This week's assignment due Thursday, October 25:
1)Please register at the ZFIM and ask for a student account and an e-mail account. Send me an e-mail confirming your choice.
N.B.You will find an introduction to 'e-mail with Eudora' on the ZFIM-homepage.
In the section 'Useful links' you will find the URLs mentioned as well as other links with introductions to the internet in general.
2)worksheet no.1 and no.2: AmE vs BrE. Translate the AmE words into BrE ()if you like by means of the Interactive BrE/AmE Translator)
Thursday, October 25: Unfortunately I had to undergo a tooth operation yesterday and have not yet recovered. But let's make the best out of it: Everybody is talking about peer teaching, autonomous learning, learning English online.So let us do it today!
You will meet in room 17/19 which is the VIP room in the ZFIM (not in room 22/23 anymore).
1) Find a partner and compare your results: worksheet no.1 and 2 about AmE/BrE
2)Create your own 'American English or British English' story using as many words from that context as possible. It can be a funny or absurd story. Use your imagination! Have fun!Work on your own or with a partner. This is your assignment for next Thursday!
Please send it to me per email as an attachment. (Use 'Word', save it as a word document. Write the email, click on the 'Hinzufügen' button, then on 'Datei'. Type in the name of your document and click on OK. Your story will then be attached to your email and you can send it off with a few remarks.Please put 'vocid' and 'AmEBrE' in the subject line.)
In case the Multimedia lab is not used this morning, you could go there and do your assignment there right away and do the second part of your assignment:
2)Go to the internet.Do the multiple choice exercises AmE/BrE 1-6 (see link):Do exercise no.1. Use the link 'key' at the bottom of the page to find out whether you were right or not and then click on 'go to part II' to proceed etc.)
Don't forget to sign in the 'Anwesenheitsliste'. Thank you! See you next Thursday!
Important note! To whom it may concern:
Einführung in das Arbeiten an den Rechnern des ZFIM Dienstag, 6.11.01 oder 20.11 16-18 Uhr, WIN-Raum Martin Hinz
Assignment due Thursday, November 8
1)Revise the AmE/BrE by means of the quia game (see link: Quia activities) and the AmE/BrE Multiple Choice tests and the Interactive AmE/BrE Translator
2)Do the exercises on worksheet no. 4 and no 5
Assignment due for Thursday, November 15
1) Revise the abbreviations by means of Sabine's and Navina's quia games and by means of the internet exercises. By creating a Quia game yourself you would also revise this topic. Go to: http://www.quia.com/pages/fmf.html (see link) and follow the instructions under 2.2. If you have finished it, please send the URL per email to me: I am looking forward to your first online activity!If there are no mistakes in it, I would like to add it to the class web page.
N.B.On Navina's Scavenger Hunt game page use the 'Acronym Finder' internet page instead of the link mentioned. Both games are great fun!
Assignment due for Thursday, November 22
Study the the two Wordfinder pages (page 7&8) about government, parliament & election and learn/revise the words by means of file cards (Lernkarteikarten), by creating electronic flash cards (quia instructions above)or by creating mind maps or electronic mind maps(see useful links: www.mindjet.de)
Then do the gap-filling exercises on page 6.
Finally you could have another go at the 'Abbreviation Quiz' or the 'American vs British English' Quiz. If you feel strong enough to take a session, go ahead and have another try!(see Quia links, start with 'Click here' and enter your last name)
Assignment due for Thursday, November 29
Go to Downing Street 10 and have a virtual tour of the house. Print out the list of the Cabinet Ministers (see link www.number-10.gov.uk click the button 'Facts' and 'The Cabinet'.) If you like you can explore Parliament at www.explore.parliament.uk. There is a 'political puzzle' or a 'quest to find the missing mace' for you to do.
Revise the government, Parliament & elections vocabulary and a take the quiz session 'uk politics' (see link at the quia activities) by Tuesday next week. Take the 'americanenglish3' Quiz session if you have not yet done it.
Create a mindmap about all the things you know about the American system of government.
If you like you could have a virtual tour through the White House as well:http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/whtour/
Assignment due for Thursday, December 6th
Revise the government & election vocabulary carefully.
There will be another test for you on Thursday.
New worksheet: Crime and Punishment: translate into English
worksheet'Prefixes': Do the exercises.
Assignment due for Thursday, December 13th
Revise the crime & punishment vocabulary carefully
Do the exercises:
worksheet 'roots''
worksheet 'suffixes'
worksheet wordformation 1-5
Read the text about collocations.
Those of you who haven't taken the quiz session:
go to the quia Activities and take the 'uk politics 3' session.
I have changed the session so that you will now be able to see the answer summary after having submitted the test.
Assignment due for Thursday, December 20th
Worksheet wordformation: 6-8, exercise:Collocations page 18; page 19: read the left page and do the exercises on the left side
Note: There are some new crime and punishment exercises for you to do
Assignment due for Thursday, January 10th 2002
Revise the word formation carefully. Do the quia exercise on word formation.
worksheet 18: Pairs, worksheet 21 and 22b
Assignment due for Thursday, January 17th 2002
Revise the similes and binomials as well as the idioms carefully. worksheet no.(22b),23,(24) and 27
Assignment due for Thursday, January 24th 2002
Revise the idioms (by means of the internet exercises) and the phrasal verbs (by means of the mini-dictionary on page 28 ) carefully. Last assignment: Worksheet page 25: Proverbs, rest of page 29 and the careful completion of the mock exam.
After the revision do the mock exam. Start with I - III, then revise the similes and binomials and go on with IV and V, revise collocations and do VI, revise wordformation and do VII etc.
In a fortnight you will take the final test and hopefully pass it!!! So do work hard.
Don't forget to revise your crime and punishment vocabulary as well!
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