Reflection Task 1b

        Hello friends,my name is Emre Aydın.My friends and teachers kid me about my name because it is same with a turkish singer's name.I am from Zonguldak in the northwest part of Turkey but I am living in Ankara now due to my education.I study at Foreign Language Education Department in METU.I really love my university which is also very popular abroad.Thanks to my school,I had a lot of opportunies to meet people from other universities.Although I am a bit shy at first,I like meeting new friends.I began to interested in football and poetry when I was child.They are still passions for me.I think that I am talented in football and to play football is the most enjoyable thing for me.Morever,I joined football team of METU and thanks to this I have good friendship.Poetry is my another passion as well as football.Actually,I am keen on a certain style called ''ikinci yeni'' in turkish literature.Besides,I write poems but not often.I believe that poetry is the most important and main art.In addition to these hobbies,I enjoy watching films and talking about them with my friends.Furthermore,I am addicted to video games unfortunately.On the other hand,I don't like crowded and noisy places so I don't go out so much.I want to meet to honest and funny people.These are important information about me.I am looking forward to making new friendships from other universities.

Reflection Task 1a

         Hello,I'm Emre,29 from Zonguldak.I graduated from METU Foreign Language Education Department.I have been working as an english teacher in a special school in Zonguldak for six years.After my graduate,I settled in Zonguldak and now I am  living in a lovely house that was in the middle of nowhere.I am interested in poetry and because of this,I translate poems as well as teaching.Also I love football and often go to matches with my friends.Apart from these,my another hobby is cinema.I enjoy watching films and talking about them.

        I am more than just a few sentences :).So I hope to find a friend whom I can get along with

and share my time.

Imagine by emreaydin

imagine your future

it's not away if you stand

no failure below us

above us only triumph

imagine all the people

have no disappointment

imagine there is no tear

it isn't up to only you

nothing to fight or worry for

and no regret too

imagine all the people

achieve their dreams

you may say I'm a wanderer

but I'm not the only one

I hope someday you will find your truths

and the world will water your flower

imagine no sighs due to chooses

others believe if you can

no need for cry or silence

a brotherhood of man

imagine all the people

know that life is easy

you may say I'm a wanderer

but I'm not the only one

I hope someday you will forget your sadness

                                                       and the world will give you a laughter

EXERCISES ON PARALLELISM

#1

         Our beagle loves to hunt.When 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.Then,her nose cruises the wet grass for smells of cats,rabbits and other presences which are too subtle for human detection.She sniffs and spins her tail in quick circles.First,it spins clockwise then counterclockwise.These two activities,sniffing and spinning,always occur together and seem to propel her along.

#2

         Although The Government Printing Office in Washington D.C. is a source of much useful information,few people know about it.Also,it is the official publishing house for the federal government.The GPO publishes pamphlets and books on a vast number of subjects ranging 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 and many of them are inexpensive.There is even no charge at all for some of them.

#3

        John Jacob Astor was the man who remaped America's first fortune.He was a German and made his initial money trading Indian furs.Morever,he was lowborn and uneducated.Also,Astor never learned to speak English properly so he carried on his business to the end in an accent which was redolent of the Hamburg gutters.

                                 A MACROBIOTIC DIET

       A macrobiotic diet is based on the concept of yin and yang in eastern philosophy and the natural balance of nature.For example,there is no meat in a macrobiotic diet because the small number of teeth in our mouth used for chewing meat compared to the other kind of teeth.Hence,macrobiotics believe that we are not designed to have meat in our diet and sugar also.On the other hand;brown rice which requires a lot of chewing is the primary food in the macrobiotic diet because when we chew the rice,natural sugar is produced in the mouth.So we don't need any sugar from other sources but of course,we need vegetables along with brown rice because they are such a rich source of vitamins and other essential nutrients.