UNIT 3

Dear All,

When you take notes, highlight important facts, names, numbers, or dates. Thus, you will find and remember the necessary information in your notes. 

The following words and phrases are helpful: 

danger-dangerous	ancient	lead	Let's start with....
pretty	shake	population	The first thing I'm going to talk about.....
destroy	lifetime	neighbor	Now let's move on to….
insect	market	volunteer	Now X is going to tell you……
local	tourist attraction	repair  x destroy	Next, I'm going to talk about....
pollute-pollution	prepare	enjoyable	Now X is going to take over...
			Finally, let's talk about....
			To wrap up, I'm going to tell you...

Suffixes

A suffix is a group of letters placed at the end of a word to make a new word. A suffix can make a new word in one of two ways:

1. inflectional (grammatical): for example, changing singular to plural (dog → dogs), or changing present tense to past tense (walk → walked). In this case, the basic meaning of the word does not change.
2. derivational (the new word has a new meaning, "derived" from the original word): for example, teach → teacher or care → careful

A suffix goes at the end of a word. A prefix goes at the beginning.

Inflectional suffixes

Inflectional suffixes do not change the meaning of the original word. So in "Every day I walk to school" and "Yesterday I walked to school", the words walk and walked have the same basic meaning. In "I have one car" and "I have two cars", the basic meaning of the words car and cars is exactly the same. In these cases, the suffix is added simply for grammatical "correctness". Look at these examples:

		example
suffix	grammatical change	original word	suffixed word
-s	plural	dog	dogs
-en	plural (irregular)	ox	oxen
-s	3rd person singular present	like	he likes
-ed	past tense past participle	work	he worked he has worked
-en	past participle (irregular)	eat	he has eaten
-ing	continuous/progressive	sleep	he is sleeping
-er	comparative	big	bigger
-est	superlative	big	the biggest

Derivational suffixes

With derivational suffixes, the new word has a new meaning, and is usually a different part of speech. But the new meaning is related to the old meaning - it is "derived" from the old meaning.

We can add more than one suffix, as in this example:

derive (verb) + ation → derivation (noun) + al → derivational(adjective)

There are several hundred derivational suffixes. Here are some of the more common ones:

suffix	making	example original word	example suffixed word
-ation	nouns	explore hesitate	exploration hesitation
-sion		persuade divide	persuasion division
-er		teach	teacher
-cian		music	musician
-ess		god	goddess
-ness		sad	sadness
-al		arrive	arrival
-ary		diction	dictionary
-ment		treat	treatment
-y		jealous victor	jealousy victory
-al	adjectives	accident	accidental
-ary		imagine	imaginary
-able		tax	taxable
-ly		brother	brotherly
-y		ease	easy
-ful		sorrow forget	sorrowful forgetful
-ly	adverbs	helpful	helpfully
-ize	verbs	terror private	terrorize privatize
-ate		hyphen	hyphenate

Note that the suffix -er can convert almost any verb into the person or thing performing the action of the verb. For example: a teacher is a person who teaches, a lover loves, a killer kills, an observer observes, a walker walks, a runner runs; a sprinkler is a thing that sprinkles, a copier copies, a shredder shreds.

"Be going to" to Express a Plan

"Be going to" expresses that something is a plan. It expresses the idea that a person intends to do something in the future. It does not matter whether the plan is realistic or not.

Examples:

• He is going to spend his vacation in Hawaii.
• She is not going to spend her vacation in Hawaii.
• A: When are we going to meet each other tonight?
  B: We are going to meet at 6 PM.
• I'm going to be an actor when I grow up.
• Michelle is going to begin medical school next year.
• They are going to drive all the way to Alaska.
• Who are you going to invite to the party?
• A: Who is going to make John's birthday cake?
  B: Sue is going to make John's birthday cake.

Introducing topics in presentations

Please use the following phrases:

To introduce the first topic:

Let's start with......

The first thing I'm going to talk about is....

To change to a new topic:

Now let's move on to...

Next, I'm going to talk about....

To introduce the last topic:

Finally, let's talk about....

To wrap up, I'm going to tell you about....

UNIT 2

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UNIT 2

Dear All,

In this unit, we focused on the main idea, details and examples while taking notes.

Please pay attention to the signal words below:

First

Then

Also

Another

For instance

For example....

Useful Vocabulary:

International	Positive	Custom	Careful Carefully
Difficult - Difficulty	Die- Death	Avoid	Confused
Mistake	Celebrate -Celebration	bottom	Invite - Invitation
Offended	Rude	Polite X Impolite	Upset
Wedding	Neighbor- Neighborhood	Traditional	Village
Depressed	Tough	Considerate	Optimistic

Should & Shouldn't

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

UNIT 1

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U1 test-a (1) from hacersivil

U1 test-b from hacersivil

U1 test-b from hacersivil

WEEK 4

Dear All!

This week we have focused on the following topics:

Exercises on Simple Past

• Was or Were?
• Positive Sentences in Simple Past
• Answer Questions in Simple Past
• Negative Sentences in Simple Past
• Questions in Simple Past
• Questions with Interrogatives in Simple Past
• Mixed Exercise in Simple Past
• Past Simple Tense

We have just started our new book called Q:Skills for Success -Listening and Speaking 1. This book includes lots of listening sections.We will focus on some note-taking and speaking strategies. We will also new new words. 

Unit 1

Listening 1

• When you take notes, write only  a few words and phrases about the most important points.

career             employ (v)      employee(n)        employer (n)        basic      require(v)     requirement (n)

organize (v)     organized (adj)     degree      interview           friend (n)       friendly (adj)

WEEKS 2&3

Dear All,

Here are some exercises to practice:

PRONOUNS AND DETERMINERS

Personal pronouns

Object pronouns

Subject or object form?

Personal pronouns or Possessive determiners

Possessive determiners

Possessive determiners exercise

this, that – these, those 

ARTICLES

Articles

PREPOSITIONS

Prepositions – at, in, on

at, in, on – Prepositions in expressions of time

Prepositions of place, direction and time

NOUNS

Nouns, s-genitive, Plural

Countable and uncountable nouns

Singular or plural

MUCH, MANY, SOME, ANY

Quantifiers – much, many, some, any

CONJUNCTIONS

Conjunctions in sentences 

AM, IS, ARE

Questions without question words and am, are, is

SIMPLE PRESENT

Positive statements in the Simple Present 

Simple Present – Negations – Long forms – 

Questions in the Simple Present 

Sentences and questions in the Simple Present 

CAN/CAN'T

can or can't 

DO/DOES

Questions with do or does

Questions with do or does

The verb do (do, don't, does, doesn't) in the Simple Present 

HAVE GOT/HAS GOT

have or has got

have or has got in questions

WEEK 1 (28 SEPT-2 OCT)

Dear A1 19 Students,

Congratulation! Now, you are a member of ITU Family..... After you have proved that your English is proficient enough, you will be able to start the education in your departments, attend student-exchange programs, do research, and the like.

It is great to have lessons with you. It must be a bit confusing for you since you have so many lessons and teachers each week. What I see is that you are self-motivated, which is curicial while learning English. Since we do not have a class picture, I have not uploaded one yet. but will take your pictures and upload them to our blog. Well... Let me explain why I decided to open this blog. To be honest, there are so many reasons:

•  Since you are a tech-savvy, I thought you may use interactive tools easily.
• Due to my workload, I have limited time, so this blog may be a great help to stay in touch with you.
• Your strength: You know grammar by heart. You remember every single rule indeed.Yet, you need  variety and practice. The assignments and suggested activities will help you improve your English.
• I hope by means of the activities on our blog, you will be able see your strengths and weaknesses.
• I have taken some online courses provided by Oregon University, and the British Council. I believe that if I put into practice whatever I know, it will be helpful to improve your English.  

What is our class profile?

As you know your level is Elementary, which means you are not able to express yourselves  clearly yet  due to  the limited lexical knowledge and  lack of grammar knowledge. You are almost adults (17+) and eager to start and complete your academic career. There are 33 students in the class, and most of you are not from Istanbul.

What is the setting?

Thank you for choosing Istanbul Technical University (ITU), where we provide a one-year intensive English program for our students before they start their faculty. It is such a crowded school. We run two different preparatory programs; one for the ones who will study at ITU, and the other for the ones who will study both at ITU and a sister school in the USA.

Apart from preparatory programs, we also have English lessons for Continuous Education Program called SEM shortly. Our classrooms are equipped with a projector and sound system. We do have wireless internet in the whole building. You can use our computer lab, writing center, dining hall, medical center, parking lot, service buses, and library whenever you need.  As part of school facilities, you may also use the health club on the main campus.

 You are so lucky to be in the heart of Istanbul. The location is amazing, you can go everywhere easily or enjoy the historic building.

What are the course goals?

As we all know you are required to prove that your English level is eligible enough. Thus, we offer you an intensive program till June. That is, in total you have 8 months. At the end, you may take our national exam or an international exam. Your priority might be passing one of the exams, yet remember that you need to use English efficiently in your career and social life.

My course is Listening & Speaking , yet I would like to remind you that it exists in every skill. Thus, we will do various integrated activities using our knowledge.Our coursebook is Q Skills 1.

What do you need?

We provide all the materials including books and handouts. What you need to do is to follow lessons and complete assignments. If you need additional source, please feel free to use our library or ask for help. I have already provided plenty of activities. If you have not tried them yet, in spite of the deadlines, you can start to explore them.

Best

Class Teacher Hacer Şivil     sivilh@itu.edu.tr (just in case)

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