Make summer holiday useful for kids.

                Make summer holiday useful for kids. 

Summer holidays probably are the best vacation for kids. All the children enjoy the summer holidays and dream about it during the academic year. The holydays are usually for 3 months and mostly children and adults enjoy only 1 month, this is because children gets bored at the house and doing the same things, there aren’t much activity preformed at home or playing outside with the other kids. Staying at home during the vacations can also lead the children to forget the lessons learnt at the academic year. The question is should the kids be send to summer camps?  In my opinion to avoid all this parents should send their kids to the fun and learning camps( summer camps ) this will help them to built a strong body ,meet new friends improve in swimming, camping and knowing how to live alone and not depend on anyone else.

Staying at home during the vacations at first may be enjoyable because after a very tiring academic year children at last can rest and enjoy their time waking up late not doing assignments but as the time passes without doing anything children soon gets bored. When children gets bored at home they start acting aggressive become naughtier then ever and this can also affect the parents they can’t concentrate at their work or spend time with each, they will be behind children all the time cleaning their mess. While doing nothing in the house children soon will also forget everything they’ve learnt in the school. In the house children do nothing by themselves they depend on their parents but if their send to the summer camps they will get the chance to do things by themselves and they won’t forget anything that they’ve learn at school because they will always be revising it at the camps.

These summer camps are not only for the children to depend on themselves and not to forget want they’ve learnt at school but it also adds new things to children life such as; meeting new people of their age, getting chance to involve in new activities instead of just playing outside with the other children. They will learn swimming, working in teams, learning how to camp and deal with it, having a good control in themselves without their parents being around them, knowing what to eat while camping and managing their appetite. Out of all these the children that go to these summer camps have more valuable time then those kids that stay at home doing nothing. These camps also help kids to gain self-confidence.

As a conclusion, in my opinion every parent should send their children to these summer camps to bring up healthier, more wise and self confident children. As these camps soon will become a habit in children lifestyle they will always have sports and self control in their life. If the children just sit at the home doing nothing during the holidays they won’t gain anything instead of that they will lose a lot, so it’s better to make summer holidays useful with summer camps.

                                                                                      Koray AKCA

DIFFERENT LEARNING FACTS, Samples of Essay

DIFFERENT LEARNING FACTS

Language, especially English has become a major factor to success in many ways in the world such as in the business sector and in education period. As our ancestors says ` one language is a one person, two language is two person`. So if a language has to be learnt, why not learn in the better place? English is an important international language. Is Learning English at the countries where English is used as a target language helpful or the language must be learnt at the English speaking countries?

Learning English in English speaking countries have uncountable advantages. For example working in many countries and being able to travel to many different places without studying other languages. Not only having the chance to have daily communicative contact with English speakers but also providing to live within. The English speaking countries are easily accessible to students from the world.  The English speaking countries has a great reputation for providing a quality education and training the students to its own citizens culture. Spending a lot of time learning English in English speaking countries obviously gets the most chance to make friends with the native English speakers; this kind of close interactions and experiences with native speakers provides a good chance to have their accent. Learning the spoken language is not likely to be heard without a contact with any native speaker. Studying English at English speaking countries mostly frustrates and creates more time for learning English. Learning English in English speaking countries can often have very effective results such as good pronunciation, rich vocabulary and perfect listening.

However, the results of learning English in English speaking countries are quite easy while learning in non English speaking countries can be somewhat different and very difficult. Learning English in non English speaking country sometimes is not possible. The English thought in the classroom is not enough and is not encouraging because the class there is no need to speak in English. The lessons thought in the classroom are not effective because students forget all about learning English until they step into the classroom again in the next week. The lessons that are thought in the classroom only occupy academic English, for example, grammar, vocabulary and writing. The students are not aware of spoken language and aren’t good at speaking at all. Learning English at non English speaking countries aren’t that useful.         

Consequently, English is an important international language. Even the agreement between two countries is in English. People from all over the world come to English speaking countries to study English to get a better result. Studying English at non English speaking countries isn’t enough and won’t get the learner any further but just makes it hard for the student to learn and improve the language and to be successful in their career in future.  

                                                                                             Koray AKCA

5 Ways to Use Popular Movies for English Language Teaching

5 Ways to Use Popular Movies for English Language Teaching

By Larry M. Lynch

A commonly available resource of authentic English language is movies. Movies, in their entirety or in selected clips, are highly practical for English language teaching. Hardly any learner would complain about having a movie or video clip to watch as part of an English language class. But just how do you go about exploiting films and clips? What are good aspects of using movies for English language teaching? Here are five ways you can use popular movies with your learners for English language practice and acquisition.

1. Varieties of English can be demonstrated

Want to know what British English is like? Australian English? How about the Englishes of India or the West Indies? Then movies are your salvation. Films produced in these regions can give you needed first-hand insight into connected speech elements, Rhotic or Non-rhotic pronunciation, idioms, expressions and other aspects of regional Englishes.

2. Slices of culture can be demonstrated

An essential element of language learning is culture. So why not incorporate both into your language lessons at the same time? While viewing a film in British, American, Australian or West Indian English you can see cultural aspects included in the plot to illustrate social customs from table manners to weddings and funerals, holidays, celebrations and language idiosyncrasies. Don't forget the use of "Classic" films either, as they can be a marvelous resource for the ELT class room.

3. Historical change can be easily demonstrated

What were conditions, clothing, food and the English language like 100 years ago? During the 1700s or even before? I've actually found the pre-tenth-century epic poem-saga "Beowulf" on DVD. Learning about or comparing historical changes can be enhanced by viewing period pieces, that is, films set in specific historical periods and locations. For example; Gone With the Wind, Humphrey Bogart's stable of classics, in addition to great literature of classic writers which have been converted into screen plays, film documentaries or epic dramas (i.e., Dr. Zhivago, Wuthering Heights, A Tale of Two Cities, War and Peace, Moby Dick, etc.).

4. Using Audio - Visual elements aids learning

As repeatedly demonstrated in research by H. Gardner (1984) and D. Lazear (1992), an audio - visual approach is highly effective in both lowering learner affective filters (Krashen-Terrell, 1984) and in language acquisition and learning. Visual - Spatial, Musical - Rhythmic, Inter-personal, Intra-personal and Verbal - Linguistic intelligence learners receive, process and acquire communicatively-based language elements quite readily from movies. Virtually every type of learning style can benefit from language elements acquired from watching movies, films and videos.

5. Movies are great fun to watch

Finally, no one, not the most dedicated English language learner, not even the teacher, wants a course consisting of only class room rhetoric, typical class room practice, grammar and drills. Movies can offer a welcome respite to "normal" class room activity while still continuing to promote English language skills acquisition and practice. A thoughtfully chosen film (or clip thereof) can breathe new life into a class of the most reluctant learners.
They're simply great fun to watch. After all, they were produced for entertainment, right?

As progressive professionals in our continual search for additional resources, approaches, techniques and methods for expanding our repertoire of English language teaching tools, movies, clips and videos can offer us an easily accessible, dynamic resource to enrich and expand our English language teaching. The aspects mentioned here contain only a few of the many benefits we and our learners can experience. So, pullout your favorite flick, select a dramatic or emotional scene, plan a few activities around it and watch the learners minds turn on.

A Final Note: In the companion to this article entitled, "5 Reasons to Use Popular Movies for English Language Teaching", some justifications for the use of movies in English are reviewed.

Prof. Larry M. Lynch is an English language teaching and learning expert author and university professor in Cali, Colombia. Now YOU too can live your dreams in paradise, find romance, high adventure and get paid while travelling for free.

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