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

Kompetenzerweiterung I (Tuesday Group), Homework for November 21st

 

 In preparation of next Tuesday's session , please do the following:

Please complete the exercises (i.e. A-I) for Unit 21 and read the grammar details for Unit 21 (pp. 170-171). 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 rules/these solutions with you to next Tuesday's session.

- read 2-3 of the essays featured here What I'm really thinking | Lifeandstyle | The Guardian and do the following: 

1) be able to pinpoint what compelled you to click on the article in the first place (of the hundreds of articles on the site, what made that person's perspective interesting enough to read?)

2) did the articles live up to your expectation (i.e. what you had in mind when you clicked)? Explain.

3) take notes regarding the paragraph organization of the article

Kulturraumstudien USA, Homework for November 20th

 For homework, please:

- watch the following video, which features author Francisco Cantú, a former member of the US Border Patrol (2008-2012, i.e. the first Obama administration) and published a memoir about his experiences in 2017: How this former Border Patrol agent learned to see through the eyes of those trying to cross - YouTube

As you watch the video, take notes on any comments, information and/or sights presented therein that surprise you.

- after watching the video, read an excerpt from Cantú's book The Line Becomes a River posted under the "Cantú: The Line Becomes a River" folder on ILU. The excerpt is written in the voice of José, an undocumented immigrant to the US whom Cantú befriends in the course of the memoir's events. In this scene, José is in Mexico tending to his dying mother. (The "you" in this scene refers to Cantú, but is obviously also a stylistic choice used to pull the reader in.) As you read the excerpt, jot down notes/highlight passages that capture the complexities of José's situation. (The upload on ILU places pg 242 as the third scan when it should be the last page you read. The other scans are in the correct order.)

Kompetenzerweiterung I (Monday Group), Homework for November 20th

 In preparation of next Monday's session , please do the following:

Please complete the exercises (i.e. A-I) for Unit 21 and read the grammar details for Unit 21 (pp. 170-171). 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 rules/these solutions with you to next Monday's session.

- read 2-3 of the essays featured here What I'm really thinking | Lifeandstyle | The Guardian and do the following: 

1) be able to pinpoint what compelled you to click on the article in the first place (of the hundreds of articles on the site, what made that person's perspective interesting enough to read?)

2) did the articles live up to your expectation (i.e. what you had in mind when you clicked)? Explain.

3) take notes regarding the paragraph organization of the article

In our next session, we will be writing our second in-class essay of the semester. Please bring paper and writing utensils with you to class.

Kompetenzerweiterung III (Thursday Group), Homework for November 16th

For homework, please: 

1) read the file “reacting to others” and complete exercises 15.3 and 15.4 from the “reacting to others exercises” file

2) read the file “suffixes and word stress” and complete exercises 13.1 and 13.3 from the “suffixes and word stresses exercises” file

3) read the file “Should passion be a job requirement” and be ready to debate this question in our next session

4) watch this video (minutes 4-7 are most relevant for the debate question) Malcolm Gladwell explains why he avoids face-to-face job interviews | SVT/TV 2/Skavlan – YouTube and be ready to debate the question “Should employers do away with face-to-face job interviews?” in our next session 

5) watch two videos and read two articles related to your prepared debate question (if you opted for a third spontaneous question, then read two articles from an opinion section of a periodical and watch two videos connected to an contemporary issue that is currently under debate). Take notes, paying close attention to the vocabulary these materials use and their strongest points (whether you ultimately agree with their main claim(s) or not). Bring these findings with you to class.