GRAMMAR EXERCISES

EXERCISE 1

Our beagle loves to hunt. When someone  opens the back door for her, she barrels down porch steps into the yard and she runs back and forth across the lawn in ecstasy. Her nose cruises the wet grass for smells such assmells of cats, rabbit smells, and other presences too subtle for human detection with sniffing. She spins her tail in quick circles like a clockwise and then like a counterclockwise. Sniffing and spinning always occur together. They seem to propel her along.

EXERCISE 2

The Government Printing Office in Washington D.C. , is a source of much useful information, but few people know about it. It is the official publishing house for the federal government. It publishes pampleths and books on a vast number of subjects which range from the dangers of X-rays from home TV sets to the identification of mushrooms. About 27.000 publications are offered through the Superintendent of Documents. Many of them are inexpensive. Morover there is no charge at all for some of them. 

EXERCISE 3

The man who reaped America’s first fortune was John Jacob Astor. He was a German immigrant and made his initial mney trading Indian furs. Because of being lowborn, uneducated Astor never learned to speak English properly, but he carried on his business to the end in an accent. The accent was redolent of the Hamburg gutters.

video reflection

In this video the students are happy to be in the USA. Because they think American education system provides more oppurtunities when compared it with their hometowns'. They can do more practice. They can do study as a group.
Why the chinese student decided to go to the USA for studying is that they should have high grades to enter a good university in her hometown. So she communicates with the agencies which inform about studying abroad. Thanks to this she chose ONU. According to Netherland student she finds American education system flexible. And it is based on creativity and team work. The Japanese student got used to study abroad because he studied in England and Canada in his high school years.
Chinese student says that in their education system once they enter the college they can not change their major. Netherland student does not like theirs because she thinks it is very strict and they can not practice.In China they should have high grades.
Their payment changes by their meals, housing. It also depends on the department which they study on. But it is about 35000 dollars.
They have experienced some difficulties. For example Chineese student says that they hang up clothes outside in China but in the US everybody uses dry machine. While the Japanese communicate with each other indirectly American people communicate directly and this situation is strange for the Japanese student.
They also have experienced culture shock like every international student. The Japanese student finds very disgusting people's burp. The Chinese student finds heird that people wear thin shorts in winter. They start to get used to these situations gradually.

I think of going to abroad for my education but I haven't thought which country I choose before. I want to go in my second or third year. It will be beneficial for me in terms of improving my speaking skills. I will experince similar difficulties but I will get used to living  there step by step. I hope it will materialize and it will be nice.