4C - Homework for Thursday, March 10

TASK 1) Grammar Review:  Do You Remember? pp. 60-61 (answers in the back of the book)
               If-clauses, page 68, Ex. 4

TASK 2) VOCABULARY QUIZ:  Vocab p. 72.  Add vocab from ex. 1.1 and 1.2 on page 62. You need the vocabulary to be ready for this chapter.

TASK 3) Vocabulary: Page 62, ex. 1.1 and 1.2

TASK 4) Page 66, Ex- B.1 - Read the statements, then answer the quesetions below.

WRITTEN HOMEWORK TO TURN IN:  For Ex. 1.2 on p. 62 and exercise 1 on page 66, write sentences on a piece of LINED paper to hand in)

LOOKING AHEAD:  
Be prepared to talk about Exercises 2-3 on page 63 in class on Thursday, March 10
Look over the instructions "How to Write a Comment" (page 65)

2HAS - Homework for Monday, February 29

Task 1 - We will have a vocabulary quiz over the words and phrases on page 64 and page 72 (Module 6 in your textbook, Just Go For It 2)  

Task 2 - Do the exercises on page 64 (include this in vocabulary)

Task 3 - Be able to describe what you see in the pictures on page 64.

Task 4 - Find a cool picture to share with the class. Bring it to class with you on Monday.

Task 5 - Write a summary of the film we watched https://vimeo.com/119520956

Task 6 - Answer the questions about your photography habits.

2HAS - Homework for Friday, January 29

Task 1) Study this vocabulary and prepare for a vocabulary quiz:

to attend (a school, concert, Open House), besuchen
to be attentive (to pay attention) - aufmerksam sein
attention - Aufmerksamkeit
future - Zukunft, zukünftig
further - weiter
(further education - Weiterbildung
to contribute to - zu etwas beitragen
contribution - Beitrag
study - lernen
student - Student, Schüler
to regret - bedauern
to establish - aufbauen
to prepare - vorbereiten
preparation - Vorbereitung

Frau Prof. liest das Wort/die Phrase vor.  Sie schreiben es auf Englisch auf.
 Dann schreiben Sie
1) die deutsche Bedeutung auf
2) einen Satz, in dem dieses Wort/diese Phrase richtig verwendet wird.

Task 2) What ideas do you have to make school (or the school building) more attractive?  Pages 54-55

2C - Homework for Thursday, January 28

Task 1)  Quiz over linking words (see handout) and parts of a car (p. 14).

Task 2) Read the story on page 11.

Task 3) Write out the answers to exercises 1,2, and 3 on pages 16-17 on a separate piece of paper to hand in.

4BHK - Homework for Monday, January 18 (and Tuesday, January 19)

For Monday, January 18

Present your Diplomarbeit project or your Übungsfirma in English. Each student should speak for at least ONE minute.  Free speaking.  Use linking words.

Looking ahead:

For Tuesday, January 19
There will be a short (5-10 min) quiz over linking words and the vocabulary on page 53 (customer service).

4BHK - Unit 3, Terms and Vocabulary

UNIT 3 – From Raw Material to the Consumer

BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN

the difference between consumer, customer and costumer

primary sector (raw materials, suppliers)

secondary sector (manufacturers, producers)

tertiary sector (wholesalers, retailers)

quaternary sector (knowledge and service like banking, education, etc)

blue collar workers

white collar workers

VOCABULARY /TERMS

administrative work

advantage/disadvantage

artist

assembly worker

blue-collar worker

to buy in bulk

capable/capability

client

to contribute/contribution

country of origin

crops

damaging/to damage/damage

to differentiate/differentiation

to diminish

to distribute/distribution/distributor

to divide/division

to drive performance

economic growth

to educate/educator/education

employee

employer

to encourage/encouragement

engineer

to equate

factory

4BHK - Unit 2, Vocabulary and Terms

FOCUS ON MODERN BUSINESS 4/5

UNIT 2 – World of Advertising

BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN:

difference between advertisement/commercial

AIDA
get Attention
hold Interest
arouse Desire
take Action

Personal touch

methods of advertising (TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, circulars, internet, popups, freebies, word of mouth)

children and advertising

online advertising (consumer generated ads, pay-per-click)

Black Friday, Cyber Monday

Branding

How to produce an advertisement

product placement

brand recognition

IMPORTANT VOCABULARY (note: sometimes related words are given e.g. verb/noun, adjective/opposite)

to advertise/advertisement

advert-savvy

to attract/attractive

billboards

blogging

to bombard

to book space

to boost sales

brochure

carriers (see freebies)

to catch attention

to choose/choice

circular

to collect

commercial

commercial

to conduct market research

to consist of

contact data

to contain/contents

to convey the message that

coupon (voucher)

to create the impression that

to deceive/deception/deceptive

to decide/decision

direct mailing

to distribute

to draft/draft

to employ/make use of

to encourage

exorbitant

freebies

4BHK - Unit 1, Terms and Vocabulary

FOCUS ON MODERN BUSINESS 4/5

UNIT 1 - Marketing and sponsoring, Marketing and company image

BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN THESE TERMS:

market research

market share

product development

production

target group

research and development

unique selling proposition

sample

launch

corporate responsibility

cultural sponsorship

corporate sponsorship

private sponsorship

charitable sponsorship

public image

media coverage

fundraising

return on an investment

difference between advertisement/commercial

AIDA

methods of advertising (TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, circulars,internet, popups, freebies, word of mouth)

children and advertising

Black Friday, Cyber Monday

branding

IMPORTANT VOCABULARY (note: sometimes related words are given e.g. verb/noun or adjective/opposite)

to advertise/advertisement

to afford/affordable/unaffordable

to announce/announcement

to appeal/appeal

to attach/attachment

attitude

available/unavailable

carriers (see freebies)

circular

commercial

to compete/competition

to conceive/concept

to confirm/confirmation

consumer

to contain/contents

to contribute/contribution

controversial

convenient

customer

to decide/decision

to demand/demand

to determine

to develop/development

to donate/donation

to educate/education

to endorse/endorsement

to enhance

excited

excuse

to familiarise

freebies

to fund

further

to generate

innovative

to invest/investment

major

particularly

to perceive/perception

to permit/permission

pop-up ads

to produce/product/production/producer

to profit/profit

to promote/promotion

to purchase/purchase

reputation

to resign/resignation

to schedule/schedule
to sponsor/sponsorship

selfless

to separate

to twist

word of mouth

2HAS - Homework for Friday, November 27

Study the vocabulary on page 36.  We will have a SHORT vocabulary quiz over these words on Friday, , which you need for Module 3.  If you want to make flashcards (Lernkärtchen) you can use www.quizlet.com.  You can also write the words in groups (nouns, verbs, adjectives) in your SÜ Heft.  

This is going to be a short Module (healthy lifestyle, comparative/superlative adjectives, all of which we did last year). 

5AHK - Homework for the week of November 9-13

For this homework, you will need:
Your book (left it at school?  No problem!  http://www.veritas.at/sbo/ebook/px/24358/ )
Your brain
About an hour of your time

ABSOLUTE MINIMUM: look at the vocabulary for the globalisation chapter (page 113).  See what vocabulary you know already.  Then make a list of nouns, verbs, adjectives, phrases in your SÜ Heft.  There a lot of verbs/phrasal verbs because, like German, English is a very 'verbal' language.

Do these exercises to familiarize yourself with the VOCABULARY of Globalisation:
Page 101, ex. 2
Page 105, Ex. 4
Page 108, Ex. 3 (you need to read the article on page 107)
Page 107-108, Ex 4. (you need to read the article on page 107

WANT MORE PRACTICE?

READING PRACTICE
p. 102-103, Ex. 1 - Matura bzw. SA Aufgabenstellung (Note Form, Maximum 4 words)
p. 107, ex. 1, p. 108, ex. 2
p. 108-109, ex. 4

LISTENING PRACTICE
p. 104, ex 2, CD 2, Track 3 (write a guided summary)
p. 109,, ex 4, CD 2, Track 4 (Matura bzw. SA Aufgabenstellung- Multiple Choice)
p. 110, ex. 6, CD 2, Track 4 (TALKING POINTS FOR GLOBALIZATION!!!)

SPEAKING PRACTICE
In-Class, p. 104, Ex. 4 (TALKING POINTS!)

7C - Homework for Thursday, November 12

For this homework you will need:
* Your textbook (forgot it at school? No problem! http://www.veritas.at/sbo/ebook/px/30834/)
* A favorite DVD that you can switch to English
* Your brain
* 1-3 hours of your time

Task 1:  Watch one of your favorite DVDs (TV show or movie) in English.  It should be one of your favorite episodes/movies where you know the plot and dialogue.  Switch the sound to English and the subtitles to English.  This will help your English in at least ways:  You will hear the language (listening), you will see the language (reading) and you will match the sounds to the words (pronunciation).  You will also learn some new vocabulary and idioms.  Try to watch at least 10 minutes a day (or more if you've got the time and energy!).

Task 2:  Look at the Vocabulary on page 44 (Unit 3) in your textbook, Focus on Modern Technology 3.  You will need this vocabulary to begin working with Chapter 44.  TIP:  In your SÜ Heft, divide the vocabulary words into Verbs, Nouns, Adjectives, Phrases.

Task 3:  Look at the Language in Focus section on page 41 (Indirect speech: Statements).
Note the differences between these sentences:
Martin Cooper:  "It took me three months to build the first mobile phone."
Martin Cooper SAYS that it took him three months to build the first mobile phone.
Martin Cooper SAID that it had taken him three months to build the first mobile phone.

Want more practice?
VOCABULARY:

• Do exercise 3 on page 35 (general vocabulary) and/or
• exercise 4 on page 40 (prepositions)

GRAMMAR: There are plenty of resources on the internet to practice your English grammar.  See the sidebar of the blog under English Grammar Resources.  You can also sign up for English grammar sites on Facebook (again, see sidebar).

READING: 

• Readings in Unit 2 (page 23-24, exercise 2, 27-28 exercise 4)!  It's not too late to submit this homework!
• You can also do the readings in Unit 3, page 38-39 (this will help with your homework!)
• The reading on page 42-43 is a Matura Aufgabenstellung (Multiple Matching).  Kill two birds with one stone!  Do Exercise 1, p. 42 and exercise 2, p. 43

SPEAKING:  Prepare to speak in class.  Our topics will be robots (your experience in Robotik), discussing pros and cons of robots (exercise 5 on page 29)

Describe what happens in this 30 second video.  Use markers (first, then, next, after that, finally...) and the present simple tense:

WRITING: If you haven't written an article about 'Fun Ways to Learn English', it's not to late to turn in this homework!

1C - Homework for Wednesday, November 4

You will need:  
* Your book (forgot it at school? No problem! http://www.veritas.at/sbo/ebook/px/30476/#30)
* Your brain
* A pencil or pen
* About 1 hour (if you did the homework for 10/28)
* About 2 hours (if you didn't do the homework for 10/28)

TASK 1 (from 10/28)
* Start learning the vocabulary (page 30) for Unit 1 in Focus on Modern Technology 1
* ADD: Vocabulary from Exercise 3 on page 22
* ADD: Vocabulary from Exercise 1 on page 25

TASK 2 (from 10/28)
* Read the grammar explanations on pages 27-28 (Befehlsform and Simple Present). 

TASK 3
* Reread the email on pp. 20-21 from Nick Cooper to Peter Gruber.
* Do exercise 1 on page 21 
* Do exercise 2 on page 21 

Task 4 (from 10/28)
* Do exercise 5 on page 22 (fill in the Befehlsform - we will check answers in class)
* Do exercise 6 on page 23 (fill in the correct form of the present). You may find it helpful to read the email on pp. 20-21 before doing this exercise.

1C - Homework for Wednesday, October 28

TASK 1
Start learning the vocabulary (page 30) for Unit 1 in Focus on Modern Technology 1

TASK 2
 Read the grammar explanations on pages 27-28 (Befehlsform and Simple Present).

TASK 3
Do exercise 5 on page 22 (fill in the Befehlsform - we will check answers in class)
Do exercise 6 on page 23 (fill in the correct form of the present). You may find it helpful to read the email on pp. 20-21 before doing this exercise.

Forgot your book?  Check this out!! http://www.veritas.at/sbo/ebook/px/30476/#30

2HAS - Homework for Friday, October 23

For Friday, October 23,

TASK 1:  Look over the vocabulary for Unit 2 in Just Go For It 2 (page 25).  You will need this vocabulary for the lesson on Friday.  You may find it helpful to divide the words into nouns, verbs, and adjectives in your SÜ Heft.

TASK 2:  Do the matching exercise on page 16 (office equipment)

2C - Homework for Thursday, October 22

Task 1:  Study the vocabulary on pages 91, 93, and 103.  We will do a short vocabulary revision over these words.

Task 2:  Do exercise 6 on page 92 and exercise 8 on page 93.  Write exercise 6 in your SÜ Heft or a separate piece of paper if Frau Professor Sandrock has your HÜ Heft.

4BHK - Homework for Tuesday, October 6

For Tuesday, October 6, look closely at the vocabulary for sponsorship on page 19 of your textbook, Focus on Modern Technology 4/5.  We will need this vocabulary for class on Tuesday!

2C - Homework for Thursday, October 8

You will need:

Your textbook (Focus on Modern Technology 1)
Your brain
A pen or pencil
About one hour of your time

For Thursday, October 7

1) Look at the review grammar on page 101 of your textbook.
2) Learn the vocabulary on page 103 (including meaning and pronunciation!)
3) Then do exercises 11 - 12 - 13 on pages 98-99.

2HAS - Homework for Monday, October 5

For Monday, October 5, you will need:

Your textbook (Just Go For It 2)
English parts of speech worksheet (below)
Your brain
A pen or pencil
20 minutes or so

You should begin learning the vocabulary for Chapter 1 in our textbook.  The first step is to divide the words into nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.  Use the worksheet below to help you categorize these words.  We will begin using them in class on Monday, October 5, so don't procrastinate!

Click on the image to embiggen, download or print!

5AHK - Homework for Monday, October 5

Homework  for Monday, October 5

You will need your book
Your brain
A pen or pencil
About 30-45 minutes

1)  Do exercise 4 on page 90 of Focus on Modern Technology 4/5 (reinforce vocabulary from text on p. 88-89)

2) And do exercise 8 on page 91 (summary of text on p. 88-89, linking words)

1C - Homework for Wednesday, October 7

Review Class Etiquette and Rules bzw. Mitarbeitsnoten


HOMEWORK
You will need:
Your textbook, Focus on Modern Technology 1
Access to the Internet
Approximately (ungefähr) 1.5 hours

For Wednesday, October 7, study (=lernen!) the vocabulary on p. 13 (School Subjects, Technical Jobs, Countries/Languages) of your textbook.  Learn the meanings and the pronunciation of these words (for pronunciation, go to The Oxford Learner's Dictionary, type in the term engineer, then click on the

so you can hear what the word sounds like (BrE=British English; NAmE=North American English).

We will begin using this vocabulary in class on Wednesday, October 7 so make sure you learn it!!