Assignment #4

1. Create a new collection: Prepositions 2 on cram.com. Enter there the Position Prepositions. Next to each preposition put (P) to indicate its role. Learn all these prepositions by hard.
2. Create a new collection: Irregular Verbs 3 on cram.com. Starting at the top of the 500 most frequently used English words select 20 irregular verbs (including those you already know) and add them to the newly created collection in a similar way as you did with your other verb collections. Learn the added verbs and their forms by hard.
3. From your Words collection on cram.com remove all the prepositions and irregular verbs. Add the next 10 unknown words (skipping prepositions and irregular verbs) from the 500 most frequently used English words. Learn the words by hard.
4. Read the part "Complex sentences" from the page Sentence Structure.
5. Finish Verb Tense Exercise 1 (sentences 3-10). Make sure, you understand all the words. At the end perform the check by clicking the appropriate button.
6. Finish Position Prepositions Exercise 1 (sentences 3-10). Make sure, you understand all the words. At the end perform the check by clicking the appropriate button.
7. Analyze your errors you made in your posts on the WhatsApp Chat (November 2018). When you will not be sure how to correct them, make a note so you would be able to bring them up for discussion during our next lesson.
8. Watch the video Boy meets girl. Girl hates boy. Once you will be done with it, let me know in a WhatsApp post and will have a chat about your impressions.

Our next lesson will be unusually on Wednesday 2.1.2019 at 15:30.

Parts 1 through 3 and part 5 are due on 26.12.2018.

Parts 4 through 7 are due on 1.1.2019.

Don't wait until the last minute to do your assignments. Record the total time you will be working on the homework.

WhatsApp Chat (November 2018)

Marking conventions:

• M - something is missing;
• A - an article is missing;
• fragment colored in red - erroneous part.

11/19/18, 22:20 - Emilka K: Hello unce,
I have whatsapp finally.

11/20/18, 01:55 - Tomasz Księżyk: It's great. I will contact you at 15:30 today. Make sure the battery of your phone wouldn't die during our lesson. Have also your laptop handy.

11/20/18, 08:27 - Emilka K: Ok I will make sure the battery M and I will have A laptop handy.
See you soon.

11/20/18, 09:09 - Tomasz Księżyk: (1) In most cases English nouns should be preceded by an article or a pronoun. (2) There is something missing after the word  "battery" in your first sentence.
Write your post again, this time without errors.

11/20/18, 14:09 - Tomasz Księżyk: I have just sent you an email message. Read it before our lesson today.

11/21/18, 16:18 - Emilka K: I was reading Your e-mail. I will do this assignment on Friday, because I have a lot of learn.

11/21/18, 16:21 - Emilka K: Uncle, can you check my e-mail, whitch I will send to you ?

11/21/18, 16:30 - Tomasz Księżyk: Sure. I will read it tonight.

11/21/18, 16:30 - Emilka K: Ok No problem

11/21/18, 16:32 - Emilka K: So I'a writting now this and next I will send this to you.

11/21/18, 17:09 - Emilka K: letter to Mark

11/21/18, 17:46 - Tomasz Księżyk: There are some errors in the text you have sent me. If this assignment is for tomorrow, we could discuss it on the phone right now. Let me know whether you want to do this.

11/21/18, 17:49 - Emilka K: Yes this assignment is for tomorrow, but now I M go on the balet and I will be in home at 20:30

11/21/18, 17:50 - Emilka K: And next I will do my homework further

11/21/18, 17:50 - Emilka K: Can you write in wathsapp my errors ?

11/21/18, 17:58 - Tomasz Księżyk: I will make an exception and do it. Make sure to look up the word "exception" in your dictionary.
I will send you my corrections over email. It would be easier for me to type this way.

11/21/18, 18:17 - Emilka K: Ok thank you so much.

11/21/18, 18:29 - Tomasz Księżyk: I have just emailed you the corrections.

11/21/18, 22:53 - Tomasz Księżyk: internship
she wears
T-shirts or plain tops
she has a good sense of humour

11/21/18, 21:28 - Emilka K:  letter to Mark with corrections

11/21/18, 22:57 - Emilka K: Ok thak you, I correct this

11/21/18, 22:57 - Emilka K: Thank you*

11/21/18, 23:32 - Tomasz Księżyk: Try to be more careful in the future.

11/21/18, 23:51 - Emilka K: Ok I'll be more careful.

11/21/18, 23:53 - Tomasz Księżyk: You should be in bed by now.

11/21/18, 23:55 - Emilka K: I should be in bed M now but I learn yet

11/21/18, 23:56 - Tomasz Księżyk: ... but I still have to learn.

11/21/18, 23:56 - Emilka K: Ok

11/24/18, 17:39 - Tomasz Księżyk: Did you read my recent email?

11/24/18, 17:52 - Emilka K: Yes I read you email.
I made A assignment but I will sent this when I'll go back at home.

11/24/18, 17:55 - Tomasz Księżyk: Did you understand everything I had written there?

11/25/18, 00:02 - Emilka K:  home work #1 part 1

 11/25/18, 00:02 - Emilka K: home work #1part 2

11/25/18, 00:03 - Emilka K: This is my assignment and there are an word which I don't know.

11/28/18, 10:23 - Tomasz Księżyk: I have just mailed you the next assignment. Don't delay much with reading it.

School assignment (a letter) - 21.11.2018

Original:

Corrected:

Assignment #3 (email from 5.12.2018)

Dear Emilka,

here is your next assignment:

   (1) In your "words" collection on cram.com correct the following words:

"though" instead of "thought"

"until" instead of "untill"

   (2) On cram.com create the following new collections:

* irregular verbs

* prepositions

   (3) Go to the page:

https://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/position_prepositions.htm

If you have access to a printer, print the above page.

Add all the prepositions from the page to your collection
"prepositions" on cram.com.

   (4) From the list of the most frequently used English words
identify the next 20 words you don't know and add them to your "words"
list on cram.com.

   (5) Re-write both texts you did for assignments #1 and #2, this
time with all the corrections we have discussed during our lessons.

   (6) Go to the page:

http://www.englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/all-english-tenses-timeline-infographic/

Click on the picture to enlarge it. Again, if you have access to a
printer, print the picture.

Read as much as you can from this page. We will be studying it during
our next lesson.

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Parts (1) through (4) are due by Friday. Parts (5) and (6) are due by Monday.

Record the total time spent on this assignment.

Cheers,
stryjek T.

Assignment #2 (email from 28.11.2018)

Dear Emilka,

here is your next assignment:

(1) The written part:

Continue with the subject from your previous assignment. Consider the
following questions:

* What have been some of the learning techniques and tools you have
been applying towards mastering the English? Which ones of those have
been your favourites? By tools I mean books (beyond your study book)
like dictionaries and other written material, phone applications and
Internet portals.

* How many times in a week do you go to the English class?

* What is the typical course of events during an English lesson with
your teacher at school?

*What are some of the home assignments from the teacher? How much time
do you need to finish them?

* You don't have to stick to the above questions. You might come up
with some releated topics on your own.

The deadline for this is next Monday.

(2) Go to the following page in the browser on your laptop:

https://www.cram.com/user/login

Find the part: "Don't have an account? Sign Up"

Click on "Sign Up" and create your own account.

Should you have any problems with this, let me know on WhatsApp and I
will assist you.

Do this part before Saturday.

(3) After you will have done the step #2 sign in to your account on
cram.com and create your first collection of flash cards: use the
words you have selected last week from the list of the most frequently
used English words.

The deadline for this is next Monday.

Try to read and understand the text of this email as soon as possible
(ASAP) and let me know once you're done with this.

Cheers,
stryjek T.

Assignment #1 (email from 21.11.2018)

Dear Emilka!

Before I came to Częstochowa last week, I had mailed you the
description of your first assignment. Because we met unusually last
Sunday you didn't have enough time to work on it and therefore I
didn't blame you for this.

Hence, your home work for the next Tuesday consists of 2 parts:

(1) Describe your experiences in studying English (see my mail from
Nov 13, 2018 for suggested topics).

(2) Starting from position 221 in the list of the most frequently used
English words, go down the list, one-by-one, and write down the
numbers of 30 words you don't know. Mail me these numbers.

Your deadline for this assignment is Monday, Nov 26, 2018, 10 pm.

Confirm receiving this email.

Cheers,
stryjek T.

TBK: Emilka did the first home work on paper. She sent me the following 2 scans:

Initiating email (13.11.2018)

Dear Emilka!

I'm very glad that you have decided to turn to me for help with your
English. I will be trying my best to be your efficient assistant in
this endeavour.

During our phone conversation we have agreed to have one 45-minute
lesson per week. As for now we have chosen Tuesdays, 15:30, as the
beginnings of our encounters.

For each lesson I will give you an assignment. I will be sending you
the specs for the next lesson's assignment every Wednesday morning, so
you would have enough time to work on it. You will be asked to turn in
the written part of such assignments by Monday morning preceding the
lesson.

As you might have learned from your dad by now, I will come to
Częstochowa this Friday to attend my aunt's funeral in Tarnowskie
Góry. I will stay at aunt Dorota's till Monday. Let me know whether
you will be available on Sunday so we could have our first lesson
face-to-face.

Your first written assignment is:

*** Describe your experiences in studying English in as much detail as
you can. ***

In order to help you get started with this, I came up with some
questions you might consider while working on this subject:

* When have you started to learn English?
* How much time have you been devoting to your studies over the years
- at school and beyond?
* How many different teachers did you have so far? Were all of them
good professionals?
* What have been some of the learning techniques and tools you have
been applying towards mastering the language? Which ones of those have
been your favourites?

Please write back to me confirming receiving this mail. Were you able
to understand the above?

Greetings,
stryjek T.

PS: Do you use the WhatsApp application on your phone?