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Which of the following elements belong in a CV?

What does not belong in a summary?

What should you describe in a cartoon analysis?

In which tense do you describe the cartoon?

In which tense do you describe the action that is happening in the cartoon?

Which of the following aspects are important for a characterization?

What is usually found in an essay introduction?

Which of the following expressions voice opinions?

Translate the following text into German.

What if machines were better at driving trucks? What if machines were better servers at McDonald’s? What if robots would do your taxes for you? 

Machines are taking the world by storm and the impact of Artificial Intelligence is increasing labor productivity by up to 40%. 

Robot production is growing drastically, as robots are becoming cheaper to produce. Companies are expanding their investment in Artificial Intelligence, year after year. 

Can Artificial Intelligence replace mankind in the economy by developing the same power as the human brain or, in other words, will a robot take your job?

It’s an amazing time: driverless cars, drones delivering packages and chatbots taking fast food orders. In fact, this trend is even called “the next industrial revolution”. 

And it does not come without a lot of fear concerning job losses and means of making a living. Of course, technology will eliminate many jobs – it has always done so.

Predictions about those job losses range from a few million to over a billion. But while AI will make some jobs obsolete, it will make way for other jobs in other areas. Even today, there is a huge number of technology jobs that did not exist ten years ago. There is no reason to believe that the need for humans to create and manage new technology will decrease. Humans create and humans control. Robots and AI are tools that can be used when given the right instructions. The point is that humans and technology must work together. Robots could never replace the need for creative thinking, problem-solving and teamwork.

Many of the once tedious tasks performed by humans are now performed by Artificial Intelligence, allowing professionals to focus on more advisory roles that bring greater value to clients.

AI’s impact will be felt everywhere – and the global economy will get a 15.7 trillion-dollar boost from AI, as it shapes entire industries.  

Read the following text about chinstrap penguins and answer the questions below in complete sentences.

1. How is the island, where the chinstrap penguins nest, described in the text?
2. How are the chinstrap penguins described?
3. What did the scientists discover?
4. What are the reasons for the decline in chinstrap penguin populations?
   
   

Just north of the Antarctic Peninsula, there’s a small, ice-covered island shaped like an elephant’s head. Each year, despite brutal winds and a landscape of crags, cliffs, and glaciers, hundreds of thousands of chinstrap penguins manage to nest on these shores, creating a living sea of black-and-white feathers.

“They’re like little mountaineers,” says Noah Strycker, an ornithologist and graduate student at New York’s Stony Brook University. “They climb up 300 to 400 feet in some places.”

But when Strycker and his fellow scientists spent 11 days counting chinstrap nests as part of a scientific survey this January, they discovered tens of thousands of penguins were missing.

“Comparing it to the number from 50 years ago, we’ve found a 56 percent drop in chinstrap penguin nests, which is rather shocking,” says Strycker.

Due to its remote location and challenging conditions, the last census of the chinstrap penguins of Elephant Island was taken in 1971, and that survey identified 123,000 nests. Strycker and his team found less than half of that number.

While the recent expedition did not research the causes of such a precipitous drop, other researchers have found links to climate change, says Strycker.

For instance, a 2016 study found that over the past 40 years, tiny crustaceans called krill have declined by up to 80 percent in some Antarctic seas, possibly as a result of warming water temperatures. Krill are the foundation of the Antarctic food web: Chinstraps eat the shrimp-like creatures, as do small fish (which penguins also eat).

(Article was taken from National Geographic and was written by Jason Bittel on 11/02/2020)

Read the following paragraph and summarize it in English.

Das neue Coronavirus, das seinen Ursprung im chinesischen Wuhan hat, wurde mittlerweile in mehr als 15 Ländern gemeldet, darunter auch in Deutschland und den USA. In den Nachrichten kommt man an der aktuellen Entwicklung der Pandemie gar nicht vorbei. Währenddessen treibt größtenteils unbeachtet ein anderer, jährlich wiederkehrender Bekannter sein Unwesen: die Grippe. Allein in den USA hat die aktuelle Grippesaison bereits 8.200 Menschenleben gefordert.

Mittlerweile gibt es an zahlreichen großen Flughäfen Coronaviren-Screenings und etliche Fluggesellschaften haben ihre Flüge nach China ganz gestrichen. Für alle, die trotzdem mit dem Flugzeug reisen müssen, sind diese Präventivmaßnahmen aber kein großer Trost. Schließlich gibt es wenig Möglichkeiten, einer niesenden Person aus dem Weg zu gehen, wenn man in einem fliegenden Metallkasten auf seinem Sitz ausharren muss.

(This extract was taken from National Geographic and was written by Amy McKeever on 03/02/2020)

Express each of the following sayings in German.

1. We have already been working for 4 hours. Let's call it a day.
2. Stop beating around the bush and tell me already.
3. It's not rocket science.
4. Pull yourself together.

Which of the following sayings and their equivalent German expressions are correct?

Which of the following German sayings and their equivalent English expressions are correct?

Answer the following questions.

1. What does the introduction of a poem analysis consist of?
2. What do you need to mention after the introductory sentence?

What is important when trying to understand a text?

What is the letter to the editor about?

Answer the following questions.

1. What belongs in the introduction of the letter to the editor?
2. How do you start the main part of the letter to the editor?
3. How do you end the last part of the letter to the editor?

What should you write in the main part of the letter to the editor?

Rewrite the following sentences using transitions in order to make them more readable.

1. Lilli really wants to travel in a camper. Lisa prefers to sleep in hotels.
2. Meredith enjoys playing tennis. She doesn't have much free time.
3. Jordan went to Costa Rica. He likes surfing.
4. She has to pass the exam. She is determined to go to college.

What are good transitional words to name additional information?

How many transitional words are used in the following text?

To sum up, I learned that a word is not always usable in every context although the translation of the word is the one you are looking for. Sometimes, there are two different words or more to explain one thing. But, they always need to be differentiated in order to use them in the right context. Consequently, you cannot just look up a word and take the first given one to create your sentence. You need to look out for the contextual meaning. Additionally, I learned that people coming from the same country often do the same mistakes because they connect them to their mother-tongue and, therefore, use the word that sounds more similar to the word they already know.

Which of the following terms are formal?

Decide whether the following sentences are written in formal or informal English.

1. She doesn't understand why he can't say sorry.
2. The picture represents poverty during times of war.
3. The teacher found out that Paul was bullying Frank.
4. The students were unhappy regarding the new rules.

Which sentences are very important when writing a summary?

Which of the following are persuasive techniques for making an argument?

Write down one example for each of the following persuasive techniques used for making an argument.

1. Logical reasoning
2. Social proof
3. Appeal to authority
4. Answering opposition
5. Repetition
6. Emotive language

What are important steps in writing a persuasive argument?

What does skimming mean?

What does scanning mean?

Write down at least two examples for each of the following parts of a professional email.

1. Greeting
2. Body
3. Closing

Which of the following expressions are not regarded as professional?

Which of the following structures is correct when writing a professional email?

 Which words can be used to begin paragraphs in essays? Make a list of examples.

How would you translate the following sentences?

1. Was gibt es Neues?
2. Was geht?
3. Ich weiß das wirklich zu schätzen.
4. Ich schulde dir was.
5. Es war schön dich getroffen zu haben.
6. Ich habe keine Ahnung.

What do the following sentences mean? Explain in English.

1. Tell me about it.
2. Poor you.
3. I'm starving.
4. It cost a fortune.