28 Şubat 2014 Cuma

WEEK 4 (24-28 FEBRUARY)

Dear All,
Your Cause Paragraphs are getting much better. Besides, you can decode correction codes and correct your mistakes. This week, we have had the chance to write Cause Paragraphs and edit our own and each other's paragraphs.

Let me remind you what to pay attention to when we are required to do editing.
Ask yourselves the following questions:


Topic Sentence           - Does you paragraph have a main idea?

Supporting Ideas        - Are there at least two causes that support the topic sentence?
                                     - Are there appropriate connecting words?
                                     - Are there supporting details that explain and/or give examples?

Concluding Sentence   - Does your concluding sentence start with an appropriate connecting word?
                                                                            OR
                                       - Does it summarize the main points of the paragraph?
                                                                            OR
                                 - Does it paraphrase the topic sentence or provide an appropriate final comment?

Grammar    - Check for missing/incorrect prepositions
                      - Check for missing/incorrect articles
                      - Check for appropriate use of verb forms
                      - Check for appropriate use of connecting words

Vocabulary      -Check for connecting verbs and phrases related to cause paragraphs
                          -Check for appropriate word choice/word form
                         -Check for overused words


You may use some online dictionaries, which will be a great help while writing, some of which are given below:
www.tureng.com
www.visuword.com
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary
www.Idoceonline.com
www.thesaurus.com
......

Have a look at presentation below to see some invaluable vocabulary, phrases, and examples.



Cause effectparagraphpractice from hacersivil


Please rewrite your edited paragraphs here.
Good luck in the exam:)

6 yorum:

  1. Attraction of Junk Foods
    It is an obvious fact that people are eating more and more junk food nowadays, and there are several reasons why people eat junk food. Firstly, people who are especially students and employees do not have time to prepear healty food because they have very busy and tiring caually life. When they arrive their home in the evenings, they do not have enough power to make meal. In addition, junk foods have a secret power which cheers people up. For instance, if people feel sad, they will eat chocolate or chips, and then they feel beter. Thirtly, it is very hard to prepear healty food; moreover, there are many cook schools. Because, it is also hard to learn cooking, so people may prefer eating junk food. To summerize, owing to many reasons such as lack of time, changing emotions and hardness of prepearing healty food, people eat junk food.
    B.Koray Öz

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  2. The Benefits of Junk Food
    There are a variety of reasons why many people eat junk food. First of all, junk food is easy to prepare, and people do not have a time because they work, so easiness is important for them. Besides, they do not want to deal with food such as their mother. According to them, it is not necessary to deal with food for hours because many people are used to laziness. Finally, junk food makes happy people. For example, if you eat chocolate, your body secretes ¨ serotonin hormone ¨, and you feel happy like you fall in love. In brief, many people prefer junk food due to easiness and happiness.

    Hülya URAS

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  3. Why do some students fail at school?

    There are many reason why some students fail at school. Firstly, a student who does not study regularly labours on exams. Because s/he does not study all of lessons exactly in the last day. Morever, if a study doesn't go to school, s/he fails at school because s/he does not follw all of lesson. Secoundly, one of the reasons is genetics. Cleverness which students use to pass exams depent on genetics. Therefore, s/he can not change this state because of genetics. Finally, another major problem is domestic issues because family is very important for students. If families do not support their children, students fail at the school. Moreover, take a dislike to study if there are domestic issues. To sum up, succeed depents on a lot of reason for students such as genetics, studiying, domestic issues.

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  4. The Causes of Failure

    There are several reasons why some students fail at school. First of all, personal causes can affect students' failure. If a student has got some health problems, this situation affects him/her badly. Also one reason of failing at school is unwillingness. Students should want to succeed to be successful in their school life. In addition, environmental causes can affect students. For example, if there is a bad teaching system in a country, students can not become successful at their school. Moreover, students are affected by their friends and families. If a student lives in bad conditions in his/her family, it is difficult to have achievement. Arguements in students' families affect them badly. To sum up, personal and environmental causes can influence students poorly in their school life.

    Hüseyin KANDAZ

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  5. The causes of failure
    Some students fail at school for several reasons. First of all, it is important that their studying system. For example, if some students will start to study exam, they choose last day. Besides, they don't do anything. Secondly, students should focus on their lessons, or they can't catch important parts. According to research that %44 of failure students think that they can study their lessons then, and they don't do them. Finally, we don't know that what they happened at outside of school hours. For instance, if they always go to onewhere with their friends, they feel tired. Morever, they can't study lesson. Thus, environment and friends affect success for all of students. To sum up, if a student fail at school, he/she can be affected environment, friends and studying system.
    Büşra ÇİÇEK

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  6. The Reasons of Failure
    There are several reasons why some students fail at school.Main reason is that they have not interest about the lessons.Consequently, they do not want to study and search. Another reason is that teacher's style. If teachers are boring, students do not want to join the lessons.Teachers should try new teaching style and provide students to participate in lessons.Besides, some students have not got a chance for study regularly.For example, if they have not got a private room and silent times, students may failure.Finally,although some students study and join the lessons, they fail the exam because of stress. Stress influences the success very badly. In short, succeed depends on many reasons.

    Açelya ATALAY

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