Week 4: 26-30 September

MONDAY
1. European Day of Languages
Each one of us has his or her own learning style.
Are you aware of your learning style?

2. Quest, Chapter 1: Doing Busingess Internationally
Part 1: International Marketing Mistakes

Revision:
what should we have in mind when peeting people from other cultures to avoid intercultural misunderstanding?
  • Avoid translation word by word
  • Check meaning of words, they may mean differently in different languages
  • Check particular cultural differences
  • Check meaning of symbols in the other culture
  • Making Inferences (guess from the general meaning of a paragraph or a sentence)
  • Understanding New Words

3. Quest, Chapter 1,
Part 2: International Culture
Dealing with new words
Guessing the Meaning from Context: Punctuation
Study the title - types of titles
Examples:
(a) International Culture
(b) International Culture: Language, Religion, Values and Attitudes, Customs and Manners, Material Culture;
Cypriot singers: Pelagia, Chatzigiannis
(c) Is ther international culture?
Finding the main idea:
(a) in the Introduction (one or two sentences)
(b) as a repetition in different words, in the conclusion (one or two sentences)
Finding details


THURSDAY
4. Internet / wiki work
1. Go to your wiki.
2. Sign in.
3. Go to "Edit Navigation"
4. Under "Personal", write "ENG122".
5. Highlight it. Click on "Link".
5. Click on "External Link"
6. In the "Address" box, write:
http://cutlcen122eap.wikispaces.com/
7. Click on "Add Link" Click on "Save"
Your wiki is now linked to the course main wiki site.

5. Quest, Chapter 1,
Part 4: The Mechanics of writing
1. Simple Present and Simple Past, Exercise A. pages 25-26 homework
2. Modal of Advice, pages 26-27
3. The Subject YOU, page 27
4. Adejective Clauses, pages 28-29
page 28, exercise F homework

5. Transitional Expresssions: coordinating Conjunctions, pages 29-30

6.Study page 56: Transitional expressions: Adverbial Conjuctions homework