Free Work 1

Hi friends,

If you want you can choose one of the topics below to write for your free work.

1- Choose an English song you like, write its lyrics. Explain why you like this song.

2- Choose an interesting picture. Stick it on a paper. Explain why you found it interesting.

3- Tell me a gossip you heard recently :)

OPINION PARAGRAPH

Ladies and gentlemen,

You know this week we are studying about writing opinion paragraphs.

To write a good opinion paragraph we should think about both sides of the topic.

So, please tell me your opinions about the following question.

Should students at Anadolu University have one year prep school education for English ? Why or why not?

Discussion 1

Hello friends,

This week I will ask you a difficult question.

Please write your answers in the comments.

The question is :

WHO ARE YOU?

(I don't ask your name, surname, or your job etc)

Please explain who you are in life.

Here is my answer.

"I am just a dream of God and I am a dreamer. :)) I am a drop of water in the ocean." Emel Şentuna

WELCOME :)

Hello friends!

This is your blog.

We will use this page to help us in our writing course. We can have discussions, practice vocabulary, and share ideas in this page. You will also have a chance to publish your own texts or comment on your friends' texts here.

Newspaper Project 4

ADVERTISEMENT

Ladies and gentlemen, this week you are supposed to prepare a newspaper advertisement.

Please follow the procedure below.

1- Decide on a product or a service you want to advertise.

2- Draw a picture or take a photo to use in your advertisement. (Be sure that it is original and not a real product or advertisement)

3- Write a short slogan for the product.

4- Under the advertisement, give contact information of the company and some info about the product.

Newspaper Project 3

Hello friends. This week in the newspaper project you are going to comment on a photo that you will take.

Please follow the below procedure:

1- Take a photo that shows the student life in Eskisehir.

2- Write your comments about this photo. Please tell when and where you took it. What does the photo show? How does this photo make you feel?

3- Upload your photo to your blog page and publish your comment until April 10, 2009. Bring a printout of it to the class on Friday.

Newspaper Project 2

Hello friends.

This week you will write the second item for the newspaper project.

This week's task is a FILM REVIEW.

1- Please choose a movie you have watched. It can be your favorite movie, the movie you hated, or the one you have recently watched.

2- Write some information about its producer, director, actors or actresses.

3- Summarize the scenerio or the story which the movie tells.

4- You may give information about the soundtrack of the movie, the use of visual effects etc.

5- Write your criticisms about the movie. Did you like it or not? What was good about this movie? What were the bad points? Would you recommend this film to your friends? Why/ Why not?

Please publish your film review on your blog page.

Newspaper Project 1

Hello UpInt 6!!!

Welcome to your new writing class. You know we will create a class newspaper together. Here is the first task you should do:

1-Choose a cafe/ restaurant/ night club you like or don't like in Eskisehir.

2-Take a picture of it by using your mobile phones or digital cameras.

3- Write a review about this place. Describe it in detail, mention about its menu, service, staff, prices, atmosphere. Include your comments.

4- Write this review in your blog pages and post the picture.

5- Take a print out and bring a copy of it to the class to have peer comment.

Important Note!!! You should finish this task until the end of next week. In the last writing class next week we will have a peer feedback session on your texts.

THE GOLDEN RULES ABOUT HAVING BEAUTIFUL GIRLFRIEND

I would like yo mention about the three fundamental rules in order to have beautiful girlfriend.First one is that you must be yourself .I mean that you must believe her without any of pretence or lie ,so she believes all you said her and trust you.The second one is that you must be gentleman.Somebodies think that girls like rude and serious men, but this idea is wrong .Actually, girls like kind and gentilman men.For instance,you can buy some flowers for her and give her suddenly.It helps you to show your love to her.The last rule of getting beautiful girlfriend is that you must be respectful to her. You must consider this important fact.She is a human and she has emotions, feelings, decisions like you.You must listen her and respect her thoughts.For example,she may be a member of a political party.The princibles of this political party may be stupit to you.In spite of this situtotion you must understand and respect her decision.In conclusion, ıf you obey this rules you can make a nice girlfriend.

Cem Şahinoğlu

SQUASH ON THE BAKERY

Ingredients For souse
4 squashes, splited 3 glasses milk
A head of anion Besamel souse
2 pieces of chicken breast 200 g sheep cheese, grated
2 tomatoes, chopped
2 teaspoon of salt and pepper
1 jar of garnish
3 tablespoon of oil

Squash on the bakery is a light and delicious meal to make and to eat if you follaw these steps.First of all, split the squashes in two pieces and carve inside of the squashes.Then, boil the squashes in ten minutes.At the same time, cut the chicken breasts, tomatoes and onion into one-ich pieces.Next,heat the oil,put the onions in a frying pan.After that, fry them until they are soft, add the chicken breasts and add the tomatoes.Then,wait for a few minutus to make them fried.After they frys take over of furnace.Soon after, add the a jar of garnish and add salt and pepper. Then, mix all of them. In addition, take the boiled squashes out into the tray,and put all of them to frying pan on the squashes.After squashes are stuffed, prepare the besamel souse in the another pot. Firstly, put the besamel souse in a pot, and pour the milk on the besamel souse.As soon as the besamel souse boils, pour the besamel souse on the squashes one by one.Eventually, sprinkle the grated sheep cheese on the squashes, and put the tray into the bakery. As a result, making a wonderful,delicious and different meal is that easy with these instructions. You should certainly try it.

Nejla Kerimoğlu

BEYOND THE SMILE

The life is full of regret. You can see the regret where you are looking at. You can see the regret when you look at me. I am writing this in the middle of the night, and I regret because I am telling myself why I haven't done this work in advance...offf. I have so much regrets. Some of them are about love... There is a classic saying " I wish I could turn the time back." That is the situation I am completely in. However, I don't want to be sad. The half of the glass is full. We should gain some experience and look for the next decision that we will make. With this experience which we 've gained from our regrets and our wrong decisions, we can make the right decision for the next time. Experience is a useful thing but gaining it can be hard and harmful.

What I want to say is that life is difficult and regrets can make the life unbearable but we have to resist and keep on living. Get up, stand up, and don't give up the fight!!!

Barbaros Erkenci

SOUND WAVE

The sun just set. The weather was a little bit red and black. I was walking near the road, in the rush-hour. I saw a lot of cars and a lot of people. All of them were going somewhere, but I wasn't. I was thinking about my situation. What was I doing? What would I do? What must I do? There was no answer inside. I turned on my mp3 player. I couldn't hear anything except music. I was thinking that "I love this song". The name of the song was "Reset" There were no lyrics in the song. Only music, but the music told everything which I wanted. I wanted that all of the cars, people, roads, buildings suddenly disappeared in a huge sound wave. People who were in the car got out their cars and they were swimming too. And I was flying through people. They were enjoying their situation. There was nobody who thought about the rush-hour or life problems, or making more money. There was only music around us. Notes, instruments, sounds made a big shield around us. We wondered around the city. All of the people joined us while we were flying above. After that we turned around and looked our city. It looked like a scene from a nuclear war. There was nothing except us. I was levitating down and music stopped. Suddenly, I opened my eyes and I noticed that I was standing in the middle of the road. All of the people shouted at me and all of the cars blew their horns at me. I was putting a smile upon my face and changed the song.

H. Altuğ Dülger

CAN'T TELL YOU

My life was dark inspite of you,

I couldn't see anything inspite of your bright eyes,

Only, I expected to notice the meaning of my life...

Couldn't you understand?

My problem was not about you,

It was about me.

I was angry to myself.

I was too tired and tiring.

You couldn't stay with me.

Indeed, I only wanted your goodness.

Oh!... You can't tell lies about my feelings.

You knew all of them.

You understood me.

Why did you behave me badly?

Why did you make me sad?

I didn't deserve them.

One day, I hope you will be able to understand it,

All of my feelings about me, you...

Funda Mertoğlu

CHATBOX

Emel Hoca - Fullscreen

JOB APPLICATION

Hello friends!! Welcome back:) I hope you had a nice holiday and came back here safely.

We studied job application letters before the holiday. You learned the organization and style of these letters. Now it is time to write REAL letters!!!

There are real job advertisements below.
Please click on the links and read the information about jobs.
Choose one of them and send an application letter after you write a suitable one.

Part Time or Full Time Clerical Positions Available :

http://www.webcosmo.com/listing/Details.aspx?countryId=1&gId=3&dId=59&postId=203455 (send application letters to wbs181@gmail.com)


Representatives Wanted:

http://www.webcosmo.com/listing/Details.aspx?countryId=1&gId=3&dId=67&postId=175096
(write your letters on this link after clicking on "Reply-To" section)

INFORMATION SYSTEMS VACANCIES:
http://www.gulfjobsly.com/-11/posts/28_Expatriate_Jobs/129_Overseas_Internships/5817_IT_Openings.html

(There are 14 different jobs here. Choose one of them and write your letter in the box at the bottom of the page)

Sales & Marketing Consultants:

http://www.gulfjobsly.com/-11/posts/22_Sales_Marketing_Jobs/52_Sales/3137_Sales_Reps_Flexible_Hours.html
(write your letter in the box at the bottom of the page)

OR you can choose other jobs from the following link:
http://www.gulfjobsly.com/-11_Jobs_in_Turkey/

NEWSPAPER REPORT

Ladies and gentlemen,

This week we will learn how to write newspaper reports. To have an idea before, please watch CNN Live or click on the links of news websites below. Choose one piece of news and answer the following questions.

http://edition.cnn.com/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world

http://www.nytimes.com/

1-What is the TITLE of the news?

2-WHO or WHAT is the article about?
3-WHAT happened?
4-WHERE? WHEN?

Biography- Interview

Hello friends,

If you had a chance to interview someone in the past to write his/her biography, who would you choose?

Which questions would you like to ask him /her?

Videos

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Ladies and gentlemen, please watch and learn how to make instant coffee :))

WEEK 3 - PROCESS

Hi everybody,

This week we learned how to write process paragraphs and how to give instructions. Please, act out the process you have written in the lesson and record it. We can watch your videos here. You will be famous :))))

WELCOME :)

Dear friends, you are welcome.
In our writing courses we will produce different texts. This blog will help us to discuss our ideas, share our ideas about several topics before or after we write. Please feel free to make comments about the discussions or to answer your friends' questions.

:)))

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