50 beautiful English Words

Hello again. :) I had my exam today it was not too bad. It was stressful. Even if you know the subject  and 100 percent sure about you with self-esteem, you still shake when the invigilator gives you the exam paper. It is the nature of exam condition, isn’t it?

Anyway I was trundling the website called stubleupon. I saw a list of 50 Beautiful English Words. I really liked it and I want to share it here, of course imagining that the permission is given by the writer (Amy).

So, here is the list. Confessing that I have not heard many of them but most of them sounds really good. Soon I will create my own list.

Becoming – attractive.
Beleaguer – to exhaust with attacks.
Bucolic – in a lovely rural setting.
Conflate – to blend together.
Dalliance – a brief love affair {actually, I hope not to use this one again, but it is lovely}.
Demure – shy and reserved.
Denouement – the resolution of a mystery.
Diaphanous – filmy.
Dulcet – sweet, sugary.
Ebullience – bubbling with enthusiasm.
Effervescent – bubbly.
Efflorescence – flowering, blooming.
Elixir – a good potion.
Eloquence – beauty and persuasion in speech.
Embrocation – rubbing on a lotion.
Ephemeral – short-lived.
Epiphany – a sudden revelation.
Erstwhile – at one time, for a time.
Evanescent – vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time.
Evocative – suggestive.
Felicity – pleasantness.
Fugacious – fleeting.
Gambol – to skip or leap about joyfully.
Gossamer – the finest piece of thread, a spider’s silk.
Halcyon – happy, sunny, care-free.
Imbrication – overlapping and forming a regular pattern.
Imbroglio – an altercation or complicated situation.
Imbue – to infuse, instill.
Ineffable – unutterable, inexpressible.
Insouciance – blithe nonchalance.
Languor – listless, inactivity.
Lissome – slender and graceful.
Mellifluous – sweet sounding.
Moiety – on of two equal parts.
Nemesis – an unconquerable archenemy.
Onomatopoeia – a words that sounds like it’s meaning.
Opulent – lush, luxuriant.
Panacea – a solution for all problems.
Panoply – a complete set.
Penumbra – a half shadow.
Pyrrhic – successful with heavy losses.
Quintessential – most essential.
Redolent – fragrant.
Scintilla – a spark or very small thing.
Sempiternal – eternal.
Serendipity – finding something nice while looking for something else.
Sumptuous – lush, luxurious.
Talisman – a good luck charm.
Untoward – unseemly, inappropriate.
Woebegone – sorrowful, downcast.

If you want to check the Amy’s work you can click the link.

http://www.eatlivelaughshop.com/2011/07/50-most-beautiful-english-words.html

Thanks Amy!

Adaptation

The time becoming a student first time in our life is unforgettable. Everybody remembers it very clear because it was first time in our life separating from our family. At that time, you may have heard about school but you may have not been there yet.  People were going there to learn something but we were not aware of anything; therefore, it is somewhere we think that we are going to enjoy and will have many free time for games. Most of us still remember how our neighbour’s child was crying. After a while as every child we got used to with our schools but to get to that point there are some sentimental stages. These are honeymoon period, shocking period and adaptation period in later time.

In the first step, child feels some happiness about the school. They see the world as cakes and ale as honeymoon period. The first thing s/he will ask is the uniform. Then it comes to stationary. In every school stationary shopping the child gets more excited and eager about the school. Once the child has all the stuff, s/he waits the first day of the school. In brief, before the child goes to school, child is having full of excitement.

In the second step child gets to shocking period where the child confronts many differences. When the child starts the school s/he feels eerie because s/he does not know what reason s/he is there for. The child feels lonely and finds being there is boring. This is where s/he gets shocked. After a while s/he starts to meet with other children and gets to know other children’s behaviour. In short, the child gets shocked by other children and the environment of the school.

In the last stage, child gets to adapt to the school. After some time, s/he gets used to with other children and the teacher. By that time s/he might have used to with coming to school. The most significantly, the child starts to learn something from school. Then the child learns how to use his or her time. Of course, some time it is getting hard for some of them to adapt but at the end of it most of the children are adapted and got used to with it. In short, while children spend their time in the school they start adjusting them to actual life.

To sum up, every child experienced honeymoon, shocking and adaptation periods. These periods are inevitable and typical period for every child. The only problem the child may get is it sometime takes long for them to adapt; therefore parents have a big responsibility to adapt them to the school.

Speaking and writing lesson

This is going to be a blog about what I have learnt today in the lesson. I take the classes afternoon. I will publish day by day. What is going to be here could have grammar mistakes. So I would like to get help from people. Please feel free to make any comment.

So, What do I study? I study Open Education Faculty Programme in  English Language Teaching in Eskişehir / Turkey. I am in my second year.

We have an exam this weekend. We have studied the standards of marking our speaking exams to have in our minds a clear picture about marking. It was good to know about it; therefore I can judge myself forehand. I can’t remember them now but I promise I will get them in the next lesson and share them here.

This weekend we have another exam which is timed writing. As a class we are in the second unit. There could be two possible exam question. It could be either process essay or extended definition. So I shared my extended definition paragraph. So you can check it clicking here and can make comments.http://hakankrdmn.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/democracy/

So it is over for today.

Ciao :)

Democracy

 

                Democracy is a system of government in which all the people of a country can vote to elect their representatives for a parliament where vital changes are made for every citizen. Democracy comes from Late Latin and Greek origin of “demos+kratia” the people + rule or power. Basically it is the form of governing people.  Democracy is not dictatorship or monarchy. The parliament or government get its power from citizens whereas in other regimes there are some institutions or certain people are born with power. Democracy has many similarities with other regimes. The only problem is that there is no country just governs by the democracy. There are a bundle of rights what we call human rights which are vital norms for human being to meet the minimum requirements to live and they must be in the constitution of any native land. Furthermore, speech freedom and being equal before the law are some of its characteristics. People describe democracy with its democratic rights’ abilities or facilities; therefore, there are many types of democracy where it is applied on the world such as Parliamentary, Presidential, Constitutional, Liberal, Semi-Presidential, Socialist and etc. Those are the types of democracy and some examples where it is applied are USA (Federal Presidential Constitutional Republic Representative Democracy), France (Unitary Semi-Presidential Republic) and Turkey (Parliamentary Republic). To put into practise a law many countries has parliament where there are Members of Parliament whom are selected by citizens’ votes. When MPs want to enact a rule they must do in democratic ways which means it must fulfil citizen’s requirements and be done equal, free and independent.  In many countries today governments try to set democratic system of laws. The importance of democracy is that in a form of government it is equal way to behave to citizens. The twenty-first century governmental systems have found the importance of human life. To enhance human life better democracy is the way to do it.