
A bakery in England wants to help a children’s hospital. It needs to earn money. It makes a big cake. It takes 400 hours to finish. The big cake is a machine! The ingredients go in the big cake. They come out as little cakes. The little cakes go in another part of the big cake. They come out finished and in little boxes. The big cake could feed 2,000 people. The bakery only wants to use it to earn money. The bakery hopes that more people will get ideas to help others.
This news is from England. Policemen want to stop a car. They are successful. There are four young people in the car. The car stops. The four young people try to run away. The policemen want to stop them. The young people are fast. One policeman has an idea. He starts to bark like a dog. He is very realistic. People think that he is a real dog. One young man stops and he does not run away. People make jokes about the policeman because he barks like a dog. This is not important to him. His tactic is good and it is important.
Dracula wants to know which of his bats is the best. They have to show him how much blood they can drink. The bat which drinks more blood than others is the winner. The first bat goes and comes back after 10 minutes. Its mouth is full of blood. Dracula says, “Nice, how did you do it?” The bat says, “Do you see that tower? Behind it there is a house. I went inside and drank the blood of all the family.” Dracula says, “Very good”. The second bat goes and comes back after 5 minutes. There is blood on all his face. Dracula is shocked, “How did you do that?” The bat says, “Do you see that tower? Behind it there is a hotel. I went inside and drank the blood of all the guests.” Dracula says, “Fantastic”. Now the third bat goes and comes back after 1 minute. There is blood on all his body. Dracula doesn’t believe his eyes, “How did you do that?” The bat says, “Do you see that tower?” Dracula says, “Yes”. And the bat says, “I didn’t see it”
A man is driving in the city. The maximum speed in the city is 60 km per hour. He goes 80 km per hour. A policeman stops the man. The policeman comes to the car. The man opens the window. “Good afternoon,” says the policeman. “You went very fast. You will pay 50 euros.” “I know,” says the man. He is not happy but he gives the money to the policeman. “This is your ticket,” says the policeman. “I don’t need a ticket. What will I do with the ticket?” says the man. “Keep the ticket. When you get four tickets, you will get a bicycle.”
Three rich brothers wanted to do something special for their old mother. She had her birthday. The first brother bought her a big house. The second brother gave her a big car, with a driver. The third brother remembered that his mother loved to read, but she had bad eyes. So he gave her a special parrot. This parrot could read books. Soon, the brothers got letters from their mother. The first letter said, “The house is very big. I only live in one room, but I must clean all house.” The second son got a letter, “I don’t go out very often. I don’t need the car and the driver is a bad man.” The third son got a letter, “My sweet boy, you know what your mother loves. The chicken was very tasty.”
Peter goes to a doctor. “Doctor, I have a problem,” he says. “When I sleep in my bed, I think that there is somebody under my bed. I look under my bed and I think there is somebody on my bed. On, under, on, under. I think that I am crazy!” The doctor thinks for one minute. Then he says, “Come to me for 2 years. Come here three times in a week and I will help you.” “How much will I pay?” Peter asks. “One hundred dollars for a visit,” the doctor says. Peter says, “I will think about it.” Peter never comes back. After two weeks, he meets the doctor on the street. “Why didn’t you come to visit me?” the doctor asks. “One hundred dollars for one visit? It is expensive for me. A barman helped me for 10 dollars.” The doctor doesn’t understand, “What did he do with you?” “He told me to cut the legs of the bed.”
A young man goes to a supermarket. It is his first day at work. The supermarket manager says hello with a smile. Then he gives him a brush. The young man must clean the floor. The young man doesn’t understand and he says, “But I studied at university.” The manager then says, “Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t know that you studied at university. Give me the brush and I will show you how to do it.”
There is a blonde woman on a plane. She sits next to a lawyer. The lawyer asks the blonde woman if she wants to play a game of questions with him. The blonde doesn’t want to play, so the lawyer says to her, “If I can’t answer your question, I will give you 50 dollars. If you can’t answer my question, you will give me 5 dollars.” The lawyer thinks that he cannot lose and after some time the blonde woman says, “Yes”. The lawyer asks first, “What is the distance between our planet and the nearest star?” With no word, the blonde gives him 5 dollars. Then the blonde woman asks, “What goes up a hill with 3 legs and comes back down the hill with 4 legs?”The lawyer doesn’t know. He thinks for 5 hours, he uses his laptop, he calls his friends, he thinks and thinks, but in the end he doesn’t know and he pays the woman 50 dollars. The blonde woman takes the 50 dollars with no word, but the lawyer wants to know, “What is the answer to your question?” With no word, the blonde gives him 5 dollars.
There is a video on the Internet. A person films it in Indonesia. The video becomes very popular. It shows a man and a dog. They are riding on a motorbike.The dog is the driver. Some people are shocked. The man, however, says that this is normal in Indonesia.
Nicolle Flint is an Australian politician. She is a young lady. She likes to wear nice clothes. Nice clothes are a part of her image as a politician. Last week, a journalist writes an article about Flint. The journalist writes bad comments about her work. However, the journalist comments on Flint´s clothes, jewelry and shoes. Flint is surprised. Flint says that the article is sexist. This means that somebody says bad things about women without a good reason. Flint posts a video on social media. She wears a bin bag or a trash bag in the video. Flint says that there is a lot of sexism in politics. Flint does not like it. It is not easy to be a woman politician.
This happens at a shopping centre. The shopping centre is in Poland. Two men are on an escalator. They are going down. Suddenly, somebody shouts, “Free burgers!” The men want the burgers. They must turn around. They must run up the escalator. They are going the wrong way. This is not easy for the men. They fall a few times. People watch them. They film them, too. In the end, the men get to the top. People start to cheer.
Dutch pranksters go to a museum. They have some pictures with them. These pictures are cheap. They are from IKEA. However, nobody knows this. The pranksters let people talk about the pictures. The people do not know that the pictures are from IKEA. The people talk about the pictures. They say what is great about them. In the end, the pranksters tell the people that the pictures are from IKEA. Many of them laugh. Some are not so happy.
People make a TV show. They are in the Netherlands. They want video of a zoo. They want video of the chimpanzees at the zoo. They send a drone with a camera. It flies over the chimpanzees. A chimp sits in a tree. It sees the drone. The chimp has a stick. It hits the drone. The drone falls down. The camera still records video. The chimp comes to the drone. It picks it up. The chimp looks at the drone. It looks at the camera. Its face is very close to the camera!
Some people go to Chernobyl. It is in Ukraine. They see a fox. One person films the fox. The fox is not afraid of the people. They give it some bread. They give it some meat. The fox stacks the food. It makes a big sandwich! The sandwich is almost too big to eat. But the fox still eats the sandwich. No people live near Chernobyl now. That is because of a nuclear disaster in 1986. But more foxes, wolves, and bears live there now.
This news is about a farmer. He is from Kansas, USA. He creates cow art. The farmer is in a feed truck. This truck carries food for cows. He drives in a field and puts the food on the ground. He must put the food in the right place. Later, the cows come. They want to eat the food. A drone films them. They are small and black in the video. Together, they look like a big smiley face!
This is a conversation. It is between a Canadian man and a US ship. It is from October 1995. It was at sea near Canadian land. Canadian man: You must change your way. If you don’t change your way, we will have a big collision. US ship: You must change your way. We have a big ship. Canadian man: It is not possible. You must change your way. US ship: This is the captain of a US ship. You must change your way. Canadian man: It is not possible. We repeat. You must change your way. US ship: This is a US ship. We are a very big ship. We repeat. You must change your way. Canadian man: This is a lighthouse. We are waiting for your answer.
This joke is about one woman. This woman has blond hair. The woman bought a ticket for a plane. It was a ticket to Majorca. It was in tourist class, but this woman sat down in business class. A stewardess told her that her ticket is in tourist class, but the woman didn’t want to change her place. So, the stewardess went to the pilot. She asked him for help. The pilot went to the woman. He said something into her ear. The woman stood up and sat down in tourist class. The stewardess didn’t understand and she asked the pilot, “What did you tell her?” The pilot said, “I told her that business class is not flying to Majorca.”
A man is reading his newspaper. His wife comes to him. She has a frying pan. She hits him on the head with the frying pan. He asks, “Why did you hit me?” “I saw a paper in your trousers. There was a name ‘Betty Sue’ on the paper.” He says, “‘Betty Sue’ is the name of the horse which I want to buy.” The wife says nothing. Three days later, the man is reading his newspaper. She comes to him. She hits him very hard with a frying pan again. He asks, “Why did you hit me again?” She answers, “Your horse called.”
A man went in a car in Texas. A policeman stopped him. The man said to the policeman, “Is there a problem?” “There is no problem. I only saw that you drive very well. And you will get 5,000 dollars for good driving. What will you do with the money?” The man thought for a minute and said, “I think that I will go get a driving license.” The lady who was next to the man said to the policeman, “Oh, don’t listen to him. He makes funny jokes when he drinks alcohol.” The man from the back said, “I told you that it wasn’t a good idea to steal a car! And then, the policeman heard somebody from the trunk who said, “Are we in Mexico now?”
Fred is 35 years old. He is single. One day, a friend asks him, “Why aren’t you married? Can’t you meet a woman who will be a good wife for you?” Fred answers, “I met many good women, but when I bring them home to meet my parents, my mother doesn’t like them.” His friend thinks for a moment and says, “I have the perfect idea. Find a girl who is like your mother.” Two months later they meet again and his friend says, “Did you find the perfect girl? Did your mother like her?” With an unhappy face, Fred answers, “Yes, I met the perfect girl. She was like my mother. My mother liked her very much.” The friend says, “So, what’s the problem?” Fred answers, “My father didn’t like her.”
Vladivostok is a city. It is in the extreme south-east of Russia. There is a bridge. It is only for vehicles. However, four people really want to cross it by foot. They dress up like a bus. They walk behind one another. They are holding a box. It looks like a yellow bus.
In Antarctica, an expeditioner visits a rookery. He has a video camera. He leaves it on the ice. Two penguins find the camera. They look down at it. They are curious. They look like they pose for selfies.
In Paris, a company creates chocolate clothing. Models wear this clothing at a fashion show. The show is part of a chocolate fair. The fair takes place every year. People say that this is the biggest chocolate faierr in the world. People come from all over the world to see it. Chocolatiers come to this fair. Confectioners also come. Pastry chefs come, too. In the movie ‘Forrest Gump,’ Forrest Gump says that, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates’. Now we know that fashion shows are like boxes of chocolates, too!
It is Valentine’s Day on 14th February. Men often buy women roses on this day. There is a restaurant in Manila. It sells special roses. They are bacon roses. People like the new product. It is something original.
A German couple likes Christmas. They have Christmas decorations. They buy more and more decorations every year. Now they have many decorations. They start decorating in October. They take 8 weeks to set everything up. They put 100 Christmas trees into their small house! They decorate the trees with fairy lights and 16,000 baubles. They even have a Santa Clause in their bathroom!
In Georgia, a football game is happening. A dog comes onto the football pitch. It stops the game. It wants to play with the football players. It delights the fans. It runs around for three minutes. One player runs with it off the field. The teams score 0-0 in this game.
The ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ stories are around 73 years old. There is also a TV show about the stories. This year, there will be a new show. It will have a new theme song. It will have characters from around the world. The stories will be around the world and in Sodor. It will also have the first woman leader of the trains. People start to make new toys for the show. They are very popular!
A man from California has the longest tongue in the world. It measures 10.13 centimetres. That is almost four inches! His tongue can be useful. He can eat ice cream easily. When he meets someone new, they always want to see his tongue. He sticks his tounge out. This can be a little strange. The man says long tongues run in his family. His younger brother has a long tongue, too.
This news is from Minnesota, USA. Two people get married. They are with their wedding party. Everybody is on a dock. The dock is small. There are 22 people on it. The dock breaks. A few people run away, but most people fall in the water. A camera films this moment. It is a funny moment.
Two men make videos and upload them on YouTube. They use a special camera. The camera films things in slow motion. The men have a new video. It is already very popular. In the video, they blow up a watermelon. One of the men sits close to it. He is covered by pieces of the watermelon! The men do this for three years. They film different types of things.
There is a new video on the Internet. It is pretty amazing. The video shows a boy. He is only two years old, but he rides on a skateboard. he boy is from Australia. He is a really good skateboarder. When he was six months old, he started to practise. His parents love skateboarding. The boy rides on his skateboard in the video. He can jump over things!
There is a special bus stop in London. It has a screen. It shows people shocking things. The screen shows big robots, a tiger and an invasion from space. People are shocked to see these things. Their reactions are filmed. It is funny.
One teacher from Chile is special. He raps to his students. The students like it. It makes their studying more interesting. The teacher is 26 years old. In the past, he rapped on city buses. He wanted to earn some money. His students found out. That’s how he started to rap for them. The rapping teacher is a big hit at the school. What do you think? Will this be a popular teaching method?
Football fans are watching the World Cup. Some matches can be stressful. To help fans de-stress, there is a match with little dogs. One team is of English Bulldogs. The other team is of Maltese Bichons. It is a World Pup match. The dogs play for 90 minutes. One Bichon poops on the pitch. He gets a red card.
A motorbike is for one person or two people. However, it is possible to have 8 people on one motorbike. You can see it in a video. In China, one man in a car saw this. He filmed the situation. He thought that it was dangerous. The video shows one man who drives the bike. Two girls sit at the front of the motorbike and three women with two children sit at the back.
A man has many Barbie dolls. He is from Singapore. His collection is very big. There are 6,000 Barbie dolls in his collection. The man has a favourite doll. It is his first Barbie. This Barbie is old. It is from the year of 1984. The man’s hobby is expensive. Barbies cost a lot of money. The most expensive Barbie is $3,600.
In Anaheim, California, a big event and meeting happens every year. It is called WonderCon. People of all ages come. They come to see all types of fandom. They can learn about games, comics, TV shows, movies, and books. Thousands of cosplayers also come. They wear costumes and make-up and bring props.
The 2018 Winter Olympics are in South Korea. The competition and the entertainment is exciting. Some fire artists hold a special show. Visitors come watch the sparks fly. The fire artists come with other artists. They celebrate the Olympics. The show is at a beach. The beach is near a city. This city is helping with the South Korean Olympic games.
In 1934, a Danish man makes Lego bricks. He names them ‘Lego’ after two Danish words. The words mean ‘play well’. In 1958, people patent Lego bricks. Now the company is 60 years old. Now it says that you can play with one of its bricks in 915,103,765 ways! The company also works with film businesses. It wants to keep the toy interesting. In addition, Lego has theme parks. The parks are around the world. They show famous places made out of the toys.
A new zip line opens in Dubai. It is the longest urban zip line in the world. It is one kilometre long. The zip line starts at 168 metres above the ground. It goes across the Dubai marina. You can go up to 80 kilometres an hour.
‘Save the Children’ is an international organisation. It helps children. On 15th December, the organisation celebrates ‘Christmas Jumper Day’. People give 2 pounds to help children. They put on silly Christmas jumpers and meet. They talk and have fun. People from ‘Save the Children’ have another idea. Dogs can wear Christmas jumpers, too. ’Save the Children’ organises a meeting for humans and dogs. Hundreds of dogs meet in a park in London. They all wear Christmas jumpers.
French President Macron has a dog. His name is Nemo. Nemo can come into meetings in the palace. This is not always a good idea! One day, the president has a meeting. The dog pees on an old fireplace during the meeting! The president and staff laugh a lot. One man asks if this happens often. The president says ‘no’. He jokes that the people make his dog act unusually. Maybe President Macron knows where the government leaks are coming from now!
People organise a costume competition. They organise it every year. It takes place in Manila, Philippines. Seventy pets take part in the competition. They are dogs, cats, and a guinea pig. The event shows people that animals are beautiful. The organisers hope that people will like animals. They will help them and not hurt them.
People call Buenos Aires, Argentina, ‘the Paris of the South’. Buenos Aires takes pride in its café culture. It also hosts a waiter race. People organise this every year. Hundreds of waiters and waitresses take part in the race. They must run 1,600 metres with drinks. The winner gets 1,000 US dollars.
Palestine is under control by Israel. There are some teenagers in Gaza City, Palestine. They are doing parkour there. The teenagers do parkour because it is fun. They feel free when they do it. They can ignore the war. They jump and flip from building to building.
There is a gorilla at the Dallas Zoo in the USA. He is famous for his funny viral videos. A zookeeper films a new video of him. He plays in a big wading pool. He spins and splashes. Zookeepers explain his movements. They say that he feels playful and happy. The pool is an enrichment item. Zookeepers have it to interest the gorillas and other animals.
This week, there is a zip-line off the Eiffel Tower. People jump from the second floor of the tower. They go almost 100 kilometres per hour. They land 800 metres from the tower. This is not the first time that there is a zip-line. However, the previous zip-line was from the first floor. This zip-line is from the second floor. It is more fun.
In England, master chocolatiers make something special for Easter. They make a big chocolate Thomas the Tank Engine. It takes them 250 hours. The replica is 140 kilogrammes heavy. Thomas comes to a train station in London. Children and adults are happy to see him. A ‘Fat Controller’ also comes. He gives out chocolate eggs
In Florida, a man does a strange thing. He sits in a chair at a table. He eats pancakes. He does this in the middle of the street. Someone takes a video of him doing this. He puts the video on Facebook. The police see the video. They charge the prankster. They say that he blocks the road. They also say that he disrupts the traffic.
A balloon festival is taking place in Tunisia. This is the event’s third year. There are 25 balloons and 90 people. They come from all over the world. One pilot talks about ballooning. He says that you can land anywhere. However, you must also drive to the balloon to put it in the car. This is not easy in the desert. A balloon crew member says that ballooning is safe. There is almost no danger.
Merhaba arkadaşlar,
Bildiğiniz üzere İngilizce günümüzde çok önemli bir dil, hatta İngilizceye yabancı bir dil olarak bile bakılmaması gerekmekte. Çünkü biz nasıl Türkiye'de yaşamak, olup biteni anlamak ve insanlarla iletişim kurmak için Türkçe biliyorsak, dünyada neler olup bittiğini anlamak için de İngilizce öğrenmemiz şart. Günümüzde bilimsel kaynakların büyük yüzdesi İngilizce ve eğer bir konuda bilgi edinmek istiyorsanız, o konuyu anlatan Türkçe kaynaklar sınırlı sayıda olmasına rağmen, İngilizce olarak anlatan kaynak sayısı çok daha fazla olacaktır. Bu yüzden İngilizceyi bir an önce halletmek çok önemlidir.
Bu kursta ise klişe yöntemlerden ziyade daha etkili bir şekilde İngilizce öğretmeyi hedefliyorum. Normalde okullarda öğretmenlerimiz bizlerden sürekli dil bilgisi kurallarını öğrenmemizi üstüne de sürekli kelime ezberlememizi isterler. Ama bunun işe yaramadığı çok açıktır ki şimdi İngilizce öğrenmek için kendinize kurs aramaktasınız. Bu kursta ayrı olarak dil bilgisi kuralları veya kelime verilmeyecek. Sadece hikayeler çevireceğiz, bu şekilde siz hem kelime öğreneceksiniz hem de dil bilgisi kurallarını öğreneceksiniz. En önemlisi öğrendiğiniz kelimelerin nasıl kullanıldığını bileceksiniz. Bu şekilde bu cümleleri kurarken çok fazla düşünmeyip hızlı bir şekilde cümleleri kurabileceksiniz. Yani çeviri yapmak dolaylı olarak sizin konuşma yeteneğinizi ve yazma yeteneğinizi de geliştirecek.
Bu kursta 200 tane A1 A2 seviyesinde ilginç hikaye çevirdik, bu hikayeleri çevirirken hem gülümseyip hem de İngilizcemizi geliştireceğiz. En önemli nokta ise anlamadığınız her noktayı bana direk sorabilirsiniz ve ben gerekirse yeni videolar çekerek sorunuzu cevaplayacağım, bu şekilde kursu en verimli şekilde kullanmış olacaksınız.