A New Term!

Welcome back!

How was your vacation? What did you do? Are you ready to be back in school? We had  a great vacation. We got to see some of our family. We visited some new places (Florence and Venice, Italy) and some old places (Istanbul, Turkey). We ate a lot of really good food. It was really nice to have a break from school.

Florence, Italy

What was your favorite part of the vacation? Did you get to spend time with your family? Did you go somewhere new? What made it a good (or bad) time?

Do you have pictures from your break? Send us the link! We'd love to see them. Use the "comment" box below to tell us about your break! 

Have a great term! 

Annoying Orange: Rap-berry

So we had funny comments the last time we shared one of these videos. So here is a new one!

Let us know what you think!! Here!

Week 6 Vocabulary

Here is a great way to study the vocabulary for the quiz next week:

You can watch this video with pictures of all the words: 

Print this quiz to practice: 

Review all of the words here: 

My Country enormous ____ kilometres long ____ metres high capital inland major famous beach popular borders river mountain

My town castle palace statue square cathedral church temple mosque market bridge park museum building place medium-sized city town village fact opinion size location population over just under modern industrial historic in the (north) of (Italy) on the (river/coast) (50 km) west of (Antep) busy quiet crowded polluted dirty clean there’s lots to do there’s nothing to do nightlife safe dangerous

Countryside sky wood hill farmer valley tree field farm lake horse boat grass dog path own grow a few crop alone area birds wonderful flowers fresh food healthy public transport terrible bike lonely look after

Shops market stalls outdoors indoors shopping centre department store supermarket hypermarket butcher’s baker’s chemist’s deli paper shop newsagent’s convenient get do the shopping queue checkout choose prefer fill trolley basket deliver

Other call out loudly jerk overheat repair shop passengers crowd riding the bus deliver poor residents collect town unemployed crime volunteers care brand fix day off dinner

Tell us your favorite vocabulary words: HERE!

Distraction

This weekend I spent a long time doing schoolwork. It was very difficult for me to keep focused. Sometimes I would get distracted. When I work on my computer I usually check my email. Sometimes I read facebook or twitter. Sometimes the internet helps me do my work and sometimes the internet makes my work take longer. Often when I study I listen to music. Sometimes music distracts me too. I start listening to the music and can't do my work.

What is the problem in this video:

The man is distracted by the music! Does music distract you or help you work? Do you listen to music when you do schoolwork? Tell us about it HERE!

Favorite Posts from Last Week!

Here are some of our favorite answers from last week! Keep working hard. Practice your grammar lessons when you answer. The more you use English the easier it will become.

- Your Teachers :-)

Dreaming of University

I recall my earlier days there was something very important. Dreams of going to college makes it exciting for me to enter on order of my life and recognize and develop more. I will know new people. Now this dream happened at the university.

Are you excited to be at University? Is important to you?

Christmas-time

Christmas is just around the corner, for us in Turkey, we do not feel the fever, since we are Muslims. But we count down the days because christmas ushers in a new year. We also count down the days to the and of the winter break. 

So, its eleven days to the new year. And we are looking forward to travel to Kayseri to celebrate the new year with my friends.

Christmas was last week (December 25!) did you do anything special? Do you have plans to celebrate the New Year?

Making Videos

I love funny videos. I like animations. I'm laughing.Very funny going on. I would love to shoot video because it is so much fun.

We really like to watch videos too. Do you like to make videos? Do you know MacBook Pro's are the best at making video? (You can learn more from Apple here: http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/)



If you have a comment tell us Here!

Little girl calls for help - Very sweet

This video is very sweet. A little five year-old girl calls the police and helps take care of her dad. Her dad  is having a heart attack and needs help, but can not talk on the phone. So his daughter calls and talks for him.



Watch the video. What does the girl sound like? Is she scared? Frightened? Nervous? Upset? Relaxed? Excited? Did you help someone when they were injured or sick? What were you like?

Tell us about it HERE!

Christmas!

On Saturday Jeremy and I enjoyed Christmas. We gave gifts to each other, watched movies, and ate a lot of food. On Saturday we went to Sanko Park and saw the big ebru that Zirve did. We also talked to our families in America.
Our families were all together and enjoying Christmas. They played games, they ate food, they opened gifts, and they talked to us. It is difficult not being with our families in the holidays.

Do you miss your family while you are at university? Do you talk to your family often? Or, does your family live in Gaziantep? Do you think it would be difficult to not live with your family?

Click HERE to tell us.