Textual Analysis Task

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30982556

Facebook publishes a report of requests from governments around the world for user data. (to express changes or developments/processes) The latest report, which covers the period January - June 2014, shows that 1,893 "content restrictions" were made inside Turkey during that time. (to reveal the study results)

Also during that period, Turkey temporarily blocked access to both Twitter and YouTube. (to describe the background events in a story)

"These companies might be US-based but their users are global - they have to respect local traditions and customs," said cybersecurity expert Prof Alan Woodward from Surrey University. (to express a perspective)

"They are obliged to obey the laws of the country - the key is transparency. (to express a perspective)

"There's danger in a government censoring what people in a country see, so the people deserve to know if something is being censored." (to discuss opinions/perspectives)

The tone of the text: Informative and objective.

The use of language: Direct speech is much used.

My comment on text: The topic is drawing attention but I would like the author to comment on it as well.

Video Task

1. Write the types of the sentences which are given below.

- Am I really that bad of a guy?

-I was no slave to my wood.

-Cue the refrain.

-You are a big fizzy douché!

-Then what am I to do?

-Oh you are so clearly from L.A.

-Can we sing about the problem that is at hand?

-Hold it everybody.

-What a douché!

2. Detect the word types according to their function.

-Your love was based on a pretense.

-Thank  you.

-Cue the refrain.

-But since I live there beneath your ceilings...

-Excuse me, but we seem to be digressing.

-And I find it to be quite distressing.

3. Fill in the blanks.

-Can Kate ... Sam and love who I am?

-Oh you finally see the ...

-You used a ... name.

-You should have told the truth ...

-If I may ... my two cents, your love was based on a pretense.

-You confuse me for someone who ...

-I will ... the pillow.

-Excuse me, no disrespect but I have to ...

Answer Key

1. -Interrogative

-Declarative

-Imperative

-Exclamatory

-Interrogative

-Declarative

-Interrogative

-Imperative

-Exclamatory

2. -Noun

-Verb

-Noun

-Adverb

-Verb

-Adjective

3. -get over

-shining sea

-made-up

-right from the start

-throw in

-gives a damn

-bite 

-interject

MY COMMENTS WERE ON:

Reflection Task 1A: Evrim Önder

Reflection Task 1B: Özlem Özgüven

Reflection Task 2A: Bilge Demirbaş

Reflection Task 2B: Büşra Tül

Reflection Task 3A: Zeynep Yavuz

REFLECTION TASK 3

  My candidate is Helena Bonham Carter (born 26 May 1966) who is a very talented English actress. She acted in many successful movies such as Fight Club, Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Great Expectations, Charlie's Chocolate Factory and finally Harry Potter series. For me, she is not like any other actresses, her skills are much improved and distinctive. She is literally one of a kind and her old partner Tim Burton together with her fellow Johnny Depp play a great role in her success. She performed excellently in Fight Club, Les Misérables and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which definitely are several ones of my favourite movies. She lost nothing in her acting talent presently, she keeps on performing in the same succeeding way on her movies. I admire her own way of reflecting her characters and also her own personality. With everything she has and she has done, she totally deserves to be the person of the year.

            A short musical part from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

                                                                    Les Misérables

REFLECTION TASK 2B

 "True Blood" is an American TV drama on HBO. The story takes place in Bon Temps, a fictional town in Louisiana and it is based on series of novels by Charlaine Harris. The serie is original and breathtakin with many unexpected scenes. It is of good quality compared with other fictional series and it is one of the reasons why people call it "a vampire serie for adults". The serie's first episode has been published with the name "Strange Love" and its last episode, "Thank You" has met the audience last summer. It has seven seasons in total.
  I very much like its content because you do not sense sham, simplicity and corniness. The serie includes unique characters such as Godric, Eric and Jessica but also there are some characters which I find very useless and annoying. I dislike the way the producer puts the emphasis especially on these characters when there are others that audience admire more. Also I do not appreciate that the scriptwriter did not let a character who was loved and seemed as successful by the audience survive just to fit in the books.
  Although it has few issues that I mentioned above, this serie is so far from being what you are used to watch, as a matter of fact it is a serie produced by HBO.

REFLECTION TASK 2A

  This time, I will tell you a little bit about William Shakespeare because he and his talents are very much admirable and also he is so special for me in a way that I make some of my decisions according to the effects of his works at my viewpoint of life.
  To begin with, his way of reflecting the events in life is very unique which makes me get stuck on him because I have never seen such an impressive way of doing this. He sees the situations so differently that readers cannot realize until they wholly understand his works. Also both his dramas and sonnets are very fluent and this really get me into them. Honestly, after I realized every work of him is truly a masterpiece, I could not read any other writer other than so few ones. I cannot find the taste in any other book I read and this really makes me disappointed because soon I will run out of books since I will already have read every book of him.
  But sadly, sometimes his books kind of bore me because of its heavy language. The times I have difficulty with understanding what he means make me think of it couple of times and then I start to get bored because I cannot figure it out.
  Since I really enjoy reading his especially dramas and also since his books are my almost only sources of reading material because I do not like any other, I formed a way to handle my problem of getting bored and irritated. Now, I firstly read the Turkish version of the books and then read the originals so that I can understand clearly and compare them as well.

REFLECTION TASK 1B

   So today we will talk about Connor Franta who is a well known YouTuber and also my source of inspiration whose picture is above. He is widely popular on YouTube and also is so close to reach 4 million subscribers. He posts videos every week and also was a member of the web star group our2ndlife alongside , Ricky Dillon, Sam Pottorff, Kian Lawley and Trevor Moran but in July 2014 he decided to take a break and kept on posting videos only at his own channel. 
   Connor Franta (born September 12, 1992) is an American Shorty Award Nominated YouTube blogger, comedian and internet personality. He was born in Wisconsin, but moved to a small town in Minnesota as a child.
   Before he got famous, he got accepted to Saint John's University and now he is a graduate person but he is not really interested in other business choices than being a YouTuber.
   He has three siblings and he introduced all his parents on his YouTube channel which he started on August 21st, 2010. His first video is named "No Subscribers", and is presently a private video. He records his reactions and posts them on his main channel every time he has one million more subscribers.
   He enjoys what he is doing and wants to keep on with it. He is the reason of many smiles and laughters of his watchers. He is very sincere and cheerful. It is simply so enjoyable and funny to watch his videos and is very much like you are spending private time with him because his behaviours are so friendly and candid.

I am attaching some links related to him and also one of my favourite videos of him beside his "draw my life" video so that you can check and get to know him better because he is worth to all these efforts.

YouTube Channel (Tip:Watch the videos till the very end!)

Second Channel

Favourite Video

Draw My Life

His Social Media Accounts

Have a frantastic day!