My dear students, welcome into partial lockdown and the ease of the restrictions!
We are persisting stubbornly through our 8th online week. I feel in your sentences a saturation with too much written and online work, which is not amazing after being cooped up at home for such a long time. Although the media are glorifying online studying, we are all aware of its deep drawbacks. At any rate, you are collaborating wholeheartedly, and as you were a wonderful class to work live, so it is online as well. As I feel how much you are encumbered, I am shortening and limiting the tasks, trying to “serve” digestible portions per week.
Vocabulary comments – most common mistakes:
It is not the same thing to use the words constraints and restraints. Whereas the word constraint is used to deter someone from performing a certain action, a restraint is an act of keeping something or someone in control. In technical and business language we use CONSTRAINTS.
A constraint more often refers to a situation or a problem. For example, a financial constraint is a problem. A restraint, on the other hand, refers to a restriction on an act or an individual. For instance, the court may issue a restraining order on an individual.
Grammar part
The last chunk of grammar is Passive, pages 22 and 23. Why do I insist on Passive? It is richly used in technical literature, reporting, and writing any sort of technical papers. Most of you are familiar with the formation of the passive sentences. Some who have forgotten it can additionally turn to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkAyggAM1q4
Homeworks: p.23 exercise: Active versus passive should be returned by Hrvoje
Listen to:
Audio practice I
- The interview with an interesting engineer Kavegh Mandani page 23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfylJO564yk
Practice a) should be sent by Karla
Practice b) by Hafida
Practice c) by Josip
Describe in a few sentences what you find interesting in his career Valentino
The summary (practice 8 , page 24 is going to be sent by Veronika).