BEYONCE VS JENNIFER LOPEZ

  

 - COMPARE AND CONTRAST

    Jennifer Lopez is  an American entertainer, businesswoman, producer and philanthropist. She was born in New York. At the age of five she started taking singing and dancing lessons. And Beyonce Knowless is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. She was born in Houston. She began performing singing and dancing as a child.
    I think compare of them is important because pop music lovers from all over the world cannot seem to get enough of these two equally stunning, equally voluptuous and equally talented ladies who rule the airwaves and the dance floor, and now, even the silver screen. It’s only natural that supporters of Jennifer Lopez continuously look for aspects that their idol will top Beyonce Knowles, and vice versa. 
     Both of them dance and sing and started these when they were children. Both Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce Knowles are in pop and R&B genres. Both of them are American. Both of them acted several movies. 
      Beginning of their career Jennifer Lopez started making a name for herself in the music industry, But Beyonce Knowless landed on a solo career after Destiny’s Child. Jennifer Lopez was born to Puerto Rican parents in the Bronx, New York. Her education began attending catholic schools, after which she enrolled herself in dance schools while working for a living. She had few acting roles and worked as a backup dancer for many rap artists. Her tabloid career began with her status as Puff Daddy’s girlfriend and their subsequent high profile breakup in 2000. Beyonce Knowles was born to a creole mother and an African American father in Houston, Texas. She discovered her singing and dancing potentials in her elementary school years. Beyonce met the would-be members of the now broken up girl group Destiny’s Child at the tender age of 8 years old.Jennifer Lopez is a better actress so far (however, there's plenty of time for Beyonce to improve her skills. She believes her next movie "Dreamgirls" will fully showcase her acting abilties.) But Beyonce is better in every other way! She sings way better, writes better songs, makes better music videos.

- BRAIN-STORMING

	JENNIFER LOPEZ	BEYONCE KNOWLESS
LIFE	She is an American entertainer, businesswoman, producer and philanthropist	She is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress.
TRANING	Dance Classes Catholic Schools Preston High Scool	Dance Classes St. Mary Elementary School Houston Performing and Visual Arts High School
MUSİC	pop and R&B	pop and R&B
SIMILARITIES	Both Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce Knowles are in pop and R&B genres.
DIFFERENCES	Jennifer Lopez is of Puerto Rican descent and Beyonce Knowles is of African American and Creole descent.

Vocabulary of Reading Aloud: a useful learning tool?

     mitigate: /ˈmɪt.ɪ.ɡeɪt/  to make something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad:
*It is unclear how to mitigate the effects of tourism on the island.
perennial: /pəˈren.i.əl/  lasting a very long time, or happening repeatedly or all the time:*The film 'White Christmas' is a perennial favourite.
linear:  /ˈlɪn.i.ər/   consisting of or to do with lines:*a linear diagram
fragment: /fræɡˈment/ to break something into small parts or to be broken up in this way:*The satellite will fragment and burn up as it falls through the Earth's atmosphere.
opacity: /əʊˈpæs.ə.ti/ the state of being opaque, or the degree to which something is opaque*Its opacity is very high.
burden: /ˈbɜː.dən/ a heavy load that you carry:*The little donkey struggled under its heavy burden.
chant: /tʃɑːnt/ to repeat or sing a word or phrase continuously:*The crowd were chanting the name of their football team.
aural /ˈɔː.rəl/  relating to hearing:*aural teaching aids, such as CDs
cognitive: /ˈkɒɡ.nɪ.tɪv/ connected with thinking or conscious mental processes:* Some of her cognitive functions have been impaired.
rhetoric /ˈret.ər.ɪk/  speech or writing intended to be effective and influence people:*How far the president will be able to translate his campaign rhetoric into action remains to be seen.

Reading Aloud: a useful learning tool?

1)Why has reading aloud been discouraged in last three decades? What are the main objections against reading aloud?
     It is commonly perceived as an unimaginative and easy time filler for the teacher.
-It is dull and boring,anxiety-provoking and of negligible benefit for the students.For the listeners, there is little to be gained from listening to a stumbling speaker.
-For the speaker, such is the working memory processing capacity required for decoding, recoding, and articulation thaht there is little room left for comprehension, yet RA is often used with the aim of comprehension.
-The linear progression of RA does not aid the development of efficient reading strategies.
-The requirement to focus on every word also slows reading speed and impedes the chunking of meaningful units.
-Reading slowly,whether aloud or silently, interferes with semantic proposition formation, therefore making it more difficult to understand what has been read.
-Students can be distracted by English spelling and make errors in the pronunciation of words they know orally.
-Reading aloud is a difficult thing to do well, even for native speakers, and this could be demotivating for students.

2)What are the possible benefits of  reading aloud?
Making accurate connections between graphemes and phonemes is vital in reading in order to speed word recognition and to help pronounce and learn new words.

3)How can reading aloud be used for diagnostic purposes?
Pronunciation , understanding of graphemic-phonemic connections, and so on, and is therefore using it as a diagnostic tool. It is the only way to check that these connections are being made correctly.

4)How can reading aloud be useful for pronunciation and prosodic features?
By reading aloud longer stretches of text, prosodic features can focused upon with the aim of raising awareness of these and practising them so that the words flow in as natural sounding a manner as possible.

5)What is the role of reading aloud in reducing student anxiety?
Controlled, imitative activities can make students feel secure enough to make their first utterances. 

6)What kind of a role does reading aloud have in developing writing skills?
RA could be useful as a proofreading technique as errors might be more easily picked up with visual and aural inputs working together.

Vocabulary of "Friends of Miss Reice"

     jab: /dʒæb/ to push or hit something forcefully and quickly, often with a thin or sharp object:
*The doctor jabbed the needle into the dog's leg.
chunk: /tʃʌŋk/ a part of something, especially a large part:*Three hours is quite a chunk out of my working day.
apron: /ˈeɪ.prən/ a piece of clothing that you wear over the front of other clothes to keep the clothes clean while you are doing something dirty, such as cooking or cleaning
chide: /tʃaɪd/ to speak to someone severely because they have behaved badly:*She chided him for his bad manners.
crack: /kræk/ If someone cracks, they begin to feel weak and agree that they have been defeated:*He cracked during questioning and told us where to find the stolen goods.
grubby: /ˈɡrʌb.i/ If you describe an activity or someone's behaviour as grubby, you do not think that it is honest, fair, or acceptable:*She sees the business of making money as just grubby opportunism.
stale: /steɪl/ describes someone who has lost interest in what they are doing because they are bored or are working too hard:*They had been working together for over five years and they had both become a little stale.
fume: /fjuːm/ to be very angry, sometimes without expressing it:*I saw her a week after they'd had the argument and she was still fuming.
venomous:  /ˈven.ə.məs/ full of anger or hate:*Ms Brown has launched a venomous attack against the newspaper.
glance: /ɡlɑːns/ to give a quick short look:*She glanced around/round the room to see who was there.

FRIENDS OF MİSS REICE

1)What is the short story is mainly about?
A boy who is regularly left by his socially busy parents in the care of the Cedars Lawn Nursing Home. Here he is exposed to sickness and death and“it seemed to him that the whole of adult life was about these things, the sickness and temperatures and bowels and dying, of the patients in the nursing home. He was not afraid. He had always come here.”

2)Who are the main characters in the story?

Boy: His name is not known.He doesn't love the nurse and scare of her. He is a friend of Miss Reice.

Miss Reice: She is a patient who stays in nursing home. She can't speak. She can see her family once a week.

Wetherby: She is a nurse. She doesn't love her patients especially Miss Reice.

3)What is the most important event in the story?
I think the most important event in the story is the death of Miss Reice.

4)What is the main idea in the story?
Family is so important for their children. So, parents should be care of children and their fear.

DREAM

Isabella and Anne were close friends.They had lived together for a long time. One day, Anne died interestingly in a traffic accident. Since then, life was so difficult for Isabella. Anymore, she was alone. The only keepsake for her is Anne’s diary. Whenever she missed Anne, she read it.

Isabella dreamed of Anne once, and she never dreamed the same again.Like most sane, good people, Anne compelled her. When she read her diary, she cried.She couldn’t help it. There was something terribly sad yet wholly magical about her and the secret annex, where she lived until she was captured.

   When she dreamed of Anne, she went back in time. The connection they established allowed it. There was a rusty nail in the dream. Anne and Isabella both held a copper wire. The wires were connected to a 9 volt battery. They wrapped our wires around the nail, and then they dreamed together peacefully. They were magnetized.

Anne was wearing a red coat in the dream. She sat in the middle of a destroyed city. Isabella could see her lips move, but she couldn’t hear her talk.

She wanted to reach her. She wanted to hug her. She wanted to tell her everything would be all right.She  couldn’t do any of those things. The dream had her strapped to a mechanized ride she couldn’t control. She could only watch.The dream ended, and She woke up.

Later, she reread the diary of Anne. She wanted to see if Anne had written about a dream she had had with a boy she didn’t know, a boy who was born fifty years after she died. She must, Isabella thought. They established a connection. Did they not? If they did, the diary did not mention it.

Isabella closed the book. She lay on the bed. She cried herself to sleep.