Friday, March 29, 2019

Assignment #17


  1. Describe your recent disease. What have been the symptoms? Have you been suffering a lot? Did you go to see the doctor? What was his or her diagnosis? Did he write any prescription? What were his recommendations for how you should behave during the convalescence? These are only some questions you might consider while writing your report. Address other issues as well. Follow the procedure Writing an essay. Place the essay as a comment to this assignment. 
  2. Read the first paragraph from the Wikipedia article on Pneumonia. Be prepared to translate and read it aloud.
  3. Do parts 1 through 10 of Verb Tense Exercise 5. There is no need to copy them here as a comment.
Due by next Monday.

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Assignment #16

  1. Listen to the dialog of the Basic Listening Lesson #32. Only after that look at the transcript (Step 3). Make sure, you understand everything and know how to pronounce all the words. Study the questions (Step 2).
  2. Do dialogs 1 and 2 from Modal Verbs Exercise 6.
There is no need to place any comments for this assignment.

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Assignment #15

  1. Write a short essay describing your recent birthday party. Start with what you told me during our lesson, namely, how you were panicking that you wouldn't be ready with your preparations before your guests would arrive.
    Write the essay following the procedure Writing an essay. The text should be at least 150-word long. Place the essay as a comment to this assignment. 
  2. Do sentences 1-10 from Modal Verbs Exercise 2.
Both tasks are due by Monday.

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Emilka's school assignment (7.3.2019)



Small corrections:
  1. back to home --> back home
  2. is good idea --> is a good idea
  3. rabbit name --> rabbit's name
  4. mum will change opinion --> your mum will change her opinion

Sunday, March 10, 2019

Assignment #14

  1. Do the English Proficiency Test again. This time, however, don't forget to take notes of your answers and to place them as a comment to this assignment.
  2. Improve on the parse tree for the sentence from the previous assignment:
The apples which you see on the table are from my garden.
    Next to each node with more than one child write the number of the rule which you used to create the node. Working on the parse, make sure to follow the advice in Parsing sentences using the phrase-structure grammar.

Saturday, March 9, 2019