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Meeting #11 Banks in Turkey, English at Banks and Price Negotiations $ Pronunciation of TH

Leventcim hi! Please find the list of Banks in Turkey and notice the categories and sub-categories depending on operational status and ownership.  Banking System in Turkey For basic English Vocabulary at a bank and for negotiating prices, please watch the following videos: And the following 2 videos show present how the pronunciations of TH sound: All the best, Aren

Assignment #24 Spotify Podcasts for the Road

Leventcim, You both may be interested in listenning to the following podcasts on your way back home. They must be at your level, however, you can translate and describe the sentences and vocabulary to Ebru too, so she can understand too.  EASY NATURAL ENGLISH WITH LIAM UNDERSTANDABLE ENGLISH - OLIVER BBC LEARNING ENGLISH NEWS REVIEW BBC 6 MINUTE VOCABULARY BBC 6 MINUTE ENGLISH BBC LEARNING ENGLISH DRAMA Of course there is a lot more than this shortlist at the following page: https://esl4levent.blogspot.com/p/resources.html All the best, Aren

Assignment #23 Travel and Airport Vocabulary

Leventcim hi!  You can find vocabulary and expressions for Airport/Travel English from easy to difficult here.  The following is the list named as "Travel Survival Expressions" from Vanessa. There are 7 videos in it. Please watch them all, starting with the 1st of them.   Good luck! Aren

Assignment #22 Common Prepositions & Phrasal Verbs with "Go"

 Dear Levent, I am sure these videos about basics of English will be very useful for your learning. Good luck with them! Good luck! Aren

Meeting #10 Topics for Conversational English

28 ESL Discussion Topics for Adults That Everyone Has Opinions On 1. Hobbies Everybody has hobbies, and everybody loves talking about them. Hobbies could be passions too, you know. Some simple questions to ask include: What are your hobbies? Why do you like your hobbies so much? How often do you do these hobbies? How long have you been doing these hobbies, and how did you get started? What hobbies did you used to have, but now do not? Is it important to have hobbies? Why/why not? 2. Television Television is one of those topics that everyone has an opinion about. The irony of it is that even though more and more programming is viewed on computers and tablets, television is still a hot topic classes love to discuss. TV will enable you  to showcase native English forms and provide some great context before diving into discussion questions.  Good questions include: How often do you watch TV? Should everyone have a television in their home? What is the best way to watch television:...

Meeting #9 Programming July Studies for the Trip to the U.K. - Phrasal verbs

 Dear Levent, We necessarily focused on your needs for the next month's trip to your customer in the U.K. There will be more Conversational English, dialogue samples, grammar structure and vocabulary involved for this purpose.  There seems 2 very important video materials that need to be watched and discussed. Both are from Anglo-Link and their topics are Word Order and Adjectives&Adverbes. After completing them I will carry on with new topics. For the time being I am giving a glimpse of what we should be doing. Last, but not least, please be watch the videos I posted through Ebru's blog. The content is very crucial for your health. You'd better take into consideration to change your eating habit.  https://esl4ebru.blogspot.com/2022/06/assignment-15-vegan-foods-and-health.html All the best, Aren

Assignment #21 Conversational Phrases

Leventcim Good Morning! I loaded quite a few videos and study materials for you to dwell on last week, that's the reason I stopped sending additional assignments. I know that you have a very limited time.  How about this? One week we focus on Grammar, and another week we shift focus on Vocabulary. So that you can enrich your knowledge and skills quickly. You may take the opportunities on job to use new grammatical rules and words, phrases, phrasals step by step as we progress.  This week we carry on with phrases from beginner to advanced, since we did Grammar las week. Please check the explanations beneath the videos too. Here we go: Even though they may seem advanced, I know that you will bump into many of these expressions in real life. I recommend that you pick up the ones that you quickly start using in your daily conversations, and also gain familiarity to those you find more advanced at your level.  Have a wonderful week, and see you at 9 tonight. Aren

Meeting #8 Critique of the Methods and Materials

 Leventcim hi! I would like to discuss the methods and materials with you, so that we can have a clear vision about how we progress effectively in the near future.  1- Blog 2- Youtube 3- Project based learning 4- Learning from mistakes 5- Social Life, Art, Music, Tango 6- Chomsky/Grammar as a backbone structure 7- Direct Teaching 8- Spotify Channels All the best, Aren

Meeting #7 Grammar Focus - Links - Google Drive Materials

 Leventcim hi! We seem to have a list of grammar issues to focus on as yesterday's meeting showed us. So, please watch the videos carefully and take notes for yourself.  1- Gerunds vs Infinitives 2- Using Articles "A/An" and "The" and "No Article" 3- Word Order 4- Adjectives and Adverbs 5- Verbs + Prepositions Please also do check the following link for the materials: Google Drive - Mix English Materials All the best, Aren

Assignment #20 Listening to Sherlock Holmes - The Blue Diamond

 Leventcim, I have recorded and uploaded "Sherlock Holmes - The Blue Diamond" into Google Drive. Please listen to the story as it should be enjoyable and fun, and then extract the vocabulary and repeat the sentences loudly as you listen.  Sherlock Holmes - Google Drive Have a perfect weekend in Marmaris and dance as much as you can. Aren

Meeting #6 Learning From Mistakes - Correcting a Message

Leventcim hi!  Here is your message: ** Tomorrow ? My Iraq and Algerian and Mekodonia customer here **I didn’t any answer from you so I thought you were postpone understand but I want to show your quality to our customer . **But if you prefer this I will send you my order soon **Could you inform us price about coil of dx53 and ss304 About catalytic I checked your price but higher our local market price . Can you do it best price with big order ? **yes don't have , ı will search pattern for later production , please write now 453-940 ı will give new code when the production ready, **so ı can write 15 € / meter only and as you know ı am paying cargo cost from here to your cargo Tomorrow? My Iraqi, Algerian and Macedonian customers/visitors/guests are still in Turkey.  I haven't (hadn't?) heard (received any message) from you so far, so I thought that you postponed our trip to Dubai. However, I want to present/explain the advantages and the quality of your product  to our cl...

Meeting #5 Learning From Mistakes - Future Tenses & Modal Verbs "Can, Could, Be Able To" & Articles & Vocabulary

Leventcim hi! We are going to do a bit of everything in this meeting. We should discuss your the grammar of your last message, and depending on these mistakes study tenses, modal verbs, vocabulary and articles further. We may also discuss pronunciation and intonation if we have time.   Hello Arencim . One of the my costumer going to come tomorrow and they will back tomorrow night , so can we do it our  lessson on Tuesday ? One of my customers is coming to İzmir tomorrow and he will return at night. Can we postpone our meeting to Tuesday? In the following assignment I had shared 2 relevant videos for corrections. https://esl4levent.blogspot.com/2022/06/assignment-18-all-future-tenses-in.html All the best, Aren Homework: Cambridge Grammar in Use (Intermediate): Chapters 19 - 25 / Future Tense

Assignment #19 Modal Verbs and Past Modals

 Leventcim hi, I am sending you the following 2 videos about Modal Verbs which are actually part of more Advanced English. Even native speakers sometimes confuse how to use them properly. There are times that using many of these model verbs suits at the same time, but one can be slightly better than the others depending on context or the meaning that the speaker wants to give.  I feel obliged to dwell on this subject because I see your curiosity about it which is a very good thing for a learner. I recommend you to use what you learn here very often and despite having mistakes carry on trying as much as you can.  See you at 21:00 today. Best, Aren

Assignment #18 ALL THE FUTURE TENSES IN ENGLISH | Future Forms Explained and Compared & CAN | COULD | BE ABLE TO

 Leventcim hi! Please check the video below as it compares all Future Tenses very well, apart from Compound Future. This gentleman is very good at describing and simplifying grammar structures.  And the following video comes from Arnel. She explains  CAN | COULD | BE ABLE TO One of the my costumer going to come tomorrow and they will back tomorrow night , so can we do it our  lessson on Tuesday ? One of my customers is coming to İzmir tomorrow and he will return at night. Can we postpone our meeting to Tuesday? All the best, Aren

Assignment #17 Business English Conversation

Leventcim hi! I wonder if you feel comfortable when you listen to the following recording. Its level sounds a little higher than yours, however, this is a very realistic conversation that you may witness in England. - Please give a try without reading the text first. Only listen! - Please take a note of the difficulties you have, and report them.  - After then you can read and listen the content at the same time.  - Now, please repeate the content loudly and record your voice and listen to yourself.  - Listen to the audio one more time, and focus on pronunciation and intonation. - Finally, read the text loudly and record your voice and listen to yourself for the last time.  All the best, Aren