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Assignment Dates
 
Oct. 11, 2010
Oct. 18, 2010
Oct. 25, 2010
Nov. 01, 2010
Nov. 08, 2010
Nov. 15, 2010
Nov. 22, 2010
Nov. 29, 2010
Dec. 06, 2010
Dec. 13, 2010
Jan. 03, 2011
Jan. 10, 2011
Jan. 17, 2011
Jan. 24, 2011
Jan. 31, 2011
Feb. 07, 2011
Feb. 14, 2011
Feb. 21, 2011
Feb. 23, 2011
Mar. 29, 2011
Apr. 04, 2011

Technical English 1
for Automotive (Br.: Automobile) Engineers
Winter Semester 10/11


Technical English 1 ( [9:45am - 1:00pm] "Room C 157 (Group I) & Room C 159 (Group II), Wilhelminenhof").

The course book is "Oxford English for Electrical and Mechanical Engineering"
            ISBN 0-19-457392-3.


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October 11, 2010   GROUP II  &  October 18, 2010   GROUP I
  • Administrative
    • "Attendance"
    • Cellulars
  • It takes two to learn as well as tango
  • English
  • Requirements (minimum 50%)
    • Final (85 points)
      • Reading Comprehension
      • Vocabulary
      • Grammar
      • Writing
    • Listening (15 points)
  • Classwork
    • Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (Unit 1): pages 11 - 15
    • Branches of Engineering
    • "grammar - deals with"
  • 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
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October 25, 2010   GROUP II  &  November 01, 2010   GROUP I
  • Homework
  • Classwork
    • Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (Unit 3): pages 22 - 25
    • Engineering Materials
    • "grammar - additional info"
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November 08, 2010   GROUP II  &  November 15, 2010   GROUP I
  • Classwork
    • Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (Unit 4): pages 26 - 30
    • Mechanisms
    • "grammar - linkers"
  • A Closer Look: Breakdown into the Three Basic Tools
    • Lever - trading force for distance
      • Type I (force, fulcrum, load - light switch, pliers "grabbing a bolt")
      • Type II (force, load, fulcrum - wheelbarrow, screwdriver, door, pliers "turning a bolt")
      • & (pulleys [block & tackle], hydraulics)
    • Wedge (knife, ramp) - trading force for distance
    • Wheel (log "roller") - reduced static friction
    • Compound Tools
      • Screw (Wedge wrapped around a type II Lever [traditionally a wheel])
      • Scissors (type I Lever with a Wedge)
  • 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
          Singularly They
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November 22, 2010   GROUP II  &  November 29, 2010   GROUP I
  • A Closer Look Homework: Pronoun Exercise (to download and prepare for today)
  • Classwork
    • Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (Unit 5): pages 31 - 35
    • Forces
    • "grammar - antecedents revisited"
      • Words that come before
        • English doesn't like to repeat nouns (The ball is round and it is red.)
        • English can replace sentences or phrases (The man jumping over the moving car was amazing. He had practiced this for months.)
  • "Rule of Thumb - Tense"
    • past is past (not present perfect): 2nd participle
    • present is present: 1st participle
    • future is future (not present as immediate future): will + 1st participle
  • "Aspect"
    • simple: no change
    • perfect: have + 3rd participle
    • progressive (continuous): be + 1st participle - ing
  • "Rule of Thumb - Verb Construction"
    • work from right to left
      • when it's done, it's done (don't worry about anything still to the left of it)
      • future perfect progressive (continuous) passive of torture
        • passive of torture: be tortured (passive: "be" + 3rd participle)
        • progressive (continuous) of be tortured: be being tortured (progressive: "be" + 1st participle-ing)
        • perfect of be being tortured: have been being tortured (perfect: "have" + 3rd participle)
        • future of have been being tortured: will have been being tortured (future: "will" + 1st participle)
      • In another twenty-seven minutes, fourteen seconds the class will be over, but by then the students will have been being tortured in English for three loooooonnnnnng hours.
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December 06, 2010   GROUP II  &  December 13, 2010   GROUP Itop
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December 20, 2010   GROUP II  &  January 10, 2011   GROUP Itop
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January 03, 2011   GROUP II  &  January 24, 2011   GROUP I
  • Classwork
    • Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (Unit 22): pages 123 - 127
    • Corrosion
    • "grammar - cause and effect"
    • "grammar - linkers: due to, because of, in addition to"
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January 17, 2011   GROUP II  &  January 24, 2011   GROUP I
  • Classwork
    • Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (Unit 26): pages 146 - 151
    • Graphs
    • "grammar - describing graphs"
    • "grammar - adjectives - adverbs"
  • A Closer Look: Adjective or Adverb?
    • Basic Rules
      1. Adjectives modify nouns
      2. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs and sentences.
      3. "Rule of Thumb" You can make adverbs easily by adding "-ly" to an adjective.
    • Variant Germanic adjective endings:
      • -ish (having the attributes of an attribute or of something):
        • Smallish
        • Sixish
        • Reddish
      • -y (having the attributes of an attribute or of something):
        • Hardy
        • Toughy
    • Exceptions
      • Adjective "-ly" exceptions are "-ly" added to a noun:
        • Daily (adj.)
        • Early (adj.) [I know it's not added to ear: the exception that proves the rule.]
        • Friendly (adj.)
        • Goodly (adj.) [I know it's an adjective: another exception that proves the rule.]
        • Homely (adj.)
        • Kingly (adj.)
        • Knightly (adj.)
        • Lowly (adj.)
        • Queenly (adj.)
        • Princely (adj.)
      • Adverbial "-ly" exceptions:
        • quite
        • so
        • soon
        • very
      • Double trouble (Standardizing on "-ly"; joining the "Rule of Thumb"):
        • fair fairly
        • free freely
        • high highly
        • late lately
        • most mostly
        • near nearly
        • right rightly
        • slow slowly
        • wrong wrongly
      • Adverbs that are Adjectives too:
        • close
        • daily
        • early
        • fair
        • far
        • fast
        • free
        • hard vs. hardly ("hardly" means almost not at all.)
        • high
        • late vs. lately ("lately" means recently. Lately, they were shipping late.)
        • long (He worked long at the project.)
        • low
        • pretty vs. prettily ("prettily" means beautifully, "pretty" means very.)
        • right
        • wide
        • well (also an adjective meaning healthy)
        • wrong
      • Sense (& Linking) Verbs:
        • to appear
        • to be
        • to become
        • to feel
        • to get
        • to go
        • to grow
        • to look
        • to prove
        • to remain
        • to seem
        • to smell ("Her nose smells well." vs. "Her nose smells good.")
        • to sound
        • to stay
        • to taste
        • to turn
        • to work
    • NOT NO is a NO-NO (almost but still a cigar - negative adverbs):
      • hardly ("He hardly ate." vs. "He did not hardly eat.")
      • barely
      • scarcely
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January 31, 2011   GROUP II  &  January 24, 2011   GROUP Itop
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February 15, 2011
    F I N A L
    9:45 am - 1:00 pm, Wilhelminenhof, Room C 159
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February 23, 2011
    Einsicht
    10:00 am - 11:00 am, Karlshorst, Room VG 207
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March 29, 2011
    2ND F I N A L
    9:45 am - 1:00 pm, Wilhelminenhof, Room C 160
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April 04, 2011
    Einsicht
    5:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Wilhelminenhof, Room C 606
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