ENGLIS TI 5

PUNCTUATION AND CAPITALIZATION

TASK 1. Work in pairs and take a look at two texts below. Add the necessary punctuation and capital letters.

TEXT 1.

once you begin to look at language not as the ineffable essence of human uniqueness but as a biological adaptation to
communicate information it is no longer as tempting to see language as an insidious shaper of thought and we shall
see it is not moreover seeing language as one of natures engineering marvels an organ with that perfection of structure
and co-adaptation which justly excites our admiration in darwins words gives us a new respect for your ordinary joe
and the much-maligned english language or any language the complexity of language from the scientists point of view
is part of our biological birthright it is not something that parents teach their children or something that must be
elaborated in school as oscar wilde said education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time
that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

TEXT 2.

german by nationality jewish by origin dissenting in spirit einstein reacted ambivalently against these three birthday
gifts he threw his german nationality overboard at the age of fifteen but twenty years later after becoming swiss settled
in berlin where he remained throughout the first world war after germanys defeat in 1918 he took up german civic
rights again one of the follies of my life as he later wrote of it only to renounce his country a second time when hitler
came to power his position as a jew was buttressed by his support of zionism yet he offended more than once by
insistence that jews were more importantly members of the human species moreover his zionism conflicted at times
with his pacifism and to his old friend lord samuel he commented that he was despite anti semitic attacks pas très juif