A DEVICE TO PROMOTE LEARNING ENGLISH

A DEVICE TO PROMOTE LEARNING ENGLISH You need to work in twos or in groups of 3 or 4. You will imagine you are a new publisher in the Turkish marketing sector. You need to create a name for your firm. You need to design a device to promote learning English for Turkish learners. While designing your device, you need to consider the following points: the age of potential users, the features of the device (what kind of services it can provide for users), the price of the device, the name of the device,the size of the device, the advantages of the device, the points to consider in order to use the device effectively. You also give a name for your product. You also need to specify how potential customers can buy the product. You are expected to use the coordinating and correlative conjunctions, and a variety of sentence types (simple, compound, and compound complex sentences in your writing). You also need to produce a poster of your device. You can either prepare it on the computer or by hand. If you prepare it by hand, you need to have your final product scanned in a jpg format and upload the jpg file to our class blog. (http://fle133contextgram2012blog.blogspot.com/). If you like, instead of preparing a poster of your device, you can create a 4-5 minute video clip of your device, advertising your product (you can draw a picture of your product by hand and tell your prospective customers about it). ( I would appreciate if all members of the group needs to talk in the video) You need to upload your video clip to our class blog. Please remember to write the names of all group members to your post Deadline: December 3, 2012 Length: 300-400 words

TV Series (Breaking Bad)

BREAKING BAD

When I think about real family drama with lots of actions, emotions, catharsis, the first TV series coming to my mind is Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad is an award winning TV series, and it has been broadcasted for 5 seasons. Firstly, this TV series is a combination of a World of crime and a family environment. The head character is a chemistry teacher at a school, he has a wife and a teenage child whose legs are not working properly. After a while, while he is working at car washer for extra money for his family, he goes to doctor, and he learns that he has got a phase 3 lung cancer. Chance to survive from this disease is almost does not exist. So, Walter, the head character, decides to go into some evil bussiness to leave a legacy for his family. He makes the purest methanphetamine, very strong and popular stimulating drug lately, in the World, and markets it to some drug dealers in order to gain money. Things develop after this. Walter’s brother in law, Hank is a DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) agent, which is a very dramatic irony. Walter goes into very bad things, and later he learns that he survives from lung cancer. In order to protect his family, save his life, get more money, he tries to be a baron, and takes the name Heisenberg. This Tv series has a deep construct, strong feelings, a little bit fun. I’m still enjoying while watching it, I strongly recommend you to watch the whole series.

GREEN DAY

                                                                          GREEN DAY BAND

Green Day is a punk rock band founded in 1987. Their albums have sold 23 millions in USA, and 70 millions all over the World, and that’s why they have got the most successful punk group ever. Green Day have won 4 grammy awards. The head and vocalist of this group is Joe Billy Armstrong. And he is also writing and composing the tracks. The very first name of this band was Sweet Children. There were 2 people in this band these times. Billie was 10 when he found the band. He later wrote his first song “Why do you want him?” at 14 for the sake of his real mother and father-in law. In 1987, John Kiffmeyer (Al Sobrante) joined the band, after that the name of band was changed to Green Day. After this action, the band has bounced to top of punk rock. They have released lots of successful albums, tracks, solos etc. While they were making music, they didn’t refrain from criticizing goverment, life styles, rules, etc. They are known for having criticized the former USA president George W. Bush for radical conservative actions. They even got reaction from it. I like this band not only because their music is good, I like them also they have an aim and their music has a meaning for it. Tracks are trying to give some message especially for Americans, but music is an universal notion. They are inspiring young generation to be more free. So, these factors make Green Day one of the most respectful and qulified punk ruck bands all over the World.

Comment On "I Brain ODTU" #4

                                      COMMENT ON THE SLOGAN “I BRAIN ODTÜ”

I brain Odtu, I think, is a very successful advertisement strategy for making the university’s name. Being one of the best universities all over the world, METU (ODTU) has chosen a good presentation model. Brain is the center of everything in human life. In METU, brain is also used very much. They may try to say that we are thinking and moving logically, we are educating our students as hardworking, successful individuals, we are, indeed, shaping their brains. It has already affected people within or without METU. There are people wearing t-shirts, sweat shirts in METU. I actually find this slogan very successful. If I were a designer, I would make METU look like a real attractive living space for students. I would use more visual advertisement method. For example, I may use a mountain on which there are lots of trees. All trees except for one red tree are located on foothill, which symbolizes other universities. The red one is located on top of the mountain, and it symbolizes METU as leading university. So, I would put a sentence curved above mountain as “Shed from Clichés”.  It seems a little bit utopic, but it’s my design anyway. Maybe, the opportunities of METU can be written on the leafs of the tree.

An Ideal University

                                              AN IDEAL UNIVERSITY

University is a brand new life for every student. In it, students are educated through their professions, and earned some vital skills. In order to give such knowledge and skills, University should be well supported, have efficient utility. Firstly, as university is a place for learning, it should have an effective educational curriculum. It should aim to gain students basic skills for their departments. After that, students should be integrated into education, and be provided to communicate with other students and tutors for maximum acquisition. Secondly, environment is one of the most important things in an ideal university life. Campus life is much better and much more useful than creepy concrete structures. Students should get into this environment. When they get into there, they feel more relaxed, unashamed. Thirdly, technological advances are a determining factor in an ideal university. Today’s world is depending on internet much more than before. Everything is mechanized. Computer science is everywhere. Thus, university should keep up with these technological advances, and implement on itself. It should provide students everything they need. It should provide cheap meal, cheap and qualified technological services (best quality network connection, saving time technologies, etc.), and even scholarships to give its education students well. In short term, an ideal university should be constructed via thinking best for students.

Entry 1 (BBC News)

Judy Garland's Wizard of Oz dress fetches $480,000 A dress worn by Judy Garland in the Wizard of Oz has sold for $480,000 (£302,000) at auction in Beverly Hills. The price for the blue and white gingham pinafore dress was in line with expectations, Julien's Auctions said. A similar dress worn during tests for the classic 1939 film fetched $910,000 (£572,500) in 2011, Reuters reports. Auctioneer Darren Julien said the difference in price was due to the fact that fewer versions of the test dress were made. Neither dress fetched anywhere near the $4.6m (£2.8m) spent last year on Marilyn Monroe's white "subway dress" from the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch, and the $3.7m (£2.3m) taken for Audrey Hepburn's Ascot dress from My Fair Lady. The Wizard of Oz dress was made by the famous MGM costume designer Adrian Greenberg, who was commonly known simply as Adrian. The buyer has not been identified. However, Judy Garland's dress was not the only highlight of the two-day Hollywood Icons auction. A green floral dress worn by Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music fetched $38,400 (£24,150); a racing jacket belonging to Steve McQueen sold for $50,000 (£31,500) and a purple wool skirt worn by Marilyn Monroe during the making of the 1954 film River of No Return went for the same amount. Meanwhile, $1,375 (£865) was paid each for a slice of wedding cake from both Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding and the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.


  A) ADJECTIVES: Blue, wool, purple 
B) VERBS: 1- Intransitive Verb: belong 2- Transitive Verb: made(make) 3- Linking verb: be( was) 4- Action verb : sell(sold) 5- State verb : known 
C) Adverbs: 1) Place adverbs: In 2) Time adverb: At 3) Adverb of Manner: Commonly 
D) Objects: 1) Direct Object: expectations 2) Indirect Object: A similar dress 
E) Subject: The price for the blue and white gingham pinafore dress 
F) Phrase: a slice of wedding cake 
G) Clauses 1) Dependent Clause: who was commonly known simply as Adrian 2) Independent Clause: The Wizard of Oz dress was made by the famous MGM costume designer Adrian Greenberg 
H) Worn during tests 
İ) Pronouns 1) Who 2) It 3) Reflexive Pronoun: there is no reflexive pronoun (itself) 4) There is no indefinite pronoun (someone, somebody) 
J) Nouns: 1) Common Noun: Dress 2) Proper Noun: Judy Garland 3) Singular Noun: Designer 4) Plural Noun: Versions

Because I come from Aydın and I am not used to this type of weather. But never mind I will get used to. I feel great especially psychological aspect. Because I’m at where I want to be. Today,there are lots of universities all around the world in my opinion,most of them aren't able to educate their students enough to find good solutions to the problems that they face

FLE 133 ERROR CORRECTION WORKSHEET

FLE 133 CONTEXTUAL GRAMMAR -ERROR CORRECTION WORKSHEET Directions: Please spot the errors in the following sentences, identify them (fragments or run-on sentences) underline and correct them. 1. When ı first heard that ı had been accepted to Middle East Technical Unıversity, ı was disappointed. Because ı did not like Ankara as a city. But my opinions have changed over time dramatically. Because Middle East Technical Unıversity is really a different world in Ankara. 2. It has been only one month since I came here. But I got used to this environment. Because, first of all, people from all of ages in here respect to each other. 3. I love Ankara,I love my dormitory,I love my new friends, I love my department,I am content with everything which are belongs to METU. 4. If someone wants to walk , he or she can go and walk. And it is nice place to go and meet with my friends 5. We can easily see this by watching TV,surfing on the internet or maybe just looking around us.Because there are many people getting graduated from different kinds of universities but they're not even able to know what's going on around them or they don't even try to find good ways to improve the countries yhat they live in.

the terminal scene 4 transcript

Thurman] What are you doing in the United States, Mr. Navorski? [thick Bulgarian accent] Yellow taxicab, please. Take me to Ramada Inn, Lexington. Staying at the Ramada Inn? Keep the change. Do you know anyone in New York? Yes. - Who? - Yes. - Who? - Yes. - No, do you know anyone in New York? - Yes. - Who? - Yes. Lexington. OK, Mr. Navorski, I need to see your return ticket, please. No, your return ticket. Your... - Oh... Yes. - Ah. [woman screams] This is just a standard procedure. I'm going to need the passport also. Oh... OK. - No, no. - Thank you. Mr. Navorski. That. Passport. That. Mr. Navorski? Sorry to keep you waiting. I'm Frank Dixon, Director of Customs and Border Protection here at JFK. I help people with their immigration problems. We're looking for an interpreter for you. How are we doing on that? Do we have an interpreter? But I understand that you speak a little English. - Yes. - You do? I hope you don't mind if I eat while we talk. I've a bit of bad news. Your country has suspended all traveling privileges on passports issued by your government. And our State Department has revoked the visa that was going to allow you to enter the US. That's it in a nutshell, basically. While you were in the air there was a military coup in your country. Most of the dead were members of the Presidential Guard. They were attacked in the middle of the night. They got it all on GHN, I think. There were few civilian casualties. I'm sure your family's fine. Mr. Navorski, your country was annexed from the inside. The Republic of Krakozhia is under new leadership. Krakozhia. Krakozhia - Krakozhia. - Right. I don't think he gets it. Er... Let me... OK. Look. Imagine that these potato chips are Krakozhia. Kra-kozhia. - Kra-kozhia. - Yes. - Krakozhia. - OK. Er... So the potato chips are Krakozhia. - And this apple... - Big Apple. Big Apple. ...Big Apple represents the Liberty Rebels. OK? No more Krakozhia! OK? New government. Revolution. You understand? All the flights in and out of your country have been suspended. The new government has sealed all borders, so your visa's no longer valid. So, currently you are a citizen of nowhere. Now, we can't process you new papers until the US recognizes your country's new diplomatic reclassification. You don't qualify for asylum, refugee status, temporary protective status, humanitarian parole, or non-immigration work travel. You don't qualify for any of these. You are at this time simply... ...unacceptable. - Unacceptable. - Unacceptable. - Unacceptable. Big Apple tour includes Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State, Broadway show Cats. I got more bad news for you. Cats has closed. OK. OK. Now I go New York City. Thank you. No, Mr. Navorski. I cannot allow you to enter the United States at this time. - Krakozhia. - We can't allow you to go home either. You don't really have a home. Technically it doesn't exist. It's like a Twilight Zone. Do you get that show over there? Talking Tina, Zanti Misfits. Zanti Misfits was Outer Limits, sir. Really? It's not important. Where do I buy the Nike shoes? OK, Mr. Navorski, come here. Here's my dilemma, Mr. Navorski. You have no right to enter the US and I have no right to detain you. You have fallen through a crack in the system. - I am crack. - Yes. Until we get this sorted out, I will allow you to enter the International Transit Lounge. I'm going to sign a release form that is going to make you a free man. - Free? - Free. Free. Free to go anywhere you like in the International Transit Lounge. - OK? - OK. - OK. - OK. OK.

film

The Terminal : Mr. Navorski arrives at airport - Opening Scene

Dvolver movies

Dear FLE 133 Section 01 members, Below are the links to the Dvolver movies that we created last week: GAMZE EMİR -http://www.dvolver.com/live/movies-776720 ARİF EROL-OSMAN GÜLGÜN - http://www.dvolver.com/live/movies-776712 BÜŞRA DURMAZ - http://www.dvolver.com/live/movies-778928 CANSU DAYANÇ -http://www.dvolver.com/live/movies-776961 NURULLAH DEMİR- HALİL İBRAHİM GÖKBULUT - http://www.dvolver.com/live/movies-

Blog journal entry guideliness

Blog Journal Entry Guideliness
1. Content: Your journal entry should be rich in content. That is to say, your paragraphs should explain fully the idea that you want to develop. You need to provide supporting ideas and give details about the point that you want to make. Whenever necessary, you need to provide relevant examples to illustrate your point. You need to make sure that your explanations are clear enough to your readers. Mainly your classmates and your course instructor will be your audience. You need to write by taking your audience into consideration. When you write something, you need to judge how clear you are to your audience. If you think you are not clear enough in your writing, you need to add some examples and extra detail information to support your ideas. You need to be as informative as possible.
2. Organization: Your journal entry is supposed to be organized. You need to order your ideas  and link them together by using appropriate linking words and transitions. You need to devote one paragraph to one main idea. Whenever the focus in your ideas change, you need to start a new paragraph. All the ideas in one paragraph should revolve around one single main idea. You need to make sure that your readers can follow your writing easily.
3. Language: Your use of English in your journal entries should be as accurate as possible. The use of a variety of vocabulary items (it is usually not a good idea to repeat the same words again and again in your journal) is a good idea. You are expected to re-read your journal entry before posting it  for language mistakes. You need to use a variety of sentence types.
You are supposed to incorporate the language points that we are covering in the course to your writings.
Your entries should be between 300-400 words and in 12 puntos.

Journal entry 4: Your slogan for METU

Please watch the video above and  comment on the following:
What do you think of the latest slogan of METU - I brain ODTÜ? To what extent and in what ways do you consider it an effective? In what ways do you think it fails to be an effective one? Why and why not? 
If you were to design a slogan for METU again, which one would you choose ? Why? Please comment on these points in detail.
Note: The transcript of the video extract and its English version is as follows:
BİZ DÜNYAYI DEĞİŞTİREBİLİRİZ. (WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD).
O bir ODTÜ'lü. (He is from METU.)
ODTÜ'lü hiçbir sınırı, sınırlamayı kabul etmez. (METU people do not accept any borders or limitations)
 Özgür düşünür, düşüncelerini özgürce ifade eder. (METU people think freely and express their ideas freely)
 Onu ODTÜ'lü yapan, ODTÜ'nün başarma ve "fark yaratma" kültürüdür. (What makes him/her a METU person is the culture of success and "making a difference" that is special to METU.
ODTÜ'lü, var olan bilgiyle yetinmez. Sorgular, araştırır, geliştirir. (A person from  METU  is not satisfied with the existing knowledge. He/She questions, investigates and develops),
Yeni bilgi üretmek, hayata geçirmek, paylaşmak için çalışır... (He/she tries to create new knowledge, put it into practice in real life and share it.)
 Sorumluluğu sadece çevresiyle sınırlı kalmaz. (His/Her sphere of responsibility is not limited to his/her immediate environment).
 Ülkenin ve dünyanın sorunlarıyla ilgilenir, çözüm arar. (He/She is interested in the problems of his/her home country and of the world and looks for solutions for them).
İşte ODTÜ ruhu budur. (This is what is called the soul of METU).
 Bu ruha, bazen idealizm, bazen devrimcilik denir. (This soul is sometimes called idealism and sometimes revolutionism).
Onlar, ODTÜ'lülük diyorlar. (They call this "ODTÜ"lük"-coming from METU)
Biz bu ruhla, yakın çevremizden başlayarak, tüm dünyayı değiştirebileceğimize inanıyoruz. (We believe that we can change the whole world with the help of this soul, starting from our immediate environment.)

Journal entry 3: METU: an ideal university atmosphere?

What is an ideal university like for you? What are the characteristics of such a university? In what ways do you think METU fits the criteria that you have set for an ideal university?  Why? Why not?  Please explain your points in detail by giving examples.

Journal Entry 2

What does being a student at METU mean to you? In what ways are you happy about being at METU and in what ways is it challenging for you?Why? How are you coping with the challenges that you are facing? Please express your points in detail by giving relevant examples.

Journal Entry I: Contextual grammar in action - the identification of basic grammatical terms in context

Dear FLE 133 participants,
You need to choose a text of 250-500 words from a news broadcast site such as BBC News-Home (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news)or any other official website (e.g., the website of an organization, a university etc) and try to identify the following grammatical terms by underlining them - you need to find 3 examples for each category: a)adjective b)verb i) intransitive verb ii) transitive verb iii) linking verb iv)Action verb v) State verb c)adverb i)Place adverb ii)Time adverb iii)Adverb of manner d)Object i)direct object ii)indirect object e) subject f) phrase g) clause i) dependent clause ii)independent clause h)interjection i) pronoun 1)interrogative pronoun 2)personal pronoun 3)reflexive pronoun 4)indefinite pronoun j)noun i)common noun ii) proper noun iii) singular noun iv) plural noun You can refer to following website (http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/)and the following file uploaded on METUONLINE: Chapter 5 sentence integration (Week 3 course materials-October 11, 2012)