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                  At Home with Mamma

In the article it is written that for many young Italian men, staying in the family nest is a matter of good sense and good cooking. In my opinion, it is a perfect idea as young men can regularly eat good home meals and also, their mothers will be glad of making they sons life easy or with feeding them by their own hands. I think that children no matter boy or

girl should stay with their family until they get married if they have chance to stay. Also, they should be happy of it because parents especially mother is the most reliable and helpful person for children but every men or women do not have chance to live with their parents or mother as they study or work in other cities or countries. 

However, it may be problem when they get married so my suggestion is staying at home until marriage as it will make easy the financial issues and also mothers will be happy. 

                                  

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Blood Diamond

Blood Diamond is a 2006 American political war thriller film co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou. The title refers to blood diamonds, which are mined in African war zones and sold to finance conflicts, and thereby profit warlords and diamond companies across the world.Set during the Sierra Leone Civil War in 1996–2001, the film shows a country torn apart by the struggle between government soldiers and rebel forces. It also portrays many of the atrocities of that war, including the rebels' amputation of people's hands to discourage them from voting in upcoming elections.The film's ending, in which a conference is held concerning blood diamonds, is in reference to an actual meeting that took place in Kimberley, South Africa in 2000. The film received mixed but generally favorable reviews.

When I watched this film I felt very sad because there are people who kill their own people for the money or  for the dimond which is very hard to believe. Moreover, they use children as killer of their own people which shows that some people do not have any feeling about humanbeing as some animals have:(

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TURKMEN LANGUAGE

I wanted to write or inform my friends about my mother language that is Turkmen (türkmençe) which is the official language of the Republic of Turkmenistan. Of the approximately 9 million speakers, the majority, a little over 6,5million, lives in Turkmenistan. Speakers also live in Iran (2,000,000), Afghanistan (1,500,000), and to a lesser extent in Turkey, Uzbekistan, Pakistan. Turkmen is not a literary language in Iran and Afghanistan, where many Turkmen tend towards bilingualism, usually conversant in the local dialects of Persian. The Turkmen Language belongs to the greater family of Turkic languages.

 Since Turkmen is spoken in several countries, it is not surprising that it consists of a continuum of varieties differing from each other in a pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. Turkmen has numerous dialects, which differ phonologically and morphologically. Key Dialects: Nokhurly, Yomut, Teke, Salyr, Saryk, Goklen, Arsary, Chowdur. Written Turkmen today is based on the Teke (Tekke) dialect.

Turkmen was written with the Arabic script before 1929. Between 1929 and 1940 it was written with the Latin alphabet, and from 1940 to 1995 it was written with the Cyrillic alphabet. Since 1995 Turkmen has been written with a version of the Latin alphabet based on Turkish. Finally, in 1995, the Täze Türkmen Elipbiýi, or New Alphabet, was formally introduced by President Niyazov to re-align Turkmenistan with the non-Soviet world.

The new alphabet (Täze Elipbiý), containing nine vowels and twenty-one consonants, is much easier for native English speakers to read and understand than the Cyrillic, and also seems better suited to the Turkmen language.

In general, Turkmen employs a Subject-Object-Verb word order, as is typical for Turkic languages, but other orders are possible in certain discourse situations. As such, Turkmen makes use of postpositions rather than prepositions, and unique relative clauses that precede the verb. In some ways Turkmen is an easy language to learn. Unlike Russian or Spanish, Turkmen has no genders. There are no irregular verbs. For the most parts, words are written exactly as they are pronounced. Finally, Turkmen's grammatical case system is remarkably simple once understood, and has almost no exceptions.

To sum up, I hope I could give same basic information to my you and also here are same basic words and phrases.  

Basic words

English/Turkmen: Hi, Hello “Salam”, yes “hawa”, no “yok”, and “we”, Help me “(Maňa)kömek edin”, Thank you “Sag boluň/bol”, sorry “bagyşlaň”, good “gowy”, bad “erbet”.

 Relatives

English/Turkmen: father “ata/kaka”, mother “ene/eje”, son “ogul”, girl “gyz”, mother-in-law “gaýyn ene”, bride “gelin”, aunt “daýza”, grandmother “mama/ene”, grandfather “baba/ata”.

Body parts

English/Turkmen: heart “ýürek”, head “baş”, eye “göz”, ear “gulak”, hair “burun”, hand “el”, finger “barmak”, foot “aýak”.

Basic phrases        

1.                  Ýagdaýlaryňyz nähili?              How are you?

2.                  Men düşünmedim.                    I don't understand.     

3.                  Sag boluň, men oňat.                I'm fine, thank you.   

4.                  Meniň adym...                          My name is... 

5.                  Siz bilen duşuşmagyma öran şat.         Pleased to meet you.               

6.                  hoş sag boluň                            goodbye         

7.                  soňrak duşuşarys                     see you later   

8.                  tiz wagtdan duşuşarys              see you soon   

article reflection 2

PowerPhrases:

The Key to Winning Respect

 Saying what you mean and meaning what

   you say can help you become heard.

                                                                                                                  Meryl Runion

I chose this article because I liked it so much and also there are lots useful advices which will be very useful for our life if we can do them. For example, people respect people who do what they say so in order to be respected we should do everything that we said. If we do what we say then people respect us and also they will believe us. In the article it says that if person does not respect his own words then it is senseless to expect that other people’s respect. I totally agree with that idea because like everyone else I also have some experiences about it; for example, one of my friends did not come the time which she said that she would come and then the next time I were late as I know that she would come late than she said. Moreover, the article says powerphrases are short that is keep your sentences short and direct, then people will respect you more. If one keeps his or her sentences short then the listener will not be bored and he or she will pay more attention. Also people need to say some kind of things directly if they cannot do or do not want to do. For example, if one of your friend invites you to the bar but you do not want to go then in order saying sorry I have another things to do even you do not, then it will be better saying I do not want to go to the bar but we can go together to cinema. Furthermore, one of the most important things for getting respect is people’s outlook, I mean, self-esteem how they express themselves while talking with other people and also their closing. People pay attention to the closes during the talk like is his or her closes are tidy or clean and so on.

To sum up, people should pay attention both their words and outlook in order to get respect as it is written in the article. I recommend you to read that article then you will be informed more widely about this topic. In short, after this reading I hope we can win people’s respect very easily.

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Getting Ready for the Classroom

      I must say that I very much like this topic as it is related to our future life. We are future teachers so we should know how to get ready for the classroom. I have learned lots of things from most of our courses and I hope I will use this knowledge my future career. Firstly, teaching as an art and a science. There is an argument that teachers are born not made; however, teaching is a science and can be taught.  For me both of them are true. I mean, some people are born with the ability of just to teach or help people and also they are successful of it. However, there are people who like to teach but not so successful, and in my opinion they can learn how to teach an effective way and can be successful. Above all of this, teaching is a complex and challenging profession. Moreover, generally there is belief that teachers who are warm and who loves the students are more effective teachers than teachers who are lack of those characters. To being warm and having love towards students are important things for being an effective teacher but it is not enough. In addition, teachers should encourage students to being active and to use active techniques such as real-world experiments. In shortly, as it is mentioned in the several courses, effectiveness depends on the subject, students, and environmental conditions. I can give examples in my own learning and teaching experiences. When we were in high school we did not listen to the topics which we did not interested in or we did not want to learn how to work with computers as there were not new versions of computers. When I went to teach students in our community service lesson some of them did not want to learn English as they do not have enough internal and external love or need so this kind of things can be huge problems for teachers. However, effective teachers can change students’ ideas in a good side by planning enjoyable activities, setting clear goals, treating all students fairly and equally, having positive expectations, and having responsibility.

     To sum up, as I mentioned before our courses which we are taking in our department will be very useful when we become a teacher, and also, I hope we can be an effective teachers in the future, because we are learning or reading the effective teachers characteristics. 

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Can Men and Women be Friends?

       In my opinion, men and women cannot be real friends because they are men and women. They can be equal in terms of justice but they are different in terms of sex. Moreover, it is true that male-female relationships have changed; that is, women and men work, study, and even live together so they can be colleagues, classmates, or friends but they cannot be a real friends. Society may say that it can be; however, if one man or woman says that she or he is real friend of someone who is opposite sex, then I believe that he or she fell in love with him or her. I saw that kind of friendships many times. If boy and girl say they are real friends then they have some kinds of feeling beyond friendship, if they do not have that kinds of feelings then they are only friends. In addition, that friendship may cause some problems like misunderstanding or jealousy between their families. To sum up, I believe that the best way of the real friendship is female to female or male to male as they can understand each other in a better way. Also, they can be friends with opposite sex but only friend. 

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Stress management

     I want to write about stress because we all experience it during our exams, quizzes, and presentations. So,

                                  What is stress?

    I know that all of you have a kind of same answer and the professionals as well they say that in simplest terms, stress is the opposite of relaxation. Also, stress is what you feel when you have to handle more than you are used to. I was shocked when I first heard that some stress is normal and even useful. In addition, stress can help if we need to work hard or react quickly. I always thought that stress is some kind of negative feeling but we all now know that it has positive effects as well. However, if stress happens too often or lasts too long, it can have bad effects. So, we need to learn how to reduce, prevent, and cope with stress, and here some professional major and minor advices:

1: Avoid unnecessary stress

Learn how to say “no”

Avoid people who stress you out 

Take control of your environment 

2: Alter the situation

Express your feelings instead of bottling them up

Be willing to compromise

Be more assertive

Manage your time better

3: Adapt to the stressor

Reframe problems

Adjust your standards

Focus on the positive

4: Accept the things you can’t change

Don’t try to control the uncontrollable

Look for the upside

Share your feelings

Learn to forgive

5: Make time for fun and relaxation

Set aside relaxation time

Connect with others

Do something you enjoy every day

Keep your sense of humour

6: Adopt a healthy lifestyle

Exercise regularly

Eat a healthy diet

Reduce caffeine and sugar

Avoid alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs

Get enough sleep

     To sum up, I believe that we can do or manage most of those things and can reduce stress by training. Also, I hope you can get enough information about stress which is quite common thing nowadays.