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İngilizce öğrenmek! Türklere online dersler…

Welcome to another post in our İngilizce Dersleri series. These posts are focused around video lessons that we have prepared using recent news articles. We usually focus on current events that are of high relevance to our Turkish students learning English. This week we have picked a recent article about the overthrown president of Egypt, Morsi. This article is of regional relevance to Turkey, and we hope you enjoy it!

This article is intended for our more advanced students as it contains some challenging political vocabulary. We intentionally do not read the entire article and have simplified some of the text.

As always, feel free to take your time in viewing the article. These İngilizce Dersleri lessons are designed to be watched once through, then paused wherever you are finding the vocabulary challenging. Feel free to supplement the article with an online dictionary to review any vocabulary that we do not highlight. You can find the complete library of lessons in our Ingilizce Dersleri section!

İngilizce Dersleri: konu ve sözlük

Konu: Mısır, Müslüman Kardeşler, kriz, darbe

Sözlük: to move against, to pledge, confrontation, to seek, unrest, to depose, to detain, upheaval, to put under house arrest, interim, to fail

İngilizce Dersleri: article synopsis

This article was originally published on the BBC news service July 4th, 2013. You can find a copy of the original article here.  Turkish speakers may also like to look at the BBC article, Mısır’da ordu Mursi’yi devirdi, which provides context to this video.

The Egyptian army recently removed Morsi from power. Mr Morsi is in detention, as well as senior figures in the Islamist group of which he is a member. Hundreds more are being sought. The top judge of Egypt’s constitutional court, Adly Mahmud Mansour, has been sworn in as interim leader. He has pledged to hold elections based on “the genuine people’s will”. At a news conference, Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad el-Haddad declared “our full refusal and revoking of the military coup” and demanded Mr Morsi’s immediate release, along with the other detainees.

Let us know your own thoughts on the article either in Turkish or English!

İngilizce öğrenmek! Türklere online dersler

Welcome to our İngilizce Dersleri series. For any of our new learners, these video lessons are designed to be a compliment to our live conversation classes. Students can practice their reading and listening skills between conversation classes. We purposefully pick subject matter which is relevant to our Turkish students learning English. This week, the 2020 Istanbul Olympic bid! We are sure that our students will find this article interesting, especially those from Istanbul!

This İngilizce Dersleri post is designed for advanced learners of English as some of the language is quite challenging. It includes subject matters related to sport, competitions and international organizations.

İngilizce Dersleri: Istanbul, Madrid or Tokyo?

The article we are using for today’s İngilizce Dersleri was originally reported by Reuters on May 28, 2013. You can find a copy of the original article here.

Article Synopsis:

The bids for the 2020 Olympic Games are coming to a close. Who will the IOC choose to host the Olympic Games? Madrid, Tokyo and Istanbul are the final contenders to as candidate cities for the 2020 Olympic games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will decide the winner on the 7th of September 2013 at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Each candidate city is preparing to make its final presentation to the IOC in Moscow. Each city has a different selling point for as a host city for the Olympic games. Istanbul can highlight its recent economic growth and emergence as a regional power. It would also be the first Muslim country to host the games. Madrid has a long standing as a sports city, and Spain as a powerhouse in athletics. Tokyo can boast a world class infrastructure.

Are you excited to hear whether Istanbul will get the Olympics? Let us know if you have any feedback, questions or suggestions!