Topic: Houses and apartments, lifestyle changes, wishes
Compare (v) kıyaslamak, karşılaştırmak
Comparison (n) kıyaslama
House ev (villa gibi müsakil bina)
Apartment apartman dairesi / komple apartman
Flat apartman dairesi
Home ev / yuva (fiziki mekan değil)
Example: I am going to Ahmet’s house.
Example: I am going home.
Word Power
Bright (aydınlık) ≠ Dark (karanlık)
Comfortable ≠ Uncomfortable
Convenient (elverişli, yakın) ≠ inconvenient
Cramped (dar, sıkışık) ≠ spacious (ferah, geniş)
Dangerous ≠ Safe
Dingy (dirty, filthy) ≠ Clean
Expensive ≠ cheap (ucuz) / reasonable (mantıklı) / affordable (alınabilir)
Noisy ≠ quiet
Huge (very big) ≠ small (tiny)
Private house ≠ shared (paylaşımlı) / apartment/ flat
Modern (new) ≠ run-down (harap, çökmüş)
Perspective
Opinion = view görüş, düşünce, fikir
Neighborhood mahalle
Neighbor komşu
Privacy (n) mahremiyet, özel alan
Location = place = site
Evaluation değerlendirme
Grammar – Evaluation & Coparison
Adjective (sıfat) + Enough
Not big enough yeternci büyük değil
Enough + Noun (isim)
The apartment doesn’t have enough windows. apartmanın yeterli penceresi yok.
Too + Adjective can’t take it (negative meaning) dayanılmaz seviyede aşırı (her zaman olumsuzdur)
NOTE: You can’t use “TOO” for positive meaning.
Example: This apartment is too hot. bu apartman dayanılmaz seviyede sıcak.
NOTE: If you use “TOO” with a positive adjective, it makes it negative.
Example: It is too good to be true. Bu, gerçek olamayacak kadar güzel.
Example: She is too beautiful for me. O benim için fazla güzel.
| Countable Nouns a/an/ number end with -s | Uncountable Nouns |
| An apple A book Trees Cars Parking spaces A loaf of bread A buttle of water A cup of coffee | Noise, crime, traffic, privacy Pollution Parking Liquid: coffee, water, oil bread |
Too much (uncountable) / many (countable) + Noun
Too much noise (uncountable) dayanılmaz seviyede gürültü
Too many cars (countable) aşırı fazla araba
Too few (countable)
Example: There are too few trees in the park. Parkta çok az ağaç var.
As + adjective + as = the same = equal eşit
As big as aynı derece büyük
Example: This car is as big as the old one. bu araba eskisi gibi büyük.
Example: The building isn’t as quiet as our old one. binamız eski bina gibi sessiz değil.
The old one was quieter than this building.
We don’t have as much privacy as we had. We had more privacy than now.
Snapshot
Volunteer gönüllü
Make a wish bir dilek tut
Conversation
I get free room and board. Konaklama ve yemek masraflarım ücretsiz.
Criticize = make a negative comment eleştirmek
Somewhere bir yer
Plus = also ayrıca
Grammar Wish
Subject + Wish + past tense (V2) refer to present wishes
I live with my parents. Ailemle birlikte yaşıyorum.
I wish I didn’t live with my parents. Keşke anne babamla birlikte yaşamasaydım.
I wish I had my own apartment. Keşke kendi daireme sahip olsaydım.
Use COULD instead of CAN for wish.
Use WOULD instead of WILL for wish.
NOTE: For the verb BE, WERE is used with all pronouns after wish (NO WAS).
I am too old to do this.
I wish I were younger.
Own kendi
Move hareket etmek, taşınmak
Move in yeni bir yere yerleşmek
Move out eski bir yerden çıkmak
Reading
Even bile, hatta
Environment çevre
Believe (v) inanmak (believe in a religion bir dine inanmak)
Belief (n) inanç
Furniture mobilya, ev eşyası
Waste (v) ziyan etmek, boşa harcamak
Experiment deney
Instead onun yerine
Heat (v) ısıtmak
Bill fatura
Trash can / bin çöp kutusu
Wood ahşap
Stove ocak
Toothpaste diş macunu
Bone kemik
Seed tohum
Nut kuruyemiş, fındık
Soap sabun
Farm çiftlik
Toilet paper tuvalet hağıdı
Habit alışkanlık
Grammar: Unit 105 – Comparatives 1, Unit 106 – Comparatives 2, Unit 108 – Superlatives, Unit 41 – Wish
Vocabulary: Unit 17 – The place where you live, Unit 27 – Life in the country
Writing Topics:
- People today move house more frequently than in the past. Is this a good or bad thing?
- Is it better to live in a big house in the suburbs or a small apartment in the city center?
Speaking Prompts:
- Have you ever changed where or how you live?
- What changes would you like to make in your home or routine?
- What do you wish was different about your lifestyle?
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