Reflection Task 2A Edited Version

Advantages of Using Social Networking Sites 

Guaranteed Meeting Places

When attempting to plan meetings with colleagues or friends, having access to social networking sites expands the available times and places in which meetings can occur. Individuals can meet each other and chat over Facebook, or open a video chat through Google+. Rather than having to travel to specific locations, or trying to work times out in which everyone is near a central location, people can plan to meet at times that work for all of their schedules.

Keep in Touch with Family

Keeping in contact with family through the phone or even over email presents a challenge. Instead, social networking sites allow the individual to share their day to day life in a secure but public forum, which family can watch and experience. Facebook, for example, allows people to share events, images, and thoughts in real time, during the course of any day. Family and friends can then experience all the things that someone does, and comment on them. Then, they share in the experience, rather than just being "informed" about them during weekly phone calls.

Professional Networking

For professionals and academics, social networking sites allow users to create networks of like-minded people. Academics find other scholars to share research or ideas, or simply to talk to and "get their name out there." Professionals find mutual friends and possible clients, employers, or business partners. Social networking expands the horizons of what sort of contacts people can make in their professional lives.

Staying Informed About the World

People on social networking sites share what interests them, such as news on current events. People who share those interests, or who just want to stay informed, can read these stories and share them as well. Eventually, these stories make their users who may have never read them aware. Since stories are shared through "word of mouth," smaller news outlets such as blogs can get exposure, and social network users are overall connected to a larger pool of new information and opinion.

My Opinion

I chose this topic because as you know social networking sites have great importance on our lives. For example, even a child has a Facebook account nowadays. I find social networking sites useful as long as they are used properly.

BOOK EXERCISES

Textual Analysis

Excerpt from: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30880159

British Gas - the UK's biggest domestic energy supplier - is to cut gas prices by 5% on 27 February. ( simple present)

The supplier, part of the Centrica group, said the cut would reduce the typical household's annual energy bill by £37. (simple past)

The move comes (simple present) after E.On reduced its standard gas prices by 3.5% last week.

British Gas said ( past simple) that the price cut reflected the recent fall in wholesale gas prices, which suppliers have been(present perfect)under pressure to pass on.

"We've been watching (present perfect) the significant moves in the international energy market extremely closely for some time, with the aim of helping customers with a price cut at the earliest possible opportunity," said (simple past) Iain Conn, chief executive of Centrica.

"Operating in such a volatile market, no pricing decision is straightforward." (simple present)

The Tone of the Text : It is informative because it informs us about gas prices.

Language Use : Reported speech and also direct speech are used.

Comment on the Text : The author uses grammatically correct language and it is easy to understand.

The Film Exercises

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Exercise 1 : Please classify the following sentences into sentence types according to function.

1.) Did you  want me to make you a sandwich?
2.) She's lucky to have a role model like you.
3.) Wait a minute.
4.) What did you do?
5.) Say it!

Answers:

1.) Interrogative
2.) Declarative
3.) Imperative
4.)Interrogative
5.) Imperative

Exercise 2 : Please classify the following sentences into sentence types according to structure.

1.) Oh, thanks, but Jill and I are having lunch.
2.) You don't have any friends.
3.) Before I tell you about that, you have to understand that we were so far in the hole, the only way out was by getting creative.
4.) My friend's daughter doesn't pay the rent for three months and now she and her whole family are gonna be evicted.
5.) That's a terrible thing to say.

Answers:

1.) Complex and Compound
2.) Simple
3.) Complex
4.) Compound
5.) Simple

Exercise 3: Please classify the following sentences into different parts of speech.

1.) I'm just doing what I can do.
2.) I might use that with Jill.
3.) Like the box was here.
4.) You sucked at it.
5.) That's terrific.

Answers:

1.) Noun phrase
2.) Preposition 
3.) Subject
4.) Verb
5.) Adjective
 

 

The Reflection Tasks I comment on:

1. Esma Tokatlı/Reflection Task 1B

2. Esma Ünlü/Reflection Task 1A

3. Sergen Sayan/Reflection Task 1A

4. Enes Sarıbaş/Reflection Tas 3A

5. Şeyda Üstün/What can be done to protect the environment?

Reflection Task 3A

I would choose 'Shailene Woodley' as the person of the year. She has accomplished many things. She has acted in three films in the same year,which is a great success. They all have acquired fame. She played leading role in the movie which is called 'The Fault in Our Stars'. Actually they adapted the book into a movie. It is among the best-sellers now. I think Shailene has a natural beauty and she is a very good actress in spite of her age. I want to talk about her life briefly. She was born in California in 1991. She was 5 years old when she started acting. She played her most important role in 'Replacing Dad' in 1999. She made a breakthrough with 'The Descendants' in 2011. My favourite movie that she stars in is 'Divergent'. At the beginning,  my expectation was low but the movie surprised me. I really liked the movie and the characters. They were all in harmony. In March,2015 the second movie of series will be released. I am looking forward to seeing it! :) I think she deserves to be the person of the year. I am sure that she will earn more success in time :)

Reflection Task 2b

I chose a movie which is called 'Shutter Island' for this task. When I watched this movie , I was shocked in the end and I could not understand what the reality was. This movie is about a mad man who is pretending as if he was a detective from the begining of the movie. I can mention about plot briefly. It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity. And then at the end of the movie we understand that he is a mad person who has been acting like someone else. But I still can not be sure whether he is mad or not. I thought a lot after the movie. It is one of the best movies I've ever watched! I suggest all my friends to watch it. I am sure that you will not regret :)