This week, we are focusing on Chapter 2: Cause Paragraphs. There are some useful words and phrases that indroduce causes. Let's remember what they are
due to / because of / on account of / as a result of / owing to
result from
stem from / due to / arise from
contribute to
result from
enable
as a result
therefore / thus / consequently
We are also learning how to draw an effective Mind Map before writing our paragraph.
As you may know, a paragraph consists of a Topic Sentence, at least two Supporting Ideas together with details and ezamples and a Concluding Sentence. Thus, it must be easy for youn to make an Outline.
Please make sure that you make an outline in advance, write coherent sentences and use sentence connectors.
2- Choose at least one topic on page 39 and write a full paragraph by 23rd February, Sunday on the blog.
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Education in Abroad
YanıtlaSilIt is undisputable fact that there are numerious reasons why prove that studying in home country is easiest and better than studying abroad. First of all, difficulties of living foreign country affect both students and parents. For instance, living in another country is more expensive than living home country for students who come from undeveloped and developing countries because of exchange rate, and the education sometimes may not affort by parents. An another issue about difficulties of living foreign country is students have to come over problems of orginating from cultural diffirences, such as different foods and daily routines. The other reason is about difficulties of education in foreign language. Teaching in mother tongue enables students to understand more correctly; also, knowledges which have been learnt in mother tongue can be used more effectively. Shortly, studying in home country has various benefits which make learning easier on students.
Koray Öz
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YanıtlaSilLearning on the Internet
SilThe Internet enables learners to improve their English in a variety of ways.Firstly, most of the English learners live in their home countries whose formal languages aren't English ,but they must practice listening, speaking and reading English.In a situation like this people can use the Internet to practise English.For example, there are so many musics, lectures, or movies on the Internet ,and if one want to improve his/her listening skills, they are very useful.Secondly, the Internet makes easy to learn new words in English ,because there so many online dictionaries which are very easy and fast to use on the Internet.Lastly, the Internet gives people reasons to learn English.For example, when you play a video game in English, sometimes you need English to complete your mission ,or when you chat with a person from another country ,you need English as well.In short, the Internet can be a useful tool to improve one's English.
Ahmet Yiğit
Effects of the Internet in improving one's English
YanıtlaSilIt is undeniable fact that the Internet is a useful source to improve one's English if it is used beneficially. There are many efficient ways on the Internet to develop one's English. First of all, the foreign films with or without subtitle enable learners to improve their English. Everybody knows that reading and doing exercise are so important to improve foreign language. Besides, learners can read newspapers or magazines on the Internet. To do exercise, there are many chat sites and dictionaries such as Facebook, Cambridge English and Longman English Dictionary. In addition, playing game in English helps learners to increase their English level. One research found that learners who play games in English is learning English fastly than others who don't play games in English. To sum up, the Internet can be a beneficial source to improve one's English.
Hüseyin KANDAZ
Fanaticism
YanıtlaSilFootball fanaticism is a threat to society. Fanaticism exists in all over the world. Firstly , anybody can not accept defeat. Everybody wants to win. Thus , fans who live in mob culture use violence. In recent days , every team has a hooligans in tribune. One audience who in the stadium was stabbed on match of Gaziantepspor-Besiktas in 2003. Moreover, audiences, and hooligans drink a lot ; therefore , they do not think healthy. Drinking is free in stadium of Europe. Many incidents happen after the matches. Finally , it is an important fact that stadium audiences are respectful. For example , West Ham United Football Club's fans fight every after matches. They do not matter match's result because of their lack of respect. In brief , rapidness alerts for peeople.
T. Türker HALILOGLU
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YanıtlaSilFootball Fanaticism
YanıtlaSilFootball fanaticism is a threat to society for several reasons. The first cause is destruction of property. Supporter who believe that their team must win everytime are agressive when it lost the match. As a result, they damage to the environment. For instance, Italian fans attacked a restaurant in London before Arsenal-Napoli match. The other cause is lack of respect. These people who are not interested in football do not respect other people. During the match, they both do bad cheer and swear, and they slay football. The last danger of football is violence. Although football is a sport, in recent years, violence has left behind the sport. According to research, 80% of the violence in sport arises from football. For example, many people killed because of the fight in a soccer match in Egypt. In brief, due to these reasons, community is threatened by football.
Hülya URAS
YanıtlaSilUsing the internet for learning English
The research show that using the internet can provide useful source to improve one's English for countless reasons.Firstly, the internet includes a lot of movies; therefore, if learners want to get better their reading ,listening skills and learn new words ,they can watch movie with English subtitle .Besides , their ears can become familiar with different accents. Secondly , trainers had prepared many website that contain English topics and online dictionaries for learners visit it.Moreover ; many people do not want to carry thick a dictionary , so they use online dictionaries on their phone and computer.Finally, learning a new language is difficult because of new vocabulary and grammer rules.ıts very boring way to learn , so learners play games in English to make learning more fun. To sum up , the internet is a useful and limitless source to improve one's English, if it uses correctly.
Firdevs CANLI
Using the internet for improving English
YanıtlaSilThere are various reasons why is the internet a useful source to improve one's English. One reason is that somebody can be improved listening, pronunciation and vocabulary skills by film on the internet themselves. For example, people can not only watch the Green Miles or Fight Club but also use youtube or tedtalk sites. Besides, special anybody or anywhere don't need to for making them. Another reason is that people can find opportunities for speaking skills there because of improving easily when people have to speak. Chat sites can help them in this subject. Speaking English is learnt when people are exposed to them. A final reason is that if people have lack of grammar , they can learn by using websites or videos.Studies have shown that %44 of people used to the internet for improving their English, %5 of people with the internet began to learn English. To sum up, if people want to improve their English, the internet is a useful source for them.
Büşra ÇİÇEK
Why is football fanaticism a threat to society?
YanıtlaSilIn Turkey, there is football fanaticism which is a threat to society. Firstly, people who support one of football teams excessively resort to violence when their football teams do not win anymatch. For example, in 1976, after Turkey had lost a match, fanatic supporters fought with other teams supporters in the 1976 World Cup. There was a lot of injured people. Moreover, one of the major problem is destriction of property. People who forget that is only a football match destroy a lot of property. Therefore, many people suffer there because of football fanaticism. To sum up, football fanaticism garm something which is good for football.
Emin Can OFLİ
Internet And English
YanıtlaSilInternet is useful source to imrove one’s english. There are several way to improve one’s english skills. Firstly, If you like watching foreign tv series with and without subtitle, you can learn english easily. Because you already pick up lots of english words while you are watching the film. Beside, you can learn how to pronounce the words.The another way is reading magazines and news.You can improve your vocabulary memory to reading the news on the internet, and you can learn many words of using daily life. You also learn how to write these words. The Last and the most enjoyable way is playing game. Playing online game is trendy nowadays, because many people are playing an online game. Language of Games are usually english and if you want to play these games, you must learn the words in the games ; thus, You can both have an enjoyable time and learn many english words. In short , İmproving one’s english on the internet is beneficial and easy because there are lots of sources such as movie, game, magazine.
Yalçın MENTEŞE
Girls' Education In Today's World Girls in today's world are luckier than the girls who lived one generation ago.This situation can be analysed in terms of social, economical and educational aspects. When we consider the educational aspects, we figure out that the girls who live today have more rights and chance to go to school than the girls who lived one generation ago, for the law was developed for girls.According to law, education has became mandatory except for university education. After high school, many girls want to go on for their university education.The girls are brave and their families support them for it. Consequently, they start university education to get a bachelor degree in order to find a job when they got the diploma.However, there are still some families who do not want to let their girls to go to school even to the high school.Unfortunately, these close-minded families are not aware of how they affect badly their girls' life.In this case, the open-minded people try to convince them.For example, there are female teachers, doctors who work at the villages, and they are very good examples for the families and the girls.In this century, there are a lot of social project to support the girls to go to school.For intance, Kardelenler Project is one of these projects in Turkey and it is quite effective and useful.Another reason why the girls could not go to the school is the physical conditions.Fortunatelly, now transportation is better and there are more school as well.Therefore, physical conditions do not occure a problem to go to school as much as in the past. To sum up, it can be said that the girls in today have much more facilities to be able to study than the girls in the past. Açelya ATALAY
YanıtlaSilFootball fanaticism
YanıtlaSilFootball fanaticism is a threat to society for several reasons. The first reason is excessive drinking. For example; before the Turkis derbies, supporters consume too much alcohols. Too much alcohols change people's behaviors specially when people have adrenaline rush. Secondly, people swear a lot while people watch matchs . They are angry. Therefore ; people's lack of respect can cause to fight one another. Finally , football fanatics can damage their teams. For example Fenerbahce fans let off fireworks while their teams are punished so their teams are punished again. To sum up ; if people who is fanatic do not know their limits, football fanaticism can be harmful for fanatics and their teams.
Studying In Home Country
YanıtlaSilThere are many reasons why it is better to study in your home country than study abroad.One reason is a cheaper cost. If you live with your family, you do not pay rent of house. Even though you do not live with your family in home country, rents of house are not very expensive. Besides; foots, clothes and other somethings are not expensive as there because you know where selling cheap foots, clothes and other somethings. The other reason is that we see education in mother tongue. You can learn subject more easily in your home country than study abroad since mainly lessons which teachers tell are in your language. To sum up, if you study in your home country, you will not regret it; moreover,studying in home country in mother tangue is cheaper than other countries.
Murat AYYILDIZ
Improving English with Internet
YanıtlaSilInternet is very benefical source to improve English for several reasons.First of all, people can find many English newspapers and magazines such as The Times, The Washington Times,The Sun in the Internet. Another reason why İnternet is useful to improve English is that has many English films with English subtitle. Watching English with English subtitle or witout subtitle is very benefical for listening and reading because people can do together.Finally, when people want to chat with another person, it has many chat sites. Chating is helpful for writing.Thus,people can chat with another person in English to improve English. In short, if people want to improve English, they can find many object for improving English in the İnternet.
Eser Berk YILMAZ
The Effect of The Internet on English
YanıtlaSilThe Internet is a useful source to improve one’s English. First of all, people can watch films. In this way, they are familiar English words; in addition, they pick up accent. Secondly, reading English books, newspapers and magazines help them to improve their English. They are able to learn a lot of words; however, they are not able to enhance their accents by reading books, newspaper etc. Thirdly, it is known that, there are many chat sites which they improve english on the Internet. They only should be member of a chat site; moreover, chat with foreign people. The last one is that games in English are effective for learning new words. For example, many verbs can be learned playing the Sims. To sum up, for enhancing English, the Internet is used as a useful source.
Although there are many reasons why the internet is useful source to improve one's english, films and dictionaries are the main reasons. Firstly english films are very important because language of this films are english and it is beneficial for listening also subtitles are beneficial for reading second reason is dictionaries. Dictionaries are used by many people who don't know sone words in order to learn new words. When we wonder a word's mean we can find also synonym of this words. All in all internet is very beneficial for our improving skills
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