Fluency Exercise # 3

Learning English

Since I came to the United States ten months ago, I searched and got advice from my expert family and friends, especially my mother. My mother studied English in the United States thirty years ago. There are many pieces of advice for the beginner learners. I divided it in two parts, the place for study and some advice to improve your skills in English.

First, it is an advantage to choose a nice place that will help you to study. People should choose a good institute that will improve their skills. In addition, they should look for places that give them the ability to learn. For example, a big institute provides a lot of technology that you cannot find in small institute in some country. Also, they should look for the institute that provides more advantages with activities that make the students know more about American culture and be comfortable with the society. For example, in a big city you can find homestay, which will help the learner to feel better about the American life and to improve the confidence to speak. Moreover, they provide culture partner that helps you to deal with the new life easily, but it is difficult in small cities. Thus, homestay and culture partner are two examples of the advantage for choosing a nice place.

Second, general advice helps the beginner learners to improve their skills. Reading every day influences the way that will help you to improve your grammar, writing and reading. Eliminating speaking in your original language and trying to speak English all the time also helps. Using internet is one of the ways that makes difference to your level in English by visiting some good websites to improve you listening. Visiting some educational websites is helping the beginner learners to improve their skills.

Marriage ways

Finding soul mate can get many forms in our country. I divide the common ways in my country into two parts depend in the time. In the past, arrange marriage is the common way in my country. The religion determines the relationships that have to lead to married. You cannot see any forbidden relationship. Also, when you find your soul mate, you will become the first real lover in her life. Traditional man gave all his felling to his wife. Because of tradition and culture, men looked for women from their environment. The choices were relatives, friends, and neighbors. Men chose women for marriage that depend in four ways beauty, ethics, education, and social level. The common way was man asked her mother, sister, or both to look for a bride. They searched looking for a proper woman. The search sometimes took weeks and sometimes months until they found what they are looking for. They ask the woman (bride) if she interests to married from their son. If she says yes, then they make official request from their family. The man called her father to make date with him in their house. Then, men make official request from her parents. Women (bride) had the right for accept or refuse the men. If she accepts, then they make a small party and determine their condition such as the money should the men give to the women to prepare for their wedding. Observation many people who these way did had stability in their life and the divorce were rare. Now, the life is different, because of technology, education, and people thinking. They way of meeting the soul mate is changing. Internet is one of the new ways that many people tend to use when they are looking for wife. Also, men and women can meet in their jobs that make some admire and mirage in the end. Unfortunately, because of using the new way, many of divorce become now in our country. Thus, I hope you get a clear picture about the common ways of meeting in my country in the past and now.

Fluency Exercise # 2

Gracious State
California is a beautiful state in the United States. This is my opinion about this state. I visited this state on the first day that I came to the United States. It is a huge state and you can find many foreign people who live there. The majority of the population of this state speaks Spanish. There are more than twelve beaches; all of them are fancy. Most of the people in this state are friendly and like visitors. Shopping is one of the amazing things in this state. Many famous names of fashion headquarters are in this state. Also, if you look for cheap clothes, they are available in this state. For example, outlet stores have a lot of products in proper prices. The style of building is special. You can see many castles and glasses houses. Many famous actors like to live there and you can see them in public places. Many beautiful forests are in different places in the state. I recommended anyone to visit San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. There are many majestic restaurants and they serve different kinds of food from all over the world. You can find a lot of coffee shops that you cannot find in other states. If you have a passion for nightclubs, you will find exactly what you want. Many of the best universities are in the United States that you can get strong education from. Also, there are a lot of institutes of English which have nice places, good teachers, homestays, and partner cultures. I hope you like California because sometimes the words are not enough to describe the beauty.

Bride of Illinois

I had planned before I came to the United States to visit most the states in my vacations and weekends. This break was different because 3 of my friends came from Saudi Arabia and they will study in different states. We decided to meet in central states, so we chose Chicago, IL. I was so excited to see my friends and asked them about their impressions in the first months in the United States. I visited Chicago three times, so I was familiar with it. Because of my experience, I suggest to stay at the downtown. We chose indigo hotel, a cute hotel in north Dearborn parkway. I like it too much. Moreover, we make a busy schedule trying to discover all the famous places in Chicago. It was exhausted. My friends asked me about the museums because they know that I have a passion to visit the museums. We decided to visit the famous museums such as museum of science and industry and the field museum. There were amazing museums. Next, we went to Sears Tower, the highest building in Chicago. It is really an enormous building. Also, we visited the Hancock Observatory that we get many pictures from the top of the building. One of my friends is a fisher, so he insisted to visit the Sheed Aquarium. In addition, we brought a lot of Arabic food that we could not find it in our cities. We had a final dinner at The Cheesecake Factory before everyone went to his cities, it was a unique dinner. Finally, this was a brief to my last break, is it funny!

Climate Change

In Hirsch’s (2005) article, “Animals ‘hit by global warming’,” he points out that because of the change in climate these days, many animals, especially migratory birds, face extinction. He states some of the results of the climate change such as dissolving ice, impacting of warm seas, and circulating deserts. The author mentions that the changing of some animals’ direction of their migration is one of the apparent responses to climate change that make the scientists notice it immediately. Also, he states that some animals can adjust to new environments, but others cannot adapt at all. The author explains why the climate change is an enormous threat to the animals with some examples. The author says that the global warming is changing quickly now, which causes many problems for animals and for the ecosystem. Finally, the author comments that the report sends an important message to explain the problem of this disaster and ask for global solutions to solve it.


I totally agree with Hirsch’s points that climate change will destroy the life of the animal on this planet. The author mentions that scientists have noticed which changes happen because of the climate change, but he did not mention what the causes are. The author did not discuss how we should participate to make it. The human being is the number one responsible for what is happening to the animal and earth.there are three helpful ways to reduce the effect of climate change: use alternative energy, take care of forests, and educate people.


First of all, one of the ways that reduces the effect of climate change is using new energy. People use different kinds of energy such as coal, diesel, and gas. Because of technology and industry, people consume a lot of energy that helps to make pollution. Old energy produces quantities of carbon dioxide. More carbon dioxide in the air helps to warm temperature which causes problems in the climate. For example, in China, people have many problems in their health because of pollution. There are a lot of alternative energies which are clean and pure such as solar energy, wind energy, and water energy. Solar energy and wind energy are two examples of alternative energies that help with global warming.


Next, protecting natural resources is the second way would that help to reduce the effect of climate change. Government should have plans to protect the forest. For example, some countries made a lot of national forests in their countries that would help to reduce the climate change. Cutting the trees is a big problem that faces countries which use wood in their building. Sometimes, natural disasters like volcano, earthquake, and tornado destroy the forests. Trees take the carbon dioxide from the air to do photosynthesis. In the United States, many fires in the forest in California each year cause a lot of pollution. More trees help to protect the earth from climate change.


Finally, educating people and government is the third way to prevent global warming. Now, people are concerned about the economic problems and stock market. It is not fair. They should make the global warming the first priority. The media must have useful programs to warn us of this huge disaster. In the United States, government raises the taxes for any products that hurt the environment. Governments should spend a lot of money to reduce this problem. Governments and companies must have a serious plan to rescue the planet from this disaster. Even though the solutions may result in different losses such as economic crash, our planet deserves this sacrifice. Making the global warming the first priority by educating people will prevent the earth from climate change.


In conclusion, using new energies, protecting natural resources, and using helpful programs are three methods that help to protect our planet from the threat of climate change.Leading country such as the United States and China must start stop affecting our planet by producing a lot of pollution from their factories and finding another solution for this serious problem. Also, they should force the other countries to use the clean energies. We lost a lot of animals and birds because human beings just care about themselves. We hope that the entire world takes this threat seriously and has a huge war against global warming such as the war against the terrorism. There are many solutions that just need concern from the whole world and support from the leading country.



Reference


Hirsch, T. (2005, October 5). Animals ‘hit by global warming’. BBC NEWS. Retrieved October 18, 2008, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sceince/nature/4313726.stm

Carbondale Vs. Riyadh

What is the difference between Carbondale and Riyadh? It was the first question that most of my family and friends asked me about. In fact, there are many differences between these two cities. First, the type of transportation is different. In Carbondale, many people use bicycle, bus, car, and foot, but in Riyadh most people use cars. Second, the style of building is different in the two cites. In Riyadh, we have many new towers and huge buildings. On the other hand, Carbondale is a simple city and there are not any towers. Also, the population is one of the biggest differences between the two cities. In Riyadh, there are more than five million people who live in the city, but Carbondale has almost 30,000 people. Next, the weather in Carbondale is one of the amazing things in this city except the winter. In Riyadh the weather is too hot and sunny in the summer and too cold and dry in the winter. Four, in Carbondale, we do not have a lot of choices when we go shopping. On the other hand, we call Riyadh “the city of shopping” because we have more than 3000 malls. Five, in Carbondale most the stores close at 9 p.m., but in Riyadh the normal time is 12 p.m. Moreover, in Riyadh, there are many new bridges and huge roads, but in Carbondale are small roads. Finally, even though there are many differences between Riyadh and Carbondale, I like both of them.