LV: 99
English 1 for Engineers
Summer Semester 2012

"English 1 for Engineers (Ü AW/ 1-4)" Tuesdays [10:00 - 11:30] & Wednesdays [12:00 - 1:30] Room 025, "Haus Gauß".

Contact me at dozent@lingua-nova.com if you have any questions.

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• Administrative
  • "Attendance"
  • Cellulars
• It takes two to learn as well as tango
• English
  • Mine
    • Archaic
    • Fast
    • Mumbled
    • American Accent
    • Time
      • past = past
      • present = present
      • future = future
  • Problems
    • Vocabulary
    • Grammar
    • Pronunciation and Spelling
  • "1066"
    • (n.b. even before this, the Danelaw)
    • Different words; same word order
    • Word endings lose importance to word position
    • Pronunciation and Spelling lose importance to word position
      • ghoti
    • However Pronunciation still important
      • Noun/verb pairs
      • Same spelling/different words
      • Same spelling; different pronounciation exercise
  • The "Enlightenment"
    • Even more classical words
      

      German	Literal Meaning	"Classical" English
      an-ziehen	on-draw	at-tract
      aus-schliessen	out-close	ex-clude
      über-leben	over-live	sur-vive (French)
      voran-gehen	before-go	pre-cede
      wider-sprechen	against-speak	contra-dict
      Aus-druck	out-pressing	ex-pression
      Aus-nahme	out-taking	ex-ception
      Um-stand	around-standing	circum-stance
      Zu-fall	unto-fall	ac-cident

      German calques (borrowed words translated into own language) from Latin
      Source: The development of languages is nothing like biological evolution by Allan K. Steel
    • Formalized, "logical" grammar
    • Only the educated
  • SOLUTION
    • K I S S
    • Radio
      • BBC 90.2
      • NPR 104.1
      • Internet Radio (Talk Channels)
    • Internet Chatting ???
    • MP3 Books & Project Gutenberg
      • Free MP3s
        • Thought Audio
        • Simply Audio Books
        • At Thought Audio - Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
      • Free Text
        • http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
        • At Gutenberg Org - Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
      • Free (and for sale) MP3s & Text
        • Librophile
      • Be wary of machine-read text
    • Offering at the Beuth Hochschule
      • English lessons based on EU norms
      • Beginner through advanced
• Requirements (minimum 50%)
  • Final date will be determined in June
  • Final (80 points)
    • Reading Comprehension
    • Vocabulary
    • A Closer Look
    • Writing
  • Homework (20 points)
    • A Closer Look (up to 10 points)
    • Current Article
      • Questions, Word Meanings &c. (up to 10 points)
      • Class Discussion
• A Closer Look: Word Order
  • Statements - SPoOmpt.
  • Imperatives - (S)PoOmpt!
  • Questions - qPSpoOmpt?
  • Antecedents - place the description as close as possible to that which it describes

• Reading and Discussion: Mapping out your life (to download and prepare for today)
• A Closer Look: wordord.doc (to download and prepare for today)

• Reading and Discussion: University of Applied Printing (to download and prepare for today)

• Reading and Discussion: Disruptive Engineering (to download and prepare for today)

• Reading and Discussion: Squeezing out Handtools (to download and prepare for today)
• A Closer Look: Pronouns
  • Cases and other forms
       

    Pronouns
    Cases					Other Forms
    Nom	Dat	Acc	Gen		Poss	Refl
    I	me	me	mine		my	myself
    you	you	you	yours		your	yourself
    he she it (they)	him her it (them)	him her it (them)	his hers its (theirs)		his her its (their)	himself herself itself (themself)
    we	us	us	ours		our	ourselves
    you	you	you	yours		your	yourselves
    they	them	them	theirs		their	theirselves themselves
    who	whom	whom	whose		whose	--

    
    
    • Genitive case
      • Genitive Case is used with "of" when showing possession.
        • Three dogs are running in the park. The brown and white dog belongs to the Jones.
        • The brown and white dog is one of theirs.
      • Accusative Case is used with "of" when showing inclusion in a group.
        • Three dogs are running in the park. The brown and white dog is in the middle of the pack.
        • The brown and white dog is one of them.
    • Singular / Plural pairs
      • that / those
      • this / these
      • which / which
      • what / what
    • Here / There pairs
      • this / that
      • these / those
  • NO grammatical gender
    • He is he (i.e. Junge ist ein "er".)
    • She is she (i.e. Mädchen ist eine "sie", nicht ein "es".)
    • Also feminine are:
      • Ships
      • Ideals
        • Lady Liberty in New York Harbor
        • Justice on top of court houses
        • Cities, States
          • NOT its physical aspects (streets, roads, buildings, hills, seasides &c.)
          • rather the collective of her parts and their interactions
    • It is it (i.e. Tür ist ein "es", nicht eine "sie".)
    • Do you Care?
    • You care, but 'dunno'!
      • he/she
      • s/he
      • they
        

• Reading and Discussion: Bloody Engineers (to download and prepare for today)
• A Closer Look Homework: Pronoun Exercise (to download and prepare for today)

• Reading and Discussion: GPS Galileo (to download and prepare for today)