Reflection Task 1b

         Hi, 

My name is Elif BILGIN. I am 18 years old. I want you to know me, so let me introduce myself. I am from Artvin, Turkey. I live in Ankara. I graduated from 14 March Elementary School, later Besikduzu IMKB Anatolian Teacher Training High School and now I am studying Department of English Language Teaching in METU. I am a freshman in METU so I am trying to get used to school, Ankara and dormitory. However, I have already liked everything in METU.

If you want me to present the things I like, I like reading books, especially novels. For example The Night Road is my favourite book. I recommend you to read it, you'll love it.

I like watching TV series like Doctor Who. My favourite accent of English is British accent so whenever I watch Doctor Who, I enjoy so much.

     

I like listening music so much. When I am bored or sad, I listen Adele and she makes me relax.

I like travelling, too. I think, I am keen on culture of English. Thus, the place I have always wanted to go is London. I want to go to museums, like Madame Tussauds which I have always been curious about and I want to be taken photos. I want to go to regional restaurants and taste English breakfast.

The other places which I want to go  America, Mexico, South Korea, Italy, France. I like learning new things, new cultures, new cuisines. My dream is that whenever I travel somewhere, I want to stay there for a while and live the way the same as they do. That's all I say about me. Thanks for reading.  

Run-On Recognication

Run-On Recognication

1-Because Grace is a vegetarian,she must pay special attention to the amount of protein in the food she eats.She eats a lot of beans,she also eats eggs.

2-When Grace first became a vegetarian ,she missed eating meat since she had always liked the food she eats but now she eats a lot of beans,she also eats eggs.

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

4-Sometimes it's very difficult to eat out in restaurants due to the limited meatless choices on menus but now that is changing with the increase in vegetarian restaurants.

5-Grace is opposed to the killing of animals,now that,not only is she a vegetarian but she is also very disturbed by the use of animal fur for clothing.

6-Now that she doesn't eat meat anymore,she feels better,healtier and more humane.

7-Being a vegetarian and feeling that she is doing her share to protect animals,Grace becomes irritated when people question her motives for being a vegetarian however she tries to be patient with such people ,and she tries to make them understand the value of saving animals,but often people just don't understand.

Reflection Task 1a
I'm Elif Bilgin. I'm 28 years old. I am from Artvin. I graduated from METU, Faculty Of Foreign Language Education. I live in Ankara because of my job. I work in a business company as a translator. Moreover, I have brown eyes, black straight hair. I love reading novels, listening music, jogging. I like travelling and seeing new places so much. Lately, I've been thinking about it so I have wriiten about me this site. Maybe I can find a seatmate. If you think that the person is me, please contact me.

FLE 133 CONTEXTUAL GRAMMAR 

EXERCISES ON PARALLELISM

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


The Revised Paragraph 1
Our beagle love hunting. When someone opens the back door for her, she barrels down porch and steps into the yard. She runs back and forth across the lawn in ecstasy. Her nose cruises the wet grass for smells like cat, dog smells and other presences which are too subtle for human detection. While she is sniffing, she spins her tail in quick circles. After spinning clockwise, it spins counterclockwise. Sniffing and spinning always occur together. These seem to propel her along. 

The Original Paragraph 2
#The Government Printing Office in Washington D.C., is a source of much useful information.  Few people know about it.  It is the official publishing house for the federal government.  The GPO publishes pamphlets and books on a vast number of subjects.  These subjects 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.  There is no charge at all for some.


The Revised Paragraph 2
The Government Printing Office in Washington D.C., few people know about, is a source of much useful information. The GPO, publishing 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, is the official publishing house for the federal government. About 27,000 publications, which are inexpensive, are offered through the Superintendent of Documents. There is no charge at all for some.


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


The Revised Paragraph 3
The man, who reaped America's first fortune, was John Jacob Astor.He was a German immigrant and made his initial money trading Indian furs. Astor 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. 

My Version of "Imagine" 

Imagine by Elif Bilgin

Imagine there are no difficulties

It's not hard if you want

No thing below us

Above us only God 

Imagine all the people 

Can manage whatever they want

Imagine there's no failure 

It isn't hard to study

Nothing to give up or disappoint

And no hopeless too

Imagine all the people 

Can manage whatever they want

You may say I'm a loser

But I'm not the only one 

I hope someday you'll achieve the important things

And the world will believe you

Imagine no rainy day 

Good days will come if you can believe yourself

No need for the others or anything

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people 

Can manage whatever they want

You may say I'm a loser

But I'm not the only one 

I hope someday you'll achieve the important things

And the world will believe you

Both Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

Eat

Transitive Usage

-Because I didn't have much time, I prepared a sandwich and ate it.

-My father was so hungry that he ate a loaf of bread.

Intransitive Usage

-Since all of us were upset, the meal was eaten in silence.

-After we eat in my favourite restaurant, we will go to the theatre.  

Run

Transitive Usage

-My uncle runs a restaurant.

-I ran five miles this morning.

Intransitive Usage

-David just runs at jogging track.

-Just after the burglar saw the host, he ran away.

Clean

Transitive Usage

-After the doctor examined the patient, nurse cleaned the wound.

-Because my mother isn't at home, I have to clean all rooms by myself.

Intransitive Usage

-When I went home, I realized that all rooms were cleaned by housekeeper.

-The room was cleaned, before we settled in.

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Elif

Assignment 1