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5 Aralık 2011 Pazartesi

Our beagle likes hunting very much. Whenever the back door is opened for her, she steps into garden immediately as if she is racing. She runs from one place to another among grass with a great joy. Apart from these; while running so, she also moves about this area in the hope of discovering smells of some animals such as rabbit’s, cat’s and other creatures’ smells which are undetectable for human. At the same she smells them, she twirls her tail first to the right and then to the left. Maybe, these two activities make her move forward like a push.

EXERCİSE 2

Not known very much, The Government Printing Office which is in Washington offers a great deal of beneficial information. It publishes officially for the federal government. So, it publishes booklets and books on a great number of issues such as the dangers of X-rays scattering from home TV sets and the identification of mushrooms. It makes approximately 27,000 publications with the permission of Administer of Documents, and while these publications are not so much expensive, some of them are not even charged.

EXERCİSE 3

A German immigrant, named as John Jacob Astor, was the first man who made America’s fortune. Being an illiterate and coming from a low social class, Astor got his first money by commercing furs of Indians. He made all of his business with an accent which reminds low social classes of Hamburg, because he didn’t learn how to speak English in a good way, ironically.

18 Kasım 2011 Cuma

Video reflection 2

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I chose this video, because it amazed me so much. It showed me that some things which are really boring or tiring for us can be made quite entertaining thanks to extraordinary and great opinions. In this video, there is a typical society who immediately runs to the moving staircase after getting off from the subway. So, there are just a few people who climb up the stairs. In order to prevent this personal convergence and see whether they can make the stairs more fun for people or not, employees inlay a piano playing system to the stairs and after people see this system, they choose the moving stairs less often. So, this video has also indicated to me that people give a great deal importance to fun in their lives. We can see this even in our school lives as a student. For example, if a lesson is quite boring or not worth to even listening, we do not generally want to go to it. As most of us know, students love the lessons which are interesting or entertaining to them. Fun is an indispensable part of people. So, like in this video instead of removing it from our lives, it can be used in many fields to get the attention of people. I think this is an issue which is especially important for education. Teachers or curriculums should make the lesson more fun for students instead of using traditional techniques in teaching or imposing some rules to the students’ minds. Moreover, this video has also showed in a clear way that making fun is not as difficult as thought. By just a piano voice under the stairs, people can make others have fun and prevent a thing which seems impossible to detain people from doing it. As I said earlier, too; by just making a joke, with a smile or even with a cake which is made by teacher, the lesson can be made fun to students. I think it is not so much difficult and it shouldn’t be, too. Finally, if we want to get some progress in our lives, we shouldn’t do this by dismissing fun from people’s lives. We shouldn’t forget that it is as an important tool and part for everybody from youths to olds.

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