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İngilizce öğrenmek! Türklere online dersler

In our İngilizce Dersleri series we provide online video learning lessons. These video learning lessons are designed to compliment our online conversation classes. We encourage our Turkish students learning English to use these videos between conversation classes. They are designed to develop a student’s reading and listening skills.

In the İngilizce Dersleri series we use real news articles that are of relevance to our Turkish students as a basis for lessons. This video is based on an article from the BBC published on June 27th 2013. You can find a link to the original article here.

We recommend this article for our intermediate students of English. This is also a great video lesson for anyone taking the IELTS program. The article uses vocabulary from the arts and entertainment fields. The article also uses vocabulary that is common in everyday English.

İngilizce Dersleri: konu ve sözlük

Konu: Dizi, Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Gümüş, Arap ülkeler

Sözlük: soap opera, viewers, heartthrob, forbidden, appropriate, to earn, Arab Region, commonplace, obsessed, audience

İngilizce Dersleri: article synopsis

In this İngilizce Dersleri we focus on a very recent Turkish phenomenon, the export of Turkish television to the Arab world. Over the last five years, there has been a significant increase in foreign sales of Turkish drama television. In 2007, a mere $1m was made from export of Turkish television. In 2012, the same figure was $130m. One of the interesting consequences of this export is that Muslim viewers from more conservative societies than Turkey, are seeing images of alcohol and pre-marital relationships.

One example of such shows is Magnificent Century (Muhtesem Yuzyil). Set in the Ottoman world, it tells the story of Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest reigning Sultan, and his love for a Western woman in his harem. It looks back at 500 years to the era when Turkish Sultans ruled much of the Balkans and the Middle East. It has been exported to 47 countries mostly from these former Ottoman regions.

The rise of Turkey’s entertainment export market is sure to increase Turkey’s regional cultural status.

As always, let us know your thoughts on this version of the İngilizce Dersleri episode!

İngilizce öğrenmek! Türklere online dersler

In our İngilizce Dersleri series we use current news articles that we think our Turkish students will find interesting. These video articles are a reading and listening supplement to our conversation classes. You can find the complete library in our Ingilizce Dersleri section!

This İngilizce Dersleri video is recommended for Intermediate students. The language in the article is focused on an international political incident. The article includes vocabulary based on legal, historic and archeological subject matters. The article provides interesting vocabulary for IELTS students as well as those working in a professional field.

This article was first posted on the Reuters news service on May 6th 2013. You can find a copy of the original article here.

İngilizce Dersleri: konu ve sözlük

Konu: dinazor, hırsızlık, Moğolistan

Sözlük:

Legal vocabulary – prosecutor, judge, court, federal, claimed, to smuggle, repatriation, official, to seize

Historical / archeological vocabulary – expedition, looters

İngilizce Dersleri: article synopsis

We usually like to cover topics that are of particular interest to our Turkish students learning English. For this article we chose to take a break from Turkish subject matter. This article focuses on an international incident between the government of the United States and Mongolia. The two nations co-operated by returning a stolen artifact from the US back to Mongolia, its original home.

The 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton found in the Gobi Desert on a joint Russion-Mongolian mission was smuggled to the United States in pieces. The skeleton was then auctioned for more than $1 million, and was returned on Monday by the U.S. government to Mongolia.

Eric Prokopi sold the skeleton at a Manhattan auction last spring for $1.05 million. Mongolia demanded the return of the 8-foot-tall (2.4 meter), 24-foot-long (7.3 meter) skeleton. Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj thanked U.S. prosecutors, judges, investigators and paleontologists in a statement: “Our two countries are separated by many miles, but share a passion for justice and a commitment to putting an end to illegal smuggling.”

We hope that you enjoyed a departure from our typical İngilizce Dersleri subject matter. If there are any vocabulary topics that you would like us to cover in our İngilizce Dersleri series, let us know!

İngilizce öğrenmek! Türklere online dersler

In our İngilizce Dersleri series we use recent news articles relevant to Turkish students to create reading and listening exercises. These video lessons are designed for our Turkish students learning English. They are a supplement to our live online conversation classes. We encourage our students to use these videos to practice their listening and reading skills between conversation classes.

This article was found on the BBC News website in the Science & Environment section on August 1st 2013. You can find a copy of the original article here.

This İngilizce Dersleri video includes intermediate to upper-intermediate text. We recommend the video for our Intermediate to Upper-Intermediate learners. The language in the article is focused on a scientific experiment. The experiment is in the field of human behavior. Basic scientific language is a good vocabulary focus for IELTS. We recommend this exercise for our IELTS students. We also recommend it for anyone working in a research field.

İngilizce Dersleri: konu ve sözlük

Konu: biyolojik saat, araştırma, yirmi dört saatlik

Sözlük: To intend, exposure, to anticipate, to govern, to reset, to publish, to synchronize, to disrupt, to evolve, widespread, to allow

İngilizce Dersleri: article synopsis

The article focused on a recent behavioral study. The article’s findings was recently published in the journal, Current Biology. You can find the results of the experiment here. The study suggests that the biological cycle of humans has been disrupted by our reliance on electric light. The study took 8 volunteers out of their urban habitats and placed them in tents for 8 days. While camping, the volunteers were removed from all unnatural light sources. The study found that by removing the volunteers from electric light, their melatonin levels started to undertake more normal patterns.

In our İngilizce Dersleri series we typically cover subject matters with a Turkish focus. For this lesson we decided to focus on scientific vocabulary. We are sure that many of our Turkish students can relate to working hard under unnatural light conditions!

Please let us know if you found this lesson useful. If there is a particular vocabulary topic you would like us to cover in our İngilizce Dersleri series, do let us know!