from ''DON'T MAKE A WAVE COMMITEE'' to ''GREENPEACE''

    When it was established in 1970, the purpose of that committee was to stop the second nuclear weapon test. Founders of the committee were Dorothy and Irving Stowe, Marie and Jim Bohlen, Ben and Dorothy Metcalfe and Bob Hunter. Its first managers were Stowe, Bohlen and a student named Paul Cote.

    Bill Darnell, a Canadian ecologist, found a name defining committee's movement aganist nuclear weapon and concerns about planet's future. As they were leaving after the meeting, someone raised two fingers and said ''Peace!'' and Bill said ''Let's make it Green Peace.''. Jim Bohlen's son having trouble with making the two words fit on a lapel button linked them together as new name of the committee: ''GREENPEACE'' ...

     Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.

    Greenpeace is an organization which devotes itself to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace. Greennpeace is present in 40 countries with national or regional offices in Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Pacific. Greenpeace organizes activities which are based on ''scientific datas''. 

    Peaceful protests which are staged to bear witness environmental crimes and to pressure on offenders by attracting attention of public opinion are only 'shopwindow' of analyses, reports, all works including discussions with officials.

    Greenpeace is one of the few organizations about environment suggesting plans and making them accept and influencing international agreements.

When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can't eat money...

CONTEXUAL GRAMMAR EXERCISE 1

#1 Our beagle loves to hunt. As soon as someone opens the back door for her, she barrels down porch and stepps the yard instantly.Then she begins running back and forth across the lawn in ecstasy. Her nose cruises the wet grass for smells of cats, rabbits and other presences too subtle for human detection. While sniffing, she spins her tail in quick circles first clockwise then counterclockwise. These two activities always occur together. They seem to propel her along.


#2 The Government Printing Ofiice in Washington D.C., is a source of much useful information despite the fact that few people know about it. The GPO publishes pamphlets and books on a vast number of subject which range from the dangers of X-rays from home TV sets to the identification of mushrooms. About 27,000 publications are offered through the Superintendent of Documents many of which are inexpensive and for some of which there is no charge at all.


#3 There was a man who reaped America's first fortune. His name was John Jacob Astor and he was a lowborn, uneducated German immigrant. He made his living by trading Indian furs. As he never learned to speak English properly, he carried on his business to the end in an accent which was redolent of the Hamburg gutters.

Video Reflection Assignment

    In the video, each student has it's own reason. For example Linxi,the girl from China, chose an American university because of the high grades required by the universites in her country. And she thinks that American schools offer more opportunities for practise. Krishna, Dutch girl, finds American education system better than European systems. She likes that American education system is based on creativity and teamwork. Arata, boy from Japan, says he got  used to study in a foreign country because he had been England and Canada for his high school education.

    They heard about ONU in different ways. Linxi chose the university with the help of an agency in her country. Krishna consulted her grandfather who has been living in USA for 22 years and one of his friend graduated from there recommend the university them so she chose the university. 

    There are some diffirences between American education system and others. For instance, in Japan universities require an entrance system and when students choose their departmant, they can not change it later. In Europe, there is a strict education program. They give students books and planning and that's it. But American education system is more flexible and you have a chance to do more than studying. 

    The cost of living and studying in USA is depend on many factors such as housing, boarding, fees you have to pay and depertmant you studying. It's approximately 30-35 thousand dollars.

    They had some benefits  from living abroad. They found a chance to know America and American culture better. They broke their borders, met new friends from a new country and had chance to experience living in another country.

    They experienced culture shock naturally. Linxi found it strange that in America people wear shorts in winter even when the weather is freezing. Because he live in a close culture in Japan Arata was surprised when he saw that people say what you think directly but he loved it. 

   I would like to have such an experience too but the cost of something like that, living in a diffirent country, being alone there and trying to deal with difficulties by myself frighten me. I would be an incredible opportunity for me to experience such thing. Studying a foreign language in your hometown is really difficult because you speak this language only when you are in lesson. Outside you are speaking your mother tongue so it is in vain to try master the language you learn. So it would be a great chance to improve my language.