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Exercise 1: Find grammar mistakes in the text below (no rewrites necessary).
Moreover the people should not limit themselves on using the new technology but also learn how to write their own
programs. Despite of there is so many software on the market they do not cover every action that user require. But
if the user have also some basic programming skills he can do his work faster and more effective. For example
imagine office worker that have to process one thousand documents per day and each document is processed by the
same sequence of commands. If the user spend few days by learning some simple programming language and then
write the program that do the same sequence of commands automatically then the user never have to spend so
much time by clicking thousand times the same button again. Thus he can do some other important work. Therefore
programming skills can be very useful in situations like these and save people lots of repetitive work. And also if the
program is correct it cannot do mistake while the user can.
Exercise 2: Look at the following short story and rewrite it using the prompts below.
Not having enough money for a ‘vánočka,’ Vincent stole 10 Kč from an old lady. However, the old lady started crying
and once Vincent saw that, he began feeling guilty and eventually returned the money to her.
Not having enough money for a ‘vánočka,’ Vincent stole 10 Kč from an old lady. However, the old lady started crying
and________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________.
Not having enough money for a ‘vánočka,’ Vincent stole 10 Kč from an old lady. However, the old lady started crying,
causing ____________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________.
Not having enough money for a ‘vánočka,’ Vincent stole 10 Kč from an old lady. However, the old lady started crying.
________ing _______________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________.
SKETCH ENGINE
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Working with British National Corpus (BNC)
a) Simple search
- What texts does “I” appear in?
o Modifying search
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- Use * for anything (to * surprise; to * it differently, simply *)
- Are the following words or phrases formal or informal?
o A lot of
o figure
o America
o You
o Bad
o fridge
o Show
b) Sort and Frequency functions
- work with the word “consequently”
- compare the frequency of the following:
a. To put it another way vs to put it in another way
b. Another key thing to remember vs importantly
c. To give an illustration vs for instance
d. Little attention vs small amount of attention
e. Of equal importance vs equally important
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c) Phrases
- Check for correct phrase – “researches were conducted,” “one criteria,” “make a photo,”
d) Lemmas – base form of the word