Who is a good English teacher? There are many ways to define good English teacher. Most people would agree that good English teachers are caring, supportive, concerned about the welfare of students, knowledgeable about subject matter and capable of speaking fluently, excited about the work that they do. English teachers must have different properties from other teachers. They do not only teach a subject. They teach a language, a culture and a new glance to the world. Besides characteristics and other common qualifications, a good English teacher should have a great deal of general culture, (s)he should know what is happing in the world and especially countries where English is spoken as a native language. Teaching a language is difficult and may be impossible if your students do not like it and want to learn. This is your duty. They first like you and your job and then English. I have a lot of English teachers in my educational life but none of them is the teacher I dreaming. One of them has good characteristics but do not know anything about English and general culture. One has a good memory, general culture and knows much about English and their culture but does not have good characteristics to be an affective and a good teacher. The good teacher I think have all of this characteristics and qualities, (s)he should like teaching and their students.

People cannot live alone, they must have a family, friends and live in a society. Wemeet thousands of people in our daily life but we can like a few of them. The relation between us and them starts when we find some mutual similarities in our lives. However, it is only a little of the process. We search for some characteristics which are important for us. They can be dependability, decency, sympathy, helpfulness and craziness. I think dependability is the most important character in a friend relationship. If you rely on you friend and your friend also trust you, other problems can be solved anyway but you do not rely on your friend, even when you are undecided about your friend’s reliance, you can loss everything. Another important characteristic is decency. We have a lot of obstacle in our relationship with friends. We can overcome them with these two important characteristics, dependability and decency. Other characteristics are sympathy, geniality, helpfulness and a little craziness.

I think the national elections of the U.S.A. determined the man of the year. It is surely Hussein Barrack Obama. He is the first black man to be opted for as a president of the U.S.A. He realized the dream of the Martin Luther and millions of black people living in U.S.A. It is a new chance for us to provide an equal and good world. He has a lot of promises about the politics of the U.S.A. The most important of them is his saying that U.S.A. will draw back the soldiers from Iraq as soon as possible. I think it is also important for us. If U.S.A. does not have soldiers and Iraq has its own army, we will have suitable conditions while crusading against the terrorists. U.S.A. has directs the world since the World War II but people all around the world are against the politics of current U.S.A. government. Maybe Obama understands why he was selected and supported by other countries and puts in order the world.

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics which is interested in the study of the physical speech sounds used in speech. It does not focus on the meanings of words. Because of poor English pronunciation, phonetic alphabet is used. It has letters which are counterparts of the sounds in English. English words are not read as they are written so phonetic alphabet is important to articulate and spell the words properly. All around the world the letters of this alphabet are vocalized same so people can understand the pronunciations of the words. In fact it is easy for Turkish people to be accustomed to this special alphabet. Because the letters of it and the pronunciation of the letters are generally same with our national alphabet for example we pronounce ‘keep’ as /kı:p/ . We use ‘e’ sound in Turkish as ‘İ’ as the same as phonetic alphabet. We can use this opportunity only when we know the correct pronunciation of the words.