LEARNING DISABILITIES

LEARNING DISABILITIES

         Learning is important for everyone. Students learn with different methods such as seeing and hearing. Although those methods are useful for some student, these methods are useless for them. So, they may suffer from learning disabilities. There are some causes which may trigger learning disabilities which are depression and distractibility and there is one effect for learning disabilities which is not learning anything.

         Depression is a cause of learning disabilities. Some students may argue with their parents. So, they may be in depression. They may break up with their lovers. Also, they may not get on well with their friends. They may lose people who they love. Moreover, they may hate school. They may hate their friends or they may hate their lessons. These depressing events may cause depression.

         The second cause is distractibility. While the student listens to the lesson, something may be invincible. These things can be pens, teacher’s possessions; book on the shelves so everything is in the classroom can distract the student’s attention. The students may be interested in these items so s/he cannot listen the lesson. The student not only does not listen to the course, but also s/he makes his/her classmates not to listen the course. 

         These are the two causes for learning disabilities and the effect of learning disabilities that students will face is not learning anything. Not learning anything is the effect of learning disability. If the students have the causes, these causes lead apathy against the lessons, difficulty in reading, apathy of learning. Moreover, the student is not using the full intelligence in the lessons and problems about school. Later, these students may be demotivated and can break from the school (Abalı,2010). As a result of the causes which are depression and not learning anything, they can fail the courses.

         To sum up, depression and distractibility are the causes of learning disabilities and learning nothing is the effect of learning disabilities. Learning is important. If the parents may recognize the problem about learning disabilities to children, the parents can make their children to cure and they can learn better.

ALI IHSAN and SELALE

         ALİ İHSAN and ŞELALE

     Education has a crucial place in our world. It starts from the birth and continues until the last breath. Thus, to be a good person, every single child should be sent to school when s/he is mature enough. There are several teachers to teach something for students. Those teachers are from different departments. One of the departments is foreign language. English is part of foreign language. To be teacher is really important. There are several teachers for English. There are two teachers whose names are Ali İhsan and Şelale. They are my English teachers from high school. Although they share same similarities, they have some differences, too.

     Ali Ihsan is similar to Şelale. First of all, both of teach grammar. For example, they teach how to use grammar. So, I can use grammar easily thanks to them. Secondly, both of them teach speaking. They also give some clues about pronunciation. They say how we pronounce the English words.

     Despite these similarities, Ali İhsan differs from Şelale. To begin with, their teaching methods are different from each other. Ali İhsan uses some methods like making groups which create ambiance to study as stated by Brosh (1996). However, Şelale reads only the current subject from the course book. As a consequence, this is not beneficial to students and no one learns anything. Moreover, the materials they use are not the same. Ali İhsan distributes handouts about what he is going to mention in that lesson, gives worksheets and uses projector to make the lesson more effective. So, his lessons are better than Şelale’s when we compare. On the other hand, Şelale never uses such materials except for the course book. Thus, in her lessons students are bored and they cannot benefit from the lessos.

    To sum up, even though they have similarities such as grammar and speaking, lesson they also have differences in terms of teaching methods and the materials they use. A good teacher should understand the situation of her/his students and try to make the lesson enjoyable.

 Reference: Brosh, H., (1996). Perceived Characters of the Effective Language Teacher. Foreign Laznguage Annals, 29 No:2, 125-134.

DECIDING WHAT TO DO AFTER GRADUATING

Deciding What to Do After Graduating

      Education is important for everyone. Education begins in family then continues with schools such as kindergarten, primary school, high school and university. Universities are more important than the others because people decide which jobs they will choose. However, studying at universities is difficult. So, students should have break after they graduate from universities. Some important reasons why students should have break involve improvement of language, work&travel program and tiredness.

      First of all, students improve their language because nowadays language is important. People should know two or three foreign languages because it can be helpful for their business lives. Learning a language can be enjoyable and they should choose which language they want. Knowing the language is important for business life because many bosses want employees to know different languages. If the employees know many languages, they can take the job easily.

      Second is work&travel program. People should go abroad with work&travel program after graduating from universities because if they go with the program, their languages, and cultures can develop. If they go with the program, they can earn money and if they love where they go, they can live there. Besides, when they go with the program, they can see new countries, and cultures. They can meet new people and they can be friends.

      Finally, after graduating from universities, they can be tired because they study a lot and they have lots of exams and homeworks when they are in universities.

      There are many reasons why students should have break after graduate from universities. In my opinion, students should have break because the need to allocate time for them.

OPTIMISIM

Optimism

    Generally, way of thinking is different among people and optimism is one of the most important thinking ways in the world when people are in a situation. Sometimes people do not know exactly meaning of optimism. It is defined as meaning of optimism is a feeling that good things will happen and that something will be successful. ( 7^th Edition Oxford ADVANCED LEARNER’S Dictionary. ) People can understand the meaning of optimism in two main issues which are results and compared with pessimism.

     The first main issue is the results of optimism. Firstly, optimism is good for heart disease because people are not stress and their blood pressure does not elevate. Secondly, optimist know what they are going to do when earthquake and car accident. For example, when people’s houses are collapsed, they think that they should build a new strong one. The second example is when people have a car accident because of not wearing their seat belts; they think that they should wear their seat belts next time if they save their lives in a car accident.

      Second issue is its comparison with. Firstly, people should know the meaning of the pessimism. Meaning of the pessimism is a feeling that bad things will happen and that something will not be successful. Secondly, optimist people think every situation with optimism. So, when people think every situation with optimism which is positive way, every job of people goes well. However, pessimist people think every situation with pessimism. So, people look every situation with pessimism which is negative way, every job of people goes bad.

      To conclude, optimism is a feeling that good things are going to happen and that something is going to be successful. Optimism divides into two main issues such as results and compared with pessimism.

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and A SEPARATION

Slumdog Millionaire and A Separation

    There are lots of movies recognized by people. These movies are the important part of people’s lives.  Slumdog Millionaire and A Separation are two of them. These movies are loved by lots of people. When Slumdog Millionaire and A Separation were at the cinemas, lots of people went to see to these movies. These movies not only share similarities, but also differences.

     There are various similarities between Slumdog Millionaire and A Separation. Firstly, both of them have Oscars. So, people can understand these movies are successful. Secondly, both of them include tragedy. So both of them can have you cry. Finally, they have well-known actors such as Dev Petel and Peyman Moadi and actresses such as Freida Pinto and Leila Hatami and Slumdog Millionaire and A Separation have new actors and actresses.

       Until there are common ways between two movies, Slumdog Millionaire and A Separation differ from each other in many ways. First of all, although Slumdug Millionaire was shot in India, A Separation was shot in Iran. So, people can learn their cultures and ways of their lives. Moreover, Slumdog Millionaire was made in 2008 but A Separation was made in 2011. Finally, there is an end in the Slumdog Millionaire but there is not an end in the A Separation. So, many people may have difficulty in understanding it.

        To sum up, Slumdog Millionaire and A Separation are very similar, but they have some differences. In my opinion, Slumdog Millionaire is better than A Separation because it has an end and the content of movie is beautiful.

TYPES OF TEACHERS

Teachers

        Teachers are important from past to the future. Teachers teach different subjects such as science, biology, English, math, Turkish to us. Those words are their branches. So, there are three types of teachers.

          One of the types of the teachers is English teachers. They are very cool people. They look like foreign people. Generally, they are beautiful and handsome. They can speak fluently and some of them have perfect accent. They do not have enough time for brake because students always ask questions about English.

           Second type of teachers is math teachers. They look like very serious. They always solve the problems about math for students. Math teachers do not have any brake because nowadays math is important for students and students want to learn math very good.

          Third type of teachers is kindergarten teachers. They teach painting, cutting, to glue something. And also they teach songs. They usually teach visual things like numbers, foods, and drinks to them. Generally, people see them who never suffer from their jobs. People think they do the easiest job but their jobs also difficult because there are lots of children who miss their parents and never listen teachers and are naughty. So, the teachers have to take care of them.

            To sum up, teachers are important and English, math and kindergarten teachers are the types of teachers.

EUROPEAN UNION

European Union

    There are lots of countries in the world. However, some countries do not get on well each other but there are some countries which get on well each other. These countries set up a group which called European Union. This group set up with Maastritcht Treaty in 1992. European Union has approximately a population of five hundred million. After the European Union sets up, there are several causes and effects of European Union.

     First cause is economy. European Union’s members have common market and common currency such as Euro thanks to reason. There is a situation which people make circulation of people, goods, services and movement of capital in free way. Euro is the common currency. There are also twelve different currencies in European Union.

      Second cause is justice, freedom and security. They do not distinguish between people in terms of religion, language, race, disability and gender, age. At the same time, even if people commit an offense, European Union abolished the death penalty. So human rights have emerged.

      There are causes of European Union. However, although European Union has causes, it has possible effects on the participant countries.

       First effect is population. In European Union, the total population of twenty-seven members has increased considerably compared to normal. Population is increasing day by day because of migration. Population includes languages which are spoken by people who live in there. I mean in European Union, there are twenty-three official languages among all the languages and dialects. These are Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish. At the same time, there is Christianity in European Union. Christianity is the most common language in the European Union.

    Second effect is culture and sport. This is the first thing that comes to mind about culture, these are Ancient Greek, Ancient Rome, Medieval Feudalism, Renaissance, and Age of Enlightenment in European Union. There are lots of international organizations about sport.  These are basketball, football, handball, ice hockey, rugby union, volleyball.

       To sum up, these are causes and effects of European Union. In my opinion, everyone should know and learn about causes and effects of European Union.