1^st ASSIGNMENT WARNINGS

1. Please use pencil not pen, so that you can erase instead of crossing out.

2. Please bring a notebook, don’t keep your notes on separate papers.

3. Please keep a vocabulary list and a useful phrase list at the end of your notebook.

4. Please bring a file with lots of little bags in it. You are going to bring it for every writing course.

5. On the top or at the bottom of your paper, please indicate your name, date, the number of work, and the number of draft.

6. Have one, two, or three points (supporting ideas) to discuss in your paragraph. It is not easy to discuss only one; three is too many to keep short; so, try two points. Example papers: Çağatay (three), Sefa (two), Seda (two), Kıvanç (one), Salih (one),
   

7. A paragraph plan:

   Topic Sentence

   Point 1

   Detail 1a, 1b, 1c.

   Point 2

   Detail 2a, 2b, 2c.

   Conclusion

8. Discuss your points in balance as much as possible.

9. Please for every point you are writing, look at your topic. Is it about your topic. Can it answer your topic?

Example:

Topic: Air pollution is an effect of people who have not been educated.

Supporting point: We should not use deodorants, because they are dangerous for ozone layer.

9. There is a serious problem with the vocabulary and on how to use the vocabulary.

What can we do? This requires a great deal of studying and time. Please look at bbc’s web site for learning English. This site will give lots of reading and exercise.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/index.shtml

10. Please read graded story books, which are available at the library.

11. Do not make empty statements. For example:

First of all, waterlessness, global warinng and the hall on the ozone.

12. Do not state too many points in one paragraph, because you have to explain them and this will make your paragraph too long. For example:

Some of them are global warming, illness of aspiration system, polluted drinking water, no fresh air and etc.

13. Timing of the proficiency test:

2 hours for the multiple choice part

1 hour for writing:

5 minutes for deciding the subject and brain storming

10 minutes for Introduction (30-50 words)

15 minutes for Body 1 (100 words)

15 minutes for Body 2 (100 words)

5 minutes for Conclusion (20-30 words)

10 minutes for revision

You don’t have one hour to write only one paragraph!

14. My question mark ‘?’ means either I don’t understand it, or it is not understandable.

15. problems with PASSIVE

16. Don’t use past tense, if you are not talking about past. Example:

When people breathed, people’s health gets worse.

17. Please use pronouns for the same nouns you are repeating.

Turgut  he, Şaziye  she, table  it, people  they

When people breathed, people’s health gets worse.

18. The difference between: “to find drinking water” and “finding drinking water”.

19. go bad  go worse, worsen, is made worse, grow worse

20. big  bigger, the biggest

21. We must take a precaution.  We must take some precautions.

Some precautions should be taken in order to prevent the air pollution from threatening the world.

22. Air pollution destroys animals, so balance of the nature disappears. Humans are destroyed, too. Some body sprays have caused the ozone layer to be punched. X-rays come into the world.

Air pollution destroys animals, so balance of the nature disappears. Humans are destroyed, too. In addition to this, some body sprays cause the ozone layer to be punched. Therefore, x-rays from the sun can easily come into the world.