6th WEEK

Hi everyone

As I said last week, this week was our exam week. We had two exams on Monday, writing and listening exams. They were difficult and sometimes I couldn't understand what did people in video say in listening exam.Then we had a grammar exam on Tuesday and I couldn't decide whether it was easy or not. We didn't have lesson on Wednesday actually we had but we want our teacher to cancel the lesson. On Wednesday I studied for reading exam and tried to memorize some words. Reading exam was hard and ıt was a bit confusing. The exams eventually finished and on Friday we watched Shrek 2. It was very entertaining and I can say we felt comfortable after the exams. But after the movie we had a film quiz and discussed about Shrek but it was not hard. Next week we are representing our power point presentations and I think this weekend invites us to be creative. :(

Bye for now

5th WEEK

Hi friends,
We began by reading 'Gender and Sexuality' passages in this week. These passages include very interesting things about girls and boys.The two gender are completely different from each other even if they are newborn.We studied 'comparison and contrast essay' again and did some exercises. Then we learnt a lot of clothing, animal, colour and food idioms and in fact their meanings are different from the words' real meanings. We were divided into four groups and prepared sentences and then tried to tell the meanings of idioms with these sentences.It was very enjoyable.After that we watched Armageddon and discussed about the film and America's desire of leadership.This film was good in terms of phrases and everyday language components but I didn't like it very much.We read essays about fairy tales and gender lessons at school. Mrs Gülsen wanted us to write short fairy tales and while writing, we really enjoyed.Lastly, Ms Rebecca had Nasreddin Hodja stories for us.Besides we created new stories and dialogs from a Nasreddin Hodja story. It is an amusing work for us. That's all for this week. We have exams next week and this week was not tiring but I think this weekend will be tiring.I hope everything will go well. :)
See you...

4th WEEK

Hi everyone

This week was not as hard as previous ones but tiring for us. We presented our interviews which we made with people who are interested in extreme sports. Some of my classmates read theirs in the class and Mrs Fulden liked them. We studied 'Fertility Now' from Hot Topics and learnt interesting things.Then Mrs Gülsen taught to us the two types of comparison and contrast essay, one of the types is point by point method and the other is block method. We did some exercises to reinforce.In listening class a difficult quiz was ready for us because we couldn't understand completely what were said. I also have to do some listening exercises to develop my skills. Lastly on Friday we watched Shrek in speaking class and it was a comfortable day for us. Even though I watched it before , I laughed a lot and I also like watching in the class.Now we have homework about comparison and contrast essay.

Good bye for now...

THIRD WEEK...

Hi fellows
This week was very tiring but enjoyable.We had presentations about crimes and punishments. There were seven groups and our group's subject was Elizabethan Era's crime and punishment. While we were preparing our presentation we had also some difficulties.At first it came to us it was very hard work. But when we started to search something and find some information from the sites Ms Gülsen offered and some historical sites,we thought it might not be very hard.For me the most difficult part was presenting it to my friends because I was greatly excited and sometimes I couldn't talk. Sorry for that:( Moreover I like my friends' presentations and musics.Thanks to these presentations we learnt a lot of interesting things about past periods and also working in a group.Making an agreed desicion in a group and preparing good jobs are very important.I want to congratulate all my friends:) Then we watched Night at the Museum 2 . We laughed while watching ,especially I like the Egyptian king Kahmunrah's talking.It was perfectly funny. We listened Jewel' s Hands song.I like it.Watching films and listening songs are useful and enjoyable methods of learning pronounciation and phrases:) That's all for now.
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