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    [pic] KOCAELI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES BASIC ENGLISH DEPARTMENT SEMESTRE WORKSHEET 1 for A- C CLASSES LISTENING A. Read summaries 1-4. Listen and match them with speakers A-D. Summary Speaker 1. S/he doesn’t buy things on the Internet. ________ 2. S/he doesn’t trust people in chat rooms. ________ 3. S/he uses the Internet to find cheap things.

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    YOUNG ACHIEVERS PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE EXAMINATION 2015 TOTAL MARKS- 100 ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS SECTION I UNSCRAMBLE the following sentences.(5marks) 1. as citizens community the useful be must we of. 2. of family life the home importance and taught should be school every in. 3. neighbours peacefully with our live must Caribbean we. 4. pigment of leaves green the chlorophyll called is. 5. mandela is Nelson devoted a dynamic and fighter freedom. Rewrite the sentences below

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    Black Civil Rights More than a hundred years ago the Europeans brought slaves to North America. The blacks found themselves in the midst of prejudice whites with no way out. When the blacks came over Jim Crow laws were incorporated. With these laws it was near impossible for blacks to rise in the white world. Booker T. Washington was the first black to rise to any prominence in this time. In the early 1900’s blacks however began to fight back. In 1909 black advancement organizations began

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    The novel Black Like Me‚ by John Howard Griffin‚ tells the story of a sensitive white man from the south. He embarked on a personal mission to experience the hatred and bigotry towards the blacks that was rampant in the south during that time period. Putting his family and safety on the back burner‚ he proceeded to alter his skin to a black pigment and set off into the muggy south. No longer seen as a human by other whites‚ he discovered how the blacks were oppressed to the point of no hope. He walked

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    Part A- Black Like Me: A Sociological Research Project In Black Like Me‚ John Howard Griffin uses skin dye and ultraviolet rays to turn his skin black in order to conduct a sociological research project. While he is changing his skin color‚ he decides to maintain everything else the same as when he was a white man. His marital status‚ profession and wealth all remain unchanged‚ but by changing his skin color he can truly get a feeling of how it is to live life as a black man. The goal of his research

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    The English language  is very different today than it was in the 1920’s. Drastically changing over the years due to cultural‚ social standards and status. An alcoholic beverage that used to be called “giggle water”‚ or “giggler” due to some of the effects that alcohol can have on a person. But‚ if you were drunk due to too many “gigglers” and become a “splifficated” or “zozzled” they would call you a “boozehead”. After work “drugstore cowboys” which were young bachelors‚ would wait outside of a brothel

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    English Essay: Introduction: The way you speak to a person depends on the language form you choose to speak in. At the same time‚ it also depends whom you are speaking to. There are a variety of ways of saying a particular sentence to a person. Let us take the sentence ”Hello‚ how are you‚” if you are greeting a very important person‚ you would say it in a very sophisticated and well-mannered way‚ such as ” Good afternoon Mr. Ahmed‚ how are you feeling today?” Whereas if you are meeting your bestfriend

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    Personally‚ both of my AP courses‚ AP Biology and AP English Language‚ were the most challenging. Throughout the year my grades for these two classes fluctuated quite often. My peers and I were given more work and more was expected from us being AP students. From this year coming to an end I have discovered several of my strengths and weaknesses‚ I found that‚ like most students‚ I procrastinated and I had trouble managing my time however I was still able to maintain a positive attitude by being

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    Regional accents show great variation across the areas where English is spoken as a first language. This reading provided an overview of the many identifiable variations in pronunciation‚ deriving from the phoneme inventory of the local dialect‚ of the local variety of Standard English between various populations of native English speakers. Local accents are part of local dialects. Dialects of English have unique features in pronunciation‚ vocabulary‚ and grammar. I have learned that the term "accent"

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    Indian Authors in English Language There is no dearth of Indian authors who write in English language‚ as of today. But it was not same a century ago. English literature and writing was still in its nascent phase in India and most of the Indian writers were either used to be Indian born British or Britain educated Indians. The list includes exponents such as George Orwell‚ Rudyard Kipling‚ Jim Corbett‚ Tagore and Sarojini Naidu among others.  The post independence decades were largely dormant

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