This pretty child you see in the picture is my nephew,Abdurrahman.I know I have written another passage about my niece nisa; but because I love them very much and miss their naiveness while far away,I wanted to write something about him too. Before I came ankara, he had just started to speak a few words such as 'anne ','baba'...But two months later, when I came to my hometown,I got really surprised his saying 'teyze'.he will be two april 28th.Also his name was given to him since abdurrahman was born in his grandfather's death day......

IMPROVEMENT ON MY PRONOUNCATION
Listening and pronouncation course is a lesson which fistly we started to take in university.
Because of our educational system,while we are preaparing for university exam,we only studied on gramatical rules of English.We didnt learn anything about how we are able to speak fluently and undestand easily.Thus,at first lacking of practice caused unwillingness to this course.
Also,the phonetic structure of Turkish is more comperensible and clear comparing to English.So,as a turkish student ı had some difficulties in producing some sounds of english.especially,there is no need stressing and intonation in turkish ponouncation but in English they can change the meaning of your expression.
On the other hand, since I started to take this course, I have easily realized the improvement on my own and I have enjoyed of every stage of it. Since I am training in education and want become an effective teacher,I have to gain some expert knowledge on english.So, practices and exercises we have made during this course helped us gain abilities of effective speaking and listening.
Doing physical exercises for producing articulations was very helpful for our pronouncing and spelling english words.thanks to listening exercise, I have started to give importance on different accent of english speakers.Distinguishing different accent enabled and fastaned my learning process; and so, understanding and speaking english became more easy.
I am very content of having taken this course.It has positive impact on me from all side.I think it is the most important necessity of an learners during the improving process themselves in English language

In this picture,there is a autentic place which you will get excited about its athmosphere.You see a balcony overlooking the water and interesting trees.this balcony is on the center of this picture.There is a red carpet and some other devices such as nargileh on it...The trees,different tones of green,make you feel more relaxed...the athmosphere takes you from complexity of the daily life.The blue sky and ground are in a magnificiant harmony.I think if you have got tired of your work and bored with your life,coming there will be perfect for you...

our home in secon life

I 'm a member of a course giving us an assigment for this week in secondlife.Our duty is constructing a home.For our new home in secondlife,firstly we participated in a group consisting of five people.as a member of this group each of us has different duties such as ceartining the pleace of home,determining kind of it ,choosing colour of it and costructing the some parts.On the first step of our construction ,because of my duty,I searched for place and found a proper one.Then one of my group friends started to make a ground for it.After having completed the ground, we determined colours of our walls .Although some unsuccesfull trying ,we managed to place them properly.On the last steps of construction,we made a roof and a big door for our home.We painted its walls, roof and door.the walls are colourful;but,the door and the roof are same colour,brown.Finally we put some chairs to sit in and finished the construction.Now we have a new home with new friends in a new life,secondlife...:)

CLASSIFICATION OF METU DEPARTMENTS

Odtü is a large educational instution consisting of many different people groups.People in odtü can be classified in terms of their depatments

there are many different departments such as education,architecture,engineering.but, if we separate them two groups. we can examine them as educational department and others. Because I am a student training in education department, I see some clear differences between them. for example, in our department,courses generally bases on teaching methods and techniques.These courses help them gaining quantities for effective teaching and developing themselves on their own area.

but in other departments such as architecture, engineering etc.,students learn generally learn some technical informations and then take some cources based on practice.

Also, there are some other differences .For example, sometimes in metu,different conferences are arranged for students' gaining more knowledge on their area and for broadening their horizon .But unfortunately I think these organizations generally address the departments such as architecture, engineering etc. For this reason, it seems that these deparments have more chances for developing themselves from the facilities which metu provides for its student.