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 english
language
department

English class is the class that In English Class we have 10 Apart from English we also
prepares us for studying hours of Optional English, 4 have Basic Maths, Geo-
language at university. We hours of Basic English and 2 graphy, Music, Turkish Lan-
choose what we will study hours of Foreign Language guage and Literature, Deut-
at 10th grade and finish and Literature, so in total sch, P.E, Religous Studies,
high school in those classes. 16 hours of English weekly. History and Philosophy.

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 Although many people think that language
learning and studying English is easy
compared to other branches, this is not the
case at all. Yes, it might seem like we focus
only on English and it makes the class easier
to study,but what people don’t know is that
we have to do Maths, Turkish Language,
Science, Geography, History, Philosophy
and Religion to be able to achieve a success.
We have to take two exams so that we can
get into a university. These exams are called
TYT and YDT ,as whole YKS. In TYT, which
means Basic Efficiency Test, we have 40
maths, 40 Turkish Languge, 20 Social
Science and 20 Science questions. In total
120 questions. In YDT, which means Foreign
Language Test, there are 4 language options

which is Arabic, Russian, French and English. In this exam we have 80 questions. Of these 80
questions 15 is vocabulary and grammar, 1 cloze test which includes 5 questions, 8 sentence
completion, 5 passages that has 3 questions for each passage therefore 15 questions, 5
dialogue, 5 paraphrase, 5 situation, 5 passage completion, 6 English to Turkish translation, 6
Turkish to English translation and lastly 5 finding the irrelevant sentence questions.

Our YKS score is determined by this two tests. TYT occupies %40 of the score and YDT occupies
the %60. Even though out branch is English, as you can see, TYT plays a big role in our score
with it’s high percentage. So despite doing 80/80 in YDT, If you don’t make a good score in TYT
you can’t really get an efficiant score in YKS.

Graduating from a high school English Class also has many career advantages. Jobs such as
English Teaching, Translation and Interpreting, Translatorship, Translation science,
Academicianship, Tourist Guidance are just a few of them. But of course when you know a
language at a certain degree your opportunities are not limited to these examples.

As you learn a language you also learn the basic ways to do so. It gets easier for you to learn
and speak more languages, as a result you can always extend your language knowledge and
more language means more doors opening for you to go higher and higher in your career.
Işılay Eminoglu

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 loanwords

Like every natural language,Turkish has many loanwords. When we

want to understand if a word is an original Turkish or it is a loanword
we have to look vowels in the word. If the world doesn’t follow vowel
harmony, you know it’s probably a loanword. Also,if you find two
vowels right next together within a word (impossible in standart
Turkish) or long vowels,then it’s a loanword. This is one of the problems
Turkish speakers have with English. They can’t figure out how to
pronounce words that don’t follow the rules they’ve been using their
entire lives. Many of loanwords words came via traders and soldiers
from other languages to Turkish language, likewise Turkish language
lend words to other languages, too.

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 yogurt bosh
(n.)yoğurt (adj.)boş,zırva

kebab dolma
(n.) kebap (n.) dolma

baklava kefir
(n.) baklava (n.) kefir

caviar bey
(n.) havyar (n.) bey

pastrami simit
(n.) pastırma (n.) simit

bulgur ayran
(n.) bulgur (n.) ayran

caracal yashmac
(n.) karakulak (n.) yaşmak

bergamot yuruk
(n.) bey armudu (n.) yörük

dolman turquoise
(n.) dolaman (n.) turkuvaz

horde sherbet
(n.) ordu (n.) şerbet

Here are some pierogi

(n.) börek
shaman
(n.) şaman

examples: kessar doner

(n.) kaşar (n.) döner

kismet dolmush
(n.) kısmet (n.) dolmuş

latten bairam
(n.) altın (n.) bayram
As language is a living thing, all
languages go on lending and
borrowing words from each other.
Especially in todays world in which
people communicate with each
other easily every second in many
ways.

Ravza Piskin
(trthaber.com , wikibooks.com , en.m.wikipedia).

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 What teachers think about
learning English
As a language class, we wonder about what our teachers think about learning
English. Therefore , we asked our respectable teachers their opinions about what
English may bring us in the future and they answered.

Q:What are the benefits of learning English to our life?

Mrs.Binnaz Tüz Aygar: English is an universal language and we need English to interact foreign
people.
Mrs. Serpil: We must learn English to find a good job and it has a big help communicating with
others.

Mr. HüseyinÇakırlar : It connects us with the world, it will open new windows to your life and will
make it easier to communicate.

Mrs. Seher Mutlu: English gives you benefits about your learning life, academic life and more. It
will broaden your horizon and change your point of view.

Mr. Emre Demirbaş: It will provide us new phrases to express ourselves, speak with different
people, explore new culture.

Mr. Uğur Gökpınar : First of all, more than beinf a student, it has a big impact on individual
development.We can observe the effects on our academic life after high school.

Mrs. Kutsal Enez : English is a global language. Even the guide book of a device we bought can be
English. Knowing a foreign language, knowing English allows us to join conversations with
other races and cultures.

Mr. Yasin Görgülü: In digital era, in order to understand computer language, English is the most
important thing. English has a big effect on our academic life as well. A manager, a CEO can't
become what they wanted without knowing English.

Mrs. Sevil Ertaş : We're late on understanding the importance of English. Economic, scientific,
political relationships are made with this language, therefore we must learn English but mustn't
forget our native language. As the people in my house knows English, I had to learn English
after 45 years in a education establishment. I’m %100 sure that it will be future's common,
global language. So everyone should work hard to learn English.

Aysima Naz Alıkan

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 ''Dead poets society'' is Those lessons affect them deeply. Despite
the adaptation of the book strict school rules, they start to seize the day
named the same. The events and they love it. One of the students named Neil
in the film take place in start to follow his dream which is acting. He is
Welton Academy where the accepted for the lead role in a play in the city
students have to obey strict theatre. Actually, Mr.Keating encourages them to
school rules. However, when follow their dreams in life. He gives them a
a new literature teacher ar- chance to realize that people souldn't give up
rives, suddenly everything their dreams although how hard the situations
changes. The teacher, John are.
Keating introduces them Dead
Poets Society which is an I loved the film, because it tells us that
old school tradition when he people shouldn't live their lives by planning or
was a high school student at shouldn't choose highly respected jobs just be-
the same school. The stu- cause others approve them, instead, they should
dents affected by that story do the jobs that make themselves happy.
wanted to make it a tradi-
tion again. So they search Likewise, humans can't realise what they ac-
for the cave that Mr.Keating tually want to do in life. In our lives, some
talks about. times we need a reminder or a flame which
awakens us. In the film, that reminder is
After they find the cave, Mr.Keating and his lessons.
they escape to gather in the Aysenaz Gonul
cave and read poems from the
famous poets and also the
poems they write.Meanwhile,
Mr.Keating mentions about
''Carpe Diem'' which means
''Seize the day''.

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 being a
teenager
As you know, people are born, grow and die. If We can start our journey with disadvan-
we go deep into this life cycle, which we can tages of being a teenager. When people enter
gather in one sentence, we'll be understanding the age of youth, they try to find out who they
what it is to be young, it's advantages and are and their place in this world. At the same
disadvantages. Let's go on a journey in the time, they find themselves in many physical
teenagers world full of hopes and and psychological changes.
disappointments.

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 In this condition, stress becomes the main
role in their life. They try to deal with
many problems such as trying to keep up
with their friends, trying to be someone
who their family want, wor-rying about
future. They tend to make wrong decisions
because of the fact that they lack
experience in life. They feel as if they were
in a dead end street when they face with
the bad consequences of the decisions they
made, thinking that they were right. All of
these issues can lead teenagers to
depression. I think we have talked about
the disadvantages enough, so, we can go
on our journey by talking about the
advantages of being a teenager.

Being young, means being at the beginning of the road. This is

why teenagers have many opportunities and new beginnings to
come across. They take their first steps to begin a long life journey.
Also, they don't have responsibilities like running a house,
preparing dinner etc. They can spend a whole day without heavy
responsibilities on their shoulders ,because they have their family
to take care of them. They can travel freely and have many
beautiful memories, which will be the most precious memories they
will ever have in their lives. As we talked about the advantages,
we can come to end of our journey.

As previously mentioned, being teenagers have lots of advantages

and disadvantages. They are new in this life so it's difficult them to
adopt but the hardships will go away in time and the only good
memories will be lasting in their lives.

Sudenaz Sahinbas

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 YOU DON'T
LISTEN, DO
YOU?
Joker (2019) is an Oscar-winning psychological thriller, criminal and drama directed by
Todd Phillips. We watch Arthur's transformation to 'the Joker' who we know from DC.

Bullied and isolated by society Arthur lives with his mother in Gotham where there is a big
gap between rich and poor. He lives on clowning. He receives psychological support
because of being bullied and psychological problems he has experienced. At the same time
he uses medicines. When the state withdraws it's support from Arthur, he is dragged into
a worse situation.

One day things get out of control with an incident. Arthur kills 3 men because of something
that happens on the subway. After all these events, Arthur is regarded as 'outliers' by
some parts of the society while he is regarded as a 'hero' by the other part. After a while
Arthur becomes ''Joker'' and find himself in a chaos of Gotham city. The movie has become
a masterpiece with the influence of scenes, cinematography, music choice and high-level
acting of Joaquin Phoenix.

Like Taha Ulukaya said, if all movies are art, Joker is an art movie.

Hayru Coruh

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 BY TODD PHILIPS

JOKER

WE ARE ALL CLOWN

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 Each book is a
out of Thats the title of the
separete piece of infor- book, because Melody
mation. No book is use- (main character) has
less. Each book has synesthesia.
beauties, experiences,
feelings and lessons to In synesthesic people,
tell us. stimulation of any sense
triggs another sense
The author, who tells perception.Even though
her own memories in she can never sing or
the language of an 11 even say the name of
years old disable child, the song she likes, the
reminds and teaches us music inside Melody
many things. It reminds never stops.
us that people with dis- A physically disabled
abilities are people too. child works tiredlessly
to prove that she is no
We all have obstacles. different from other
What is yours? children. She dedicates
herself to music by
We are all human. With struggling. It's a book
our feminity, our mas- that tells how she rose
culinity, our childhood, to the position of
our mistakes, our flaws representative in her
and our obstacles. The class as result of the
name of book ‘out of struggle she showed.
my mind’. Sometimes poeple's
behaviours towards
Thats the title of the disabled poeple can
book, because Melody hurt their feelings.

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my mind
What we need to do The author's language
when we see them sho- complemented the pro-
uldn't be feeling sorry tagonist's life and
for them and preten- events so well that I
ding to love them and under-stood how
then acting as if they important words and
don't exist, but we sho- freedom of exression
uld remember that they are.The book conveyed
are the same as every her difficult life through
human. the language of pretty
girl. As Melody said
‘how could silence be so
On almost every page,
loud?’.
at the beginning of
every paragraph, I i Simay Naz Yıldız
stopped and thought.
The author has such a
pretty expression that
every time I found
myself between those
lines, in a wheelchair, in
endless words. I
experienced and felt all
the emotions. I haven't
read a book recently
which I feel all the
emotions with such
pretty descriptions.

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 POETRY
metaphors
I'm a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils
A red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
This loaf's big with it's yeasty rising.
Money's new-minted in this fat purse.
I'm a means, astage, a cow in calf.
I've eaten a bag green apples,
Boarded the train there's no getting off.
the
translation
Bilmeceyim ben, dokuz heceli,
Bir fil, hantal bir ev,
İki filiz üstünde gezinen bir kavun.
Bir kırmızı meyve, fildişi, kaliteli kalaslar!
Kabarmış mayasında büyük bu somun ekmek.
Bu dolgun çantada yeni basılmış para.
Bir vesileyim ben, bir sahne, buzağıda bir inek.
Bir torba yeşil elma yedim,
İnişi olmayan bir trene bindim.
Eda Naz Ertas

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slyvia plath, notre dame (1956)

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 Once upon a time, in a gloomy city filled with
sadness, there lived a man named Thomas. He
a faded hope: a tale of desolation
lived alone in a rundown apartment building,
where he felt lonely all the time. Thomas was very
depressed and felt like his life was getting worse
every day.

His apartment had a strange secret, a roof that

could fold open to reveal the outside world. When
he felt really down, he would lie in his old bed,
look up at the falling ceiling, and pull a lever to
see the dark night sky. But instead of finding
comfort, it only reminded him of how the universe
seemed uncaring about his pain.

Thomas struggled for money and had problems with his job that he couldn't fix. He felt stuck in a
low-paying job that didn't make him happy or give him any relief from his suffering. Every day, he
went to work with a heavy heart, knowing that he might lose his job soon. The world seemed to
have turned its back on him, and he couldn't escape the feeling of hopelessness.

One morning, a letter came under Thomas's door that said he was fired. It was official, and it
crushed his spirit even more. His apartment felt like a prison, closing him inside and making his
dreams fade away. He sank into his old couch, feeling lost and staring at the folding roof above
him with empty eyes. He knew his dreams were shattered, and the weight of his problems and the
reality of his life felt unbearable. Any hope he had left had gone.

Days turned into weeks, and weeks turned into months, but Thomas's apartment remained a sad
place where dreams went to die. He stopped painting and left his canvases empty. The artist
inside him gave up, leaving behind only emptiness.

And so, Thomas's story had a tragic

ending. He was a depressed man whose
spirit was crushed by the world. His
apartment became a symbol of his
loneliness, trapping him in a cycle of
sadness he couldn't escape. The fol-ding
roof, once a source of temporary com-
fort, now only reminded him of his broken
dreams. His cries for help echoed
through the empty halls, unheard and
forgotten.

In the forgotten stories of the city,

Thomas's name became a sad reminder
of how fragile life can be. His story
warned others about the deep despair
that can consume a person's so-ul.

And so, in the shadows of his lonely apartment. Thomas's sad existence faded away, a tragic story
in a world that had forgotten how to care.
Aysegul
Sarıhan

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 ARE WE RESPONSIBLE?
For real? Are we responsible for what happens around us? Should we take action when somebody around us is
harrasted by someone? Maybe morally, yes. But sometimes some factors hold us up to take action. For instance a
dangerous situation that threats our life safety, maybe there are more unanswerable questions than ''Should we
help?'' First of all , we should ask ourselves that ''could we help?'' Putting someboby’s safety up to ours is not an
easy decision. While just thinking about it, it may not seem to be hard to do, but in these kind of situations
nothing stays in theory. Practically, people generally can’t take action and they stay their safe space, maybe
because of the shock of the moment or just lack of responsibility.

As a referrence, Kitty Genovese’s case is an example of this. What happened to Kitty Genovese is anything but
some type of helping each other. In the return path of her home, Kitty was caught out guard by a hijacker, stabbed
a few times and the hijacker ran away. Her neigbours witnessed it. But nobody called the police since they
thought somebody had already called for help. Once the hijacker realized that police weren’t coming, he came
back so as to check if Kitty was still alive. When he arrived again the scene of crime, he saw that Kitty dragged
herself from the ground through her doorstep. He found her bleeding to death, using this situation against her, he
raped her and then killed her. After this trageddy happened, this case took place in literature as bystander
affect.
Latané and Darley were first to perform a range of experiments to test bystander behavior in some situations.
They found that there are a number of triggerring factors for the bystander affect. They indicated that they
determine five characteristics of emergencies that affect bystanders. All of them are states of making a decision
if there is any real emergency and danger. When the person notice there is some trouble going on, there are five
more characteristics that bystanders go through. These cognitive and behavioural phases are noticing the
difference, determinig the emergency, feeling responsibile, finding a way of help and taking action.

To sum up taking action for a troublesome situation that happened somebody is not an easy task as everybody
might think. And most of the people drop through the way. But, should we be this judgemental to regular people
that firstly consider their safety? Or should we blame the destiny? Who knows the blameworthy? Maybe it’s just
life and eveything is not simple as it seems.

Aysegul Sarıhan

(Latante,Bibb and Darley John ,M. ''Bystander Apaty'' American Scientist)

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 Chatgpt, an artificial in-
telligence that has been
released recently and is
widely used abroad .
Even some govern-
ments started to ban it.
This artificial intelligence
is new, but it has
learned a lot on its own
only with the machine
learning system. And
this artificial intelligence
can easily pass the "Are
you a robot?" test. Let's
take a look.

First, when we show this AI(atificial intelligence) a man having a barbecue on the car and ask,
"What's wrong with this photo?" It correctly explains the weirdness in the photo. Another feature of
Chatgpt is that it can simply write and play tetris or ping pong-style games, and it does this only
with a machine learning system. One of my favorite features is that AI can understand memes,
human jokes.When we ask AI what is funny here, AI can analyze the picture it sees on the internet
without finding any explanation. And it can find the funny one for us. AI even explains whether
people find this thing absurd or pathetic, I mean AI knows better than us what we are laughing at.
Of course, besides such funny features, it also has very useful features.

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 In a video I saw, a blind Chatgpt can act as your
woman takes pictures of lawyer, there is even a
the clothes she bought website of an artificial
and sends them to chat- intelligence lawyer.
gpt, and chatgpt descri- Finally, I leave you to
bes the clothes to the think about the dan-
blind woman even the gers of this artificial in-
defects of the outfit. telligence. Also I want to
Besides, it can create state that chatgpt has
worlds in the metaverse passed 99.5% of the stu-
and tell you the places dents in Turkey by get-
you don't like in the ting 419 points from the
world you created. tyt 2021 exam.
When you tell them, they
can design the surroun- Zeynep Eylul Alemdar
dings the way you want,
that is, they can be your
special interior architect.

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 the story of undertale

Long ago, two races about progress of the

ruled over Earth: Hu- story and it is beautiful.
mans and Monsters. First of all, what makes
One day, war broke a story good? This ques-
between two races. tion can be answered
very differently, some
After a long battle, the might say it's characters
humans were victori- makes a story good,
ous. They sealed the some might say it’s
monsters underground about the journey.
with a magic spell. Some might say it's
Many years later a child humor. I also agree with
climbed the mountain those answers. For
Ebott. The legends say example, to me it's the
that those who climb ending that makes a
the mountain never good story into a mas-
return. Child slips and terpiece. And undertale
falls into the under- has it all, very likable
ground: world of mons- characters. The journey
ters. And kid tries to es- is beautiful, humor is
cape from undergro- perfect, and the ending t
und. has one of the best
endings in all gaming
If we look at the story history. It's both funny
you can say it's very and so depressing at the
childish and simple but, same time. And story
it's not about the start of alters depending on
the story it's your gameplay.

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how it
came out
Undertale is a 16-bit jrpg, adventure, bullethell and puzzle
game. Game came out in September of 2015, it was first
released with a demo to play in a game fest in 2012. After
people liked the game very much, the creator of the game
Toby Fox, decided to make that a full game. First he made a
5000$ fundraiser for a 2-3 hour long game but instead,
people donated him a jaw dropping 50.000$. Then he de-
cided to make game 6-7 hours instead of 2-3 as he first
thought. He first thought the release date as 2014 but he
realized game will not be able to come out at 2014 and he
delayed the game to 2015.

game
play
Let’s talk about gameplay. The tempo is perfect it if not the best.
As I already said undertale doesn't fall into repetition.
is a jrpg, so like many And with the support of But I don't recommend this
jrpg’s when you ran into music just walking from a game to everyone, if you
an enemy you get to turn place to another is enter- don’t like games that is
base fight scene .But un- taining speaking of music. story based or if you can’t
like other jrpg’s in this Soundtrack of this game is connect with the charac-
screen, in the game you pure perfection, every one ters in the game . I highly
need to dodge the enemy of them is pure art from do not recommend this
attacks. In the other jrpg boss battles to walking game to you ,because if
games, system works like somewhere music’s. Place you cant connect the
“first I’m going to hit you, is just perfect. characters or the story
then you hit me” but in un- there is no point of playing
dertale you have to dodge In the end undertale is a undertale.
the attacks in order to sur- great game and a master-
vive that battle. It doesn’t piece and does perfectly Erol Cagan Sezer
matter even if you wear everything it tries to do.I
the strongest gear if you am writing this review
don’t dodge attacks you'll after my 6th or 7th comp-
die. Besides fighting letion and this game can
,gameplay consists of a lot make my eyes wet, at the
of walking, solving fun but same time it can make me
not too hard puzzles and laugh and I give undertale
some small action sequen- 9,9. it is one of the best
ces. game I have ever played

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 which one of us
didn't love?
by Müslüm Gürses

Which one of us didn't fall into love ?

Which one of us didn't love like crazy ?
Which one of us didn't wait for a disloyal one
by a corner ?

These roads hide a memory from everyone,

Everyone's pain is as much as their love.
It doesn't matter she is beautiful or ugly.
It's in our soul to love like a crazy,
It's in our soul to love like a crazy.

The Lover's eyes are blind and his ear is deaf,

We didn't learn right or wrong from her.
Our heart was burnt and destroyed still we loved,
Oh, those disloyals didn't know our worth.

The Lover's eyes are blind and his ear is deaf

We didn't see right or wrong from her
Our heart was burnt and destroyed still we loved
Ohh, those unfaithfulls didn't know our worth

These roads keep a memory from everyone

Everyone's pain is as much as their love
It doesn't matter she is beautiful or ugly
It's in our soul to love like crazy
It's in our soul to love like crazy
Ilayda Meric

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may this be the last
by Cem Karaca
Today you are so young,my little one
Filled with life , hope and joy
Years are promising
lifelong happy days
To you

May neither loneliness nor lies upset you

Men cried at birth
Let this be the last,This ,be the last
Bahar Sevinc

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 funny

facts

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Coconuts kill more people
than sharks
every year.

my wallet is like an onion,

opening it makes me cry.

Snails can sleep

for up to three
years. (They have Muhammet Batuhan Ocal
15 years life Hayru Coruh

lifetime.)

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