Changing Tenses

Rewrite the following making necessary changes using the words in brackets:

Study the Examples:

She is going to school now.(every day)

She goes to school every day.(yesterday)

She went to school yesterday.(already)

She has already gone to school.(tomorrow)

She will go to school tomorrow.(can)

She can go to school.(has to )

She has to go to school.(was-..ing)

She was going to school.( just)

She has just gone to school.

Now is your turn. Get set go !!

1.He drinks tea every morning.(a few minutes ago)
2.He is writing now.(was-..ing)
3.He came to school yesterday.(tomorrow)
4.He sent the cards yesterday morning.(now)
5.He eats a hamburger at lunch.(already)

Answers:

1.He drank tea a few minutes ago.

2.He was writing.
3.He will come to school tomorrow.
4.He is sending the cards now.
5.He has already eaten a hamburger at lunch.

Take Care of Yourself

Do you really take care of yourself? What do you do for yourself? For your body ? For your skin? For your selfdevelopment? For your soul? How do you take care of them?

We are all unique. We are one of the 7 milliard people on earth and each of us is unique. So we are all important. Our body, our soul is sacred so we are supposed to take care of ourselves. As each of us is unique, we are different from each other and our needs are different. We can only  mention how to take care of ourselves and  handle our needs and problems in general.

The main point is cleanness. We should keep our body, skin, hair clean and wellcared according to our skin type or hair type. The tips are not to clean our face with soap. Instead we can use mild tonic like rose water. Aromatherapists  prefer absolute rose water. We shouldn’t put on too much cosmetics, even none . We should avoid using powder, foundation cream, eye shadows.They have chemicals and harm our skin. We can prefer organic ones or none. Or we can use natural materials such as milk, honey, lemon juice...You can cleanse your skin with milk and nurture it or make honey masque or use lemon juice to tighten the pores as well as for its antiseptic effect. Honey is also useful for your hair. You can put some honey in your shampoo and wash your hair. Moisturising your skin with an appropriate cream  is also important to prevent wrinkles and lines.

For our body, we should get the harmful junk food, fried food, too much carbohydrates, sugar, too much salt  out of our list. We can eat anything except for these but the amount is important. How much you eat is much more important than what you eat.

And walk for your life as often as you can. Exercise, walking and swimming .. they are the miracles to keep fit.

 On top of all, what you feel is very crucial. If you know how to enjoy your life then the radiant of this positive energy will make you very charming. And the love of life in your eyes is much more meaningful than anything. Love and respect come first.

Benefits of Lavender Oil

Lavender Oil is provided from lavendula angustifolia flowers. Its very lovely sweet, floral aroma due to the high linalyl acetate content affects you when you smell it. Actually, this lavender oil is a multi-purpose essential oil that seems to go to the source of whatever is ailing in our body. Lavender oil with the feature of one of the most balancing oils can be used for relaxation or rejuvenation. In general, lavender oil is used for soothing the soul and body, stretchmarks, dandruff, headache, cellulite, vericose veins, sunburn. Maillette Lavender oil is inhaled for sadness, depression, anxiety, tension, panic or hysteria and insomnia(sleep aid). Pure Lavender oil can be applied topically to heal wounds and minor burns, eczema, dermatitis, relief from insect bites and inflammatory conditions. Use lavender oil in a bath for muscle spasms, relaxation, and fatigue. Hot or cold compress can be used with lavender oil for rashes, headache, migraines, arthritis and muscle spasms. Whatever ails you, Lavender multi purpose essential oil can probably help will likely work. Application methods of lavender oil are massage, hot or cold compress, cosmetics, perfume, deodorant, lotion, bath, inhaler, diffuser.

Caution : Please don’t use essential oils without consulting  a qualified aromatherapy practitioner if you have a kind of medical problem and with children.

 

Properties and Benefits of Rose Oil

Pure essential rose oil is extracted from rose flowers. Rose oil is famous for its bringing an immediate feeling of happiness and joy in aromatherapy, and it has a way of  soothing emotions. It also reduces anxiety and worry as well as depression, melancholy and sadness. It is also known that it  lets go of anger and resentment. It is a purifying and cleansing oil working on the liver, blood, and stomach. It is used as a common ingredient in skin care as it is excellent at healing scars, improves circulation and smoothes and moisturizes mature, dry skin. Rose oil is helpful in encouraging harmony and balance. It is used as ingredients of perfume, skin care lotions and  creams. Methods of application of rose oil are massage, inhaler, deodorant, perfume, lotion, soap, bath, facial steams, etc.
Caution: Essential oils should be used under the proper guidance of a qualified aromatherapy practitioner especially with children and if you have a medical problem.
 

Hobbies and Interests

Hobbies and interests seem to be only fun, in fact they play very meaningful roles in our lives. If you have a lot of interests and hobbies, you will enjoy your time. Think of a person who knows how to play some musical instruments, they can make others have fun, as well. Music is a very good  means of spending  quality time alone or with others.

Sports and games are also very effective ways of  having a nice time in a healthy way. This sort of hobbies and interests are also a very practical way for self-discipline. Dance, they say, is the golden key of happiness. It is a real fun of life. Music, sports, dance, playing chess, bridge, etc., cooking, acting, writing, knitting, sewing.. so many others. It also depends on our talents as well.

I think having hobbies and interests are much more important than our career. If you have a very successful education period and have your diploma but no time for good quality hobbies or interests, you don’t know what to do in your spare time, when you don’t have to work, you just watch tv or rest. This seems to be nice at first but you get bored later on .

We should have interests and hobbies that will make us have fun, more energetic and sociable and have a nice time even  when we are retired.

Mini Dialogues in the Present Perfect Tense

Where have you been for ages?

I have just come back from vacation.

Why aren’t you doing your worksheet?

I have already done it, mum.

Where is John? Have you seen him?

Yeah, he has just gone out.

Orhan Pamuk has written a lot of books.(He is alive he will likely carry on writing) Shakespeare wrote a lot of plays (He is dead so it is over . )

What have you done so far?

I have already answered back e-mails and faxes.

Have you ever smoked?

No, never.

Have you listened to Metallica lately ?

Yes, a couple of times.

Have you seen”Lost”?

Yes, I saw it two years ago.

Have you ever tasted “whisky”?

Yes.I drank it  first last weekend.

Have you ever been to London?

I was there last summer.

Comenius In-Service Training Courses in Malta, Summer '11

The European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme offers teachers in school or adult education the opportunity for their development.If you are a teacher and would like to attend a course for your professional  training you can apply for a course organised in Malta in Summer 2011. This course involves a significant change in the role of the teacher due to the ever increasing role of Information and Communication Technologies in Education. Teachers are eligible to apply for funding that covers all participation costs including travel, accommodation and course fees. All kind of information can be found at this web address: http://www.smartsolutionsmalta.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=54 

Do you want to learn about the culture in Malta and changes in the role of the teacher? Don't miss this opportunity. Contact them as soon as possible.

33 Chilean Trapped Miners

33 Chilean Trapped Miners
Hugs,Cheers and Tears
The rescue operation has already started 69 days after 33 Chilean miners were trapped in a collapsed mine a half-mile underground in SAN JOSE MINE, Chile.
Here’s their plan to rescue them: There is a narrow hole that's only wide enough to fit one man that will take a rescue worker down in a 13-foot-tall escape capsule. The rescue worker will then start the operation, and the miners will be hauled back to the surface one at a time in the capsule he rode down on. If everything  goes well, it could take as little as 11 minutes to as long as half an hour or more. During the possibly long trip back to the surface, the miners will have a hands-free phone to communicate with rescue workers.
Rescuers began pulling 33 men one by one to fresh air and freedom at last on Wednesday, using the missile-like escape capsule. It was specially created and  designed by an American technician. They were pulled to the surface from their underground prison nearly 2,300 feet /700 meters below to laughing rescuers, to hugs , cheers and tears.
Five men were pulled out in the first five hours of the apparently problem-free operation in the Chile's Atacama desert. Up to now 7 miners were rescued and the last one was a 19 year-old-miner Jimmy Sanchez.
Florencio Avalos was the first rescued miner, who wore sunglasses to protect him from the glare of bright lights. He smiled broadly as he emerged and hugged his sobbing 7-year-old son, Bairon, and wife, then got a bearhug from Chilean President Sebastian Pinera shortly after midnight local time.
A second miner, Mario Sepulveda Espina, was pulled to the surface about an hour later. His shouts were  heard even before the capsule surfaced. He hugged his wife first, Elvira, and his daughter then he handed rescuers souvenir rocks he brought from his underground prison nearly 2,300 feet (700 meters) below.Then he jumped up and down as if to prove his strength before the medical team took him to a triage unit.
Espina said later in a special interview room set up by the government,"I think I had extraordinary luck. ... I was with God and with the devil — and God took me."
He praised the rescue operation, saying: "It's incredible that they saved us from 700 meters below." He thanked all the rescuers and said,  “Love is the most beautiful thing.”

The photo taken from: http://dvice.com/archives/2010/10/a-special-escap.php

Present Perfect

FORM

[has/have + past participle-verb 3]
Examples:     see- saw- seen

• You have seen that video many times.(affirmative)
• Have you seen that video many times? (question)
• You have not/haven't seen that video many times. (negative)
• She has just written the article.
• Has she written the article yet?
• She has not /hasn't written the article yet.

 

USE   Unspecified Time Actions Before the Present Time

The Present Perfect is used to express an action happened at an unspecified time before the present time. Specific time expressions such as: yesterday, one year ago, last week, when I was a child, when I lived in Japan, at that moment, that day, one day, etc.cannot be used with the present perfect tense. You can use unspecific expressions such as: ever, never, once, many times, several times, before, so far/ up to now, already, just, yet, recently/lately, since, for etc.
Examples:

• I have watched that video ten times.
• I guess I have met him before.
• There have been many earthquakes in the Marmara.
• People have traveled to the Moon.
• He has already done the homework.
• Have you read the book yet?
• Nobody has ever learnt that secret.
• How long have you lived here? I have lived here since I was born.
• We have done 3 units so far.
• Have you listened to Metallica recently?
• He has just gone out.
• The Passive form of the Pres. Perfect tense is: Three exercises haven’t been done yet.

Purse Mania

The Most Expensive Purses of the World

I like purses, shoes and belts. Who doesn’t? They are the most important accessories of women. I remember once a friend said.”My shoes are so important they should look gorgeous so i polish them each time  i put them on, well, i may forget to brush my hair but never my shoes.

But when it comes to spending lots of money on them, my brain stops. Ok, it is a big industry to produce shoes and purses and maybe a sort of "Art" as well, but when it is extremely expensive, it means it is luxurious and I am against any kind of luxury. Do you think I need to make sort of emphathy to the richies? Oh, no. When you think of lots of hungry and  jobless people all over the world, you cannot spend that huge amount of money on a purse. 

Once while I was on a trip with my students on the 5th Avenue in NYC, one of the girls came near me and said,” i wanna buy a Gucci bag from the Gucci store here . Can you help me?” “Sure, i can.” i said and went into the store together. Is it the main, "number 1" store of Gucci in the world ? Hell, dunno. She liked one of the tiny miny purses like an envelope with Gucci initial amblems on the cloth-like part so i guessed only some band parts were made of leather. We asked the price and learnt that it was $700 and she said OK. She counted $700 right in front of my wide opened eyes without letting me say,”Are you sure?” She said she had entered the Gucci website the nite before and chose that one. May you be happy to use it, my girl!!!

Anyways, I got pics of the world’s 5 most expensive purses for you.
( I got them from the link:http://www.beyazgazete.com/haber/2010/09/28/dunyanin-en-pahali-5-cantasi.html)
I should accept and confess that they are very cute. They are awesome. Out of this world! Kind of pride to have one of them. However, I am not so sorry that I can't afford to buy one. Yet, they can be considered a good investment with lots of precious stones on them, comparedly, a second hand ordinary leather purse cannot be sold while this one has got a better price than the original.  Here you go :

1.Rose shaped purse with expensive stones:

 Price is 135.000 TL/ USD 93.44515

There is 10106 brilliants (diamonds) of 42.56 carats,1116 pink sapphire stones, and 800 tourmaline stones on it.
Gorgeous, right? I still prefer having the admired eyes on me, not on my purse.

2. Lana Marks Cleopatra Purse: Price:147.000 TL/ USD 101.758

On it, there is 1500 black and white brilliant stones and white gold of 18 carats.

What if you leave it at the restrooms????

3. A purse with black crocodile leather : Price is 177.000 TL/ USD 122.525

 

4. A classic Chanel purse ornamented with brilliants(diamond) named  “Diamond Forever”:

Price is : 385.000 TL / USD 266.510

It has  334 brilliants of 3.56 carats  and white gold of 18 carats on it.

5. Ginza Tanaka, platin purse: 

Price: 3 Trillion TL/ USD 2.076.699.452.385
It has 2000 brilliants on it .

WOW. INCREDIBLE!!!

I wonder which girl will deserve this ?