REFLECTION TASK 1A (EDITED)

Myself

Hi! I’m Seda. I want to introduce myself. I was born on 15 August 1995 in Ankara. In 2004, we moved to Adana and I spent 6 years of my childhood there. By the way, I was such a naughty child that I was sick and had scars on my body all the time. I kicked the other guys and sent them off games. Adana is a beautiful city. It has lots of trees, parks, picnic areas, resting places, and canals so; I love this place a lot and don’t like Ankara so much.

  

 I went a lot of schools. They are Misket Primary School, Yahya Kemal Primary School, Sıtkı Kulak Primary School, Emine Sapmaz Primary School, Mamak Primary School and Hasanoğlan Atatürk Anatolian Teacher Training High School. Now, I am studying English Language Teaching in Middle East Technical University. Actually, I always wanted to be teacher as a child. However, I’m not sure about it now since I can’t bear children for a long time.  Another thing I wanna say about myself is my hobbies. My biggest desire is sleeping and I can sleep even on a bus. Additionally, my hobbies are listening to music, reading book, travelling anywhere, and watching film. Whenever I am engaged in these things, all my connections with earth are broken. Lastly, I want to talk about my emotional side. Actually, I am a sensitive person but I don’t reflect my sensitiveness to people. Instead of doing that, I always smile, laugh and have a fun. And, I cannot hate anyone easily. However, when I hate anyone, it is almost impossible that I can love that person again or I can be positive about him again. I hate greedy and over-ambitious people, too. On the other hand, I am so talkative, cheerful and helpful. I cannot keep calm if I realize my friend is sad or in trouble. I try to do my best in order to help somebody. Here is my point of view about myself. I hope you will like it. J   

 

 

HAPPINESS IS INSIDE US :)

 

Exercise 5.26

  Editing Activity

 

1. Because Grace is a vegetarian, she must pay special attention to the amount of protein in the food she eats. That's why, she eats a lot of beans and eggs.

2. When Grace became a vegetarian. She missed eating meat. She had always liked the foods she eats.However , she eats a lot of beans and eggs.

 

3. When Grace first became a vegetarian. She missed eating meat. She had always liked the taste of it. She can’t imagine eating meat because she has grown to appreciate the pure taste of meatless cuisine, and meat tastes very strange to her. She is happy to be vegetarian.

 

 

4. Sometimes, it is very difficult to eat out in restaurants due to the limited meatless choice on the menus ; however , that is changing now with the increase in vegetarian restaurants.

 

 

5. Grace is opposed to killing animals. She is a vegetarian and very disturbed by the use of animal fur for clothing.

 

 

6. She doesn’t eat meat anymore. She feels better, humane and healthier.

 

7. Being vegetarian and feeling that she is doing her share to protect animals. She becomes irritated when people questions her motive. Although she tries to be patient with such people and make them understand the value of saving animals , people often just don’t understand.

 

Barnabus Barney Stinson

 Barney Stinson is one of five main characters on How I Met Your Mother. He is a histrionic in his mid-thirties, wears a suit, likes women with "daddy issues" and is frequently willing to offer his opinion. Barney is a huge womanizer, and has been described as a "high functioning sociopath" by his best friend Ted Mosby. Stinson has a plethora of strategies and rules designed to meet women, sleep with them, and discard them. Stinson is the only single character.

Barney likes to create crazy situations and then sit back and watch it all go down. He is also highly competitive and takes on "challenges" to complete outlandish tasks in order to prove his worth. He is proud and stubborn, and attempts to stand by his word no matter what. Barney is extremely naive at times, believing many lies his mother told him well into adulthood, such as believing that Bob Barker is his father.

Barney is an illusionist. His favorite types of magic tricks include fire. Barney uses them mostly to pick up women. His most common method of picking up women is telling them elaborate lies about himself, often using an alias. Many of his schemes for picking up women are in a book he has written called "The Playbook.

Barney is very well-connected and is the wealthiest member of the group. He frequently buys expensive items. However, he is also seen to have a gambling problem that he occasionally gets under control.

He speaks several languages. He has a thorough understanding of human behavior and uses this mainly to manipulate situations to his advantage (mostly to pick up women). Despite his eclectic and prodigious talents, Barney is lacking in several common skills, such as driving a car or using a screwdriver.

Barney lives by the "Bro Code", his own code of rules. He also has some nicknames; Mr. Awesome, The Barnacle, Barn Door, The Stinstonian, Swarley, Swarles (Barkley), B-Dawg, Stinson-natti, Barnman, Nestor Diaz, B-Nasty.

 

PARALLELISM ACTIVITY

#1:  Our beagle loves to hunt.  Someone opens the back door for her.  She barrels down porch, steps into the yard and runs back and forth across the lawn in ecstasy.  Her nose cruises the wet grass for smells that are smells of cats, rabbit smells, and other presences too subtle for human detection.  She sniffs and spins her tail in quick circles.  It spins clockwise first and then counterclockwise.  These two activities that are sniffing and spinning seem to propel her along and always occur together.

#2: The Government Printing Office in Washington D.C., which is a source of much useful information that few people know about.  It is the official publishing house for the federal government.  The GPO publishes pamphlets and books on a vast number of subjects which range from the dangers of X-rays from home TV sets to the identification of mushrooms.  About 27,000 publications are offered through the Superintendent of Documents.  Many of them are inexpensive and some of them are free at all.

#3: A man who was German immigrant John Jacob reaped America’s first fortune.  He made his initial money trading Indian furs.  He was lowborn, uneducated and never learned to speak English properly.  He carried on his business to the end in an accent which was redolent of the Hamburg gutters.

 

 

A DIFFERENT VERSION OF ''IMAGINE''

 

 

IMAGINE

Imagine there’s no school

It’s awesome if you dream

No punishment for us

For us only carnivals

Imagine all the people

Having fun all the time

Imagine there’s no exams

It isn’t impossible to do

Nothing to study or lucubrate

And no quizzes, too

Imagine all the people

Studying for midtermS

 
 

You may say I’m a dreamer

But I’m not the only one

I hope someday you’ll live like that

And the world will be more charming

 
 

Imagine no must courses

I’m curious if you can

No need for studying or stress

Imagine all the people

Looking for lecture noteS

 
 

You may say I’m a dreamer

But I’m not the only one

I hope someday you’ll live like that

And the world will be more charming…
 

 

9.10 EDITING ACTIVITY

1-     Thanks to a very good diet, Sandra is always healthy.

 

2-     The common cold can make you feel very miserable; therefore, staying in bed at home is advisable for you.

 

3-     Although I’ve been maintaining a very healthy diet, I’ve been sick.

 

4-     She exercises regularly; consequently, she is in a good shape.

 

5-     With excellent nutrition , a generous supply of vitamins , a lot of rest , and plenty of exercise , you can live longer.

 

6-     When you are sick not only medicine but also taking care of yourself is important.

 

7-     When you are sick not only medicine but also taking care of yourself is important.

 

8-     Many doctors charge very expensive rates, for example my doctor is one of them.

 

9-     The magazine that I read is about how to increase longevity through better health.

 

10- The sun shines on my window, so I have my plants in my window box.

 

11- I heard about an acupuncture clinic that has a specialist on herbal medicine.