2009- 20010 FALL TERM PERIOD I

ÇANKAYA UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL

STARTER GROUPS / WEEKEND HOMEWORK (WEEK 7)

PART A: READING

Text 1:
* Before Reading:
Discuss: Do you shop when you need to buy things or just to make yourself feel good?
What did you last buy? Why did you buy it?

* Read the text below and answer the following questions.

Shopping!!!

Feeling lonely? Why don’t you go to a shopping mall?

You can buy a new pair of shoes, a nice jacket or a new
computer game. It is quick and easy. You just get in your car
and drive to a shopping mall. Shopping malls are everywhere,
and they are open 24 hours.
Many people do the shopping when they need to buy
things, but some people go shopping for different reasons.
Actually, shopping is a favorite hobby for many people today
and they go shopping to change their mood. You feel very good
when you buy new things for yourself, but your credit card bills
make you very sad when you are not careful with your shopping.
Shopping is sometimes similar to an addiction; that is, it
becomes a very serious habit like smoking or taking drugs,
because it is very enjoyable. People get into the dangerous habit
of spending money to feel good and they spend more than they
earn.
How do you understand an addicted shopper? The
answer isn’t easy, but addicted shoppers’ characteristics are
usually common. They generally buy a lot of clothes, but they
never wear them. They often hide their shopping from their
families and they don’t show their new things to them. They usually buy things to forget about their
stress or personal problems because they cannot share their problems with anybody. But then, they
have a serious shopping problem.
So, our shopping shows us something about ourselves when we do it a lot: there is some
problem in our lives and we must do something about it!

A) Are these sentences TRUE (T) or FALSE (F)? Correct the FALSE sentences.

1. _____Many people go shopping when they are lonely.

2. _____Addicted shoppers buy things because they need to feel good.
3. _____Addicted shoppers happily talk about their problems.

B) Answer the following questions.

1. What is the text about?
a) good characteristics of shopping
b) the hobby of shopping
c) different shopper habits

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 2. Why isn’t shopping difficult? Write 2 reasons.

3. Why is shopping a favorite activity for some people?

4. Why does shopping sometimes become dangerous?

5. Write 3 characteristics of people with dangerous shopping habits.

6. What does “addiction” in paragraph 3 mean?

a) a strong habit b) smoking c) drugs

7. What does “they” in paragraph 1 refer to?

Follow up - Write:
What kind of a shopper are you? Are you an ordinary shopper or an addicted shopper? Explain your
shopping habits in a paragraph of 50 words.

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Text 2:

* Before Reading: Talk about polite & rude behaviors in your society.
What kinds of behaviors are rude or polite in your society now?
What were the behaviors like in your society in the past?
Are the behaviors today better or worse?

* Read the text below and answer the following questions.

Some people say people are not very polite nowadays, but people in the past were more polite.
Actually, behaviors changed a lot and they are different in modern times. For example, people these
days eat while they are walking down the street. They don’t mind kissing each other when or where
they want. They push on each other on buses and trains. Men do not open doors for women any more
or give their seat to a woman on a crowded train.
Young people think today behaviors are better than the past because life is faster these days.
People do not have time for polite or serious behaviors: for example, they eat on the streets because
they do not have enough time. In the past, men wore a suit and a tie, but these days they prefer casual
clothes at work, so they wear clothes such as jeans and a T-shirt. People do not address each other
with “Mr” or “Mrs” nowadays, but they use first names to address each other. All young people in the
society think it is friendlier and more relaxed.
But old people do not agree that today behaviors are better than the past. For old people,
everybody, especially young people, are becoming rude and selfish. For them, people shouldn’t kiss
each other in public because it is not nice for other people. Old people criticize young people because
they make noise, talk on the mobile phones loudly, and listen to music loudly on trains or buses. They
think young people are rude and bad.
So, behaviors are changing nowadays in the 21 st century, but everything is not that bad. Many
people think some behaviors are also good in modern life and they say behaviors change because
lifestyles and people also change.

1. Which one is a good title for the text?

a) Changes in Behavior
b) Old People and Young People
c) Strange Behaviors

2. Are young people happy about the modern behaviors? Write 2 reasons.

3. How do old people describe young people in modern times?

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 4. Which one isn’t a rude behavior for old people?
a) eating on the streets c) using mobile phones loudly
b) kissing in public d) listening to music loudly

5. What is the effect of lifestyles on behaviors?

6. What does “casual” in paragraph 2 mean?

7. What does “they” in paragraph 3 refer to?

Follow up – Write/Speak:
Are you happy / worried about the modern behaviors?
List good/right and bad/wrong behaviors in your society and tell the reasons. Do you agree?

GOOD BEHAVIORS BAD BEHAVIORS REASON(S)

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Text 3:

* Before Reading: Talking about decisions

Did you ever make a serious decision and become successful in the end?
How did you do it? What were your strategies?

* Read the text below and answer the following questions.

Helen’s Decision

Helen Warner was a high school student last year. She wore eye-glasses. She didn’t do make-
up and her clothes were awful. She was overweight. She was not fond of sports because she was very
lazy. She preferred junk food. She ate chips and drank beverages such as coke and soda all the time.
She drove to school every day. Mirrors were her biggest enemies.
Now, she attends university and she has made some decisions about herself. She wants to be a
healthy and beautiful girl. So, she doesn’t drive to school any more. She wakes up early every day and
walks to school. She has a garden at the backyard of her house and she grows her own vegetables. She
cooks delicious meals. They are all very healthy. She goes jogging on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays. She does Pilates, a new popular sport, on Saturdays and Sundays. So, she is not overweight
anymore and she looks better. Everybody likes her and mirrors are her friends now.
At the moment, she is jogging with her friends in a park. She is observing the people in the
park while she is running. There are children and they are playing with their mothers. There is a dog
and it is barking and jumping with them. There is an old man and he is reading his newspaper and
three old ladies are chatting. There is a couple and they are lying on the grass. They are having a
picnic. The sun is shining. A man is feeding the ducks in the lake and the birds are singing.

1. Why were mirrors Helen’s biggest enemies in the past?

2. What does Helen do to become healthy and beautiful?

3. What are the people in the park doing?

4. What does “beverage” in paragraph 1 mean?

5. What does “observe” in paragraph 3 mean?

a) watch b) remember c) play

6. What does “they” in paragraph 2 refer to?

Follow up – Write/Speak: Talk to a friend and learn about one of his/her problems. List some
suggestions for him/her to solve his/her problem.
PART B: GRAMMAR

I. Grammar Cloze: Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs in parentheses.

A) Different people spend their weekends in different ways. Some people

(1)_______________(like) going to the mountains to hike, ski or just relax. These people
(2)_______________(be) adventurous and they (3)_______________(do) dangerous activities. They
(4)_______________(generally/join) groups and they (5)_______________(usually/meet) their
friends in these groups for some activities. They (6)_______________(often/be) in nature and they (7)
______________enjoy) taking risks.
Some other people (8)_______________(love/go) to the beach to enjoy seashore activities and
to get a suntan. These people (9)_______________(usually/be) relaxed and easygoing.
I (10)_______________(belong) to the second group. I (11) ______________ (be) fond of hot
summer places with a huge beach and activities. Now, I (12)_______________(look) in the newspaper
in my office. I (13)_______________(plan) for my summer holiday at the moment. I
(14)_______________(save) money for this summer and I (15)_______________(hope) to make a
good holiday plan and to choose a very good place.

B) My husband and I enjoyed extreme sports very much in the past. We

(1)_______________(go) mountaineering, diving and parachuting when we had time. We
(2)_______________(spend) most of our money on these trips because we (3)_______________(buy)
a lot of equipment to do these sports. We (4)_______________(not/take) the world seriously and
(5)_______________(have) a lot of fun together.

I gave birth to our twins 13 months ago. With the birth of our twins, Jason and Kendra, our
life changed a lot. Now, our routine (6)_______________(be) completely different. We
(7)_______________(generally/spend) most of our money on our children’s needs. We
(8)_______________(not/go) out anymore because we don’t have time. Babies
(9)_______________(often/wake up) at night and so we can’t get a good night’s sleep. We
(10)_______________(not/have) enough money for trips anymore and there is nobody to take care of
our children.

Now, it is 3.00 a.m. in the morning and our babies are awake. My husband
(11)_______________(play) games with them and I (12)_______________(prepare) food for them.
Fred (13)_______________(cry) and Julia (14)_______________(shout). Life with children is hard,
but we (15)_______________(enjoy) every moment of it.
PART C: VOCABULARY

I. Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the box. Use each word once. Be careful, there are
some extra words.
A)
frequently approximately combination storing wonderful wealthy
looking forward to experience traditional relaxed souvenir amazed weather

Dear Joanna,
I received your letter yesterday. Thanks a lot! I am happy that you are fine. I am having a fantastic
holiday in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo’s population is (1)_______________12 million. This city is really crowded.
The (2)_______________is hot here, so I am wearing my summer clothes. I feel (3)_______________here
after my long and tiring work in the company. I have a lot of time to rest now.
Tokyo is a wonderful place. There are a lot of tall, modern buildings, restaurants, cafés and great
underground trains here. It is full of action. There are also historical buildings in this city. So, it has a/an
(4)_______________of modern city life and history here. During the day, you see a businesswoman in a suit,
but in the evening, you see the same woman in a kimono. A kimono is a (5)_______________Japanese
dress. Many Japanese women wear one on special days, for example, weddings. I was
(6)_______________when I saw a woman in a kimono for the first time because she looked really strange in
it. I bought a wonderful ring for you from a (7)_______________shop a few days ago. It is a wonderful ring
with many colourful stones on it. I’m sure you’ll love it.
This is my first time in Tokyo, and it is a great (8)_______________for me. So, I want to keep this
(9)_______________trip long and stay here for one month. I am (10)_______________your next letter.
Love, Joanna
B)
experience types relaxed career routines deal with aim skills
regularly dreams creative typical expect

Many people in the world are not happy about their jobs; they work because of some reasons. There
are two (1)_______________of jobs. People choose the jobs in the first group because they need money, so
they just want to earn money for their needs. When you want to earn money, you forget the joy in your job
because your working hours are the same everyday and your life is full of (2)_______________. So, you
don’t want to produce new things and your boss doesn’t (3)_______________you to work more or to be very
excited about your work. You are generally (4)_______________ because your job isn’t very important to
you and you don’t want to be very (5)_______________, but you aren’t very happy about your job either.
People choose the jobs in the second group because they want to be happy. Their main
(6)_______________is not to earn money, but it is to enjoy their job. They want to have a good
(7)_______________in their professions, get important positions in their workplaces, and at the same time
enjoy their jobs. These people usually have some (8)_______________in different companies and they
develop their (9)_______________ in their jobs until they find their ideal job because they are not worried
about money.