TWO DIFFERENT CITIES
There are two places that I find both similar and different in some respect. One of them is my hometown, Elazığ, the other is Denizli which I’ve been for university. Although one of them is a western, the other is an eastern city they have some things in common.
There are many things about their similarities. Both cities are almost the same in terms of development. Although Denizli is a bit more advanced, Elazığ started to develop dramatically for a long time. For example, Elazığ have two big shopping centers and also an entertainment center near completion, “Misland”. According to the Misland’s engineers it’ll be the biggest entertainment center of Turkey. It will have all the things that people can enjoy such as; a big shopping center , amphi theater,cinema, aqua park, mosque, hotel, traditional restaurants…etc. Denizli has also developed entertainment center. The second similarity is the historical places. Elazığ has lots of historical building and ruins just like Denizli. For instance, Harput Castle built by Urartu Civilization has a very interesting story. The civilization was dealing with livestock and their animals lactated so much. They built the castle with milk because of water shortage, so the other name of the castle is Milk Castle.There is a historical church from Byzantine Empire and Elazığ has more historical places such as mosques, tombs and lots of ruins. Hieropolis,Laodikeia, Pamukkale travertines are some of the impressive historical places of Denizli. Another similarity is the public. Local people of Denizli are just as sincere as of Elazığ. When I came Denizli I didn’t experience any difficulty in this respect.
Despite their similarities these cities are different . While Denizli has a temperate climate with very hot and humid summer, Elazığ has a terrestrial climate, hot summer but not humid. When I arrived Denizli, I first noticed that sticky weather. I don’t like this, but stil in winter the temperate weather is an adventage for me. The second thing I notice is the natural language. My hometown and Denizli have different accent. Local people of Denizli speak very quickly. Sometimes I really have difficulty to understand them. On the other hand Elazığ different accent but it’s not so quick. Despite the speed of speaking they’re so lovely and intimate.
In conclusion, these are the cities I love. One of them is my hometown and the other, I mean Denizli is the city that I’ll live for more four years.I’m happy in Elazığ the place I was born and grown up.Although I miss Elazığ because I have lived there since I was born and I have a family there, I love Denizli too. I firstly take steps to the life which I stand on my own feet in Denizli. Both of them have a meaning for me.

The 6th Week

That week was a stressful one because of exams :( We started the exams with listening and writing exams. In listening exam, while I had an exam, I also learned some knowledge about types of phobias that we listened in the lecture. As for writing exam, our teacher gave us an opinion essay which had missed parts and we filled them according to opinion essay organization. Moreover, we wrote a comparison/contrast essay about two restaurant which was given some facilities by our teacher. In addition we had gramer and reading exams. I probably made some mistakes but they weren’t so bad, I hope to have high grades…

The 5th Week

This week we learnt benefical information again. Firstly, in writing lesson we focused on comparison/contrast essay again. We were deeply interested in this essay type by looking for organization, sentence patterns, sentence connecters, etc… I had more information about that essay type. As for reading class, we made some discussions about the advanteges and disadvanteges of being male or female. In addition, we gained knowledge about the common features of fairy tales. These common features are called stereotypes; such as goodness related with beauty, bad charecters always have ugly appearance, good people always have a happily ever after… Mrs. Gültekin wanted us to write a familiar fairy tale with group and we wrote Little Red Riding Hood. Furhermore, we read a topic which was titled as Learning Gender Lessons At Schools.While we were reading I learnt that girls and boys take different attention in society and family. We talked about that issues in class with our friends.Despite the tiredness that week was profitable again…

THE LAST TWO WEEKS

I will write about last two weeks, because I didn't know that we would write reflection for each week.In that two weeks we learnt benefical, new words and information related with crime and punishment thanks to the texts given by our teacher.After our teacher gave us group work, we divided into four group and we were responsible for searching civilizations in terms of crime and punishments. We got lots of information in a week and prepare a powerpoint presentation. We worked really hard for this work so I was satisfied with our group performance. Thanks to this work we had historical and general culture information.As I express in my Presentation post before, such kinds of works are really useful for us. Secondly in reading lesson our subject was infertility and genetically modified foods. I learnt interesting points from both of these issues.Especially the issue about genetically modified foods was really critical, because it's related with our health. We learnt what is the negative effects of these foods and what kind of preventative rules take action against these foods in different countries.In our writing lesson, we learnt how to write comparison and contrast essay. There are two methods of this essay;point by point and block method.Again we read essay samples for understand bettter.Our teacher advised us to write with point by point method. I hope we can show our perfofmance well on all of these subjects.

PRESENTATION

I was very excited about the presentation. I made lots of search about my subject. I met with my group friends almost everyday. We didn't experience any conflict.It was very tiring especially for powerpoint. I really struggled with powerpoint. My friends also helped me they do their best.Despite of the tiredness, it worths taking a high grade and learnig something. I hope we can get good grades.I really like makig research and learning new things. We have a historical experience thanks to this work.I think it's important to do such kinds of works for our general culture.I hope we have such works again for our improvement but it's better to have more time. :)

SNOWBALL AND COCO

One day ,while I was rolling in the grass with Coco, we saw a tiny and miserable animal in the garden. After we went closer, realized it was a puppy. Although it was a puppy,we weren't afraid because of its helplessness. Coco and I began meowing tragically. When Susan heard our voice, came to the garden and saw the tiny puppy too. She had sense of pity about this dog and decided to say her parents whether take it home or not. Her parents said it was impossible but Susan said we seemed getting along. Coco and I really liked the pretty puppy. After Susan's insistence, Joy and Marty accepted. We liked this decision too. Susan wanted to name this dog as Tiny.We began living a peaceful life. Everyday we were rolling on the grass and had a very nice time. However, Tiny was growing day by day naturally and had some change in his manner towards us. Tiny was very aggressive. When we were playing, Tiny attacked us. Susan and her family noticed this case. In fact, they estimated such an event would happen. Susan could understand that take the miserable dog home was a mistake. Because he could hurt Coco and me. The family talked and decided to send Tiny to an animal shelter. That situation was worried the family but it had to be so. Coco and I were relaxed and happy anymore. Tiny was really a danger for us. After Tiny went, I loved Coco more than before, I understood she was really my fellow.

MY FIRST EXPERIENCE

Firstly I want to mention that the idea of create a blog is very interesting. After I took a look the blog, I saw that it may be very useful. I can have various options about kinds of subjects and this is a great chance for the one who is in the ELT Department. Everybody has different perspectives, so thanks to our blogs we can get different perspectives too. Above all, we can prepare ourselves for our job that we'll have in the future. As we see other ideas and our mistakes, we can get a step further. It's my belief that we can gain more creativeness for especially writing.