The Effects of Englishization

by

Ahmed, Juhee and Salah



There are lots of languages why English dominates other languages. All of the world use to speak English. To speak English is becoming more common. This reason is the following statements.
First of all , the western culture attack the eastern culture , so the western culture come from countries talk English language , that means we learned their culture by their language. We learned western culture by TV, Radio, Theater, and Books. Also, because a lot of people interesting western culture and go very fast to their fashion, movies, Hollywood actors and singers and their lifestyle. So that means anyone want to learn or talk about one of thing above should be learn English language first.
Secondly, nowdays economy is united one, such as trade among the countries and many global companies etc. This means all of people have to communicate each other among the countries. If we can’t communicate among countries, each country will isolate or bankrupt. Therefore we need .common language. That is right English. Also in order to many people look for job, they have to speak English well. For example, in Korea many people want to enter major company, such as Hyndai, Samsung, and LG etc. It is the most important to enter these company that many people can speak English, and the first perquisite is English skill. Eventually, in connection with economy it is necessary to study English hard.
Thirdly, science and Education, these are important fields the English spread by. Most of scientists in the recently centuries speak English and the sciences are written by it. As result most of science books are written by English and many publishers of books choose English language because it is very common. So any body interested in science major he has to study English. For this reason most schools and universities over the world teach English language for many years to their students. Even the most of information over the Internet are published by English. The science and the education after the globalization in the twentieth century have contributed most to the increasing number of English speakers in the world today.
In conclusion, to speak English is not special now. Namely English get become in life. Because English affects culture, economy, science and education.. these reason, we have to speak English.
Salah Meemar, Ahmed Hameraishosha, Juhee Han

The First Language in the World

by

Jin, Elsharif and Hussain

As we have seen, world society has consisted of English. The spread of English is having effect on world culture. There is no question that English has a lot of power.
First, it is internet. When we see internet, we usually can see English article or information. Internet has huge effect that English is spread more fast and easy. English have been changing faster than past, because of Internet. Many people read English article. It is very huge change for world. Two, It is food culture. We already have eaten so many America food a kind of pizza, hamburger. So many traditional food names disappeared. Instead of new food appeared that food name consist of English. Third, it is changing visual of city. Maybe, many store sign consist of English. When we look at the city, looks like America even if there is not America. Much country designer use English word for their design. And advertisers encourage average consumers to feel like privileged people by buying English brand name goods.
The USA sport is popular in the world. Everyone has a kind sport who likes it. The English countries making many words in these games such as basket in basketball game, goal in soccer game and net in volleyball, also the famous factories sport clothes are English such as Nike, Puma, etc.
The technology is reason from reasons to spread the English. Each people today use the technology. For example technology consist Internet, TV, and video game. All people today use the internet to research about information and trade. The people use English to find these TV helps English to spread because people can watch a lot of movie and program in English. Children usually interested in video game. They need to understand English to play this game.
Therefore, the spread of English can play an important on world culture. Also, we can see that English is first language in the world in these instances (culture, sports, and technologies).

How Americans Do Shopping

How Americans Communicate

Answer the following questions in your comments.

1.What are the characters' names?


2.How long do you think they know eachother?


3. Is it appropriate to greet your friends this way in your culture?








1. What is the man trying to tell the woman?

2. What do you think they will decide?

3. Is this situation similar to what happens in your country?

Good Bye Level 1

Hello Fellas,

After a wonderful semester. You are all going to your countries or making some other plans for the winter break. I would like to thank you all for your sincere efforts this semester and all the energy you put in so far.

I strongly believe that you have improved alot since the first day you came here and hopefully will keep your energy and motivation high.

I am attaching the photos I took during the party. If you also have photos please send them to me so that I can put them on the blog page.

Take care

All the best
Baburhan

ELC Level 1 Students* End of Semester Party

Hannah's Birthday

Hello Folks,

Another gathering!!! Another party!!! This semester is about to end, so we are having good time before most of you leave for the winterbreak...

As next wednesday is Hannah's birthday, we wanted to have an early celebration, and went to Thai Kitchen for dinner.

I am posting the photos I took. I hope you all had a nice time.

All the best..

Happy birthday Hannah :D

Hannah's Birthday

Happy Thanksgiving

Micah, Lili (she looks so funny in the picture), Hannah, Jiseon and Sohyoung

Carol cooked a lot of excellent food. She cooked stuffed turkey (not Turkey) and pumpkin pie.
They were all marvelous, delicious and wonderful.

We ate pumkin pie after the dinner. The pumkin pie was very tasty. Everyone finished in almost a minute.
Youngwoo and Adam were the funniest people during the night. They told funny jokes and we laughed alot. In this picture Adam sat on Youngwoo's lap and he acted like a woman. It was hilarious. :)
David always did funny poses. He had an interesting camera. He took very nice photos with his camera. There is something interesting with his camera. I really do not know but he took very large photos with his camera.

Carol's friend was a perfect cook and she was very friendly she took pictures with us and we sang the christmas song together.


Hello Everybody,

We had great fun during the thanksgiving last week, right? We are so grateful to Carol for organizing such a huge gathering and for the excellent food. I am attaching a couple of pictures.

Please write your comments.

All the best
Baburhan

Apple Picking Day

Hello All,

I saw your pictures, and I can see that you had a lot of fun. I attached the photos to this message. You can download the photos by clicking on the photos.

All the best
Baburhan

Ordinal Numbers 1st, 2nd, 3rd

Hello folks,

Here is a website to practice today's topic. "Ordinal Numbers"

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ordinal_numbers/eng/Introduct/default.htm

http://www.english-zone.com/grammar/numbers2.html

http://www.janbrett.com/piggybacks/ordinal.htm

Have a nice day !!

Some Useful Websites for Practice

ESL Quiz

http://a4esl.org/q/h/lb/psv.html

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepresent.html

http://esl.about.com/library/beginner/blwhatdo.htm

http://www.eslgold.com/grammar/simple_present.html

Good luck with the quiz

ELC Soccer Photo

We lost 2-1, but next game we will win!!! Good job ELC FC!!

Shiga Students Graduation Pictures

Hello Folks,

This is Baburhan. I am uploading the pictures from the Graduation of Shiga students. I am soooooo glad to meet you all. You did a wonderful job during your education here. I hope we will meet again somewhere in the future. I wish you good luck in your future studies.

Best
Baburhan

Level 1 Student Group Picture!

This is your teacher Mr. Cousins! I just wanted to pass this picture along to all of you. I also wanted to say GOODBYE to all of the Shiga students. You all have been great and we will miss you all! Please keep in touch with all of us! Take care and keep studying your English!

Your Pictures---Yuki IIzuka

Hi.I hope you that you are not busy.
I am sorry to be late.
This is my homework.

This picture was taked in Niagara Falls.
They are Shiga University student.

It was sunnyday,so we could see very beautiful falls.
We rode on a ship, and went near the falls.

We got wet but it was very exciting experiences.

Your Pictures---Kei Hasegawa

This is Japanese a coming of age celebration's picture.
The rightmost girl is me.And this take a picture with my friends.
Their has a long sleeved kimono.It is Japanese traditional wear.
Kimono was dressing very difficult,but I like kimono very much.
So,this is my favorite picture.

kei Hasegawa

Your Pictures----Shin Ando

Hi,I am Shin Ando.
I introduce this picturte.

They are my host family.
The woman who is standing at center is a mother.
The man who is standing at right side is a father.
The man who is standing at left side is I.
And there are three chirdren.
They are very good family.

Thank you.

Your Pictures----Ji Seon

Hello, Baburhan.

i'm Ji seon.

This is my favorite actors. In this picture, you will see movie actor's family.

His name is Bradly Pitt. He takes his son by his hand.

And he hugged is a daughter by arms

His wife's name is Angelin Jolie.

she hugged the baby to her arms.

Your Pictures----Hannah

Hi~ Baburhan.

I'm hannah.

I have a many pictures, but I choose two pictures.

Because it had my valued memory.

This is my graduation concert picture.

First, left picture is after my concert.

I was take a picture with my church students,

and my friends saw like enviously. It's funny : )

I had flowers, cake and presents.

Second, right picture title is " I'm violinist "

My major is pipe organ, so that is a false picture.

But I wish play all musical instrument.

And I can play a violin a little~

I love this picture.

Somepeple said " �ϼһ��� "

That is " Perfect important picture "

I finished my homework.

Oh~ yeh~ see you !

good night : )

Your Pictures----LILI

Hi, I'm LiLi. this picture is back of my Dormitory(McDonel hall).
There have a lot of trees, a lot of green.
I like here, I like Michigan!!
I like Michigan's air.
It's very fresh.
So, I am very happy, now.

LILI

Your Pictures----Satoshi Azuma

Dear Baburhan

Hello,this is Satoshi.

This is my picture.
I took this picture in the Niagara Falls.
It is very very beautiful!!
The ship in front of the Niagara Falls is
a pleasure boat.It passes by falls.

The Niagara Falls made a deep impression on me!
So,I love it.

Satoshi Azuma
ELC student in MSU

Your Pictures-----Sohyoung Kim

Hello Baburhan
this is Sohyoung.
my sister's husband was professor in msu 1 year.
they went to iby league with my sons and took this picture
when they went to Havard university, thay saw statue that has special legend which is if you touch his toe, then you will go to Harvard university. so all of kids went to touch it. Like legend, I hope they go to college whatever they want.

p.s_ if you see his toe very carefully, you will see that is still colorful because many people touch it.

thank you
have a nice day
Sohyoung Kim

Your Pictures-----Yuji Izuka

This is my favorite picture. I took this picture in India last year. When I and my friends walked around town, two children spoke to us. And we were talking few minutes. Then children invited us to their house. There are their parents in the house.
Their house was very old. There are many holes, breaking windows, and breaking doors. I felt that their poor. However they had warm hearts. They were very kindness and friendly.

Your Pictures-----Andy Koo

Hello, Baburhan

I'm Andy Koo.

This is a picture of "Myself" and my favorite place in the world, my hometown, Korea.

I choose this picture because I look mysterious.

I don't really like to take pictures of myself, but this one, I can give some credit because I look awsome.

Also, I choose the other picture, the streets at night, because it reminded me of home, my friends and the places I used to go to hang out.

The city in Korea never sleeps, whereas in America all the places close after 2am.

So I really miss the my social life and the city that never sleeps.

(maybe I should go to New York??)

However, I realize I can make as much memories in East Lansing with my new friends as I did in Korea.

Your Pictures----Ji Eun

Hello, Baburhan.

I'm Lauren.( ji eun)

This is a my picture.

In this picture, I see many people. They are my best friends.

They have each other unique individuality.

So, sometimes we fighted, but almost we respected each other's individuallity.

They were very noisy. Especially, when our drunk time and talked over the telephone with me. This is a good point , so I love them.

I really miss them.

Your Pictures-----Hyekyoung Lee

Hello, Baburhan.
I'm Hye Kyoung.

In this picture, I see one person. It's me.
This picture was in the restroom of bookstore. I think to stood front of mirror. I look like very young, most people tell me about my face. "You look like an elementary school student." and I like to hear that. So I like my younger face. Also, I hold a camera in my hand and I open my mouth. I like take a picture about other funny expression by myself. So I have many picture that similar.

haha...thank you.
Have a nice day~
bye.

Hyekyoung Lee

Your Pictures-----Donghyun Gang

In the picture, I see five people.
I went down sea with my classmates in Philippines.
From left;Gabriel,Justin,Jully,Bob and I.
They live in Korea without Gabriel.
Gabriel studies in Canada.
Jully and Bob are couple, they will go Australia next year.
Justin works company in Seoul.

Donghyun Gang

Your Pictures-----Youngwoo Lee

In this picture, My seniority and me.
This picture took training in army.
He live in Korea.
In this picture, We wear a military uniform and a service cap.
We disguise(makeup) our face.
He has more experience at the work than I.
I learned many things.
He was very friendly seniority.
Now He is a student.
I treasure a army memory.
Because,I had a good experience.

Take a Picture :)

Hello Folks,

Today's theme is photos. Remember the famous photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. Maybe you can take pictures like him, and be an artist or a photographer.

In this task,

• You will send a favorite picture of yours (example: your picture, your house, your family, your dog, your house or a picture that you took)

• Please send the picture as an attachment to my E-MAIL ADDRESS: uzumbabuATmsu.edu, along with a brief description as in the example below. I will publish your pictures with the description.

• We will make a contest to choose THE BEST PHOTO OF THE YEAR !!!!!!
  

• Please remember that the assignment is DUE Sep 18, TUESDAY.
  

Example:


In this picture, I see four people. My father, my mother, my brother and my sister. They live in Japan. My father is a businessman. In the picture, he wears a suit. My mother wears a gray jacket. She loves jackets. My sister smiles. She is very happy. My brother is very naughty. He wears a hat, and in the picture he is hiding.

Have a nice weekend.

Baburhan

Soccer Terms

			attack	to make a forceful attempt to score a goal
			attacker	a player that has possession of the ball
			away game	a game played at the opponent's ground
			away team	the team that is visiting the opponent's ground
			ball	the hollow sphere that players kick in soccer
			beat	to defeat
			bench	a long seat for several people
			captain	the player who leads and directs the other players on the field
			centre circle	a circular marking in the centre of the field from which kickoffs are taken
			champions	a team that has beaten all other teams in a sporting contest
			changing rooms	the rooms where players dress to play
			cheer	to shout in encouragement and give support
			coach	a person who trains a team
			corner kick	a restart of the game where the ball is kicked from one of the four corners of the field
			cross	a pass from an attacking player near the sideline to a team player in the middle or on the opposite side of the field (also a verb) crossbar the horizontal beam across the top of a goal
			crossbar	the horizontal beam across the top of a goal
			defend	to resist an attack
			defenders	the players that do not have possession of the ball
			draw	a game that ends with both teams having the same number of goals
			dropped ball	a way of restarting the game where the referee drops the ball between two players
			equalizer	a goal that makes the score even (the same for both teams)
			extra time	a further period of play added on to the game if the scores are equal
			field	the rectangular, grass area where a game is played
			field markings	the straight and curved white lines painted onto the field
			FIFA	Federation Internationale de Football Association; the official body of international football
			FIFA World Cup	a solid gold statue given to the champion of each World Cup tournament to keep for the next 4 years
			first half	the first 45 minutes of the game, before half-time
			fit	in form, in good health
			fixture	a game played on a particular date
			fixture list	a programme of games
			forward	one of the three or four players on a team who play at the front and are responsible for most of the scoring
			foul	an unfair or invalid piece of play, against the rules
			free kick	a kick given to a player for a foul by the opposition; the player kicks the ball without any opposing players within ten feet of him
			friendly game	a game that is not part of a serious contest
			goal	1. a ball that crosses the goal line between the goalposts and below the crossbar, winning one point 2. the structure consisting of two posts linked by a crossbar into which all goals are scored
			goal area	the rectangular area 18 meters wide by 5 meters deep in front of each goal
			goal kick	a way of restarting the game where the ball is kicked from inside the goal area away from the goal
			goal line	the boundary or line at each end of the field
			goalkeeper, goalie	the player in front of the goal who tries to stop the other team scoring
			goalpost	one of the two upright posts of the goal, 8 feet high
			goal scorer	a player who puts the ball into the goal and so "scores a goal"
			ground	the place where a game is played
			half-time	the 5-minute rest period between the first half and second half
			hand ball	a foul, when a player touches the ball with his arm or hand
			header	the striking of the ball by a player with his head
			home	a team's own ground
			hooligan	a violent troublemaker
			injury	a wound suffered by a player (for example: broken leg, sprained ankle)
			injured player	a player who has been hurt or wounded
			injury time	time added to the end of the first or second half to compensate for time lost because of player injuries
			kick	the start of a game, or restart after a goal, when a player kicks the ball forwards
			kick-off	the start of a game, or restart after a goal, when a player kicks the ball forwards
			Laws of the Game	the 17 main rules for football established by FIFA
			league	a group of teams that play each other for competition
			linesman	the 2 officials who help the referee; they watch the sidelines and goal lines
			match	a game of football
			midfield	a region of the field near the midfield line
			midfield line	a line that runs across the centre of the field; centre line; halfway line
			midfield player	the players that play behind the forwards
			national team	the team representing a particular country or nation
			net	the mesh of cord hung over and behind the goal; can also mean the goal itself
			opposing team	a team playing against another team
			own goal	a mistake, when a team places the ball inside its own goal
			pass	when a player kicks the ball to a teammate
			penalty area	a rectangular area in front of the goal, 40 meters wide 16 meters by deep
			penalty kick, penalty shot	a kick from the penalty spot by a player against the opposing goal keeper; awarded for the most serious violations of the rules or used in the event of a draw
			penalty spot	the small circle 11 meters in front of the goal
			pitch	the football field
			possession	control of the ball
			red card	a small card, red in colour, that the referee holds up to show that a player must leave the game for very bad behaviour
			referee	the chief official; he starts and stops play, makes all decisions about the rules, and acts as timekeeper
			score (verb)	to put the ball into the goal and gain a point
			score (noun)	the amount of goals for each team
			score a hat trick	when one player gets three goals in the same game
			scorer	a player who scores or gets a goal
			scoreboard	a large panel or other display that shows the current score or number of goals for each side
			second half	the second 45 minutes of the game, after half-time
			send a player off	when the referee tells a player to leave the field for bad behaviour
			side	one of the two teams playing a game
			sideline	the line that runs along the length of the field on each side; touchline
			spectator	a person who watches a game (or other performance)
			stadium	a special sports ground with seats for spectators where football (or another game) is played
			striker	a team's best forward who plays near the centre of the field
			studs	small points on the underneath of a player's boots to help prevent slipping
			substitute	a player who replaces another player on the field
			tackle	to try to take the ball away from another player by kicking or stopping it with the feet
			team	the members of one side
			tie	when two teams have scored the same number of goals in a game; a draw
			ticket tout	a person who tries to sell tickets at a price higher than the official price
			tiebreaker	a way of choosing the winner of a game when both teams have the same number of goals, for example by a series of penalty kicks
			to keep goal	to be the goal keeper or goalie
			to score a goal	to put the ball into the goal or net
			to shoot at goal	to kick the ball towards the goal
			touch line	the line that runs along the length of the field on each side; sideline
			underdog	a team that is not expected to win
			unsporting behaviour	rude or bad conduct
			whistle	the instrument that the referee blows to create a loud, high-pitched sound
			winger	a forward who plays to the side of the striker or strikers
			World Cup	the international soccer competition between nations, organized by FIFA every 4 years
			yellow card	a small card, yellow in colour, that the referee holds up to warn a player for bad behavior

Fun With To Be VerBs

Following links will take you to several websites. In these websites you can study the to be verbs was/were and check your progess by the online answer keys provided.

Websites:
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1. http://a4esl.org/q/h/lb/was.html
2. http://www.better-english.com/grammar/was2.htm
3. http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/was_were.htm

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This assignment will be due 14th of September, Friday.

After completing these three online quizes, write down your scores and send me an e-mail (uzumbabuATmsu.edu)

Example:

My scores are

Website 1: 20 correct answers out of 25 questions (20/25)
Website 2: ........
Website 3: .......


Have a nice week :)

TALENTED PEOPLE WANTED!!!!!!!

In this task,

• write about a talented person (he/she may be in your family or a friend)
  
• write it under this topic and publish it.
• you can also comment on your friends' writings.

REMEMBER the assignment is DUE 10th of September

Have a nice weekend :)

Make the Best Guess !!!!!!

Hello Folks,


We are playing a guessing game. I want you to make a guess about where I took this photo. I will give you clues as time goes by. You need to make a guess and show a reason for your guess as in the example.

example: " I think this place is Shanghai, because I see the sea and the tower looks like a Chinese structure."

Let's see who will make the best guess :)

TOP 10 Rules for E-mail Writing

Top 10 Most Important Rules of Email Netiquette

1. Use Email the Way You Want Everybody to Use It

You have the future, and the present of humankind in your hands — even when you just write an email.

2. Take Another Look Before You Send a Message

Don't send anything you don't want to send.

3. Quote Original Messages Properly in Replies

Make your email replies easy to read and understand by quoting in a smart and useful manner.

4. Be Careful with Irony in Emails

No, really! I mean it. Honestly!

5. Clean Up Emails Before Forwarding Them

Forwarding emails is a great way of sharing ideas, but make sure the original idea is not hidden in obfuscation.

6. When in Doubt, Send Plain Text Email, Not HTML

Not everybody can receive your fancily formatted emails. Some may even react furious. To be safe rather than sorry, send plain text emails only when in doubt.

7. Writing in All Caps is Like Shouting

Don't shout in your emails (and all caps is so difficult to read).

8. Ask Before You Send Huge Attachments

Don't clog email systems without permission.

9. Smileys Should Ring an Alarm

Don't use smileys to say something you should not (and don't intend to) say in emails.

10. Avoid "Me Too" Messages

"Me too" is not enough content, but too much annoyance.

Effective E-mail Writing

10 Tips for Effective E-mail by Ellen Dowling, PhD
http://www.mindtools.com/email.html

1. Think before you write. Just because you can send information faster than ever before, it doesn’t mean that you should send it. Analyze your readers to make certain that you are sending a message that will be both clear and useful.

2. Remember that you can always deny that you said it. But if you write it, you may be held accountable for many many moons. You may be surprised to find where your message may end up. (As an example of “What Not To Do” in Ellen Dowling’s Writing Strategies class?)

3. Keep your message concise. Remember that the view screen in most e-mail programs shows only approximately one half of a hard-copy page. Save longer messages and formal reports for attachments. On the other hand, do not keep your message so short that the reader has no idea what you’re talking about. Include at least a summary (action or information?) in the first paragraph of your message.

4. Remember that e-mail is not necessarily confidential. Some companies will retain the right to monitor employees’ messages. (Refer to #1 and #2, above.) Don’t send anything you wouldn’t be comfortable seeing published in your company’s newsletter (or your community’s newspaper).

5. Don’t attempt to “discipline” your readers. It’s unprofessional to lose control in person—to do so in writing usually just makes the situation worse.

6. Don’t “spam” your readers. Don’t send them unnecessary or frivolous messages. Soon, they’ll quit opening any message from you.

7. DON’T TYPE IN ALL CAPS! IT LOOKS LIKE YOU’RE YELLING AT THE READERS! Remember, if you emphasize everything, you will have emphasized nothing.

8. don’t type in all lower case. (unless you’re e.e. cummings.) if you violate the rules of english grammar and usage, you make it difficult for the reader to read.

9. Use the “Subject” line to get the readers’ attention. Replace vague lines (“Information on XYZ Project,” or “Status Report Q1”) with better “hooks”: “Need your input on Tralfamadore Project,” or “Analysis of recent problems with the new Veeblefetzer.”

10. Take the time to poofread your document before you sent it. Rub the document thru the spell checker and/or the grammer checker. Even simpl tipos will make you look sloppie and damage you’re proffessional credubility.

Welcome to MSU ELC :)

Dear Students,

We are glad that you have joined us at MSU ELC. We hope that you will enjoy your experience at the English Language Center and develop your English as much as possible.

This exciting, interesting, beautiful website will be used to enable you to communicate with your friends, instructors and be informed about the latest events in your Grammar course (assignments, announcements).

We recommend you to visit this website frequently.

Kind Regards
Baburhan Uzum