Blogging with INT Section 3

Welcome to our blog. We hope you will enjoy this new experience.

Do you want to know what we will be doing here? Then this is the answer:

We will be sharing our views on the topics we studied in class, the books we read, daily news and more. If time allows, we want to give you the responsibility for creating a post relating to one aspect (or summary) of your daily learning in a rotation system. You are alsoexpected to write comments on the posts created by both your teachers and friends.

Moreover, each of you will have a page here, which you can use as a personal online space.

Have a nice term and good luck.

Meltem Bizim & Nezahat Ozgirin

What does The Big Bang Theory mainly focus on?

How do Black Holes occur?

What are speciality of  Black Holes?

How can people see Black Holes?

Should we go another planet to discover?

1-) How did money evolve?

2-) What is  barter system? Why people turned into monatery system?

3-) What are the benefits and drawbacks of E-Cash?

4-)What does stock market do? Which factors are  important to be succesful in stock marketing?

5-) What is community currency? Why people today want to use community currencies?

Input 1: Non-Verbal Communication Across Cultural

What are the potential problems between different people from different cultures?

Why is non-verbal  important for communication and why people need to learn about non-verbal communication?

What kind of conflicts occur because of non-verbal communication?

Input 3: Cultural Patterns

Define briefly low context and high context and what are the differences between them?

What are doing and being cultures? Give examples from the countries.

Mustafa – Nazlı – Mustafa

-Describe briefly desertification and give examples of causes which made by human ?

-What are the effects of desertification in terms of women?

-Which particular human activity is mainly responsible for the climate change?

1-) What are the differences between optimistic and flow theory ?

2-) What are the advantages and disadvantages of using PROZAC ?

3-) Why people believe that money makes them happy ?

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WHat are some of the causes of sand storms in Beijing? What problems occurs resulting from these sand storms?

Please write sentences using the ideas you have gained from the passage we read in class and the listening (input 2). Please use the transition signals that you are not very familiar from the list provided on this blog. Write as many sentences as you like.

Write a paragraph of about 100 words on the following topic:

“What is the importance of microfinance for children?”

Write a paragraph of about 100 words on the following topic:

“What is the importance of microfinance for women?

Write a paragraph of about 100 words on the following topic:

“What is microcredit? How is it different form other credits provided by bank or other informal moneylenders?”

What is community currency? Why have some communities started using them? (Give some examples)

How do you think such a system might help socies and/ or the world?

Meltem