Monthly Archives: October 2011

news…

Hi again,

Check out this news and let’s talk about it

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/education/19textbooks.html?smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto

I’m looking forward to hearing your comments!
Gökçe

Last Friday’s Debate cont.

Hello again,

Here’s the last part:

1. How are we learn these news?
2. We learned all thing from our children.
3. There’s no protect in the internet.
4. I know some people they can get on the internet.
5. If the media knows what’s happening in Somalia.
6. The news are didn’t feed them

Last Friday’s Debate cont.

Hi,

here are the mistakes from the second raund:

1. Media say the lie
2. Sometimes all people say lie.
3. If we choose the true proramme, we can improve ourselves.
4. You always says like that.
5. Writers ideas in his book.
6. The media makes unsocial life.
7. People can manage their life.
8.Media gives some kind of information about reaching your friend.
9. You couldn’t know which one is true.
10. If you search enough the media, you can find the truth in media.
11. Childrens can’t saw that.
12. All of you say that media get people asocial.
13. TV is warn us.
14. Media isn’t say all the people play PC.
15. Media not about.
16. There’s some situation about the conversation.
17. Demet say if we prefer true programmes, we’ll be happy.
18. We know learn about abnything.
19. We weren’t at this university.
20. We use this university’s publish.
21. anybody don’t need anything.
22. poor people live happy.
23. Turkey has starving, too
24. Turkey don’t any activities.
25. TV show was changed our life.
26. In Africa, many people starving.
27. You should look the villages.
28. we didn’t come to this school.
29. Childrens can’t choose the true programmes.
30. If the lies about governments it’s not a white lie.
31. If media have a lie, how can we search on media.
32. otherwise, people in the prison.
33. I want ask you.
34. Everybody right and share everything.

Last Friday’s Debate

Hello again,

I have collected some of the mistakes that you made during the debate that was held on Friday. Try to correct them!

1. People learn anything in different ways
2. the members don’t talking anything.
3. family members a social.
4. Children happen to bad habits.
5. Famous people don’t have their privacy life.
6. They don’t play with them friend.
7. Children wasn’t watch TV.
8. That person hasn’t got any resource.
9. They have two Television in the house.
10. When children was bored.
11. Children play violence game.
12. Our century will be lazy for the media.
13. The children doesn’t play on streets.
14. That’s affects children’s lives.
15. unusuless things.
16. We said it lots of
17. There’s lots of lie on TV.
18. We don’t enough knowledge about that.
19. Poor people need our helps.
20. People isn’t time.
21. When there’s no media, a lot of people lost their job.
22. Peoples are join showmans programmes.
23. If you’re enjoy, you may watch a lot of TV programme.
24. Media is a necessary.
25. You couldn’t come to home.
26. You couldn’t discuss the media is a bad thing here.

these are from the first raund 🙂

speaking practice

Hello again,

here are some errors that you’ve made during your speaking practice. Try to write the correct versions.

fabrika (English?)
puro (English?)
people too much perfume (1 mistake)
it’s make the ozone (two mistakes)
it is damage the ozone (two mistakes)
woman drivers are more carefully than man drivers (three mistakes)
womans can drive (one mistake)
woman drivers respectful than men (two mistakes)
it is not safety (one mistake)
because of I have so much experience about that (one mistake)
that’s the all (one mistake)
dangerous can explain woman drivers (two mistakes)
machine info of woman drivers (two mistakes)
in the Cyprus (one mistake)
a Turkey (one mistake)
why woman keep clean their cars? (three mistakes)
smoke is harm to your peoples (two mistakes)
you loss your healthy (two mistakes)
smokes damage health (one mistake)

Present Simple & Continuous Exercises

here are some useful links for you to revise the two tenses:

action and state verbs:
http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentContinuous1H.html

simple or contibuous?
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs1.htm

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_present_progressive2.htm

Passive
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?simple-present

http://www.englishlab.net/hp/quiz7_present_simple_continuous_passive_1.htm

have fun!

WEATHER

hi everybody,

there are some useful links here about your unit:

weather vocabulary quiz
http://www.englishclub.com/speaking/weather-vocabulary-quiz.htm

weather dictionary:
http://www.weather.com/glossary/

weather pop quiz from BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/worldservice/quiznet/quizengine?ContentType=text/html;quiz=1258_weather

weather vocab with pronunciation
http://www.languageguide.org/english/vocabulary/weather/

last one
http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/weather-vocabulary.htm