the vocab exercises on these pages focus on items that we have not covered yet.)

- browse the monster.com website and read at least one article that is in some way related to career advice: Monster Jobs - Job Search, Career Advice & Hiring Resources | Monster.com What strikes you, interculturally speaking, about the advice given (i.e. do you notice an intercultural differences between what is expected in your home country and the US/anglophone countries?)?

- identify a job/career field that interests you and watch a video on YouTube that profiles that career/provides more information about it. Bring in the name of the video and one interesting takeway from it with you to our next class.

Kulturraumstudien USA, Homework for December 4th

 ***Please note that, due to Project Week, there will be NO class session in the last week of November.***

For homework, please: 

- read pp. 5-8 (starting with "Photographs furnish evidence" and ending with "...so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.") of On Photography featured in the "Sontag On Photograph" folder on ILU. Sontag's language can be difficult, so take your time with her sentences and bring in any questions you might have to our next session.

- have a look at the following playlist from PBS and watch at least two episodes of "The Bigger Picture": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzkQfVIJun2KjGl3Oo-QNPZVSqsSCBGgr

Take notes as you watch the videos and bring in some of the most interesting findings to our next class session.

- In On Photography, Susan Sontag writes, "From its start, photography implied the capture of the largest possible number of subjects. Painting never had so imperial a scope. The subsequent industrialization of camera technology only carried out a promise inherent in photography from its very beginning: to democratize all experiences by translating them into images" (pg. 7). Select 3-5 US photographs taken between 1890 and 1950 and consider whether this quote applies to them. Bring your findings with you to class. (There are two links below which might help you in finding images.)

Kompetenzerweiterung I (Monday Group), Homework for December 4th

 ***Please note that there will be no class session in the last week of November due to Project Week.***

For homework, please: 

-complete the exercises (i.e. A-O) for Unit 6 and learn the vocabulary for Unit 6 (pp. 44-45). Do Review 2 for Units 5 and 6 on pp. 52-53 of your book as well. Please consult the key at the back of the book to check your work AFTER you have given the exercises a go on your own. Bring any questions you have regarding the vocabulary/these solutions with you to our next session.

- review Units 1 and 3 and bring in any questions you might have. I would recommend doing exercises from the reviews on pp. 20-21, pp. 36-37 and pp. 265-266 from your book for extra practice. (Bear in mind that some of the vocab exercises on these pages focus on items that we have not covered yet.)

- browse the monster.com website and read at least one article that is in some way related to career advice: Monster Jobs - Job Search, Career Advice & Hiring Resources | Monster.com What strikes you, interculturally speaking, about the advice given (i.e. do you notice an intercultural differences between what is expected in your home country and the US/anglophone countries?)?

- identify a job/career field that interests you and watch a video on YouTube that profiles that career/provides more information about it. Bring in the name of the video and one interesting takeway from it with you to our next class.

Kompetenzerweiterung III (Thursday Group), Homework for November 23rd

 For homework, please: 

·       - watch the following video Is magic real? | Derren Brown | Big Questions - YouTube Which answer did you find most compelling? Why?

·       - have a look at the file ("PhilosophyPastPapers") with the philosophy exam questions from the entrance exam to All Souls’ College at Oxford University and select three questions (you’re welcome to change them slightly) that you will pose to your debating partner in our next session. Many of the questions are very specific, so skip those and move to the ones that can be answered spontaneously/don't require any specific knowledge

·       - read the file “understanding and having ideas” and complete exercises 25.1 and 25.2 from the “understanding and having ideas exercises” file

- read the file “linking sounds” and complete exercise 26.2 from the “linking sounds exercises” file 

- read two more resources and listen to two more resources connected to your prepared debate question. Take notes as you read and listen

Kompetenzerweiterung III (Wednesday Group), Homework for November 22nd

For homework, please: 

·       - watch the following video Is magic real? | Derren Brown | Big Questions - YouTube Which answer did you find most compelling? Why?

·       - have a look at the file ("PhilosophyPastPapers") with the philosophy exam questions from the entrance exam to All Souls’ College at Oxford University and select three questions (you’re welcome to change them slightly) that you will pose to your debating partner in our next session. Many of the questions are very specific, so skip those and move to the ones that can be answered spontaneously/don't require any specific knowledge

·       - read the file “understanding and having ideas” and complete exercises 25.1 and 25.2 from the “understanding and having ideas exercises” file

- read the file “linking sounds” and complete exercise 26.2 from the “linking sounds exercises” file 

- read two more resources and listen to two more resources connected to your prepared debate question. Take notes as you read and listen