Today's Work of Group "Angry Mates of the Section One" - Reflection on the Film "Anger Management"

We've chosen Doctor Rydell since he is the most peculiar character in the movie. Besides, his type of speech and his mood are much different than those of the others. We'd love to get him to feel disgusted and irritated.

We'd do all the things that he hates. Firstly, we'd make a hard-cooked omelette. Then, we'd play "Kızma Birader" together. Afterwards, we'd watch "Fast & Furious".

We'd play GTA Vice City, and assault and murder everyone there. 

In the afternoon, we'd log into Facebook and play Angry Birds. If things don't go in the way we like, we'd swear and yell loudly.

At night, we'd go to a bar in which "angry" metal music is made and we'd get heavily drunk. We'd drive home back when drunk and we'd gladly pass through the red lights. 

We'd take photographs of him when the flash is on as he is sleeping. 

Group "Angry Mates of the Section One"

Yasin Altun

Merve Çağlar

Uğur Çakıroğlu

Gözde Güç

11/12/13 Wed.

COMMENTS
Oww, great :)

Congratulations (Uğur YD :)) Btw, this is the best of all works! :P

Asdafswedhasd! Hehehe, Hohoho! (Merve Ç) -- Dided in laughes.

I want to play "Kızma Birader"

Cool ideas! (The Pessimist)

Great idea!

* nice story.

I love this. Good job Guys :)

Thank you :)

Reflection Task 2a

Today I want to mention about homesickness mostly experienced by junior university students. I've chosen this topic since I feel this emotion from time to time, even though I intentionally came to Ankara. 

Most students who deliberately or reluctantly go far away from their hometowns to study in another city feel free and cheery at first. However, as time goes by, they somehow go through this feeling and some manage to get over it whereas others cannot. To get over homesickness, both university administration and students have to take some actions.

In METU, we are in a really different world and have lots of facilities in our campus; nonetheless, the situation is not the same everywhere. To help students get rid of homesickness, universities should make use of those facilities, at least some of them, as well –such as sports hall, swimming pool, various student clubs, a medical centre, a big market place like that of METU’s Çarşı and so on.

At this point, students feeling homesick have some responsibilities too. They should not keep this matter to themselves; instead, they should consult an expert. They had better not isolate themselves from the environment, but they should participate in social events, go for a walk with friends and talk to them in order to get some relief. Additionally, they should never ever give up studying and learning due to this feeling, which will most probably spoil their four years and perhaps their lives, but should balance their social and educational lives.

A Poem from the Perspective of Burger King (gram: used to/would)

I used to contain lots of glucose and salt
I would have them when I ruled the world
Now in the morning I am healthy,
unlike the way I used to be.
I used to be the king of the baddie
Listen as the crowd would eat me hungrily.
Now only that I've got is a bit of calory.
One minute I am now more healthy,
next I'll get healthier and much more healthy.
I discovered that my kingdom had always been 
too fatty.

Reflection Task 1b

I bet not most of you have ever heard of Michael Groom. However, he is really a successful man who works for a great holding in Europe. He was born in the US and grew up there as well. When he was only a nine-month-baby, he could speak and understand most of the things that were said. He began to read at the age of four through the help of his mother. He could solve a sixth grade mathematical problem when he was in the third grade. He learned every aspect of Arabic and Russian languages in two years, when he graduated from junior high school. As he grew up, he got more interested in drawing and painting. Upon graduating from his high school, he was admitted to Harvard University’s Department of Architecture. Within these years, he learned Japanese and German, which are mostly sought for a qualified employee in the business world. Then he went to various countries of Europe and got a Master’s Degree of Science and Doctor of Philosophy on architecture and economy. Now he’s been working for a great holding which is in Europe, Vienna. He has the signature of most projects made in Turkey, as well. Three times a week, he’s lecturing at Vienna University. Whatever challenges he had to encounter, he never gave up and always worked. Though only thirty three years old, he is a professor well-known throughout the world of his scope. I hope his life journey will set an example for the youth.

A Retarded Foolish Story

Once upon a time, there were some luscious and yummy cookies in a kid's room. They contained a lot of sugar; however, what mostly made them delicious was their cinnamon and ginger. 
Those cookies were on an argument about which one would get eaten first. They all wanted to be eaten first so that they would be understood by the other cookies to be very luscious, but they also wanted not to be eaten in order not to die, though. That was a dilemma for all of them.
One spoke: "This fatty one should die before! How lucky you are to have a lot of calories to enable our Master to play more!"
"You, there, are very sweet, dear. What an opportunity of you to taste so good! You are just for a child's taste." said the other one.
Another said that the most gingery should get eaten so that the kid would not get sick easily.
And the quarrel went on...

Till the kid came into the room with a cup of coffee.
He had a large mouth as well as a huge stomach.
Before the cookies couldn't say anything, he devoured all of them in a while.
Afterwards drank his coffee in a great relish and sat in front of his computer.

Reflection Task 1a

Hello and welcome to my special world.

I'm Uğur, 30, from Istanbul. I'm lecturing at Boğaziçi University on Linguistics. I graduated from Middle East Technical University Foreign Language Education Department nine years ago. I have an MA's degree on Linguistics and have been to Austria for my PhD. This was six years ago. I bettered my German there. 

Learning new things, reading books and playing the violin are one part of my hobbies. I'm keen on learning new languages; now I'm learning French and Dutch instantaneously, new alphabets -I can read Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian and Arabic alphabets besides Latin, and now learning Kokturk alphabet-.

I'm into Classical Turkish Music. Since I was eleven I've played the violin but I have to practice much more since I cannot have enough time to do that due to my busy schedule. I also listen to oldies, especially in French, and some modern ones.

I mostly read academical writings in accordance with my job, but I also enjoy reading fiction -I read Harry Potter Series and A Series of Unfortunate Events countless times-. 

At least twice a week I go jogging or swimming. I cannot say I’m an athletic person, yet I’m not ever-sitting as well.

That was a little bit about me; it’d be a pleasure to get to know you. I cannot say I’m someone unique, but hope to meet you someday.

A Different Version of "Imagine"

Imagine there's no ailment
It's impossible 'ven if you strive
No germs below us
Above us only health
Imagine all the people
Living with no sneeze

Imagine there's no virus
It isn't possible to realize
Nothing to scare or escape
And no medicine too
Imagine all the people
Living life in bliss

You may say I'm an obsessive
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll recover
And the world will be germless

Imagine no snoring
It'd be wonderful
No need for pills or masks
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Living without noise

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you won't get sick
And the world will be inhabitable

A Microbiotic Diet (Rewriting)

A macrobiotic diet is based on the concept of yin and yang in Eastern philosophy and the natural balance. For example, there is no meat in a macrobiotic diet. A small number of theeth in our mouth are used for chewing meat compared to the other kinds of teeth. Macrobiotics believe that we are not designed to have meat or sugar in our diet. Brown rice, which requieres a lot of chewing, is the primary food in the macrobiotic diet. When whe chew the rice, natural sugar is produced in the mouth; so we don't need any sugar from other sources. Of course, vegetables are along with brown rice because they are such a rich source of vitamins and other essential nutrients.

Exercises on Parallelism

#1 
Our beagle loves to hunt. Someone opens the back door for her and 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 of cats, rabbits and other presences that are too subtle for humanbeings to detect. She sniffs ans spins her tail in quick circles. It spins clockwise first, then counterclockwise. These two activities always occur together. They are sniffing and spinning, and seem to propel her along.

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The Government Printing Office in Washington D.C. is a source of much useful information, but few people know about it. It is the official publishing house for the federal government and publishes pamphlets and books in 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, many of which are inexpensive. There is no charge at all for some of them.

#2
A man reaped America's first fortune. He was John Jacob Astor, who was a German immigrant and made his initial money trading Indian furs. He 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.

Verbs Used Both Transitively and Intransitively

She runs a bed-and-breakfast establishment in Broadstairs.
The bull was chasing him, so he ran as quickly as he could.

I can manage perfectly well on my own. I need no help.
He had been managing the business for six years before it made a profit.

I was out when she called.
She called me a cheat and a liar.

She usually leaves the books on the table.
The train sometimes leaves early on Sunday.